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Begun, the clone war has…

Good call with Angel Dust. King For a Day, Fool For A Lifetime completes the syllabus.

Miles Davis:

• Kind of Blue
• In a Silent Way
• Bitches Brew
• Tutu

Cornerstone records from which everything from the Headhunters, Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra and the great exploration of jazz, psychedelic, rock and everything else in between.

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And the link written this way works better methinks. https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/feminist-icon-gloria-steinem-was

This one’s good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH05Csdahnk

Truth is, most of us feel the same way you do. You are not alone. What is being shared by the community is the “best options of what we have” at the moment.

This tyranny is by design. But this also means we can design ourselves out of it. Its just slow process.

We are starting to see new models of communication be develop, and in some cases we are seeing convergence of these efforts into very exciting solutions.

We’ll get there. Its a lot of work and we have to keep doing whatever we can in our capacity to help that process along.

Just know we all feel the same way you do, and this is the best we got for the time being. We have to stick together and keep talking all this.

Power to us!!

Perhaps you have some useful suggestions to share. Always happy to listen and learn.

I jumped through hoops with the Samsung. ADB-ed the hexk out of it and broke functionality in so many ways.

If I can save you the effort - DON’T even bother trying. There is just too much interconnectedness to undo without breakage.

I moved to a hunch of Pixels running Graphene and have lived happily ever after.

With the added Israeli spyware coming to Samsung, I cannot think of any reason to put any effort into it.

Additional info: Skip the Pixel 6 and 7. Its better to spend a little more in the Pixel 8. I got mine used and its brilliant. I also liked how the Pixels 4 and 5 were as well. Very good devices.

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That’s always the hope. I’ve not yet had a phone that has lasted me 10 years yet but hopefully with reparability and designs that favour stability instead of bleeding edge tech, we’ll be able to see a time when that happens. Good luck in your pursuit.

I’ve had about five different Pixels. One of the Pixel 5 just blew a motherboard. I tried replacing it, but It just made more financial sense to buy another one given that the phone came out in 2019(?) and I got it used. The Pixel 5 also stopped receiving security and GOS updates last year so it wasn’t worth saving. Other than this one account, the phones I own have been without serious issue. This is not a direct answer to your question, but I hope you find some meaning to help you decide.

Get your Pixel secondhand. That way you are not contributing to their profit margins and have more flexibility on the Pixel version you want without having to break the bank.

And I also agree with the comment that Pixels are not the most robust phones. They are good, but not the most robust thing you could own. Power but to issue across Pixel devices is a real thing. I had two of the power buttons on separate phones fall out. Good thing is that you can get them online cheaply and manually replace them yourself.

BUT Pixels are gorgeous phones and a real delight to use as well. Lovely screens, decent battery, good camera and is buttery smooth with Graphene.

I am on these Pixels because if Graphene.

The hardware shortcomings I can live with and work around. I mostly have great experiences with Pixels with the occasional hardware issue to slove.

I use the on-screen Accessibility Menu shortcut to adjust audio volume, screen brightness and un/locking the phone.