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What smartphones are people using nowadays? (lemm.ee)

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My phone's just bitten the dust and now I need to look for a new one again.

Thought I'd test the waters and see what kinds of phones people on here are using nowadays and what for, what features set them apart if any etc

Bonus points if anyone's managed to get mainline linux running on them either via KVM or bare metal

Edit: Thanks for everyone who talked about their choices of phone, I am now writing this on a fairphone 4 and am quite happy with it so far.

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[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

"Alot" doesn't exist, it's always "a lot". Above meme depicts an imaginary animal, the alot, in order to make the difference clearer.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

To the people who treat that as a hard and fast rule, I wonder what opinion they hold of the word "another."

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

I guess they would think that an other and another have different meanings, like car pet and carpet

[-] TBi@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Car pet… is this petting a car or having a car as a pet. :)

Edit: or petting someone with a car

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Or a pet for the car. The precision of the English language, ladies and gentlemen.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

What does "an other" mean that "another" doesn't?

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

Give me another apple. (Another: one more of the same)

We regret to inform you that we chose an other candidate. (An other: a different one)

But the form "an other" is extremely rare, most likely because it is confusing in spoken language.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I don't think I've seen that usage, "...an other candidate." They'd either just use "another" or there would be a verbal ellipsis, like "We chose an...other candidate." Or they'd just say "a different candidate."

[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

What wrong with another

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Nothing, that's my point. It's a fusion of the words "an other" which is a phrase used in English so frequently that it became its own word, "another."

People are fine with that but they treat "alot" like it's a problem.

[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Ahhhh

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Alot

I get that, but I didn't use a lot or alot in my comment. Did you reply to the wrong person?

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

I did! Sorry!

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