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+[8]Million-Mile Tech
+
+Durability is the ultimate feature.
+
+I [9]wrote in October last year that I wouldn’t upgrade my iPhone 14 Pro.
+That’s also not quite true.
+
+I did upgrade my phone — with a [10]new battery and leather case. This isn’t
+what people typically think of when they say they upgraded their phone. They
+think of an entirely new phone.
+
+New model. Newer, bigger, better, faster. This cycle drives sales across cars,
+furniture, cameras, clothes, and almost everything. A new reason to replace
+what already works.
+
+Objectively looking at my 14 Pro reveals that it’s a modern marvel, still,
+after 3 years. Which in technology can feel like an eon, supposedly.
+
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+
+Last week, [11]Jen and I were driving south on N. State Route 89A. This is a
+picturesque 23-mile route that descends from 7,000 feet in Flagstaff, Arizona
+to 4,300 feet in Sedona through switchbacks and hairpin turns. As we passed
+Slide Rock State Park, we felt a throbbing below our feet in the car.
+
+We own an 18-year-old vehicle. We bought it used 4 years ago with 175,000 miles
+on the clock. It is a Lexus 4×4, or rather, a Toyota under the hood. The
+venerable [12]2UZ-FE engine is known as a “million-mile engine” if you take
+care of it. I bought it knowing that Toyota built a vehicle to last. I bought
+it knowing that if we took care of this vehicle, it would take care of us.
+
+This vehicle has fueled many of [13]our adventures and explorations in the
+American West. I know it deeply. When it sounds or feels off, I know something
+is awry.
+
+The shuddering vibration beneath our feet continued as we descended. We rolled
+down the windows and heard what sounded like rattling aluminum cans. Ugh, no.
+Jen eased onto a gravel pullout and I did a visual and hand-feel inspection. I
+pushed on pieces I’ve bolted on and worked on. Everything seemed tight. But I
+knew someone could fix this. Toyota makes their cars to be serviceable. They
+make their cars to be durable.
+
+We found a park and I rolled out a makeshift mechanic tarp, got under the rig,
+and started torquing bolts. No shuddering beneath our feet but the rattling
+cans are still there. We found a highly-rated auto shop and we left the vehicle
+with them. The passenger-side wheel bearing had failed (a nicer term than
+exploded). They'll replace the bearing along with the other side — standard
+practice. I approved the work.
+
+The next day the work was finished and we’re back to it. This car has rolled
+over 200,000 miles, and I hope to take it to 300,000.
+
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+
+My iPhone 14 Pro is still the best smartphone I could need. I got it with 512GB
+of storage to anticipate this future: where maintenance comes down to battery
+or screen. I can get those replaced. The battery was $99. A small price to pay
+for a $1,299 device that has been paid off for over a year. The original Apple
+leather case had lived a long and worthy life, protecting my phone from drops,
+dented corners, and a spider-webbed display. When the bottom edge finally broke
+off, I replaced it with a [14]Mujjo leather case. It’s lovely. I expect to get
+another 3 years with it.
+
+A deeper appreciation and intimacy grows as you hold onto something longer and
+longer. There’s a point at which it evolves from the shiny new thing into a
+tool you love. You’ve cultivated a lopsided fondness for a material possession
+that’s now a well-worn friend. May all of the things we care for outlive us.
+
+Oct 20 2025 ⋅ [15]technology
+
+Related
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+  • [16] A Simple Sophistication
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+    Mar 22 2004 Reductionism.
+  • [17] The New Design
+    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+    May 20 2013 What those new to the field should know, and how we can help.
+  • [18] I Don't Have Facebook
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+    Jan 14 2015 Yep.
+
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+I write an occasional newsletter called Weightshifting. It was originally
+comprised of design, culture, and travel notes, morphed into [21]two seasons of
+overland travel, and has now returned to its original ideal of observations in
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+[9] https://nazhamid.com/journal/technologically-content/
+[10] https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-replacement
+[11] https://jenschuetz.com/
+[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_UZ_engine#2UZ-FE
+[13] https://nazhamid.com/weightshifting-overland/
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