RisingSwell

I guess if you have a closed shell case it'd be fine for the screen, but in my experience the screen is the only part likely to break and I'd rather not carry the extra size and weight of a case

Seems like a lot of work to make VoLTE work on your phone. I have a budget Chinese phone from like 5 years ago and all I did was type in a code on the caller part and instantly got VoLTE without any interaction with my carrier (Vodafone) or any downsides at all.

I don't use a case, just a screen protector. Been through a lot of screen protectors but the phone has taken a pretty solid beating and still functions like new with exception of battery life. Not sure a case is necessary unless Xiaomi make unusually resilliant phones which I think is unlikely.

Quit my job on the spot and do fuck all

Telling someone to use a Dell Inspiron is the exact opposite of this, we're being generic not specific.

Jesus dude how many tubs of ice cream did you eat last night?

I'm in Aus, and I basically never eat a proper home cooked meal. I can get a hotdog for $3.50 and outside of super basic food like just rice, or oats, I can't match that.

We don't need to talk about how much I waste on drinks though, thats an entirely different problem.

If your household is fine with it, and you are fine with it, stay home. I'm living with my mum til she dies because there's no other way I'm getting a house without a life of debt, might as well stay home and save money.

No, but they seem to be able to charge a phone, or their own internal batteries. As long as the laptop you take is one designed for long battery life I don't see it being an issue for quite some time.

So how do small foldable solar panels that charge phones and the like work? Because I presume if they can charge a phone they can charge a laptop, given they aren't really different.

You can buy small foldable solar panels, and it's a laptop so it's not like the battery is big or heavy. I'm not sure why you'd need anything massive for a device that sips power, just take a normal laptop instead of a high end gaming one and it'll draw like 30W.

I mean, still people there, and the tech and stuff would be helpful even if any translation materials wouldn't be relevant anymore