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I’m pretty outspoken about wanting to avoid new electronics when I can. I’ve been using a phone that’s probably seven or eight years old at this point, and while it’s slow and buggy and lacks many of the newest bells and whistles, it still does what it needs to do.
But. My phone plan is paid for by my father-in-law, who does *not* share my values, and he *insisted* on getting everyone new phones. Like, out of his own pocket. So... now I have a phone that’s less than a year old. Running the *current* version of Android. And it’s like night and day. It’s fast! It can run so many more things! And it just makes me *sad* that we as a people have somehow decided that we can’t just keep upgrading older electronics, because a lot of the limitations my old phone had were a result of it being stuck on Android 7. (My older-er phone, the MyTouch Q, is still on Android 2.4-something, and I don’t know if it would even physically be possible to upgrade it to Android 14, but damn it, I should at least be allowed to *try*.)
At least this thing should last me for another ten years... Right? And I’m sure I can find some use for the old one, even if only as a storage device.