I picked up my new tablet. It took me around four months to decide
to buy one at all, and a full month to look into the kind I would
need, but I still feel a bit of buyer's remorse. I'm hoping that
goes away soon, and that it's only because I'm using an Android
tablet. Android, iOS, no matter what it is, it's never good out of
the box. I hate using Google products.
Unfortunately it's also the only thing I can get that's affordable,
and in time for the start of term. I'm facing a 2 hour commute, and
hoping to use bus time as study time like I did this last term. This
last term I used my phone, though, and reading textbooks on it is
very uncomfortable.
A complaint: what the hell do you *mean* I can't have numbers in my
email address? Some websites (UPS website), I swear... And invalid
address? I will use my firefox relay email and you *will* accept it,
god damn it (many such cases!).
A further complaint: everyone in my family is getting a new phone
because of some promotion that makes it effectively free yadda
yadda years-long contract and so on and so forth. My phone works
fine for my purposes, and has since 2017 or so. Why should I
replace it? But my mom is "very concerned" and confused over this.
I already tape over my cameras, why would I need a phone with
not one, not two, but *three* backwards-facing cameras?
