Idk, but I’m over them and all “smart” tech so it’ll need to be a vast improvement. I’m going backwards. Nothing fucking works right anymore. And everything is enshittified into a subscription or just full to the brim with ads. Usually both.
Started storing my media locally on a NAS. Bought a new MP3 player recently. Getting wired headphones and a dug out my old iPod dock because it’s so hard to find a speaker with aux input. Apparently brands consider that to be a luxury feature and only put it in the top of the line models if at all. My Sonos speakers all bricked themselves with the app or are so much trouble to get working every time I want to listen to music that I don’t bother anymore. Never getting anything without at least having a backup wired connection and offline mode.
Got a retro Gameboy emulator when the switch two came out - I’m not buying an identical console just because the company decided to squeeze me by software locking the games to the new console. They got me back in the day with the 3DS too. Anything I can’t play on that, I can play on PC.
My current smart phone is 7 years old and when it goes I’m either getting something simple without Android or going full dumb phone. I have an old digital camera that I actually just dug out of storage and charged the battery last night to see if it still works. If not I’ll be replacing it with another so I don’t need a phone to have a camera. My partner is looking into getting a handheld SBC instead of a phone for his next device.
Idk, but I’m over them and all “smart” tech so it’ll need to be a vast improvement. I’m going backwards. Nothing fucking works right anymore. And everything is enshittified into a subscription or just full to the brim with ads. Usually both.
Started storing my media locally on a NAS. Bought a new MP3 player recently. Getting wired headphones and a dug out my old iPod dock because it’s so hard to find a speaker with aux input. Apparently brands consider that to be a luxury feature and only put it in the top of the line models if at all. My Sonos speakers all bricked themselves with the app or are so much trouble to get working every time I want to listen to music that I don’t bother anymore. Never getting anything without at least having a backup wired connection and offline mode.
Got a retro Gameboy emulator when the switch two came out - I’m not buying an identical console just because the company decided to squeeze me by software locking the games to the new console. They got me back in the day with the 3DS too. Anything I can’t play on that, I can play on PC.
My current smart phone is 7 years old and when it goes I’m either getting something simple without Android or going full dumb phone. I have an old digital camera that I actually just dug out of storage and charged the battery last night to see if it still works. If not I’ll be replacing it with another so I don’t need a phone to have a camera. My partner is looking into getting a handheld SBC instead of a phone for his next device.