JustARegularNerd

JustARegularNerd , 18 days ago to News in ‘Will I ever retire?’: millennials wonder what’s on the other side of middle age

This sounds a lot like superannuation that we have in Australia and is mandatory. A certain amount of money from your paycheck is put with a super and they invest it for you, and the idea is that you should have a few hundred grand by the time you retire.

JustARegularNerd , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

Yeah one of these is literally my primary USB 3.0 to SATA adapter

JustARegularNerd , 2 months ago to Ask Lemmy in What linguistic constructions do you hate that no one else seems to mind?

I'm sure you say that in jest to some extent, I do know some people who say "arks" instead of "ask" and they have never realised it until it was pointed out. I'd say a similar phenomenon happens with "nucular"

JustARegularNerd , 2 months ago to Ask Lemmy in What linguistic constructions do you hate that no one else seems to mind?

I hate the ambiguity in that too. My usual goto instead is "the coming Friday"

JustARegularNerd , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

Didn't Apple try and class their iPhones as game consoles a couple months back?

JustARegularNerd , 3 months ago to Technology in E-waste is growing 5x faster than it's recycled, says UN

You could do the screen replacement yourself which honestly isn't too difficult if you follow a repair guide such as the ones iFixit make available. You may find it cheaper to find an iCloud locked 5c with a functional screen than to buy a replacement screen itself, and you have spare parts should you need them.

However, I believe the 5c was a bit of an underwhelming phone because it was effectively the same as the iPhone 5 that came before it. The latest iOS it got was 10.3.4, which is pretty much unusable in 2024 without jailbreaks. You would need to find tweaks to try and fix apps that are broken, and force the app store to serve you older versions of apps. It's possible to try and make it usable but I do honestly think it's a losing battle as more and more apps update and break compatibility.

If you're really into the form factor of the 5c you could find a used SE 1st gen which got to iOS 15 but still looks exactly like an iPhone 5, as these are still very daily drivable without jailbreaks.

Otherwise, I'd usually say its best to keep your S7 going, and install custom ROMs like LineageOS to keep it going further. If an Android phone has mainstream ROM support (by LineageOS or hobbyists on XDA Developers) it's usually much easier to keep it going for longer than an iPhone, and it's usually more secure as you're getting OS updates again.

My iPhone 4s is a proof of concept device that shows it's possible to have it work with some services today (Fediverse via old.Lemmy.world, Spotify, Discord, iMessage, Reddit via Narwhal, Maps, Telegram, YouTube via m.youtube.com, and Hacker News) but it is a very slow and patience testing experience in nearly all of those. I would not consider my 4s daily drivable and it's exactly why I use it for a distraction free music player with modern conveniences.

Edit: I should mention that a community I frequented on Reddit was r/LegacyJailbreak, so they will have much further information for you should you want to ultimately repair and reuse your iPhone 5c

JustARegularNerd , 3 months ago to Technology in E-waste is growing 5x faster than it's recycled, says UN

Personally, I think a factor is there's been a shift by companies in general to not make things as obvious to repair. My dad has a unibody 2012 MacBook Pro and the book literally tells you how to open it so you can service it by upgrading the RAM; a far cry from the situation today.

Older tools were held together with some common screws and were all built the same, so there wasn't too much concern from the layman popping one open to clean it out to service it. Modern power tools just don't look like you should be opening them, as the screws are completely hidden, they're hard to open comparatively, and its usually the battery that goes anyway, which can't be replaced when it's been discontinued.

JustARegularNerd , 3 months ago to Technology in E-waste is growing 5x faster than it's recycled, says UN

Hello! Not sure if the screenshot will attach to this comment but I was able to successfully log into Lemmy and I'm replying to your comment from my iPhone 4s.

With all of this being said and done, I do agree that OP is not likely to be using an iPhone. An Android phone from this period is way more usable than this iPhone even with all the hacks I've done to it.https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/13fbd0f8-cc4e-48e8-b1a2-f1c4d559fb41.jpeg

JustARegularNerd , 3 months ago to Technology in E-waste is growing 5x faster than it's recycled, says UN

Don't be so certain. Using jailbreaks the 4s can be downgraded to either 8.4.1 or 6.1.3. My own one is on 8.4.1 and old.Lemmy.world renders perfectly on it. I'll grab it actually and see if I can reply to this comment.

JustARegularNerd , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon Passes 'Right to Repair' Law With Extra Cojones: Oregon’s “right to repair” bill, which now only needs the governor’s signature before it becomes law, has teeth not found in similar legislation

I'm confused, was this supposed to be a reply to another comment?

JustARegularNerd , 5 months ago to [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation in I have encountered some negativity on Lemmy recently, so I just wanted to start a laid back thread to see what are people's plans for the week-end

Well I've already got my existing 64GB iPad 2 which is downgraded to iOS 6 and it's essentially a giant old game console, full of old iOS games and emulators.

The iPad 3 I got today works well as a second display (via TwomonUSB) so it will take that role from my iPad 2. Having a touchscreen portable monitor is just severely underrated. It'll mostly be at work with Teams on it, and occasionally with my study laptop as a portable second display.

The other two iPads are both Air 1st gens. One of them will be used just as a device for me to watch YouTube and browse Lemmy on in bed while my main phone charges.

The other one I'm yet to do anything with but I do like the ideas others have commented. Might be used as a self hosting dashboard showing uptime, usage stats, internet reliability, something like that. May also prompt me to actually set up a self hosted NVR

JustARegularNerd , 5 months ago to [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation in I have encountered some negativity on Lemmy recently, so I just wanted to start a laid back thread to see what are people's plans for the week-end

I love messing around with technology that's not old enough to be considered vintage, not new enough to be considered usable, just this odd in the middle obsolete stuff.

So you bet your ass I'm spending my weekend on the three old iPads I got from my work and finding ways to utilize them.