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my motorola g51 has now officially survived a fall onto a stone surface without a scratch or cracked screen.

unprecedented.

this is $170 worth of phone.

capitalism is amazing.

note that i was already preferring the clunky, heavy brickie rugged phones because of how many cheap phones i had screens completely become useless due to my impulsiveness. the use of more elastic glass is now basically standard. Apple was early on that one of course, nothing worse than a cracked screen, apart from not being able to migrate your data off it.

a fun fact: before 12 years ago capacitative touch screens rarely lasted more than 2 years. Now you can find 8 year old phones with touchscreens that still actually work.

technological deflation would actually be ascent to godhood without the central bank racket syphoning our wealth to the elites.