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  • If you’re buying the phone outright then that could work. Provided it’s supported for that long, and you can look after it well enough then I don’t see why not - you just have to be prepared to pay £800 all at once.

    Part of my reasoning is the £400 cost keeps my monthly bill down, as I don’t buy the phone outright.

    If nothing else, keeping one phone for 6 years would be better for the environment.









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    8 months ago

    I own a pair of Porta Pros as daily drivers. I also have a pair of Ananda’s that I run through a BTR7 (not super flashy but more than your average person’s setup).

    I would say the average person doesn’t need more than a pair of Porta Pros. They’re absolutely fine 😅





  • New cars are ludicrously expensive, especially EVs.

    The most I can afford to spend on a car is maybe £14K, and that’s under the proviso that about £4K of that is my own money and the rest is a loan to be paid off over about 6 or 7 years.

    So yeah, I’m going secondhand ICE with about 50K miles on the clock and praying it doesn’t die before the loan is paid off (and preferably longer still so I can save a bit more towards the next one).

    I’m all for EVs, but they’ve got to bring the price down, and they’ve got to get the batteries to last long enough for the secondhand market to be viable.