I just had to turn it off. He’s running on a loop

True.

And you could always go back in time to stop me from stopping you from stopping the guy.

That’s why I think time travel will never allow history to be changed, and I think Rick and Morty may have done a bit about that.

I’d stop the guy who went back in time to stop the first guy from smoking stuff.

That’ll buff right out. No need to get insurance involved.

I was actually surprised to learn that most current dumb phones (at least ones that run KaiOS like most of the Nokia ones) do actually support acting as a wifi hotspot. Not sure of any that have a REST API for management, though. They also have at least primitive web browsers.

Actually, you might be able to make a REST API (and web app to use it) with NodeJS or Python with Termux, though that requires an Android device (so not applicable for a dumb phone). Termux has an API that lets you interact with the phone hardware, though I’ve had issues with some things not being implemented (I’ve only briefly played with that, so I may just be missing something or it doesn’t fully work in Android 14 yet).

The “dumb” phone I chose for my challenge is the CAT S22 Flip which runs Android 11. I disabled most of what made it “smart” for the challenge, though. At the end of the week when the 30 days are officially up, I’m going to re-enable some of those features just for convenience. (That device was $20 cheaper than the true dumb phone I was looking at, so I figured I’d just dumb it down for the 30 day challenge and then use it as the unique smartphone it is after that).

They were cool until the industry decided tall, skinny rectangles were the final form factor.

I’m on the last week of my dumb phone challenge (been daily driving a flip phone for the last 3 weeks), and I think I’m gonna keep it.

(Sets bottle of alcohol on counter)

Cashier: Can I see some ID, please?

Me: I know what this is.

Are they even offering thought and prayers anymore? Now it’s just “fact of life” and “price of freedumb”.

Would be the ultimate “man cave” for sure lol.

That’s exactly what I would have done, lol.

When I’m gone and done with it, someone more altruistic than I can report it to the archaeologists haha.

An underground city

Beep boop: 15 seconds per pound. Trust me, bro, I’m a bot.

“I’m a bot. Trust me, bro!”

No thanks. I’d rather scour 50+ articles to find what I need than have to trust some chatbot that doesn’t cite its work. Beyond that, it’s “stealing” content from the sites it crawls to build that knowledge while depriving those sites of traffic.

Everyone praising these is so focused on getting an immediate answer they completely neglect anything they may learn during the search. Hell, I’ve researched things before and, prior to finding what I was looking for, found enough material to realize my approach was flawed. When I started over, the information I got from the “non answer” results were crucial to fixing the flaws in my original approach.

That’s what I was thinking, but wasn’t sure enough to say beyond “give it a shot and see”.

There might be some savings to be had by enabling compression, though it would depend on what format the images are in to start with. If they’re already in a compressed format, it would probably just be a waste of CPU to try compressing them further at the filesystem level.

Not sure if a de-duplicating filesystem would help with that or not. Depends, I guess, on if there are similarities between the similar images at the block level.

Maybe try setting up a small, test ZFS pool, enabling de-dup, adding some similar images, and then checking the de-dupe rate? If that works, then you can plan a more permanent ZFS (or other filesystem that supports de-duplication) setup to hold your images.

I guess that wasn’t the best idea, then, Verizon?

Might’ve been?

Not sure if it differs by state, but here, most of Frontier’s fiber build out was done with grant money. Much of that is replacing the old copper network they bought from Verizon that had been left to rot.

Basically, Verizon sold off assets it had neglected (with a few fiber areas to sweeten the deal, I guess?), taxpayers paid Frontier to fix them up, and Verizon is buying them back likely at a bargain (versus doing those upgrades themselves).

Tim Walz seems like a really great guy all around, and truth be told, if I was given an opportunity to attend a local rally for him, I’d probably seriously consider it. Doubt that I would actually go, but it wouldn’t be an immediate hard “no” like I’d usually respond lol.

No, but I’m interested to hear the experiences from those who have.

I, personally, just don’t get the appeal and am curious to find out if I’m missing out on anything. All I really want from candidates is a website that lists their policy positions and legislative voting records / accomplishments. Attending a rally just seems too “cult of personality” for my taste. Though I would and have attended smaller, town hall style meetings.

It doesn’t have to be “powerful” to be dangerous. People just have to believe that it is and/or believe what it craps out without fact checking it.

Participants rated the same text presented in Wikipedia lower than in ChatGPT or Alexa for credibility

Then there’s also the fact it’s driving up demand for energy and keeping dirty power plants online.