That is true, but then you probably are in trouble ;)
squaresinger
joined 2 years ago
If the USA wouldn't be randomly invading countries every few years, they could keep the same level of military technology while spending much less.
The Iraq war did nothing to increase the US military's capabilities but just wasted enourmous amounts of money while killing civilians on a daily basis.
I've also never seen it, but I read some news articles about it burning money like crazy while losing users.
I think it's fair to say that he destroyed Truth Social, because these freaks are now free to use twitter again.
Next time get high after doing the troubleshooting ;)
No problem!
If you decide to make one and need some help on the way, either PM me here or post in the discussion section on the Github repo.
That was a crazy time.
I still have my HTC Universal, which was an absolute flagship in 2005.
My next phone was a Motorola Droid 3, a mit-ranger from 2011.
If you put both of them side by side, these phones could be from different planets.
Minimum order quantity for the populated board is 2. That costs, iirc, around €20 for both plus shipping (if you are patient, that's a few more €).
This micro soldering part can by now be ordered to be included in the assembly, so that you don't have to solder it. I haven't tried the process of ordering extended parts from JLCPCB, but if that works, that's another ~€10. Otherwise you'll have to source it yourself and end up with a similar price.
The Blackberry keyboards go for €3-6 on Aliexpress.
A 5-pack of the USB connectors is about €10 on Amazon, but on Ali you can get one for ~€1.
That's all the electronics, so for two of them, that's about €40-50.
You also need a 3D print, which costs around €1 if you print it yourself or get a friend to do it. If you order it, that can be anything from €10 to €50. The cost of these services varies wildly. You might need to print it multiple times to get the tolerances exactly right. So if you get access to a printer, that would save a lot of money.
But all in all, if you manage to build two and both work fine, there are lots of people on Lemmy, Reddit or Crackberry who offered me to pay €100 for a ready-made one.
We'll at least get swappable batteries in the EU from 2027 on. From then on it will be illegal to sell phones without swappable batteries.
They are really nice. I wouldn't want to go without one of these.
It does require the full set of "maker skills", so it's not that easy to make. If I get some time, I could maybe cut down on the need for soldering.
What you could do, though, is ask someone at fiverr to make it for you.
You need someone with Blender skills to adjust the 3D print file to your phone.
You need to get it printed (you can use any 3D print service for that, e.g. JLCPCB).
You need to order the PCB (that's easy, no need for someone else here).
You need to solder the two hand-solder components onto the PCB. The cheapest way is probably to get a phone/laptop repair shop to do it for you. For someone with good soldering skills, that's like 5min of work. They do that for very cheap.
If you go for used devices, you can quite easily get an outdated entry level phone for free and a decently useable one for <€30.
You can even get new entry level phones for as cheap as €70.
So it's very much a market where you can spend whatever you want.
A flagship phone is priced like a luxurity toy, because that's exactly what it is.
And an entry level phone is incredibly cheap so that people who have no money can still get one. €70 with 2 years of usage is less than €3/month (realistically though, if you are in this kind of situation, you hold on to a phone for much longer).
Over here, if you are poor enough, you'll even get a free phone plan.
Put dirty money in, get no money out ;)
Trump-Style