95 here. Started with the original GameBoy and an old Macintosh in the basement. My first computer was a POS gateway with the cow logo and 128MB of RAM. Finished up high school with the Xbox 360 and an iPhone. I'm a retrogrouch to Gen Z and some kind of hacker to most Millenials. My GF (same age) and I jokingly call ourselves "MillenialZ" (with an obnoxious accentuated zzzzzz at the end) because we don't quite fit in with either generation.
DynamoSunshirtSandals
joined 1 year ago
The last a series phone with a headphone jack was the 5a. Two a series phones have come out without the jack since.
Really annoying, tbh. The jack is a requirement for me as well. The last phone that met most of my requirements was the 4a (the 5a got quite a bit larger).
The last a series phone with a headphone jack was the 5a. Two a series phones have come out without the jack since.
Really annoying, tbh. The jack is a requirement for me as well. The last phone that met most of my requirements was the 4a (the 5a got quite a bit larger).
The last a series phone with a headphone jack was the 5a. Two a series phones have come out without the jack since.
Really annoying, tbh. The jack is a requirement for me as well. The last phone that met most of my requirements was the 4a (the 5a got quite a bit larger).
Exactly. I sometimes switch my SIM card between two different phones; Signal makes that process super confusing and awful because your Signal account, on a phone, doesn't just behave like an account, it has hooks built into your phone and messaging apps. Telegram, on the other hand, lets me set a password and use 2FA via email and then just... log in. Honestly it seems so much simpler I can't understand what the Signal devs are up to!
Sadly, I think they saw the writing on the wall with Google's RCS push, and the decided lack of RCS APIs for Android apps to implement an RCS interface outside of Google. SMS has a lot of staying power, so it won't happen overnight. But there's a good chance that third-party RCS apps on Android will never be a real thing, or will forever end up hobbled. I think the Signal product folks imagined they had a LOT more clout than they actually had in the community. Sort of a less disastrous version of the Twitter and Reddit changes this year, trying to lock folks in.
FWIW the Xperia I V is very very similar to the I IV, it's predecessor. Sony's software support kinda sucks (only 2 years of Android updates, IIRC) but you can likely get a decent deal on last year's phone at this point.
If you're interested in custom ROMs or want something less Google-centric like GrapheneOS, you could also consider the Pixel 4a, 4a 5G, or 5a, depending on your size preferences. They're losing official support now or soon but they're still very good phones, very cheap refurbished, and GrapheneOS should be supporting them for a few more years just fine.
I still remember getting in trouble at my public school with the IT admin because my friends and I discovered how to write BAT files, and had the brilliant idea to create a bunch of fork bombs that self-replicated until they froze their host computer.
Unfortunately I think kids today don't even get enough leeway to figure that sort of shit out. But kids are awfully good at finding cracks in systems, so maybe they've just figured out how to get up to similar hijinks with GUIs and cloud storage.