Incredible this would be the first time in 248 years.

We’ll go back to gopher if we have to, it’s time for burning chrome.

That guy IS a demon. He is prentending not to know for manipulative reasons.Same kind of rat as the blond UK fuckface, you know the one.

The worst is all the ones that cheaped out and put a resistive touchscreen. Making it 10 times worse.

As the total number user of alternative phone OS shrinks, the development of those OS becomes less and less viable. But yes, I would see phones with mid tier specs from 3 years ago charging flagship prices to fill that the spot before it becomes entirely non-viable. I think google does need there to be the appearance of competition so they don’t get hit with monopoly lawsuits, but it only needs to exist, other than that they want it as fringe and clunky as possible and I think that’s where we’re headed.

I discovered that after buying 60 of my favourite phone, the 2018 moto z3. I figured I could mod it endlessly and use it for all my project. Nope, bootloader locked and I can’t even root the damned thing !

It would instantly become the swiftyverse and the rest of the fediverse would defederate. But still would be a positive change overall.

I have never had a household router that had a fan in it. Fanless mini pcs do exists they are rarer and usually more expensive and weaker.

The rebooting problem comes from micro interruption in the power grid. Yes you can add a UPS, but then these will become the main reason why the internet is down (I have a whole stack of APC branded UPS with failed batteries)

I know there are rare exception, but for most phones and most people that simply is not an option.

That used to be the case but the practice was dying by 2014 and completely flatlined after 2020

Without drastic legislative changes, it will become entirely impossible and soon

The main issue is they have fans and the bios will sometime fail to boot. They are less reliable but much more powerful. It’s a tradeoff.