Three of our family’s five previous phones would like to disagree, as they all began struggling with unreliable USB-C connections (also during charging 😒) already after one or two years of use.
And two of those weren’t even used with a USB-headphone adapter…
Never had any similar problems with 3.5mm headphone jacks in the 10 years of smartphone usage preceding that. Just clean them once in a while from dust motes and you are fine.

That phone honestly looks great…
But one huge downside for many: It seems only to be available in North America… :-(

Back then I chose a Motorola because I was told I comes with the least amount of garbage pre-installed, is this still true?

This was definitely still true for the Moto G72 I am using for almost three years now, but had already changed for the Moto G54 my girlfriend bought 1.5 years ago.
This one had several unwanted and unremovable crap apps preinstalled. One forced itself to the screensaver with a button you often accidentally pushed that then started downloading and showing animated screens that led to online ads when you clicked on them. Very hard to disable and would return after each Firmware update…

I couldn’t find it in the list of models LineageOS supports

And being a device with a Mediatek chipset it is unfortunately very unlikely to ever appear there.

I am only exhibiting that specific rational-humane dimension currently because I have the feeling, that Lemmy is too much of an left echo chamber at the moment drifting to much into extreme territory.
That doesn’t solve anything, but is part of the problem.
As is the same process on platforms like truth.social. Just the other way round.
I am actually part of what is trying to bring another (and be it just a single…) additional dimension to a currently totally one-dimensional discourse.

That sounds depressing. But you are still a strong democracy, with powerful and largely intact barriers against fascism. Yes, fight fascism. But perhaps in the democratic and humane way the Constitution envisioned.

Thought about that myself some time ago… Techno-liberal westcoast, Traditional-urban eastcoast and Religious-rural center, each a own sub-country… But I also don’t think that would be a good thing, because that would just increase the pressure on the respective minorities in each part. No, my biggest hope is that they keep their stuff together at least somewhat civilized until the Trump era is over and then manage to figure out some common grounds again…

Perhaps people draw different clues from the same events and it is good to hear them to see which options there are.
And one clue if have is that one of the reasons why things are as they are is that people are too much enclosed inside their own bubbly echo chambers nowadays.
I am not part of your bubble and yet I am talking to you. And that is a good thing.

Just consider if escalating to the next stage is the right response. You are still a democracy. Use that power. Talk to people. Normal people, not crazies on the internet. And also don’t become crazies on the internet yourself. You have a lot of leverage now with all that shit which is going on as arguments to make people reconsider.

But I have the impression that I am watching it becoming a “both sides issue” in realtime… I don’t like that.
Don’t give up your humanitarian values just because parts of the other side do.

Nothing drastic necessary, just a lot of little steps:
Step by step establishing a normal dialog again.

Something drastic would be a civil war, and that would also not unite you instantly again, but just would let you reconsider the tiny-step-by-tiny-step talking-to-each-other-thing from a different perspective again.

Please don’t choose the drastic way. Also because the rest of the world still relies on you too much (speaking as someone from outside the US)

I have to say, reading all those comments during the last two days here, I also don’t get the impression that the left are eager to unite the US again…
Please, get your shit together over there. BOTH sides.

That’s funny, I didn’t find a G Super on Google, so I assumed you meant the G Pro. That would be mid-range, but also is kinda old…
But while researching the recent models on Gsmarena, I came across the G Power, which I would consider mid-range. That what you are meaning?
Thing is, like the G Stylus models mentioned somewhere else already, this seems to be North-America-exclusive.
So, enjoy the choices you still have over there, while they still exist! I am slightly envious, though… ;-)

Not worth the effort importing one…
Because if something goes wrong, you are on your own.

I will probably try LineageOs on a used Moto G84.
If that doesn’t work, recent Fairphone is looking good, although lacking the headphone jack…

Seems not to be available in the EU 🥺.
This sucks.

Damn.
For a moment I got excited…
But I can’t find it anywhere. Looks like it is not available in Europe… :-(

They are low-end phones, though.

The point is, headphone jacks are completely gone from all mid-range and high-end phones.
With the exception of Sonys (which are overpriced for what you get).

No, not any more, unfortunately.

Moto G84 from two years ago has been the last of their middle class phones with a 3.5mm jack.
Their flagships already dropped that long before.
On top of that, Motorola also started including ad-ridden crapware into their firmware.

I’m desperately searching for a decert replacement for my Moto G72, which will get its last security update in October.
There is just completely none that’s still featuring SD-card and headphone jack… :-(

I guess this also must be an additional layer of hellfire for dyslexics…

Do you not tab-complete your commands?

Sure I do (although nowadays Strg-r does most of the heavy lifting for me), but as a decent touch-typist I am often faster directly typing short commands, like passwor… damn, I mean: passwd ;-)

You might be right.
I am German and never had a problem with pwd… The “double-you” certainly breaks some easy phonetic connections you would otherwise just make…