Red :)

Technically not a purchase as I got it for free but still...
Tesla B115

well, common sense may or may not be all that common depending on where you are

It's not nearly as polished or consistent of an experience than ChromeOS.

I use Linux, but I am not going to recommend Debian over ChromeOS for non-technical people, especially kids.

Please stop. It is also a shit advice to recommend people to replace working components in a regular interval. If its working then it makes absolutely no sense to replace it. You dont need a video to help people either, you are just making excuses.

What an idiot. 
Really went and spent $135k on a car? 
Could've put that towards something far more useful.
 

I like the concept of electric cars. I don’t like how they’ve turned out (so many missed opportunities, such as standardizing on batteries and motor components), and I loathe the condescension and classism dripping in this comment. 

Sorry I'm late guys, but I finally built my new PC with my 408-
I missed it!?!?!?!?! FUUUUUUUUUCK
Well at least I can still comment about the eve-

What's going on with the numbers?
Considering this message should a wellness check be done?
@cbigfoot

May be the silliest and most around the elbow self argument I have heard in a damn long time.
 
You don't seem to grasp what a cell phone, smart phone, or whatever you want to call the device is supposed to be.
 
You don't learn how to use a smartphone, it's intuitive and "just is".  You don't learn how to treat them like laptops, or how to code Android, or all that.  You use them, for the phone, texting, video watching, easy ass laptop they are.
 
All I am seeing is how you want a smartphone to be something it isn't, and when it isn't... it sucks.  And of course you are the hero of your own story as well as the victim.  My parents make my pay, Android isn't as good as my skills, etc etc etc.
 
Do you know what you have in common with Gates, Job, Musk, etc?  You have the potential to actually walk the walk, cuz all you're doing is talking the talk.  They had an issue and made a solution.  So far you're just whining. DO something, kid.

I carry UPSes with me just for this purpose. I don't need mains. #checkmate. 

See, you don't need a phone. Just carry around a scanner, smack it face-down on whatever document you need to copy text from, and hope there's an outlet nearby.

Something one could do from a laptop, no?

Please describe why you need to write to the root folder of your operating system.
That's how you keep breaking phones.

They don't need to. That's not their purpose. You can have a laptop and a phone you know.
 
You still have not offered a single example of this.
 
What you should do is use a phone as a tool that is meant to be used for and move on living your life. If you're someone that likes to tinker and want to experiment with reverse-engineering with phones and the like, by all means go ahead. Just don't do that on your primary phone, otherwise you have no license to complain if you have issues.

You are better off with a smartphone and ditching the laptop than ditching the cellphone.
 
That said, too many things now assume you do have a smartphone. Sadly that's the direction things are heading, so eventually there come a day where if you want to do any banking at all, and you refuse to use the bank's smartphone app, they will tell you to come into the bank branch and you will pay for doing the transactions in person. Many banks already do this if you opt not to use the ATM and don't have their premium checking plan.
 
Now if your question was "can I use an iPad with a cell modem" or "Can I use a laptop with a cell modem", then the the answer is "yes" and "maybe"
An iPad will not receive phone calls unless you have certain accessories that basically turn it into a VOIP phone. These have existed since the iPod Touch. A Laptop can run smartphone apps via emulator (Android) or MacOS can just run the iPhone/iPad apps if they have been enabled to do so. However a Mac can't receive phone calls with a cell modem, an app from a wireless carrier or another VoIP service needs to exist to do phone calls that way. 
 
However if you are a business, you can in fact use your iphone/ipad/mac/windows device as a PBX extension. Software to do so has also existed for quite a while, but it only works if you're connected to your office network.
 
So for practical reasons the answer is going to be "you need a smartphone to operate in western countries and east asian countries", YMMV in countries that have poor wireless infrastructure.
 
You could downgrade to a device that can recieve only phone calls and text messages, but this will only suffice if 2FA/MFA only uses text messages and not a OTP app.
 

I was going to reply, but then I took a scoped storage in the knee.

So don't do that stuff?
The solution to your problem comes from you not doing the things you are doing.

Sounds like a you issue.  Lack of self control.  
 
Yes, it's possible but I doubt you could based on your self description.  
 
Best of luck.  Growing up is a pain isn't it?

Do you want to be haunted by the ghosts of lost hikers? Because saying stuff like that is how you get haunted by the ghosts of lost hikers.

Oh, never mind.  Time to grow up.