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This has no right to be this damn funny!!?!!

Somehow less than I expected - but probably bc the beeps were very short duration:-).

Are those... four beans beneath those jeans?

("beans" is another term for some types of paws, especially on cats)

That company will disappoint and make you feel actively and bitterly betrayed, one day, if the past is any indication, bc they seem to routinely do this every few years when it suits them. But until then, the phones are pretty good, yeah, some of the absolute best on the market. I too argued against people that said exactly this to me, citing how that was the past, but they hadn't done anything like that for awhile at the time, and anyway I can always replace the OS and thus break my dependence upon the company. Then they sent out a literally infamous (for being HORRIBLY buggy) update to the 7T that made my phone get so hot that I legit thought that it might explode. I am convinced that it melted some internal shielding component bc it has never worked the same sense - it rapidly heats up and makes my hands hurt to hold it for even a few minutes at a time while running a heavy app such as a game. The update itself also made it perform really bad, so eventually I did replace the OS with the same older copy of the OS that I had left before the update, but while it went back to being buttery smooth, the heating issues never went away. They literally damaged my device! I will never trust that company again.:-(

And I am far from the only one - the Reddit forums (for OnePlus and for the 7-series) used to be filled with us who absolutely loved our phones more than most people care about some purchased product. We were "fans", "enthusiasts" even. But immediately after the update those forums were filled with people as bitterly disappointed as I was, until eventually they grew quiet as people just abandoned them, a year or two before the Reddit protests. Even then, I strongly considered as my next device a used OP7T or 7Pro or 7TPro and just immediately after purchase replace the OS so that a buggy update could not harm the device as their previous one had. So my beef with OnePlus has nothing to do with their hardware, which I agree is excellent, and everything to do with the company and how extraordinarily anti-loyal they are to their customer base - they have quite a long history of throwing ~~us~~ them under the bus, not often tbf as in less than yearly, more like as they shift to the next phase in their business plan, and it would just be inconvenient for them to honor their prior promises for stable updates, when they really would rather not and concentrate instead on whatever new business direction they desire to head into.

So again, I am not saying to avoid their hardware, but do yourself a favor and never trust that company or you can end up being extremely disappointed, like all of us before who refused to listen to people saying exactly that in the past.

The OnePlus company heavily jumped the shark somewhere around the time of the 8-9-10 series, with one of the company's two cofounders leaving (the non-business tech guy if you take my meaning). I have heard that it has gotten better since then but if their stock OS is still based off of the Huawei-based ColorOS then I would strongly advise caution with that company who may disappoint the entire user-base once again (e.g. in refusing to provide updates, or releasing actively bad ones that convert your beautifully buttery-smooth device into a steaming pile of cRaP that acts like it is drunk when you make requests and the system has to think before doing any minor task. Yes this literally and personally happened to my 7T, and I will never trust OnePlus ever again as a result. They really do have a long history of alternately doing just that, then winning it back then, then betraying their users again.

I am not current on the status of their hardware though, so it might be okay if you planned to immediately replace the OS with something else?

Note that there are USB-C to Mini Audio Jack Adapters. I don't have one so cannot speak from personal experience, just throwing that out there.

Thank you :-).

(Checks notes...) looks like Lindt. And if they get away with it, expect to see it happen a lot more often, from them & others who follow their lead. :-(

I donate my (honorary) award 🏆 to the real winners who made it happen: the people who upvote and post new content daily across this whole wonderful community:-).

And to Samsung I dedicate a different type of award 💩 for making a good fraction of the functionality on their phones so heavily dependent upon their privacy-intrusive tracking measures... except who am I kidding it is mostly my own fault for purchasing one of their devices in the first place! 🫠

Now we can all go read 👓 about that Fairphone, bc ngl it sounds kinda awesome!? 😎

Nope. They get more profits if they do it this way, or even if they do not, the manager in charge WANTS it this way or else it would be different. Wishing otherwise does not make it so, unfortuantely:-(.

At least it allows you to opt-out... as opposed to not at all:-(.

Oh yeah... that. FR though, how about dinner?

Yeah but you are not the average customer. It is the same logic for spam (& chain) emails: so long as it works on a sufficient (even if small) number of people, it makes it worth their while. And then like every conflict situation ever, most people just put up with it and remain neutral. Hence, they continue to do it - b/c they can (get away with it).