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A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades (www.straitstimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The problem is that there are security updates that those old phones need and aren't getting. The whole "let's tie the operating system binaries to the hardware" thing was always dumb, somehow Windows can handle binary-blob drivers that aren't built into the OS.