For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up
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All of that exists, don't by an iPhone and don't buy the latest and greatest nvidia graphics card. Buy a used 3060 for example. I am wirting this from a rooted zenfone 8, with notification light, headphone jack and on the second battery. Get a fairphone if you want to flip them in the fly.
fp5 doesnt have headphone jack, every thread the jack jihadists cry about it even though fp explained it's design-wise convenient for them to move that to the usb-c port
For the smartphones I mostly agree. Even Pixels, although easily unlockable and rootable, make you jump through hoops if you want to use things like banking.
For PCs, there are still options available. Fractal have cases with no RGB and even metal side panels (as opposed to tempered glass ones) if that's your thing. Noctua and be quiet! still make non-RGB fans and coolers.
Fractal does black boxes and some more fancy looking ones
I'm with you on the black towers. Still rocking an Antec P120 on my wife's PC - "the monolith" it got nicknamed.
Check out Silverstone cases, they have a few that are understated, and make them in a variety of form factors if you wanted to do, say, a custom NAS, server or media center build.
I would trade in the black PC case for beige. Give me that 90s aesthetic again.
You can easily root any pixel phone. You can also easily buy PC parts without any RGB, and they are usually cheaper.
Fractal cases are basically black boxes with decent airflow designed to be quiet.
For the smartphone, what do you mean by software unlocked parts? For the rest I'm in total agreement.
The high end graphics card market really needs more clean RGB free stuff. My 3090's lights didn't turn on despite it functioning just fine so maybe that counts :) ?
As for case I know you had plenty of answers already, but I recently got a Corsair 4000D my latest build it's sleek and has no inbuilt RGB lighting.
By unlocked parts, they may be referring to how Apple serializes parts in iPhones so that you are forced to pay for repair at the Apple store. Part serialization means that if you took two real iPhones apart, swapped every component with each other, and tried to use the phone, certain features just stop working... Here is a demo from Hugh Jeffreys, who has demonstrated this problem with many recent iPhone models: https://youtu.be/dbRKQ0OjQeE
I just hope android devices never adopt this anti-feature like has happened many times in the past with Apple's anti consumer design choices.
Damn that's such unnecessary DRM, I think it should be illegal to serialize parts like that for a mass produced product.
Plenty of phones are still rootable. Fairphones have replaceable batteries.