Very hard on that price range. Above your price range sits the Asus Zenfone 10 (the 9 is really good as well), which covers a lot of your points. The 10 allows you to disable everything and have stock Android experience. Not bad ! Not sure the 9 had that.

Yep, they are pretty cool ! Until there is no other pests left…

I got my driving license yesterday (at almost 40 yo). My dog is fine, she has conjunctivitis, has a treatment and is right as rain again. I drove to work for the first time today, shortening my commute time from close to 1 hour to 15 minutes. I’m happy.

Same here. Stock Reddit app is crap, and after how they treated third party app devs, mostly Christian, I don’t want to give any traffic to that place.

It’s more friendly around here, but I sure miss some communities, and there is obviously less people around. I hope Lemmy continues to grow.

Happy new year !

I have my driving exam tomorrow. I’m stressed as hell. I’m almost forty and postponed it a bit too much. Not sure I’m ready. Not sure I ever will be. Also my dog has a small issue with an eye, it’s a bit red and has pus, so I have to take it to the vet, but if I fail my exam tomorrow then it’s with the bus, which is… complicated. Looking forward to tomorrow being over to be honest !

[EDIT] I passed ! And my dog has just conjonctivites, which can be very easily treated. Am happy.

I PASSED !!!! I’m so happy, nobody will read this but I don’t care :)! Freedom, here I come !!!

Thank you very much :)!

Hey OP ! I'm digging this back up, I found a smartphone that might interest you (with a few caveats) : The Nokia G42.

It's an interesting one ! Built to be durable and reparable. It's a smartphone, but Nokia worked with iFixIt to design this model; you can remove the back cover to "easily" change the battery, the USB-C port and the screen. It has a headphone jack (even if you don't care), a decent screen (90Hz, 720p though), has expendable storage to 1To, approximately 2 days of battery life (Nokia claims 3 days), it's "cheap" (can be found where I leave to around 230 euros) and has take decent photos (for its price). Not sure about rooting this one though !

The main issues from my point of view are updates (3 years of security update is OK, but 2 years of guaranteed Android updates is short), and the processor, which is quite weak. Not sure how it will perform in newer version of Android.

Thank you very much ! Automatic. Electric even !

Hahaha to be honest I’m looking for excuses to drive now… I wish you all the best, fingers crossed it’s happening to you too soon !!! Keep us updated :)

Oh I understand 100% ! Hanging a car is so life changing for me, living in the countryside it’s so much more simple now. When I lived in the city, it made no sense, now than everything is 45 minutes in bus away, with buses every hours when I’m lucky… I’ll be thinking about you, good luck !!! 🤞

Hahaha thanks a lot 😁