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Every company tries to get people to use personal phones. It takes some gumption to refuse.

Don't care at all about dynamic lock screens. Actively want to keep AI out of my phone, maybe excepting specific apps. Battery tech by itself is nice but you know that stronger batteries will just result in even power hungrier phones, so no real good will come of it. Hinged phones break more and cost more.

NTN (satellite text messaging for when you have no cell coverage) is the main interesting phone tech to appear recently IMHO. Everything else is just little tweaks or outright regressions. I prefer more repairability and openness to more features by now.

SSDs for backup? Being rich must be nice. More srsly if you have the upstream pipe for it, remote backups are preferable in case something happens at home.

Tools:preferences, about:config, file downloads, form prefills, remember password, etc. yes you can try to lock everything but it's too easy to miss something. And then there are outright RCEs. There's just too much attack surface.

There's no way to srsly prevent a full-bloat browser from messing with its environment. Make a static VM image and reboot it at the beginning of every session.

I use Voyager on android but the web client or "old reddit" style on larger screens. You could also look at redreader which is an android reddit client that could be adapted to Lemmy. IDK if there's an iOS version.

I want to see the unfolding of a scorching romance between two partners, each not knowing that the other is an AI.

What does that even mean? But yes lots of us run Linux on servers. Just ssh in. Or even just wipe the VM and launch a new one if you want to upgrade.

15 minute video, I've watched about half, will finish it later, it's interesting. Basically the money was transferred from free software to the now trendier area of AI.

A hosted services ad on c/selfhosted, maybe not the right thing, but I'll defer to others.

just want some old junker (6/7/8th gen Intel)

You probably have to go back further than that for a 3.5" sff pc. Look on woot though, they have such refurbs all the time. Or scrounge a mini tower.

It doesn't appear for everyone to see.

Every user of the extension then, which is apparently a lot of users, enough to affect the site culture, if the other guy's report reflects reality.