https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/librarians-say-a-missouri-house-proposal-to-eliminate-library-funding-would-have-devastating-ripple-effects
https://www.nrpa.org/parks-recreation-magazine/2020/october/as-park-and-recreation-funding-falls-demand-grows/
https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroit-museums-2024-budget/

Actually, it might be 3 out of 3, cause I do hope my car will make it over the winter.

Zenfone is pretty small

Why do people keep saying that? The Zenfone 10 is less than 3mm different from the Samsung Galaxy S23 and the iphone 15 in length and width.

There are more small phones than big phones.

Name three phones with Android 12+ and <130mm length, then.

(Please?)

I was considering it, but a flip phone can’t run Signal and Threema, which have replaced SMS and calling in my friend group.
So currently I use a Unihertz Atom, which is actually perfect for me. When it kicks the bucket, I’ll replace it with a Jelly Star.

Yep, those are the 2 options currently.

You realize what you’ve just done here?
To stay true, rule 34 now has to include George W Bush smashing the Twin Towers.

If you can’t adapt to the user’s behavior YOU are in the wrong.

To avoid this issue, I use a distro that doesn’t give a flying fuck about what the user wants.
That’s the original Linux way: Someone makes a distro in their free time for fun, or for themselves. If it’s useful to others, great. If not, they can go change it, make their own distro or fuck off.

Repeat after me: FREE SOFTWARE ISN’T A PRODUCT. THERE IS NO PROFIT. MARKET SHARE IS IRRELEVANT.

So keep using Windows. Nobody cares.

You sound like Slackware is the distro for you. There’s no walled garden. In fact there isn’t a garden at all, you go out into the wilderness and forage, but first you have to learn how to make the plants edible.

Easy difficulty and blundering my way through unaboidable combat while exploring the world, following the story and learning all the lore.

“not being exactly like Windows” isn’t a problem at all.
Also, absolutely everyone is familiar with systems that use a central app repository instead of downloading executables with a browser, on their phone.

Life Pro Tip: You’re immune to advertizing if you can literally only afford rent and store-brand groceries.

If you’re already on medication, especially for psychological issues, disregard my entire comment.
You definitely do need a doctor to advise you on (possibly very dangerous) interactions between meds.

I have two out of three. That’s good… right??

The default beaviour shouldn’t be to run it, but it also shouldn’t be to tell you that a program that can run it doesn’t exist, when it actually does.
If you want to do it via GUI, default behaviour should be to tell you that for security reasons, installation of deb files from the web is disabled, with a link to the root-accessible setting that enables it (similar to Android, for example).

Whether you want everything but the kitchen sink or top-tier performance for a midtier price, you’ve got options.

What if I want a phone that fits in my front pocket while riding a bike? What are my options then?

Seriously though, in Debian you just type ‘sudo apt install program,’ that is about as simple as it gets.

I know apt is easy to use, but it definitely isn’t SIMPLE.

It has apt, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic and an app store as frontends, and some of them handle dependencies differently or work differently in scripts, so you need to know which to use and avoid mixing them. It has recommended and suggested dependencies. It has meta-packages, virtual packages, package groups, different repo branches seperated into categories. It has blacklisting, apt-pinning, holding back packages. You can set how aggressively it should resolve dependencies and it allows mixing releases.
I know I can do the most basic stuff with “apt update” etc. but try creating a package with dependencies for it and then maintain it across releases.

One option would be to buy Vyvanse on the darknet and stick to a small dose of 30mg/day for at least 8 weeks before you change anything. You don’t need a doctor to tell you that and it will improve your life immensely with very few minor side effects. Also likely cheaper than whatever you’re currently self-medicating with and the other hidden costs of living with undiagnosed ADHD.

But it’s probably illegal, so you know, don’t do it.

That’s what I was trying to say. LibreOffice isn’t the same as MS Office. And that’s not a point against it at all.
If it were the same, I wouldn’t want to use it.

This is exactly the absolute opposite of what I want. Neither simple nor fixed release in any meaningful sense.