I heard about OnePlus from a TMobile employee and bought the 3T, which was an economical alternative to higher priced phones. I'm STILL using it today. I've replaced the battery, but that's it.

I was considering getting a newer one (still a few years old) that still had a headphone jack, decent memory, etc.

Maybe the used phones will drop in price even more. I've been fairly happy with it, while my wife complains a lot about her recent Samsung phone.

I got tired of doing research to share with others, and the moment I post it gets censored.

Of course, for those who want to control the info flow, that might be a desired outcome. As well as isolating smart people who try to educate others.

This is partially how the California legislature passed a gas tax a few years ago. First No meant Yes, because of deceptive wording in the title. They also had buried in the text of the bill the ability for the people to allow the legislature to raise the fuel taxes without any further input from the voters.

The problem is that Google offers a software development kit that sabotages firefox browsers hitting Chrome SDK built sites in varying ways depending on (seemingly) the day of the week.

With the above specs... 5 seconds from sleep mode to login screen.
From cold boot.. 10 secs til the BIOS BEEP
I forgot I had a CD or DVD in that drive, so it checked that.
38 seconds from cold boot to "Starting Windows"
1:38 from cold boot to login screen.

Faking the big O in print???

I still have my 3T. The battery was draining pretty quickly when I replaced the battery a few years ago with a german import battery.

Now if they'd only shut down the china-bound data pipeline... The CEO admitted to it after getting caught having 2 pipelines, and shutting down one of them.

But the other??? Crickets.

Perhaps, unlike the OP, math wasn't his strong point?

I found the CZUR scanners sending info back to China, even when I specifically told it not to. Once I found that out, it became an expensive paperweight.

The covid vaccine contained SV40, which is a known cancer causing agent, and the vaccine also caused programmable "factories" to be "built" in many cells, further creating new proteins that are suppressing our immune systems. Essentially, these shots are causing Vaccine-induced Autoimmune Disorders (VAIDs), and allowing cancer to grow very quickly. Some medical professionals are calling these "turbo cancers".

Look into the cancer fighting capabilities of ivermectin and fenbendazole. The pharmaceutical industry would prefer you don't. Notice how many companies are now producing "cancer fighting drugs" that come with a high cost.

denying service to rural areas, and if you want internet, move to urban dense housing.

Using a fire to heat up a somewhat sealed container of plant material, essentially driving out flammable gasses and being left with carbonized remnants is similar to biochar.

China loans money to countries at usurious rates, and hold the nation's mines, ports or other infrastructure as collateral.

Of course, the country can't pay the loan off, and whoops... there go their resources or ports.

I see the same for these banks getting their hooks into a regional bank and one by one, the regional banks disappear.

These big four banks are going to be what's left standing and will share in the largess of the FedNow (Central Bank Digital Currency) program.

It will not be good to coalesce the country's wealth in a few banks.

It's a pathway to economic slavery.

but felt it would have been a no-win scenario.

That's odd. A large number of pharmacies refused to fulfill a doctor's prescription for ivermectin, citing pressure from the FDA to not allow it.