Realized my phone's touchscreen is getting a little less sensitive, which is usually the harbinger of planned obsolescence. It's not bad yet, so I've got at least a year, maybe two, before it's a brick.

So, I go to look for smart phones that don't have AI built into them. The Internet delivers multiple pages of lists of AI-free phones.

Of course, none of these lists, which are all copies of each other, have links except maybe a few to Amazon which I don't use. And those are ones with AI you can "turn off".

Copy name of phone, paste into search: again, lots of pages talking about it, but none selling it or telling you where you can get it.

Sigh, repeat with next phone on list. Same results.

Repeat with the third phone on the list. Still same results.

Repeat, repeat, repeat. Give up.

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@CorvidCrone Boosted so maybe the freedom loving foss people i know can help. I think several talked about what phone / phone os was a good alternative to the big players.

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