• spicy pancake@lemmy.zip
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    24 hours ago

    I had the perfect phone. Sony XZ2 Compact. released in 2018 so not even that old

    5" screen. No headphone jack, but I was honestly just glad to have a screen that small. Ran LineageOS like a dream.

    Then came the 3G tower shutdown. Now, the XZ2c is capable of 4G LTE calling. Lineage even had the settings option for it unlocked (as opposed to stock). So I call up my carrier and ask them to please enable 4G LTE calling for my phone so that it’ll receive calls again.

    Turns out, the major carriers in the US decided not to support 4G LTE calling for the XZ2c. There’s a line of code sitting somewhere that could be flipped to “true” and my perfect phone would work again. But no, fuck me for wanting to resist CONSOOM NOO FONE EVERY SIX MONTH.

    Fuck capitalism I’ll never forget what they took from me

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      22 hours ago

      That’s a beautiful phone. I’m sorry to hear of your tale of woe. Sadly, there are many like it