New Phone Day Apr 2 2025
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Date: April 2, 2025

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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
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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
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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.