My phone still works perfectly fine despite its age and I’m too cheap to buy a new one.

  • southsamurai
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    4 days ago

    On a security level, yeah, obviously.

    On a day to day level, no

    I wouldn’t trust it to handle anything sensitive, but that doesn’t make it useless. If you can unlock the bootloader and swap in a different rom, that usually solves any problems security wise, as long as there’s a recent enough rom available. And even without that, the risks involved aren’t 100%, and can be mitigated to some degree.

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      4 days ago

      This. I’d avoid using it for banking or access to a Gmail account that is registered with your bank. Or receiving 2FA texts.

      But scrolling Lemmy and making calls? It’s probably fine.