As the title says. Does anybody out there have a pair of the Indestructible Mitts, and would you be willing to sell it?
My main question here apart from touching on what else I do in the title simply is: what are the benefits/advantages of having iOS 14 or an older iOS like this indefinitely, and using apps on their last available versions on this old iOS (where they’ll accept it, iOS 14)? For example, Endel stops on the free version automatically every 10 minutes on the current or non-old version of it, but on iOS 14, only Endel’s old version is available, so I can run Endel continuously/endlessly.
I use this iPhone 12 mini kept on iOS 14.2 as a tool or a secondary, ‘dumb iPhone’ device meant for when I want to be disconnected all round.
Here it is… Kept in a 2020 state. The only ‘fault’ is the protrusion of a semi-circle of black area on the left side, emanating from the bezel. Touch still works in this area. I don’t know what caused it. But I actually quite like it anyway. It’s soothing, in a way producing neuroticism of a pleasant sort, haha. It makes it feel more unique and I like where this bug on the display happens to be located anyway.
Endel can run endlessly on it for free, one positive of having left it to be stuck on iOS 14.2 (so it and most apps have to run on their very old versions).
And it still has 100% battery health/battery capacity. I almost only ever use it when I do bring it out with it plugged into power to keep the battery as unused as possible.
Very pleased with this aesthetic and long-term place I’ll be sitting with as my smartphone (alongside the Light Phone 3 - I don’t actually have my number in this Air, more easily sustained when it’s E-sim-only).
This particular Walnut’s finish with its grooves is beautiful. It goes by far the best with Sky Blue in my view, compared to the more ‘yolk-looking’ Light Gold, the more basic-looking Cloud White or the Space Black which wouldn’t be a right fit for Walnut. A super lovely way to go.
I’m health-oriented though also disgusted by animal matter perceived/viewed as ‘food’… It doesn’t compute much in me at this point, after such a long time away from it. This way of being to me isolated me while I was at the university I was in and will generally always persist as a hurdle for me in becoming ‘socialised’… I’m pleasant or outwardly not somebody you’d assume is completely isolated/friendless (I don’t exactly ‘look’ like a vegan in my view, and I’m usually thought of as a pleasant/handsome face, eh. I tell myself my jawline, lol, and the skew to my physiognomy, if I’m to put what I’m getting at very vaguely, makes me appear to others like I’m leading a simple or mundane life circumstance and am your generic, omnivorous guy). I essentially am saying I feel pretty anomalous or like the reality of my wider traits (not related to veganism) further exacerbates the isolated life I live as somebody who excludes animal matter from his palette… There’s a lot about myself I’m not touching on. I’ve posted in the past on this subreddit before, on an old/now-deleted Reddit account, on which I was a lot more open or revealing about myself and who I am, to an embarrassing and dumb extent. Anyway, I felt like rambling or typing this on my phone, out to open air, in a bid to gnaw away at my isolated circumstance… I struggle deeply to imagine having the company (I mean to say female company) of omnivorous individuals, in reality, despite wishing to appeal to pleasant people who aren’t vegan eaters themselves. I’m a dietary vegan, but I don’t call myself the V-word these days and only state I’m a ‘whole foods fully plant-based’ eater/person instead. I quite simply care a lot about nutrition and follow the advice/principles of Joel Fuhrman with the Nutritarian diet and Michael Greger, of course. That’s all. I bulk-buy whole foods and healthful powders online a lot, from Forest Whole Foods/WholeFoodEarth, etc. Being this health-concerned way happens to have made me be a cleaner-eating vegan for almost 7 years, but I’m also completely grossed out by the smells made by animal matter cooking in any case. I am this way from a disgust response in me over animal matter smells and tastes (it isn’t appetising to me at all), on top of knowing the damage I’d be causing to my body from ingesting anything not helpful for me.
I care a lot about the quality of what I eat, that’s it, but this is alienating for most people. It’s a very tough or upsetting situation for me, internally, as I’m very lonely in life and there are many I’d wish to know in the world or be likeable to who, of course, aren’t vegan eaters or anything like the way I am in my bubble…
IGF-1 spikes, heavy metal/microplastic/chemical exposures, AGEs/advanced glycation end-products, PAHs/polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons affecting us even from smells as animal matter is cooked, etc… Suboptimal health effects are all I want to avoid by being the whole foods (fully) plant-based eater/vegan I am, which is in a way which is quite rooted in matters external to human constructs or societal matters (aka from science). I’m simply in this as science happens to point to this way of eating being healthiest. I supplement widely too (with Heights and their multi-micronutrient/multivitamin, Vitals, and all sorts of other compounds like quercetin, astaxanthin, gluathione, mushroom powders, lutein, sulforaphane from freeze-dried broccoli sprouts from Sky Sprouts, etc.)
Basically, I’m a pretty ‘straight edge’ guy, to an alienating-for-most extent, or I try my best to be so and do better in this regard daily.
Final thought: I absolutely hate hailing from London and desperately wish to get out of this city after a lifetime here, eventually. I’m put off from going after shared experiences within this environment/this city.