I wonder if adb-disabling Google services would work.

About a foldable phone being a “perfect fit” if only the outer screen is, in addition to being far more expensive than a normal phone.

To each their own. I would prefer to stick to my $3/mo plan with no extras. And said $120 are, while a good deal for a premium phone, are still $120 I would rather spend on better things (or if they’re this throwaway - donate to a charity). A phone after 2-3 years is still very much functional, I don’t see the point to get a new shiny thing just because you can.

Sure, you can buy one to never unfold. But you’d be getting a thick, expensive AF phone for no reason, lol

I only bought a Pixel because of GrapheneOS, and the “a” series is at least slightly smaller (plus plastic back instead of glass, that’s something I am also happy about).

But yeah, I feel you :( I am not even small, I have average hands!

That… Seems so wasteful for me.

Only three years for a premium phone sounds like rich people behavior, to be honest.

exactly

You’ve been through two phones in just four years? That doesn’t sound that great for them…

Wouldn’t it be better to just, y’know, cut out the free space around it?

First - 6.3 usually means already over the edge of comfortable, 7a is already almost too much. Second - thickness adds to it when it’s in your hand. And third - why would I spend huge money (doesn’t seem like it would decrease in price with generations as much as a normal phone, it might be EOL when it becomes affordable) on something that breaks more easily and is still bigger?

The ones I have seen in stores are still too long to be used with one hand or fit comfortably into a pocket. My Pixel 7a is about the biggest I can use one-handed, and even then there is awkwardness.

Also they don’t include comments, which are a huge part of my reading. I save pages to read on a e-ink tablet for comfort, html where pictures are irrelevant but pdf in case of any graphics.

I wonder what those do with people who live in apartment buildings, lol.

I am not disagreeing with your experience. I am disagreeing with cursive being a “made-up thing that nobody uses”.

Fair, and I guess accepting typed papers is more common in universities. But schools still don’t. Mostly because tradition is hard to break, in large part because a lot of people (especially elderly) would find it uncomfortable to read from a screen as opposed to paper. I can relate because I am this way myself))

Respectfully disagree. I myself went for embarrassingly long without knowing English cursive (only knew it for my native language), so I know the difference, and it DOES matter. As soon as most of my reading materials (and thus notes) became English, I had no choice other than to learn cursive, because otherwise writing is painfully slow.

There are keyboards, but usually computers/tablets/phones are banned in class. Our high school did not ban laptops on lessons (it was a very liberal school), but few people used them anyway. Then there are tests, solutions in which can also get too long to quickly write without cursive. Even here, teachers did not accept assigmnents and tests in a typed form, except during remote learning. Not to mention the formulas, which would be troublesome to type out, doubt kids would be fluent in LaTeX.

I am skeptical that this is possible, because you just wouldn’t be able to keep up with the necessary speed using non-cursive letters. It is SLOW.

What school are you in where kids aren’t taught cursive?? This is in standard first grade program.