To you know if wechat or alipay work? I need these while traveling. They use QR codes for payment and other services. I wish this took off everywhere as nfc payments are locked into only a few apps.

Ok. I had some weird feeling like the us version of the phone won’t work overseas

They have folding phones that’s are smallish

I’m mostly in the States, but i travel to Asia, will it work there? I’m on fi.

Dvd video on a cell phone looks great

The issue with blurays are the unskippable intros before the menu hits

This is true. Spending more for newer A series vs used “higher” end older models is up the how the phone is used daily.

The A Series is like the Nissan Sentra of phones in my opinion.

Yeah, same. I have considered a watch to solve this, but not sure.

At 299 or 399, but at 499?? That’s a hard pass. You can get a used pixel for less and better specs. I get it that people like new, but phone innovation has mostly stalled.

You can get a new battery for an older phone installed. I’m just saying this is getting like the car market where buying used is the value leader.

I picked up a used 8 pro 256 and it’s fantastic. I like the older camera bar design and spent less over the 10a

I think they should drop the a series. The used phone market can fill the gap.

I guess I’m stuck as a partner to a fox

Nfc payments keep me chained. I guess i can get a second phone just for setting up a watch, but i don’t want a watch. So i live by not using the default launcher and a vpn. I’m working to change my email provider slowly

I also want to look into the exit node stuff.

Can’t use a vpn it shows location is from unexpected location and gets my passport reset. Its really annoying.

The PS3 is still just a bluray player in my eyes, I don’t remember too many people getting one for gaming at the time it was released.

For hdmi to Rca, i just got something chap on Amazon. You can get crazy and go down a rabbit hole, but it worked fine for running my Chromecast and laptop on a crt.

I wanted to share that i was able to get my CD copies of SimCity and SimCity 3000 running on Linux using Lutris to run the installer and configure wine. I can’t believe that Linux has become the way to run old 16/32 bit applications originally designed for Windows. Love it

AI is my coding companion as there are so few devs I can discuss my coding problems with due to their lack of understanding. The AI maybe wrong at times, but just toasing ideas back and forth gets my gears turning. It’s my evolved coding duck.

I remember added the LCARS home page to my HP Touchpad… Good times