My last 3 phones are just kind of pain software wise.
Moto G5s Plus - the Android 8 update (latest official) made it a slow horrible mess with frequent crashes and high battery drain. PixelExperience 11 fixed that.
Poco X3 Pro - told not to update to MIUI 13 due to instability. Many bugs I had to learn to work around. Left and right microphones reversed in software. Extreme power saving that doesn’t even spare alarms.
Ulefone Armor 24 - UI often crashes (Quickstep) including navigation. In some cases Android version updates don’t show up. The legend has it they sometimes provide updates after you e-mail them, stored on the Google Drive. Those updates do a factory reset, because of course they do. Alarm also has a chance of being killed, but lower than with MIUI. Charging with fast charger kills USB communication until reboot.

I don’t do updates anymore. Check the experiences online, and it’s all just new bugs, often pretty serious ones. So, if it somewhat works, and it isn’t absolutely clear that the next update would certainly fix something important, just keep it as-is.

TWRP could at least give me some peace of mind. I could just back up everything.

Self checkout, makes more sense. In some places you have to scan the ticket to open a gate so that you can leave.

I can imagine it being nice for a tablet. They even have programs for calls and SMS if you have a cellular modem.

Wait what? I still remembered it as a recent console…

I feel like my brain is stuck. When I think of most powerful GPU, my brain’s muscle memory replies with 1080 Ti.

As a student, most things are more interesting than studying.

They really do just look like a cartel: https://youtu.be/EG7bqoDJ9L4

My father put a large sticker of clearly AI gen animal on the water tank (likely from Temu), so yep, accurate.

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I’ve been thinking about that for a few minutes now. Does it mean he considers them property which loose value by being raped?

That reply just doesn’t make sense to me.

I misread that as “psychological damage”. Poor potato.

I don’t know if other distros have that too, but Ubuntu and Mint (being Ubuntu-based) have a nice graphical driver manager. Really simplified things when I used Nvidia GPU and Realtek WiFi card. Just click to install, restart, there you go.

First I’ll address “less addicting”:
Short form media (e.g. YouTube shorts and TikTok) combined with notifications from everything that is fighting for your attention at all times. Mobile apps are specifically made to be addicting, whether it is just another 30 second vertical video, game with daily sign-in bonus or Amazon app telling you that you’re ugly (“You haven’t purchased any beauty products yet”)

Ease of use, typically you have Windows pre-installed. Not my choice of OS, but nevertheless a “just works” experience.
Phone is going to do plenty of tracking.
Phone is going to need an account (to use Play Store).
And when speaking of web browsing, you get a physical keyboard to type comments/posts. If you want to watch movies, you get a larger screen, ditto if you just want to read articles.
When you open a website, you get the website, not some limited interface prompting you to install 200th app that just ends up being a web UI anyway.
When you open up multiple things, you can nicely have multiple tabs and windows. And they won’t get closed just because you opened the calculator or locked the screen and now the browser got optimized to save battery (hopefully you copied whatever you were typing to clipboard).

mobile is way more simple to use and less addicting.

Is this sarcasm or not?
I am actually asking.

Unfortunately, this global version of panic stick is really lacking. The US market version is really just a rebranded shotgun, which is far more effective. Even the EU version is a bit better, it has a grippy rubber handle and comes with a 2 year warranty.

Combine AI voice with phone number spoofing.

Am I missing something or are you conflating two different issues? Why isn’t anyone saying anything about this.

The issue was choosing a password, which not being a single word, my mom ended up forgetting. That part is security. The privacy part comes with my father arguing that setting a more complicated password is stupid because they have nothing to hide.
Plus he mentioned usage of Google Photos backup system, which in this case wouldn’t really be secured. But he says the photos also aren’t private, because it’s just photos made in public and old photos of me as a kid (which I hoped he lost with his old phone).

Well, actually, about that.
According to DSM-5, which is basically the thing for diagnostic criteria in the US:

Pedophilic disorder

302.2 (F65.4)

• A. Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children (generally age 13 years or younger).
• B. The individual has acted on these sexual urges, or the sexual urges or fantasies cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty.
• C. The individual is at least age 16 years and at least 5 years older than the child or children in Criterion A.

Note: Do not include an individual in late adolescence involved in an ongoing sexual relationship with a 12- or 13-year-old.

Specify whether:

• Exclusive type (attracted only to children)
• Nonexclusive type

Specify if:

• Sexually attracted to males
• Sexually attracted to females
• Sexually attracted to both

Specify if:

• Limited to incest

So it does generally include 13.

Edit: Improved formatting (trying to copy the book).

I was thinking of Android, and whatever some apps may be doing. They should already be pretty limited in what they can do, so it might be forced to just read the clipboard from time to time and hope you don’t notice (android now shows pop-up when something reads clipboard).

in which case you’ve lost before you even started.

And once I came across even better limitation. “Only English characters and numbers are permitted. Passwords are case-insensitive.”
OK, the last one wasn’t actually mentioned, but I just found out the case didn’t matter either.