This may be the difference here, I have never broken a phone, my iPhone 6 became my dads and is still going, and my current phone is the iPX I bought over 8 years ago.

You probably need to take better care of your stuff. 😀

Where are you getting an iPhone for less than $160 that still gets security updates??

I can replace my iPX for about $200 for a refurbished one, but not get an 11 which will only have 9 more months of updates. I can probably get a used 11 with an already trashed (<70%) battery for $160.

You just reminded me I still have an inspection camera which can only work with software that requires Windows XP, last time I used it I had to run it on a virtual machine on my laptop, it’s been a few years, I probably don’t have the VM anymore. The camera works perfectly, I wish I’d paid the extra for the one with its own screen.

I’m going to respectfully disagree; had the phone kept shutting down you would have gone to Apple or a 3rd party repairer and got a new battery for 30-80£€$.

By masking the real issue and just giving you a poor experience, you wonder if it was always like that, or if there is something wrong at all, maybe you compare it with a snappy new phone and decide to upgrade for 1000£€$

Not come across that one, maybe it didn’t affect iOS 16, so us iPhone X users are safe?

It is funny that all the responses so far have been about phones.

Got to be Apple slowing down older iPhones to mask battery degradation, and hoping no one would notice.

Heat pump driers use a bit of electricity to get up to temperature then a tiny amount to run the compressor and keep the heat topped up thought the cycle, they can take longer for some fibres (ones they have high resistance to airflow and also like to hold on to water) but they use far less energy to do that. The amount of energy used is not consistent through the wash.

Some loads my machine takes just over 1kWh (25p) to dry, maybe 2.5 hours, other loads take 30mins and 0.3kWh. (~8p)

It’s mainly down to our strict energy efficiency regulations, when shopping for a drier (which is already rare in Europe) they stick a big red flag and an “F” on the non efficient ones, and a green flag with “A+++” on the most efficient heat pump versions. There is also lots of data which need to be provided at point of sale and in advertising regarding the cost to run loads on various programs that make choosing an energy efficient model make sense.

Sadly they just put a ticket on the car and post you a fine if you don’t pay it… I could however just swap number plates with for example a blue Reliant Regal nearby and truly embrace my inner Mr Bean.

In my imagination I’m Jonny English in a V8 Vantage, ducking into a space whenever the warden turns around…. In reality it’s more Mr Bean in an Austin Mini.

We spend a lot of time together, this gives us 30ish minutes of alone time to browse Lemmy for me and Facebook for her, there are almost never parking wardens, but it makes it a bit exciting. Finally if we shop together we end up getting lots of things we shouldn’t buy, alone we tend to get what is on the list and get out.

About 5 years ago our town centre introduced parking charges, so now one of us goes shopping while the other sits in the car looking out for parking enforcement so we can drive a loop around the carpark. We probably pay less than once per year, but we park there at least once per week. Saves us ~£100 a year.