Motorola is owned by Lenovo since 2014, which is also Chinese: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/motorola-smartphones/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Mobility

That phone claiming US/western hemisphere support is laughable.

It supports T-Mobile native bands, but without more extensive band support, domestic roaming will not be the best. (Some LTEiRA markets T-Mobile can currently roam on Verizon thanks to the USCC acquisition, for example. No band 13, no go.)

I’d not really claim it supports AT&T either. It’s missing band 14, 29, 30, 46, 48, n260, n261. It’s also not on AT&T’s list of supported phones: https://www.att.com/scmsassets/images/support/pdf/Devices-Working-on-ATT-Network.pdf

14 is basically the only way to get signal in markets where AT&T doesn’t have 5 or 12 licenses, like 2/3 of Nebraska.

n260/n261 are big at venues, airports, etc. The lack of those mmWave bands will affect coverage in high-density locations on all three carriers.

Even if it did support Verizon, without band 13 in the modem, Verizon’s low-band nationwide band, it’d be a mostly-brick.

All three carriers require some kind of certification to be allowed on carrier networks (which alone should be illegal as they do it as a tactic to control the phone market.) Not just Verizon. (Verizon, at least, has a web site of certified devices: https://opendevelopment.verizonwireless.com/device-showcase and it’s quite broad.)

Ironically, it will probably work with Verizon, even the BlackBerry Key2 does without certification. It just falls back to a very basic profile for flip phones. They don’t tend to actively block phones like AT&T does.

Basically, it’s a T-Mobile-on-network-only phone. Things are going greeeeeat over at that carrier right now with the tens of thousands of layoffs and forcing customer plan changes even on grandfathered plans.

100%. Everything they say should always be inverted.

Insane how weighted response filtering and graph search have existed for eons, to say nothing about the fact the search query could be pre-parsed by an LLM/“AI”, and only now do these moronic companies use hard keyword filters.

Makes you wonder if it’s really “for the children” or just attempts at hard-censoring to train their future AI models.

So that’s justification for being robbed via phone? Delete the app after every use. I’d go into my bank and fill out a paper form versus that malarkey.

Especially given banking apps track so much side data for their stupid hustles.

It’s like someone in 1600s Europe traveling with a chest that contains their entire life’s gold coins and documentation of every action they performed in the world everywhere. Makes no sense.

Use a computer, or a web site. Or a bank.

Why would you ever carry your entire life’s worth in your pocket. Ever?

“I now have 2 homes, a wife and kids, a dog, a boat, 3 cars, all on my 1920s programming union salary! Wife doesn’t even need to have a job! Just remember to show confidence, it’s easy!”

Interviews right now in software:

• Apply to job
• 1.5 months later receive email to take an AI-“proctored” code interview where you have to show your ID, share screen, cam, mic like some Orwellian njghtmare
• Maybe get a soft-interview with employees where they are just asking you about local weather while seemingly personable, but actually just trying to find out if you live where you say you live
• Possible technical interview with humans where it’s “pair programming” but actually just a human-proctored coding puzzle irrelevant to the job description and the “interviewer” is looking at another monitor surfing reddit
• Contemplate if homelessness isn’t that bad versus all this bullshit
• Maybe retail? Construction? Farming?
• Work at CostCo?

All to get a job to be a condom between Claude and source control as that other recent lemmy post shared.

When the market has no options while people still need to replace old or broken things, people are forced to buy that stuff. Then the market says people want that stuff. They’re controlling the whole thing.

Best way to combat it is buy as little as possible. Which thanks to economic collapse, it is happening organically.

My favorite edition is yt-dlp.

Snap Inc. is its own company. Not that it is a good company.