The only thing prompting phone replacement for me was battery life. And nearly all phones have shit ability to replace batteries (for now - EU rules incoming).
I bought a Fairphone 6 with /e/OS. I've left Big Tech behind. And I have a phone where I can easily replace the components. I don't want to swap devices for 4-5 years, which makes ownership far more cost effective than leasing.
Also -- with leasing, what happens when the renter is done with it? E waste, just like we have today.
Even more money lost for rural schools. Getting high speed, high capacity internet connections to much of rural America is extremely cost prohibitive. E-Rate was the only way the rural district where I was network admin could possibly afford it.
I maintain a small Windows dual boot for taking certification exams (that don't run on Linux). It's torture to update it once every 6 months. 3-4 hours requiring multiple reboots.
Dutch cops out a lot on adapting punny names. Part of it is that the puns don't work, but part of it is that the Dutch are very literal with naming things.
The Count on Sesame Street? Graaf Tel. Count (title) Count (action).
"Only poors use transit, anyway! In fact, ban pedestrians because they might confuse our delivery robot! Sidewalks should be renamed Delivery Bot Lanes."
https://cooljugator.com/ - website that helps with looking up word conjugation. Great for language learning, since a translation is sort of cheating and can lead you astray on meaning
https://www.timeanddate.com/ - super handy site for finding meeting times between time zones, looking up international calendars for holiday, etc
The only thing prompting phone replacement for me was battery life. And nearly all phones have shit ability to replace batteries (for now - EU rules incoming).
I bought a Fairphone 6 with /e/OS. I've left Big Tech behind. And I have a phone where I can easily replace the components. I don't want to swap devices for 4-5 years, which makes ownership far more cost effective than leasing.
Also -- with leasing, what happens when the renter is done with it? E waste, just like we have today.