Blocks email? You need email and that has nothing to do with doomscrolling. Spam is pretty under control at this point. Scammers will directly call and text you so just having a phone is an issue. I also need mapping apps and I need my browser for things like banking and such.

I could see giving this phone to someone who can't control themselves online like romance scam victims.

According to a talk I attended by one of the GPS system designers you can jam GPS with a 9v battery.

I guarantee the US can also so big whoop.

If people didn't love them they wouldn't sell them. People around me are obsessed with giant trucks.

Ok, shut down data centers and AI farms first. Then I'll consider it.

The US has been afraid of those "nefarious Asians" for over a hundred years now.

Replace it with homegrown spyware

They are doing everything they can to drive me away from their platforms. My main use of FB at this point is to stay in communication with some people and a couple of special interest groups I run.

In other words, "MS has invested so much into the AI boondoggle that everyone had better jump on board before I lose my bonuses and stock options."

Good luck with that with the cuts they've made to NASA and the general contempt for science in this administration. It would likely just be a way to funnel huge amounts of taxpayer money to a few favored companies. Like, ummmm, SpaceX.

And militarize it.

The corruption runs deep with Trump Inc.

The next admin will be doing nothing but repair.

Forcing me to switch to win11 and buy all new hardware and do it at a time of ridiculously high prices for things like RAM may push me to linux at home.

He violated the rule that if you want to dominate the market you don't tell the market what to do, you meet what the market wants.