This is what I was thinking, when more and more phone offer 5000+, samsung offer 20% less...

3900mAh ?!? what?!? sure you cannot do a day without charging it, pretty lame. And it's so thin you'll bend it.

Yes, at least seeing a 50yo guy like me. We come from the 8bit world, there was no linux!

In University. In the 90s we used commercial un*x (HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, Solaris/SunOS, SCO) and some others like SVR4, BSD, Minix. Then a guy on usenet talked about making is own kernel running on a 386. My first real full linux install was kernel 0.99 on a 486DX50, around 1993, came in multiple floppies, then to install X11 that was like 10 more floppies! Configuring things was a bit nighmarish.

Also, when I think Mafia in Ontario, I think construction.

oh boy, Montréal, construction is 100% run by mafia it's incredible, at every level

hé, I'm in Québec, I'd need a nice ride in buses with thousands of others Canadians to tell Alberta we love them!

I had a small one like 1024x600, it was powered by USB-C (that carries the touchscreen signal) and it was mini-HDMI. It worked first try in Windows or Linux, nothing special to do, just plug 2 cables. It had stereo speakers too, a rocker switch on the side to set volume, brightness, etc with a menu like TV.

35 difference in Terrebonne riding in QC, Liberals won.

That Chinese people buys lots of american stuff like trucks and all ? I guess?

PoCo F3, it is 4 years old, was a bomb at the time for ~$400

We do not have them in Québec, mostly because CON is a lost cause here, and anyway they would write SMS in english, it's an automatic red flag here to receive SMS in english.

budget phones have a bad reputation.

They are slow as hell... A quick reference is antutu benchmark... this brand new A36 has a score of ~550k, my 2021 old phone has ~800k and it is still snapy and all, but no more update, so it's a choice...

yup, used pico with pine 30 years ago (I'm old) and switch to nano of course, I still use nano about daily (linux maintaining, config file, etc)

In Canada we have mandatory DRL (Daytime Running Lights) and often, cars use high beam with a low voltage or PWM. When people replace their standard bulbs with LED bulb, it means during the day you are flashed by high beam in your eyes, even in full summer at noon you can be completely blinded by cars coming towards you, it's fucking annoying!

I still have my old HP Mini311 netbook, AntiX or Linux MX 32bits works well on it.

yeah I got a good 10cm of snow this morning, north of Montréal

So AliExpress will be dead for USA?

Of course, but there would not be millions/billions of people at that latitude without A/C

It is a vicious cycle, yes, but I think it changed the world. Without A/C we would not have SOCAL, Florida, Texas, etc. or India or others.

How many years of security/os support?