Ooo thank you, I actually installed CFW on my PS3 already recently! I was lucky that my slim is a model that can be permanently CFW’d. I should do my 360 as well… only issue is, it doesn’t have HDMI so none of my screens work with it unless I get a capture card D:

Quick edit; oh, in my previous comment I was saying I should utilize the CFW to get some things that might not be available as easily when the store closes, which I believe in next year.

I should figure out what to do with my modded PS3 before the shop shuts down. I think the modded software pulls from the official store servers for some things like games?

My partner and I are in our 30s and this post describes how we feel during a break after a long adderall binge, or a couple days after we roll together. This is very much not a normal part of aging! We sleep 6-8 hours per night and unless we’re coming off’a a couple weeks of adderall or the like, that’s good for the day without being destroyed.

I’ll never forget the swimming scene—one of the funniest scenes I’ve ever seen in an anime.

Nahhh you don’t get it, I’m guessing you’re pretty young. That’s cool.

A lot of those are extremely understandable. A lot of them are ubiquitous to all phones, however. Many of them are unique to you, which is precisely what I was curious about—thank you for taking the time to share! I don’t run into many of the same issues, but I’ll try to give my insight on them, whether you care or not ehehehe

1. That’s totally way fair, but no cut is taken if you buy stuff through a browser. It’s ridiculous that if you support someone through the Patreon app, they take a cut. I don’t like that. But there is no cut through web browser, and better fuckin not ever be.
2. I’ve been using iPhones since the… 5? And I have NEVER used iCloud for anything. I wouldn’t use Google’s online backup either, though. I don’t trust any of them, but I’d trust Apple more. Yet… still hell no. I use iTunes on my computer to make incremental encrypted backups, which it does very well. But I don’t want any of my sensitive stuff online anywhere. It stays on my own hard drives and servers.
3. I also wish we could do that. I really would like to be able to use it as a standard device by plugging it into any of my computers.
4. Fair, but I don’t want Linux on my iPhone personally. I want Linux on my Linux machines. Linux on any phone sucks ass right now. I’m psyched for it to be better, but for the stuff I personally want a phone to do, it would be a nightmare.
5. I don’t know how to answer that one other than we have a separate set of morales, I haven’t purchased a movie since I got my first DVD player. Burners came out shortly after that and all of my movies and shows have been DRM free since.
6. The camera takes some getting used to, but I’ve found it superior to any other phone camera. For photos, it’s kind of a wash between end Android and iPhones. For video, iPhones are leagues better. I don’t do video much, so that doesn’t super matter to me tho.
7. i love the keyboard, but I haven’t used a google touchscreen keyboard since like 2009 or so. I’m sure they’ve improved since then hahaha. If I turn on Apple’s AI bullshit the keyboard and autocorrect become garbage, but with it disabled, it feels the same as it did to me when I used my first iPhone and I really like it. I do have to set all of the shortcuts to add special words I use to its dictionary every time I get a new phone. Maybe that changed? I’m not sure, but that’s a bit annoying… but only because I use words dumbly.
8. I quit all google and Facebook products and services a decade ago so I gotta agree. Never used a Twitter or a TikTok.
9. everything WebKit under the hood, I’m against. I’d love actual Firefox or forks. I am happy that there are now extensions like ublock origin, but full ass support for Firefox would be excellent.
10. I’m not sure what kinds of things you sync, but I’ve had issues with this as well, with music. I have my music tagged very specifically because I’m various types of neuroatypical it’s good to have them like that and feels right. Songs are sorted fucking WACK if I don’t sync them a certain way, and that changed with one specific update—they used to work properly without me having to sync them a weird certain way. Nonmusic files work fine for me, though.
11. That’s my one gripe with my last phone. I had an XS MAXXX and it started closing like everything in the background. To be fair, I had the phone for five years. That’s pretty insane for a phone that overall works great without modifications; I had to CFW my HTC Dream after like a year.
12. I’ve only used a Lemmy web app and it never did that, but once Voyager was released, I stopped using any web apps so I can’t give any opinion on that—it would be very annoying to be logged out often!
13. This is the only one I’m gonna hard refute—that’s not an apple thing. That’s every phone. I get zero notifications unless it’s important. Everything allows you to set it as you want. Google is way worse for this. The only notifications I get are E-mails (with many folders set not to notify), all texts, all calls, and very specific apps.

It kinda sounds like you just hate smartphones which is TOTALLY fair—my good friend is looking to get a flip phone right now lawl. I can understand for a lot of fools including that friend, as they got caught up in the whole “dopamine app” shit like TikTok and Twitter and insta and whatever shit wants all of your time and attention and eww. I never touched that stuff; my phone has always been a little computer I use away from my big computer, and I only use it for texting, chatrooms, E-mail, media playing when needed, and taking photographs and videos.

For tinkering and playing around and doing deep stuff, I go to my heaps of computers hahaha. Not saying this is anyone else’s experience, but it is why I dig iOS. Well, that and it’s my only choice for a high end phone as I haven’t touched Google for a decade or more and never will.

Appreciate you taking the time to voice your feelings about this tho, lotta valid points.

I love this idea but nowadays I’m actively looking for commercials in many shows—watching Sealab or Family Guy or Space Ghost or super old Pokémon and the like is infinitely better with original commercials from the late 90s or early 2000s, ripped in mediocre quality from an SP VHS.

What issues does iOS give you? I was a first-gen Android adopter and loved it, had the Dream (first Android phone that came out) right away, then had another Android phone after.

When phones went away from physical keyboards, I tried my partner’s iPhone and typing on a screen was much better then on Android phones at the time, so I picked one up. Lasted five years, and during that time, I dropped all Google products and services.

I haven’t run into any issues myself, and I find I can keep them for a long time without having to upgrade. I don’t tinker on my phone, though—I work on my full computers and other stuff, but I just want my phone to do internet things quickly, take sick pictures of cats, play music, and shitpost.