Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount

Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Headofthebored@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well hopefully he does a charge back on his card if he’s smart. I wouldn’t give his ass a dime.

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• MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  …because the author is an investigative journalist?

  We all know it’s a scam, but it’s their job is to prove it. To prove it you have to (attempt to) buy it.

  I agree any actual people trying to buy it are morons.

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  • vaionko@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It seems a lot of people have forgotten that proper journalism is more than repeating what someone tweets

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For the same reason they put bandages on their ears: they’re fucking morons.

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• PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Journalism doing things the right way would try this out. You investigate one thing, learn about another, and inform.

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• ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To rip it apart on a software and hardware level to find the backdoors and spyware. We need to know how hardcore we are being spied on when the guy near us has one.

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  • deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most low cost phone resellers have no idea what software is even running on their phones. They just compile some samples from the manufacturers SDK, slap their own logo on top and ship it.

    I’m positively surprised it’s supposed to come out with android 15. Barely one major version behind.

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• rumba@piefed.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Youtubers going for content.

  Conceptually, it'll make one f of a collectors item one day there's no way enough will sell to make them common.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IDK about that, the Saudis have like a million units sitting in a warehouse somewhere.

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  • Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, I guarantee the people who collect it will also have a sizeable collection of nazi memorabilia too.

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “I just find the civil war fascinating.”

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    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And claim they’re just history buffs

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    • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Def seems to be a crossover between the two.

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  • billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In much the same way the Confederate memorabilia is collectable.

    As in, “You should avoid anyone who collects this shit. They’re probably a white nationalist.”

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    • rumba@piefed.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not where I was going for that, more like museum pieces. He's really done a bunch of shit we absolutely should NOT have allowed. A president, releasing a phone, while in office for a grift. Our great grandkids (hopefully) will be walking through the Smithsonian going what the FUCK was going on in the 20's, and one of these e-waste POS will be sitting there staring back at them.

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or you can spray paint your old iPhone with gold coloring, slap a Trump logo on it and sell it on ebay to some unsuspecting MAGA fan for $2,000.

      It’s not hard to copy Trump’s signature … you could throw that on the phone and charge $5,000 and tell everyone that you bought it at a MAGA rally where Trump signed it in 2024.

      If they can grift … we can all grift harder

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      • Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He did gut any dept of gov that would go after grifters or hold them accountable.

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• IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Journalism budget.

  This person buying it might convince persuade others to not to buy it.

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