I’ve not heard of lineageOS until today, PostmarketOS looks interesting, but with so many different devices it’s got to be really hard to keep track of all the different distros and make sure nothing nefarious slips in.

In all likelihood I will need a ~£100 battery replacement soon, while my phone works for my current use case it is getting less secure and some apps have already dropped support for iOS16. I’m just planning for my future and thought my planning process might be interesting for other frugal people.

While your options are more frugal they are probably not secure enough for me, but I will take a look.

I’ve not seen any credible reports of Apple devices containing spyware inherently.

Ooh - I’m going to look into that! Thanks

I did plan on that last year but the 15 only dropped by about 10% (£100), so less than the value of one year of improvement for an 8 year lifespan device. I will keep an eye on this again as sometimes places like Costco have silly offers to clear stock.

Thank you! This was my thought exactly, I’m skimming MacRumors for the details of the 17 to see if I should start another fixed saver or buy one in September.

I really want to have as little impact on the world as I can and keeping a phone for a long time is frugal and planet friendly. My current one does need rebooting about once a week now or it loses network connection. But that’s only 52 reboots a year :)

I think I’m just going to start a new saver anyway, the chances of anything truly worthwhile is very slim.

It’s one of those situations where if I jump to another ecosystem it will be a hassle, and ideally I would ideally avoid Google, maybe a Graphene or Fairphone but they are still Android forks.

I may end up having to replace a phone half the price after 4-5 years, rather than 8-10 years.

It’s not really possible to know what phone will last longer, but the higher end phones tend to have the latest tech, and will last longer, even if it’s just a couple of years.

I did hesitate to post this here, as I’m always frugal, but this is something I have in my hand/pocket all day. Buying a cheap phone is sometimes (but not always) a false economy. I don’t know anyone who spends less than £15pm on their mobile plan and phone.

Extended family “IT Guy” here. Have replaced 30ish laptops batteries. The cheap ones on Amazon/eBay you have a ~30% chance of them being DOA, and 99% chance of them being dead within a year.

“Brands” like Duracell GreenCell I’ve had better luck with but I’ve been sent batteries from GreenCell which only lasted a year because they were sitting on a shelf for 3 years before they were sent to me.

OEM batteries tend to last longer than the originals as most BIOSs from Dell, Lenovo etc. now include battery optimisation which extends the life of cells.

It all come down to what you need, and how much you value your time compared to money. My personal stuff I always go OEM as I rarely replace my laptops. Current one from 2015 is still going strong. If you are willing to put up with returns and rapid replacements a £20 cheapie can look good when the OEM is £100

EDIT: Sorry just re-read your question. The OEM at 75% health is dead already. The cheap no-name ones are probably just random used cells thrown together.

You’d probably be better off with the no-name but for this use case just get the cheapest thing with a 1year warranty and cross your fingers.

I went back through your posts to find out where you were based… and I have discovered that there are in fact many stupid questions 😀…

This may be different in the US as your distances are a little larger… but we charge at home overnight and have never needed to charge anywhere else. Every morning we have 250miles available and 1200miles a month costs us ~$30 in electricity.

You may be able to get a prepaid debit card and use that on public charging stations for long journeys or emergencies.

Sorry I should have clarified; the notifications on replies are when I reply to someone else’s post. If I start a new thread I just notice I don’t get any replies or notifications. My posts are just removed completely, I’d say it happens to around 50% of my comments on YT. I suspect I’ve been mass-reported by right wing bots, and my account is now marked for extra censorship in some way.

When I post something about Musk/Tesla it posts successfully, I get replies to the thread, and I can see my post, but if I view the same thread without being logged in, my reply is missing.

Has anyone else noticed any slightly negative comment on YouTube regarding Musk/Tesla gets immediately shadow banned?

Still in warranty or less than 3 years old? I saw the Reddit post on this issue, might still be worth asking, they may have developed a hardware of software fix, and if not they may allow you to switch model.

That noise is the heads being cleaned, which needs to happen on all inkjet printers. It may be that your one was simply broken. I bet if you call Brother and ask for some advice they will help you.

Called brother about this and talked through the issues raised by Rossmann, they convinced me enough to buy 3 printers from them this month.

Which printer and why? I just bought three L8690CDW Colour laser printers for me and my family after calling Brother who were happy to talk me thought my concerns, they informed me that this model does not have chipped cartridges so it’s ineligible for their cartridge subscription program and they also can’t tell if the cartridge is genuine or not. They don’t care if you use 3rd party toner.

Can we start with all Trump and Musk assets?

Y’all need to overthrow your corrupt dictatorship government before it fully takes over the media and military command.

OP is the same name as the author. OP posts only articles from this site with very low effort copy/paste titles. OP seems to run the site which is 90% adverts and probably AI generated summaries of genuine articles, and uses social media to drive clicks. Sad really, and just populates Lemmy with low effort content.

So you do work for them then?

I’m guessing this is a bot or employee of this publication, do not click. It’s talking about Scottish people having less savings than the rest of the UK. The site has a delay between clicking Cookie options and showing the next page to trick you into selecting “Accept All”.