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@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@ This is the last sentence of [my very sentimental iPhone 8 Plus review](https://
 
 In the past half year, I have come to realize that the device which I now hold in my hands - which I *cling to*, in fact, at all hours and completely without reason - is the absolute manifestation of everything my 14-year-old, first generation iPhone-adopting self could have possibly dreamt of in its future. Unlike that iPhone 8 Plus review - which was a very sentimental reflection on "the last iPhone" designed in the configuration I had understood for a decade and therefore accompanied by a bunch of foolhardy lamentations *bitching* about the iPhone X - this review will be one of sincere wonderment regarding *the thing, itself*, first, before taking flight into a wider critique of our current consumer technology ethos.
 
-Taken out of 2021 context and placed in my 14-year-old hand in 2009, this Pacific Blue iPhone 12 Pro Max would not have disappointed me in the slightest. By that, I mean... It is as unimaginably capable as I would have imagined. It eclipsed any compromising capability distinctions from desktop computers long ago, cast its tethers to the Old Ways off, and ascended into what I would have regarded as a true power object. On this *cellular telephone*, I have run complex commands in a full Linux shell, captured massive 4K/60fps video files of myself falling over, played console-class video games and *streamed them live in HD* simultaneously, archived entire web domains locally, and on and on… In fact, this iPhone has done the majority of these *measurably* better than any desktop computer I have ever owned.
+Taken out of 2021 context and placed in my 14-year-old hand in 2009, this Pacific Blue iPhone 12 Pro Max would not have disappointed me in the slightest. By that, I mean... It is as unimaginably capable as I would have imagined. It eclipsed any compromising capability distinctions from desktop computers long ago, cast its tethers to the Old Ways off, and ascended into what I would have regarded as a true p o w e r   o b j e c t. On this *cellular telephone*, I have run complex commands in a full Linux shell, captured massive 4K/60fps video files of myself falling over, played console-class video games and *streamed them live in HD* simultaneously, archived entire web domains locally, and on and on… In fact, this iPhone has done the majority of these *measurably* better than any desktop computer I have ever owned.
 
 ![The Original](https://i.snap.as/Ep06W6A9.jpg)
 
-All of these capabilities contained within a form factor that has been *smushed*, you might say, in comparison to that First Generation device[^3]. It has slimmed by nearly half a centimeter (4.2mm,) widened by 17.1mm, and lengthened by 45.8mm, though it’s also gained almost 60% in mass.
+All of these capabilities contained within a form factor that has been *smushed*, you might say, in comparison to that First Generation device[^3]. It has slimmed by nearly half a centimeter (4.2mm,) widened by 17.1mm, and lengthened by 45.8mm, though it’s also gained almost 60% in mass - from 135 to 228 g - which I personally found the most surprising statistic. In fact, it invalidates literally years of my suppositions that increases in newer iPhones’ apparent resistance to drop trauma over time was certainly because they were getting lighter.[^4]
 
 ![iPhone 12 Pro Max](https://i.snap.as/z14yUmRp.jpeg)
 
@@ -37,21 +37,19 @@ These past months, I have indulged myself thoroughly in the company of this long
 
 about the tools we use to make things: how we learned to make them, how we learned to learn to use them, and how we learned to teach others - identifying it *truly* and meditating 
 
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 ![iPhone 12 Pro Max Physical Controls Diagram](https://i.snap.as/aln4F1N2.png)
 
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-it is a guarantee that no matter where I may go or who I may find myself unwittingly surrounded by, the option to escape into my own Computing World *in its entirety* and more - not just an abbreviated, **Mobile** facsimile - shall from now on and forever be with me, there against my right asscheek, just a grab and a glance away. Like The Holy Spirit was it pledged and prepared to stay by my side.
+It is a guarantee that no matter where I may go or who I may find myself unwittingly surrounded by, the option to escape into my own Computing World *in its entirety* and more - not just an abbreviated, **Mobile** facsimile - shall from now on and forever be with me, there against my right asscheek, just a grab and a glance away. Like The Holy Spirit was it pledged and prepared to stay by my side.
 
 down to a depth of six feetYa know, I'm actually astonished by how much of this ritual *hasn't* changed.
 
 
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-[^1]: I may actually be the most qualified person on Earth to reflect on this subject, given that I represent the very first microgeneration to have smartphones for all of our adult lives. (Just barely.)
+[1] I may actually be the most qualified person on Earth to reflect on this subject, given that I represent the very first microgeneration to have smartphones for all of our adult lives. (Just barely.)
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+[2] I still have no idea who Bob Geldoff is.
 
-[^2]: I still have no idea who Bob Geldoff is.
+[3] Unfortunately, my own First Generation was lost during my Portland Debacle in 2017.
 
-[^3]: Unfortunately, my own First Generation was lost during my Portland Debacle in 2017.
+[4] Both public and private, unfortunately.