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YotoPhone. They also made a version 2 & 3. Unfortunately, Yota went bankrupt.
In particular, it means you can’t easily pick up, use, and put down your phone and maintain charging.
I strongly disagree. While you can’t “maintain charging”, it’s extremely easy to change from charging to using and back again. If you want to use your phone while charging, wireless charging doesn’t make sense, but if you want to quickly use your phone (like sending a quick text), it’s nicer than having a cable attached.
Can it? Certainly. People have been doing so for years now.
Should you? None of us can answer that for you. None of us know your needs, your technical proficiency, or your willingness to put up with bugs/quirks
If you’re interested, you should go read/listen/watch the experiences of users and ask questions once you have some specific ones.
Some are, like Bitwarden or Wikipedia or Jellyfin, are on fdroid too without Google’s bullshit. Some even have functionality they’re not allowed to have in the Play store.
To be fair, there are also some features that also rely on Google’s builds. For example, Bitwarden’s “Log in with Device” only works on the Google Play version.
That’s patently false. Ever since Apple introduced their own silicon (A4 released in 2010), they’ve generally had the best performance of any ARM chip. It’s not that the competition is bad, it’s just Apple has historically been excellent at recruiting top engineers and executing their products. For example, in the Intel-era, there were multiple years publications said the best Windows laptop was a Mac.
The charging and headphone ports don’t work (so need to use wireless charging) and battery life is quite poor.
Have you looked into having your S10 serviced? I was willing to have my charging port changed a few weeks ago, but the technician chose to clean it first, and that’s worked perfectly and was even cheaper. Is your battery in poor health and might need to be replaced?
What is the reason your S10 is on it’s last legs? If you see yourself needing a lot more power, maybe the FP5 isn’t the best bet for you because you’re right, it might not be useful to you in the later years of it’s life. However, I’m not sure what people are doing with the current top-of-the-line SoCs to justify that much power (if people want it to play games or for non-practical reasons, that’s fine too). As an S10e user, I feel like we’ve come to a point where my current phone should be powerful enough for the foreseeable future. My only issues are I’m no longer getting official software updates (I’ll probably go with a Custom ROM soon), my battery life is a bit shorter than I’d like, and parts are getting hard to come by with most being “new old stock” at best.
This was mentioned a couple of weeks ago on the Vergecast. I was wondering if someone was going to get assigned the article, and here it is!
IANAL or a resident of California, but I think you’re right. According to California Penal Code § 594 PC, vandalism is when a person either “Defaces with graffiti or other inscribed material”, “Damages”, or “Destroys” property, which doesn’t describe this act. I would think some sort of “mischief” is the most they could reasonably charge someone with. Maybe “public endangerment” but if you did this to a driver, they would just remove the object, so I think there’s an argument of who is causing that public endangerment.
I think you’re making a lot of assumptions here, many of which I have contentions with.
It differed from site to site, but in my experience of the Internet in the '90s and '00s, a lot of forums were heavily moderated, and even Facebook was kept pretty clean when I got on it in ~2006/2007.
I fully dispute this. People have always believed hearsay. They’re just exposed to more of it through the web instead of it coming verbally from your family, friends, and coworkers.
We live in a world of 24-hour news cycles and sensationalization, which has escalated over the past few decades. This often encourages ratings over quality.
Mainstream media has always had problems with fact-check. I’m not trying to attack the news media or anything, I think most reporters do their best and strive to be factual, but they sometimes make mistakes. I can’t remember the name of it, but I there’s some sort of phenomenon where if you watch a news broadcast, and they talk about a subject you have expertise in, you’re likely to find inaccuracies in it, and be more skeptical of the rest of the broadcast.
Polarization is not limited to social media. The news media has become more and more tribal over time. Company that sell products and services have been more likely to present a political world-view.
Overall, I think you’re ignoring a lot of other things that have changed over the years. It’s not like the only thing that has changed in the world is the algorithmic feed. We are perpetually online now and that’s where most people get their news, so it’s only natural that would also be their source of disinformation. I think algorithmic feeds that push people into their bubbles is a response to this polarization, not the source of it.