Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser (val.packett.cool)
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From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." (blog.hayman.net)
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How the US built 5k ships in WWII (construction-physics.com)
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Where Are the Small Phones?
6 rpgbr 6 5/8/2025, 4:56:28 PM manualdousuario.net ↗
There is a third option: spend less money and buy a refurbished / second hand old phone from a time when they were small.
Phones have plateaued in the degree to which a faster chip creates a better user experience. You can live comfortably with a phone that is several years old, as long as the battery isn't. If you're the type who needs the best camera imaginable, maybe not, but I expect most people's photos are compressed enough by their social media platforms for it not to matter.
That's why for vulnerable/high-benefit target groups better be safe than sorry.
However you're right, the whole industry is driven by fear, and basically no news agency write clear and concise vulnerability reports for the regular Joe.
Yes, but let's be practical. I'm not one of these people, in all likelihood you're not a high ranking member of government either. The attacks we are vulnerable to are wide-sweeping well-known vulnerabilities that are trivially exploitable, untargeted, in a browser or in user installed software. These exist, but we can learn about them and know if we are vulnerable, then make the judgment for if it's within our risk tolerance & risk appetite.
Security is not an absolute. It must be informed by the real-world threat landscape, then modulated by individual risk on a case-by-case basis. Too many "security people" preach well-intentioned but incomplete advice.