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Don’t Trash Your Old Phone–Give It a Second Life
- DemocracyFTW2 4y agoSure, the first one I owned, which I purchased in 2017, had only 16GB of storage. And yes, I was forced to stop using it after a terrifying incident in which it refused to update to the latest iOS, even after I deleted nearly everything on it, which prevented me from installing the Ticketmaster app that I needed to enter a Harry Styles concert that I had flown to California by myself to attend. (Would you believe someone at the arena simply agreed to print the ticket out? I was crying.) A guy who flies across the country just so he can visit a concert wants to tell me how to live sustainably by recycling stuff? Get a grip.
- exolymph 4y agoRecently I mailed a bunch of old phones to Noisebridge as a donation. I figured those folks will have better ideas than me :) https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge
- forgotmypw17 4y agoI regularly use older devices. The great thing is that almost every device has a relatively modern browser. By "modern" I mean JavaScript and DOM. So if I engineer my pastebin-like website to be compatible with them, and allow HTTP (accessibility over security) I can use just about any device for taking notes and communicating.