I miss 2000’s era Nokia. They had their flagship phones that turned a profit but also just did some truly weird shit purely to see if it caught on.

Yep

Pixels are pretty easy to get custom ROMs on. I’m sure you can find something that doesn’t include this.

Waydroid runs on some Ubuntu Touch devices. Probably elsewhere too. Can’t vouch for the performance though, never used it.

You might have been thinking of Mumble

AntennaPod. Can allegedly sync via gpodder.net or gpoddersync. Personally never got it to work quite right, but I didn’t try very hard either.

Same. But I have noticed lately in more recent Android versions it doesn’t always apply to everything. It’s also a waste of dev time that could be put into literally anything else.

Physics based animations? Fuck off. Waste of time, effort and CPU. I want my phone to last longer and work better, not look slicker.

Be cool if they could integrate with gadgetbridge

+1 for Auxio. Been using it nearly a year now, no issues.

With a little fucking around I’m fairly sure you could do it on the phone itself via termux.

Core 2 Duo.

Uhh… Did nobody check with Intel about this?

There’s a repo for it maintained by ghost, but you have to do the install and setup yourself. Can’t vouch for reliability, never used it.

Pretty sure if you self host your own ghost install it’s already available.

Yes, fuck Amazon and Bezos. No argument there. But this also helps people who have previously paid for content to break out of Amazon lock-in while keeping what they’ve paid for. You don’t have to buy new stuff, but this means you can keep the old stuff.

It’s still shitty because they ship with a 3.5mm -> 3.5mm cable (literally straight through, no inline silicon) that’s billed as replaceable. It is, but only with -their- cable. It’s a way of making a standard connection proprietary.

Aside from the pigtail USB-C -> 3.5 socket adapters which absolutely do suck, you can also get USB-C -> 3.5 plug cables (link for example purposes only, not an endorsement of amazon or this product) which can be pretty decent length and quality. This, together with headphones with a replaceable cable (also just an example) might open up a few more options for you. Added bonus that if the cable fails it’s … well … replaceable.

Just be mindful that some manufacturers do the extremely shitty thing of placing the socket on the headphones in a very specifically shaped recess that only their cables will fit.

Some banking and similar apps don’t work, or have some features nonfunctional (like NFC). You can always use the website and carry a card like we did in 2012.

I’m either really late genX or really early millennial depending how you define it, but Pump Up The Volume was the one that did it for me.

I have the same thing. Someone once called it “resting murder face” because apparently if I forget to smile I just look like I want to stab someone. That plus having a deadpan sense of humour and generally flat tone of voice makes me come across as a total asshole unless I make extra effort. Even when I’m sincerely trying to be nice people assume I’m being sarcastic.