LastYearsPumpkin

Depends on what you're using the phone for. Personally, my usage isn't very demanding, so having a phone that's going to have security updates and a replaceable battery will probably let me use the phone for 5+ years.

I probably won't keep the phone for 10 years, but it means I can upgrade on my schedule, not just because some company decided for me.

I don't know you, or the people you're talking to, but once you're at the "you always have to be right about everything" point, the conversation is adversarial, and it's mostly a moot point where it goes from here. The goal shouldn't be "winning" the conversation at that point, the goal should be never getting there in the first place.

I do know people who act completely disinterested in any conversation that isn't about them lecturing one or more people about something. If this is how you come across, that could be very irritating to people. They don't want to feel inferior to their conversation partner, they want to have a discussion, not receive a lecture.

So back to the start. The goal should be figuring out how to stop the conversation from getting to that point in the first place, and since you have no control over how other people act, you'll need to start paying closer attention to what you are saying, how you are saying it, and how to start engaging with people in topics that they are more knowledgeable about.

As they say, if you're the smartest person in the room, then you're in the wrong room.

This is untrue.

20 years ago, most companies had proprietary connectors, because there was no standard. Then, slowly, they all shifted to USB Micro-B, which was acceptable, but limited charge speeds.

Once USB-C came out, it took a while for everyone to flip over. Heck, you can still find a few devices like headphones and flashlights that use USB Micro-B (or even Mini-B). But they all flipped because the demand was there and the technology standard supported what they needed.

Apple even flipped most of its devices over. They're just dragging their feet on the iPhone.

Start with first principles - who is saying this, and are they correct?

A third party isn't involved. An RSS feed pulls in the data from the source.

My point is that you find a trusted news source and you don't have Google, Facebook, Apple, or Xitter deciding what you should see.

RSS is great for news, because you don't get told what to think by a 3rd party algorithm, you aggregate news from trusted sites (multiple) and decide what to read.

RSS also is extremely important for podcasts, that's how it gets pushed down to your listening app (except for specific ones like Spotify and whatnot that host the content)

Careful, because 1337 had a recent scandal with Baldars Gate having a crypto malware in it and there was some involvement with the admins on that.

Seems fine with media, but careful using it for actual executables.

Quality

If you shut off the local Internet overnight, then half the world wouldn't be able to communicate with the other half.

I'm confused here. Are you implying that funding the New Horizons probe will achieve more Pluto science? Because it's long past Pluto and will never be able to study that object again.

It could study other Kupier belt objects, but never Pluto.

I'd like to see a source on that claim.

Regardless, another option is to hook it up to a dummy wifi network that doesn't connect to anything and then hook up whatever to an input.

https://youtu.be/Mg0jS6F4M10