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Jörgen Andersson wrote: What are your deal breakers?
The name of the phone starts with "i".
The brand of the phone is named after a fruit.
It's currently the most expensive phone on the market, yet it's inferior to cheaper phones.
It comes with iTunes or other malware pre-installed.
Any input or output doesn't adhere to standards such as USB so that you have to buy really expensive proprietary cables (for a phone that is already the most expensive on the market).
It doesn't even have a headphone jack.
It's not new.
I'm really not into second hand stuff.
Things will break sooner or later and when something's already been used chances are it will be sooner rather than later 
I've had two Samsung Galaxies now and I'm satisfied with them so my next one will probably be a Galaxy as well (maybe not the newest, but not the cheapest/oldest either)
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[curmudgeon mode]
A part of me just wants a device that is a mobile phone. Doesn't even need an OS or a screen. Give me something with buttons to dial. OK, texting would be an extra, but not necessary - that's what email is for, or just call me. I don't even care if it records messages. If I'm not answering, don't leave a message, I don't care. But in particular, I don't really need all that extra crap - camera, games, FB, LI, etc. It's all fluff that I consumes my time, which, granted, I am in control of and allow it to consume. There's a thing - I really should engage the will forces and change my phone habits. Anyone know of a 12 step program? 
[/curmudgeon mode]
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Marc Clifton wrote: Anyone know of a 12 step program?
Sounds like you're doing just fine.
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Deal breakers:
Apple makes it
Battery can't be changed
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I just received my copy of The Imposter’s Handbook by Rob Conery[^] so I can pretend to be a real programmer and I've immediately fallen in love with an aspect I've never missed before: It has syntax coloured code samples. In print.
I've probably been living under a metaphorical rock because I tend to get my tech content online ('natch) so it's been a while since I've bought something printed on pulped woodchips.
But syntax colouring! In a book!
Small things make me very happy.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Book.
... book ...
... I've heard of them ...
Weren't they what old folk used to use before EPUB and MOBI? Made of dead tree or something, weren't they? Can you still buy them?
(And as someone who hits the big six-oh next year, I'm allowed to take the mickey  )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's quite odd. I can't, for the life of me, work out how to either charge it or turn it on. I'm assuming problem #2 is related to problem #1.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: how to either charge it or turn it on
You need to buy the dongle, and the the adapters that mate with the dongle: the power adapter, and the on/off switch adapter.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Will there be a review?
I'm an impostor after all.
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Chris Maunder wrote: Small things make me very happy.
Me to.
Jeff Horn (Brissy boy, ex school teacher) defends his World Title tomorrow, unfortunately I am being forced to turn up to St Marys Leagues Club and start the schooners at 10:00.
This is a luxury, a sleep in, back in the Mike Tyson days I had to be in the pub schooner in hand at 08:00.
Maybe to newbie, name started with a J, can have a Code Project contest of earliest to get out of bed, get into a schooie and then keep going. I'm up for it.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt wrote: a Code Project contest of earliest to get out of bed, get into a schooie and then keep going. I'm up for it.
Just let me know who's going to be the bookie for this one. I'm pretty sure I can calculate the odds on this one.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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That book looks really interesting and Conery is a very interesting speaker (I've seen him on PluralSight).
Too bad it is $49. I am a terrible cheap-skate. ($4.99 is more along my lines.)
Also, I do not understand this one topic he mentions:
"Essential Unix Skills"
Does peoples still use Unix? I thought it all Linux now.  I'm joking but serious too.
Send along your copy when you're done. Glad to read it. 
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Unix, like JavaScript, is becoming an essential skill.
Unfortunately.
I have nothing against these technologies at all. Just sad that they feel like the lowest common denominator, not the best, future-proof solution
cheers
Chris Maunder
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How you are going to find the time to read 454 pages 
With friendly greetings,
Eric Goedhart
modified 15-Jul-18 7:26am.
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...I think you should be suspicious[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Scarfolk Council[^] seems to be the blueprint most governments try to follow.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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so when self driving taxis become the norm will politicians truly become surplus to requirements?
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Never thought that Trump was a true politician, but guess if this is the case he is one of the best: He still has convinced his supporters that he is such a great leader for them, and that he is not strictly out there for himself, and does not care about the proletariat, just about the rich.
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Yeah, his policies are doing so well for his supporters, but we all know that the truth is what you say it is, and not what it looks like. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I first read that in Yoda's voice.
"Suspicious you should be."
Then I noticed the question mark.
"Suspicous? You should be."
That was a little disappointing.
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Quote: For if every instrument could accomplish its own work, obeying or anticipating the will of others, like the statues of Daedalus, or the tripods of Hephaestus, which, says the poet:
'of their own accord entered the assembly of the Gods;'
if, in like manner, the shuttle would weave and the plectrum touch the lyre without a hand to guide them, chief workmen would not want servants, nor masters slaves.
Aristotle, Politics, Book 1, Part 4. mentioned in this interesting Aeon essay: [^]
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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