Any question answered...

Yeah, fair enough; depending on the building, some will just look like a generic community hall without much of a religious vibe, but then I suppose the church standing next door is always a bit of a giveaway...

Any opinions on the Teracube kickstarter?
Looks interesting but the screen is way too big for me.

Any opinions on the Teracube kickstarter?

"the only phone you'll ever need for the next 4 years" is taking a lot for granted, both in terms of presuming to predict the future and the definition of "need". If eco-worriers actually cared about resource consumption, they would simplify their lifestyles to the point where a Nokia 105 was more phone than they needed. Fortunately, they don't actually give a shit, so a greenwashed project like this will fly off the shelves, and then get binned after 2 years like everything else because it doesn't run the latest game fast enough.

An Italian guy who copresents a podcast I listen to has mentioned BlaBlaCar a few times.

Cheers. I had a look at that but only a midnight bar at the weekend (strangely later during the week).

Can’t read books on it or store any amount of music though.
If all I needed was a phone, something like that Nokia would fit the bill for me.

Can’t read books on it or store any amount of music though

You could buy a lectern and a gramophone and still have change from £350, with the eco bonus of no new manufacturing.

If all I needed was a phone

If you're serious about reducing your footprint, you don't even need a phone

It is to laugh.

Sorry, no. That's the most toxic possible approach to this - "you participate in society hence your concern for the environment is by default invalid".

That's the most toxic possible approach

Oh, I could get much more toxic if I wanted to 🙂

My point, using the common rhetorical device of hyperbole, was simply that buying another short-lived consumer product just because it has a thin coat of greenwash isn't actually making any kind of contribution to the supposed target of reducing resource consumption. You need to cast a sceptical eye over any of these palliatives to see if they even deliver on the claims. Since purchase price is a decent proxy for resource consumption, my 3 year old £35 Alcatel Pixi is already nearly 10 times greener than the Teracube, and we haven't even had to get radical and dispense with Kindle and VLC. The selling proposition is that you need a big high end phone, but you can assuage a little bit of your self-indulgent guilt by getting one which might last an extra year, if we stay in business that long. That just strikes me as the worst kind of tokenism. Of course, since 90% of eco-worriers are as desperate to make a token gesture as they are to avoid making any uncomfortable changes to their lifestyles, it will sell like hot cakes.

I sold my first phone (iPhone SE) to my neighbour a couple of weeks ago after getting a 7 because this particular one had much more storage (128 vs 32).
I’m hoping that sudoku will still work on this phone in 4 years time.

Greenwich yacht club

this particular one had much more storage (128 vs 32)

So you had to replace your whole phone because Apple haven't worked out how to add an SD card slot? Doesn't sound very green 🙂

You’ll get over it I’m sure.
I’m no fanboy but apple cast offs work for me.

Cheers. I'll try and look into that.

Ok, that's a much more differentiated take on it. Though I'd still be wary of labeling people as 'eco warriors' just because they are interested in products that are supposed to be more 'eco' than others. It can easily end up just being abused for narrow-minded bashing of anything meant as an incremental improvement.

This looks excellent thanks

I think I will take this approach.

I'd still be wary of labeling people as 'eco warriors'

I said eco-worriers, who are a completely different category.

Do all UK Travelodges let you take bikes in the rooms without any hassle?

I've never had a problem and I've taken mine in to about 10 different Travelodges around the country because of Audaxing.

Once I got a bit of a strange look and I just said "It's probably cleaner than most peoples shoes, I'll be careful." and walked on by.

I thought they had a public policy about it but couldn't find one. It was probably PremierInn's policy that I was thinking of: https://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/why/bike-friendly.html

Cheers. I might take some bin bags to put in on if it gets really filthy.

I thought they had a public policy about it but couldn't find one. It was probably PremierInn's policy that I was thinking of: https://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/why/bik­e-friendly.html

Had same thought sequence

How have Mash SF managed to keep selling unauthorised caps like this for years without expensive legal consequences?

Oh. I actually managed to misread that twice. Sorry.

Everything tester said except for the fact that $200 for that spec of phone seems good and makes it a strong alternative to the usual <£200 smartphones.

Tbh it almost looks like they have nicked OnePlus' OG business idea, now their phones have crept up on price over the years. Just with the added marketing BS of it being green. Which it obviously isn't.

I paid about that for the 7 that I now have. Despite being ‘NOS’ (in the phone world) it has what I need.