The voodoo5 series is pretty rare. The initial geforce video card came out around the same time and completely ate their lunch. It was smaller, more efficient, and faster.

That said the card was still neat. It was big and hot for the time, but also rare and interesting. I’d play some quake 3 on it for nostalgia.

This is just sloppy design, poor manufacturing, and insufficient testing.

An agile approach to software doesn’t mean a lack of a plan, testing, or due diligence.

Now… a lot of companies approach it that way due to lack of experience, but that’s just cowboy coding with Jira and a meeting schedule.

I ran slackware in college with fluxbox. I thought I was pretty darn cool.

Get a burner. Browse some boring content with it: few business websites, maybe some sports scores, maybe snap some photos of landscapes and dogs on the camera roll.

Then you have a functional phone and piece of mind. Making the phone feel “lived in” probably isn’t all that important, but I think it’d be easier to explain than a factory stock pay as you go phone.