- Yongho2: hey Yongho
- Yongho1: :wtf:
- how about we buy a new phone
- no why man
- well you only have a work phone
- which is working out just fine and saving me a lot of money
- and the camera quality could be just a bit better than this old Pixel 3a
- huh yeah those food pics would benefit eh
- and when you livestream while biking, you’ll feel less guilty about that $15 data charge
- sure
- also doesn’t it feel slightly destabilizing that all your 2FAs are linked to your work phone and the fact that there are some fringe accounts still linked to your inaccessible personal number that you won’t be able to reauth? Just imagine you lose your phone one day. Is everything gonna be recoverable?
- actually i need to take time to look into that one day. Finalize moving some GoogleAuth accounts to Authy.. All these supposedly compromised passwords..
- yeah how about the latest iPhone?
- interesting
- YouTube: hey did you know that buying a used Pixel 4 for $200 in 2021 is excellent value?
- cuh dude I bought and sold the Pixel 4 last year because i was not going outside. Rebuying the same model is gonna feel so.. Weird…
- (whispers) just get an iPhone 8 then
- YouTube: on the other hand the OnePlus6T is much better battery-wise
- (whispers) wireless.. Charging…
- dude I’m like 99% sure I’m not gonna be touching a secondary phone 99% of the time.
- bet that’s why it’s called a secondary phone
- maybe my depressed brain just needs a bit of freshing up of things? Let’s install another launcher. Oh look I apparently bought the paid version of NovaLauncher in the past!
- oh shiny
- colorful wallpapers! New lockscreen! Remove icons of apps you don’t use everyday from the homescreen!
- so many baddies i can’t deal! :dill:
Yongho Kim 11:08 am on August 10, 2021 Permalink |
i bought the iPhone SE 2020 a week later but i returned it last week after learning that iOS cracks down real hard on Google Maps’ timeline feature to the point the app can barely track my movements during the day. looking at tips online on how to give maximum permissions to the Google Maps app was of no use. and I’m not about to leave behind a platform where I have already saved 12 years of location history and potential big data self-analysis
Yongho Kim 4:00 pm on October 18, 2021 Permalink |
i bought the Pixel 4 in November 2019 through a Google Fi promotion for something like half off, and then sold it a few months later as I was rarely using it staying indoors
i still had a work-issued low-end/midrange smartphone (Pixel 3a)
it’s starting to feel kinda slow though
and as I start planning small trips I don’t want to be stranded mid-trip with a phone that is crashing while waiting for public transit, etc
I tried a refurb iPhone SE2 for $200 and a badly used Pixel 4 for $180 this summer. the iPhone SE was unusable (to me) for not allowing Google Location History to work reliably, and the used Pixel’s screen was terrible.. I could feel my fingers couldn’t slide across the screen due to the screen being.. scratchy. also Pixel 4 has terrible battery out of the box
I think I’ll either buy the Pixel 6 that gets announced tomorrow,
or if the used Pixel 5’s price range dips from the current $500 to something like $300 after tomorrow, maybe.. buy the 5
and then give back the work-issued phone to the work team pool (we have 40 phones being used in the team pool), but bring the new phone to the work phone plan