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As you may remember from me talking about it once a week, the three things I most want out of a cell phone are
1. RECTANGULAR screen with NO HOLES OR ROUNDED EDGES ON THE DISPLAY CANVAS
2. Big bezel/bevel/whatever it's called so I can hold it without activating the touch screen
3. Headphone jack
I search and search and even for high prices I usually cannot get these things
But the $35 carrier branded temp replacement phone I bought at the Wal-Mart by the airport?
All three
Meanwhile in dystopia news:
1. In Android 13 they made it even harder to disable Google Assistant. I activated it by accident like 3 times trying to disable. The first thing I did was uninstall Google Assistant, but this turns out not to disable Google Assistant instead it shuts you out from disabling Google Assistant. That is, to disable Google Assistant you must first install Google Assistant. Then you have to be careful not to tap it— that activates it— you MUST long-press and tap "Settings"
2. In the process of setting up my new phone, I at one point had to answer a nightmare CAPTCHA where the question was "Please select all objects crafted by humans", and then all the options were either fish or clocks, and that was was a fine question, except one of the clocks I was clearly required to select was *clearly* an image generated by "AI", meaning no it was *not* crafted by humans,
I don't like lying. I really, *really* do not like it when a software program requires me to lie
@mcc very extremely happy to hear someone else express this specific frustration. hard to get people to understand just how wrong it feels to be forced to lie like this