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Google's Pixel 10a arrives on March 5 for $499 with specs and design of yesteryear (arstechnica.com)
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[+] -6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

fuck google. fuck the pixel. and fuck grapheneos.

imposing an artificial entry barrier of hundreds of dollars/euros for not getting assraped on the reg gets a well deserved fuck you and die. the vast percentage of gos functionality can be had with lineageOS and a few tweaks, for a tenth of the price.

$500 for a phone is not fucking "reasonable"! shit's supposed to get better and cheaper at the same time. but if your easily breakable slab of glass costed $99, that's not hella much profit for their gaping assholes.

and miss me with the "refurbished" (isn't) - $200 for a used phone that was spat on and rubbed and used in the shitter and now has a bad battery is not reasonable.

my sincerest apologies to the huge population beset by nation-state actors, who got no alternative to locked bootloaders and are exposed to evil-maid scenarios. the rest of us can get two $50 used phones, run lineageos on one (while that's still a thing), postmarketOS on the other, and accelerate the latter's progress by shipping like a quarter of the remaining balance to its developers.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    shit's supposed to get better and cheaper at the same time.

    It has. $500 in 2026 doesn’t go as far as $500 in 2008.

    I wouldn’t buy a pixel again because of the quality control issues but that’s beside the point.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    brah, phones haven't changed significantly in the past decade. competent devices should (and do) cost like $100. chinese phones cost that much, made at the same place where these things are made. that's enough for all the parts and a healthy profit and that thing can run the same software as the $500 one or the $1000 one.

    those things nowadays ain't nice-to-have, they're must-have and poor people shouldn't be excluded from safely participating in the global communication sphere. gos could at any time ship gos-lite that isn't based on a hardware-backed TPM that's exclusive to pixels and I'd shut the fuck up. that thing would cover the 99% of us that ain't a buncha jason bournes with nation-states after us.

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