I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one

For some reason auto scroll (middle mouse scroll) just breaks on this site which is rather annoying, it just seems to always want to scroll horizontally. Does anyone have an idea why this happens?

Edit: After having a look it seems to be because of the use of `overflow: auto` which seems to default to `overflow: scroll` on Firefox.

I feel your pain. I also had to give up my 2017 iPhone SE, too bad. The good thing is that I managed to change the battery myself at least 3 or 4 times, effectively extending its lease. I have since then picked up an iPhone 12 mini, which is only slightly larger and I love it.

If they want to use an old phone, they can just stop updating their apps and not installing new apps.

I still own a iPad 3 with the same, old, software stack from 2013. It still works, I can do things. I just don't expect todays developers to make a herculean effort so that I can run their apps on my old device.

It is not just the overhead of supporting multiple different OS versions with different technologies, it is also that this support takes a lot of time while there's a tiny fraction of people that, like the author, use an old phone.

I've worked on apps with +1Mio users, and we did have users who were on very old devices using apps which were severely outdated. Those were maybe 1000-2000 of the one million. Adding a constant additional workload of up to 30% (you also have to run CI and everything on older devices) for 1000-2000 users is just not feasible.

If you want to continue to use older hardware, just accept that you also have to use older software.

I also don't expect to be able to run VSCode on a 1996 Pentium 60. I'd run Emacs instead, or Vim, or whatever else was en vogue in 1996

> Feel free to skip this aside, unless you’re stingy like me. [...] If I’d buy a new phone today, I’d consider these options:

It goes on to list only Apple devices. That's a bit dubious when being self-proclaimed stingy.

One might recommend an off-brand device for a fifth of the price that will last half as long, or a competing brand for half the price that lasts just as long. Perhaps longer if you're interested in doing the upgrades yourself, something which isn't possible on a device that you don't actually get access to from the manufacturer.