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Thank you for this detailed response!

I have a Pixel, which has 5 years of security updates. That would probably get me up to the point where I'd want to change the battery. But I'm not convinced a newer phone would have anything for me other than better security updates, so it'd be hard to justify the price.

There's also the fact that new phones can still have security vulnerabilities.

Since my phone is a flagship phone, I feel comfortable that if there are unpatched security issues discovered, they'd be caught by the public pretty quickly and I could make decisions from there...I just have to hope I'm not a "patient zero", lol

I may have to get a "burner phone" for any sketchier activities to be safe, though...lmao

Is that a relatively reasonable course of action?

In one article (maybe not this one), the reasoning was that these were preorders, and they needed to ensure that each preordered console was saved for someone who preordered it.

In that state, plastic bags are illegal and haven't been replaced by paper bags, so that's out.

Generally, they'd tape the receipt to the box. But it was especially hot in the store on that day, and the receipts were being blown off by the AC/fans despite the tape.

They didn't have stronger tape, but they did have a stapler.

Perfectly logical for someone who doesn't realize the box is part of the purchase. I hate it, but I get how it happened.

EDIT: clarity

How often do older devices get breached, and is there any way to continue using an "older" device safely?

I feel like short security update lifecycles are a form of planned obsolescence.

With a battery upgrade after a few years, I could probably get over 5 years of life out of my phone, easily.

Stealing from Reddit is just stealing from a thief in a way...

The picture is a bit misleading to the rest of your post, because given the picture and the title, I was inclined to answer "Right there"! Lol

Minimum wage workers who have a problem they need to fix.

For a lot of people, the box isn't much different from an Amazon delivery box. You throw it out after you've got what's inside.

I'd be asking for a different box though, lol

Caring for them is entirely a different matter, but yes.

Isn't Elon Musk also a pedo?

I was wondering why you'd need to check receipts, but then I realized you probably meant old ones, haha

run by a guy that was so afraid of paying child support that he literally killed himself

Where can I read more about that?

How did you notice that pattern? It seems none of the rest of us have ever heard of that before...lol

How big of an issue is that in Japan? I know that older people there tend to like being employed even into their senior years. I don't know how much is out of necessity.

I'm an IV

I like how simply using "an" instead of "a" causes me to read it as I.V. and not 4. So it sounds to me like you started off by introducing yourself as an intravenous system or something.

A literal five-year old?

Well, you might be right. Some people hate others just because they're different.

Also, there are some bad people who want to make others hate trans people. Those bad people will make up lies that make trans people look bad. They'll tell stories that are lies, and make videos talking about those lies. And many people believe the lies, and start to hate trans people.

Trans people are an easy target because there are not many trans people. Well, there are many! But not as many as there are black people, for example. In fact, black people experienced similar hate and lies targetted towards them in the past. They still do today. Before, it was much worse. Thankfully, Black people grouped together to fight for their rights. They also had many allies help them in those fights. Trans people are doing the same now. That's why we need to ignore the lies, and be allies to Trans people.

Now, why did the bad people who spread the lies choose to lie about Trans people, and not some other group? It might be for three big reasons.

1. Trans people cannot stop being Trans, and there will always be Trans people. This means the bad people will always be able to spread their lies.
2. Trans people have a lot of things in their lives (like medical procedures) that are different and surprising to people who aren't trans. Things that are different and surprising can be scary to anybody sometimes.
3. Trans people have started fighting for their rights, and some bad people don't want to give rights to people who are different from themselves.

I know that's a lot to take in. What are your thoughts about it?

In Japan, its infamously standard to sleep at one's desk. Wouldn't be surprised to hear that it's the same in China.

In North America, most major mainstream news companies are owned by right-wing or right-leaning corporations. In Canada, I think it's literally all of them.

Purple was their colour for a while.

I think their colour was grey before that. But they had red, then purple accents. Foreshadowing!

If you want to be the best person, offer to cover a babysitter (if you're able).

The "good and just God" is just going to make it up to all these people in the infinite afterlife, and inflict eternal suffering on the perpetrators!

/s but some people genuinely believe this

Negative: Worse driving interactions (as a pedestrian/cyclist), especially post-covid.

Positive: People are generally more accepting of things, and people seem to be more comfortable sharing parts of them that make themselves different from the "norm".