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title: "New Phone Day Apr 2 2025"
description: "!!! info backdated"
date: 2025-04-02
published: true
tags:
  - social
  - tech
template: blog-post
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    This represents the first sign in to this new pixel 6.

This will be my 3rd pixel 6 since 2021, One shattered screen and one blown
battery.  My first one was brand new, the first new phone i've had in years.
That phone only proved to me that new flagship models make no difference to me,
I had been running pixel 3 refurbished for many years before.

## No social media on this device

Social media sucks become a bunch of people yelling "fake news" at each other
and propping up their political candidate as the savior of everything.  Elon
bought twitter and fractured it.  The communities are no longer here, and I
have to dig through so much political posts to see post on tech and engineering
its not worth it anymore.

**update** from a year later and It's been great, I check socials like once a
week hoping to find better things, but it all seems like the same BS.  The
Crypto bros have moved on to AI so hard that I just cant stand watching most of
them yap about something that they have no understanding of and how much AI
does such a better job at, how you are fomo by not following the new shiny
thing that no one will talk about next week.

## Few Apps

My wife gets on me all the time for running it so lean.  It's getting harder
and harder to just have the few apps you want and use a browser for the rest.
Each store, each vehicle, each doctor are needing their app more and more
today.  What do I know, probably next to nothing about their apps, but it just
feels so wrong to install an app that could have been a website.  I've seen the
shady shit facebook does through their apps that turns out to be protected by
drm law created a decade before anyone ever saw a smart phone.