Oh the card readers? I’ve got about 5 of them, every bank used to give you one when you opened an account. Supposedly they’re pretty secure, too.

In my experience they half-arse it though. For example on GrapheneOS (which is considered significantly more secure than default Android) several banking apps block access because they use some questionable Google Play API which doesn’t recognise GrapheneOS.

Most of them are OK, I’ve not encountered any that are unusable though

What do they do if you don’t have a smartphone? Or was this an account that you could only open in-app?

This was quite literally an episode of Black Mirror, I’m sure nothing can possibly go wrong

Technically not true, companies don’t have to give you bank holidays off as long as you get the right number of days in total (e.g. shops that are open on bank holidays), it’s just that most places just give you the bank holidays (so the image is technically correct but a bit misleading)

I saw a similar story about how an open source software project (I think it was curl) have cancelled their bug bounty programme because it’s being overrun with LLM-generated reports and they don’t have enough volunteers to verify them all. The relevant bit is that while many were doing it for the financial reward, some do it for reputation and some genuinely do think they’re helping by adding info they think is missing but not realising that what they’re posting is unreliable.

Aren’t pixels still one of the most supported devices for custom ROMs?

How would I do that?

I guess they just skipped countries that have a unique name for it

Amusingly the only adapter I had is one that came free with an old phone which has just broken! I use wireless headphones mainly, not a fan of all the noise that comes from a cable banging against me as I walk.

Fair enough, though would you be happy if there were significant improvements made to usb-c port build quality?

Seems like an issue with buying cheap adapters rather than with the concept of adapters, cheap headphones will presumably break just as easily

More so than they would from charging?

Why do you need to buy more than one?

It always surprises me that so many people still want this. I know it’s representative of the anti-choice homogenisation of phones in general, but something like removable batteries or expandable storage seems so much more important than a dedicated old headphone connector.

I personally hate how annoying headphone wires are, but even if you like them then is it so inconvenient to leave an adapter connected to your headphones? And a splitter as well if you’re desperate to charge simultaneously?

Isn’t that what the “always on display” is supposed to be? I never use it but every phone I’ve seen in recent years offers the ability to turn the screen on to show notifications.

Isn’t having an OLED display and using it as an “always on display” the replacement for this?

Well I can think of a few things wrong with Kryten’s favoured method of plugging in his “cable”