I used Collabora inside Nextcloud for this.

“oomsday”

What was “oomsday”?

(Not sure if this one is too obscure)

Best of luck with that, idiots. How are you planning to tell the difference between my personal VPN and my work VPN?

Opus is awesome.

The 4A was about the upper limit of what I like - switching to the 6A has been a royal pain in the arse!

A small phone I can get a good grip on - bigger phones feel like a balancing act during use.

You want one even smaller than that?!

Yes…?

I want to be able to hold it in one hand and use it properly, like I could with my iPhone 3GS. If I need a bigger device, which I often do, I grab a laptop. If I want a big screen I use my home theatre. If I want handheld gaming I grab my Steam Deck. My point is, I’m not a luddite who feels that smartphones aren’t useful - I was an early adopter (Shout outs to Symbian Series 60!) but I’m finding the recent generations of devices to be cumbersome. They’re massive in my pocket, I need two hands to use them, they’re much easier for me to fumble and drop, and using them strains the tendons in my little finger as I try to stabilise an ungainly lump.

It frustrates me no end that phones just get bigger and bigger. Having the option is great, no complaints there, but could there be something that suits me too?

You may want to specifically look at phones marketed as being small.

The issue I’ve had there is that their cameras are generally rubbish, unfortunately.

I’ve not checked the sizing but I thought the whole point was that the A variants were smaller? My 6A is already much larger than I’d like. I’m not trying to watch movies on these damn things! 😂

Could the same not be said for the 6A?

Right, so which phone should I buy second hand that has a great camera and doesn’t cost the earth?

I had a 4A, currently I have a 6A, and I was going to get a 7A but apparently that’s a bad idea too. Fuck’s sake.

You can grab the hash and bang it into a magnet link converter like this one: http://www.romanr.info/magnet.html

Is ran?

It turns out that maybe having a gentlemen’s agreement for how things should work was a bad idea.

Mmmmm compiz. Wobbly windows, spinny cube virtual desktops, take me home!

I assume it was made to upsell people to better CPUs. Celerons have always been awful.

That said, if Win7 came preinstalled then we’re talking about different eras of Celeron, at least, I cannot imagine it would be as mediocre as a low-mid AMD CPU from 2004!

I always think of an ex of mine defending criticism of her craptop. “It was good for its time!” No, no it wasn’t. It was built around a Celeron. It was built to be trash. It was ewaste with extra steps.

Whilst the Celeron was indeed utter cack, 2 GB has me making four Yorkshiremen-style “2GB? Luxury!” style comments.

I used to run Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire 1362 WMLi back in 2005. I had 512 MB of RAM and a 2800+ Sempron processor.

That said, looking at this:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1351vs710/Mobile-AMD-Sempron-2800+-vs-Intel-Celeron-M-1.60GHz

My old Sempron was a better CPU than that piece of junk Celeron you’ve got there. Giving it 2GB of RAM is hilarious!

Which manufacturers make equivalents of the 6A? I don’t want to spend lots of money and basically only care about a decent camera. I barely use my phone by modern standards.

The Pixel 4A update made my phone completely unusable. The battery meter became meaningless and I had to replace the entire phone.

An update that functionally bricks the device does make me safer, I suppose, but frankly I’d rather choose whether to take the risk. Now is not a convenient time to replace this damn device.

Jesus, I moved from a Pixel 4A to 6A because of the damn issue. Should I flash LineageOS or something on here?

Phones haven’t got more interesting in a decade or more. As a result my willingness to pay more than we used to is extremely low.

I loathe Windows, love Linux, but Macbooks are my machine of choice for laptops. My last one lasted over a decade of abuse and travelled all over the world with me. Perhaps another manufacturer does as good a job on their portables but I’ve yet to find one. I have a ThinkPad for work and by comparison it feels clunky as all hell on every level.