Lot of angles here. My first reaction is another set of parents blaming tech for their lack of involvement and their sons personal actions.
I also think too the personification of chat bots at all levels is kind evil. Some people are just really suseptable to that and the bot training and AI field itself encourages this miss-conception.
There are lot of other issues with these bots too. I wonder how many people are really up to using them properly with the appropriate skepticism or if our society is ready for all of the missuse.
You over estimate the importance of computers. Computers primarily resulted in editable documents, and provides for faster less error prone and more precise computation. It meant these thing now take less manpower and are less costly. Not so much else.
Internet and telecom. This is separate. Communiction has gotten faster and cheaper. The mail service less used and less reliable though express services like Fedex faster. Frankly these changes are a mixed bag.
Do not forget too that compuserve, bullitin boards, usenet, and forums go much further back then most people think. Think 80s and some sruff before that. Computers go further back. I used them in the 70s and my dad in the 60s though the costs were a lot higher. Electronic computers go back to the 40s and before that there were mechanical computers and relay logic too.
This were not as big of and issue. Pensions were better. You stll had brokers but investing was more costly and fewer people did it.More use of banks. PE ratios were far lower and dividend payouts higher. It was a lower risk less volatile time. You could still reseach investments either you could go to the libraray, your broker woyld send you photo copies, and stock prices were in the paper. You could phone and mail order mutual funds and information. There were investing magazines. Geopolotics was more stable too but no less scary. Jobs were more stable too and the wealth divide less.
Also do not forget Compuserve had forms and etrade access in early 90s well before the internet explosion.
GrapheneOS gives several features not in other ROMS at the cost of requiring in support Pixels. These include full update support including binary blobs, locked boot loader, and device attestation support to the extent possible, It prorities security over most other things including lomg multi-device support which of course would be nice.
The big deal is how long a phone gets updates. If you divide Pixel a-series pricing by the 7 years of support, they are not that expensive.
What is expensive is buying a new phone everytime they go out of support. My old LG had maybe 1 year of updates when I got it years ago and it was a $250 phone. Still ran it for 6 years but most of that time had no updates which is not great.
Does what work? If you mean GMS sandboxing, that is ROM specific. Up to what the ROM supplier does.
Why would one need another ROM. GrapheneOS is one of the best. So is Google hardware in terms of lifetime cost, capability, and security. What other supplier gives 7 year support?
Generally with android it is best to choose the ROM and then the best hardware for it anyway. The best ROMs often have limited hardware support. There are not that many reasonable ROMs anyway. Nor are there many hardware choices that aupport most ROMs fully.
Fields from magnets can, just depends how strong and this applies to spinning hard drives not SSDs. We had an idiot at work once that decided to store a bunch of magnetic bases on the top of a tower PC. Corrupted the drive. This case there were quite a few of them maybe in a half dozen to a dozen range and they were the strong lockable ones for breadboards.
About 5% of the male population died in that war. Shermans march through the south was particularly guesome. The south is a different culture then the north then and now. The cival war is still part of the south. Then there is the racism piece.
Head phone jack. My 8a sadly has none. Not sure any recent Pixels do. I use combination of some HP OTC hearing aids and a Senhouser headset, both blue tooth.
Files transfer. I mosly use Nextcloud or just plugin my phone to my computer directly with USB. I have used syncthing and ssh too. Debian should work but I have more experince with Ubuntu and the USB method works fine there.
I use GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8a. About 6 months in. The recent "a" series models are a pretty good deal as they come with 7 years of updates from initial release.
I love GrapheneOS. Pretty much just works. Many Apps do not even have to have google play installed. There are some apps that may not run. Typically those that require an original authentic device. My banking app did not run originally but now it does. Not sure but I think I had issues with the UPS app for some reason. I switched to the web for that.
You have to be channel selective. There are popular channels I stopped following because of the propaganda issue for example. There are whole lemmy nodes that my node does not federate with for various reasons. The fediverse is a diverse shit show as a whole but one can choose to not follow crap or federate with nodes that allow crap. People can publish what they want but I do not have to listen to it. Nodes can moderate but if people do not like it, they can move to a node that better suits them. This diversity of content plus ability to filter the crap is a the huge power of Lemmy.
Lot of angles here. My first reaction is another set of parents blaming tech for their lack of involvement and their sons personal actions.
I also think too the personification of chat bots at all levels is kind evil. Some people are just really suseptable to that and the bot training and AI field itself encourages this miss-conception.
There are lot of other issues with these bots too. I wonder how many people are really up to using them properly with the appropriate skepticism or if our society is ready for all of the missuse.