This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
FYI, if you use code format instead of the quote, the entire text in the box is displayed in one line, so people reading it have to scroll the tiny box horizontally - and in my case when I’m trying to do that on desktop, the scroll bar obscures most of the text:
with quote formatting the text wraps lines when necessary:
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
Uh oh. That wasn’t intended.
I removed the extra spaces between angle bracket and the first word. Is it better now?
yup! that did the job for me.
Just don’t give all that money to those awful corporations.
A second hand 100€ phone and a glass of fresh water are more than enough to feel completely dead inside.
Last time I owned a $100 phone I regretted it dearly.
You get barely enough storage space to run the OS and maybe two apps, the Cracker Jack box CPU makes apps crash and the OS extremely unresponsive, and you get so little RAM that you can’t even have anything running in the background. Your music literally stops playing just because you needed to read a text. Never again.
Up that budget to about $300-400. Couple of months ago I got a Samsung Fold 4 for that price; it’s extremely responsive and has enough RAM and storage space to last me at least 5 years while still feeling nothing.
Second hand? Find a used 3-4 years old flagship phone (or quality midrange nowadays) with good LineageOS compatibility and you’re golden. Seriously it’s nothing like what you’re describing. I do this for myself, mom and sis, all phones are fast, 8 gb ram, 128-256 storage (and I didn,t buy them recently)
Maybe the second hand market is different for us europoors
Maybe,
Maybe.
Possibly.
I’m not sure what I need my phone for other then phone calls and some basic apps. If s $100 phone can’t do that, I’ll be angry at the shitheel software devs that never do optimization rather than myself for not practicing consumerism properly.
Fair enough, but having a snappy phone with plenty of storage is important to those of us who do pretty much everything on our phones. My laptop on the other hand was purchased cheaply 6 years ago and I’ll often go a week without using it, and my laptop before that lasted 11 years.
Do you mean to tell me that material goods aren’t the key to true happiness?
$7 coffee?
Is this c/richpeopletwitter?
Inflation has hit coffee hard. A black coffee is like 3 dollars most places.
How much is cocaine?
Nice try fed
Making your own coffee is $5 for a whole box that lasts 2 weeks.
I know. I make espresso at home
also climate change
And I’m gonna comment on Lemmy at my stupid big thousand dollar laptop
running linuxto fill the void.Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.
I’m glad coffee does nothing for me except for making me run to the bathroom. I’m ok.
