And looking for reasons to buy new versions of things: phones, laptops, gaming devices, etc. Bonus points if they’re on the edge of not being able to afford it at all.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    46·
    1 year ago

    Not quite this, but my dad will buy the absolute cheapest versions of things and get mad when I can’t get it to do the claims on the box. I’m sorry I din’t think this $25 smart watch is an actual replacement for the machine you use to measure blood pressure ;_;

    • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      40·
      1 year ago

      I bought my dad airpods to go with his iPad, he never uses them and insists on using some cheap shit bone conducting headset thing that he wears wrong with the bone conduction pads over his ear holes.

    • mittens [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      my dad also does this, and ngl it freaked me out a little bit when he decided to stick a banking app on an old oneplus 5T that didn’t even get security updates anymore, what’s worse he strongly refused the idea of me gifting him a newer phone, even a cheap-ish one. like i can afford it, god it’s no big deal.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I was going to say most banks probably don’t support older versions of Android for their apps, and realized he’s probably using a sketchy 3rd party app wtf

        • mittens [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          maybe not in the states, that official banking app supports android versions all the way back to Android 6.0, the last android version supported by the OP5T is 10, so on that regard it was fine at least. you’d be surprised at how far back you can go compatibility-wise without breaking stuff with android’s first party compat libraries.

          god if he was using a 3rd party app I would have fucking showed up at his doorstep at 12am and force him to update all his credentials.