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This is not a conversation about guns. This is a conversation about items that have withstood abuse that are near unbreakable.

Some items I have heard referenced as AK47 of:

Gerber MP600: It's a multi tool

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I feel like I'm being baited to mention Nokia

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm seriously considering buying a Nokia smart phone to use with LineageOS. I'm a big fan of shitty android phones anyway.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

a cheap microsoft phone isn't a nokia

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Who said anything about Microsoft

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pretty sure they're referring to the sale of Nokia's phone division to Microsoft in the mid-2010s. It's since been bought back and is in the process of renaming to HMD.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't it get resold again to a Chinese firm? Please tell me they're independent again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Sort of. HMD licenses the Nokia name from the broader Nokia business and kept a lot of the old c-suite. Manufacturing is owned by a subsidiary of Foxconn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

ok, that's cool. and their stance on repair ability means if they make a reasonably sized smart phone before I need a new one I'll be getting one, and one of the stupid tablet sized ones anyway if not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

LineageOS wouldn't run on a real nokia unless you're talking about the nokia branded microsoft phones and they're more like a 3d printed gun than an AK-47.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the argument still is, that those aren’t β€žrealβ€œ Nokias. At the very least they’re not the same Nokia that built the 3310, as that Nokia isn’t in the consumer electronics market anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ah I see. That's a bummer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Just be aware their newer phones are hot shit. It's the older phones that got the reputation for durability.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Nokia of now is not the Nokia of yesteryear. Their new phones are just cheap Android smartphones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

if they still ran on the phone network maybe