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Linux Phones

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[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

This is so fucked up to read. Maybe we should all start going back to analog life for about 2 years. For the time it takes for a phone to become obsolete in features, we should just all decide to go back to analog life. Imagine how many stocks would plummet.