I bought an older Samsung and only usenitnfor doom scrolling and podcasts. Its fine stripped down to nothingness. My.next purchase will be an older Pixel so I can run GraphineOS. I’m hopeful that like my Linux experience, buying old laptops and kicking windows to the curb in favor of Linux buys you tons of time and product life.
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Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
29 months is too long??? I consider that the absolutely minimum.
If my device doesn’t last at least 36 months I look for a new company. I aim for at least 48 months.
I refuse to buy Samsung or Google devices anymore, since they definitely did not meet my 36 month criteria. They didn’t even make it to 24. Google did at first with my Nexus 4 and I loved it but they shit the bed real quick after that.
its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org 2 days ago
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
any recommendations for long-lasting phones?
for desktop computers it used to be acer (laptop) for me. i bought one in 2012 and it lasted close to 10 years, which i consider really long. even then, i didn’t buy a new one because of hardware defects, but because the hardware specs were long out of date. i bought a new acer (laptop) in 2021 and it enshittified heavily, lasting only 18 months before i had to buy a new computer.
then i bought a thinkpad and have been happy with it ever since. it’s been running for at least 2-3 years by now and shows no signs of aging at all, even though it’s already second-hand. great device.
SteevyT@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Either I’ve had weirdly good luck with Samsung, or climate exceptionally gentle on phones. I expect 6 years minimum out of my Notes, and so far that’s held up.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
i had a samsung s4 mini (one of those really old phones, which are closer to a nokia brick than a modern smartphone IMHO) for years and it worked well. it lasted for 5+ years minimum. i bought a new samsung smartphone in 2022 (second hand though) and it shipped broken. randomly shut down, some kind of power issue. i never bothered to return it because it was rather cheap anyways and i had installed a custom OS on it at that point, which voids the warranty.
I bought a motorola afterwards but am only semi-happy with it. everything seems to work well with it, but i don’t feel like it’s a good phone. it feels kinda sleazy, somehow. i’m not sure whether it’s only because of the color scheme it uses or sth else, but it doesn’t feel alright. i’m still looking for a new phone.