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- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 1 day ago:
That’s actually the model I’m using at the moment. I started out with LightPhone2, but I was frustrated not being able to get images, and I didn’t like the keyboard.
Sunbeam has been ok, but it definitely has problems. For some reason, T9 will always chose a name before any other word. So if I type “Any,” the first two suggestions are “Amy” and “Cox.” I reached out to the devs about this, and they said it’ll “learn” what your most used words are, but it hasn’t done that for me. Also, the keyboard seems to be a bit laggy and misses some keypresses.
It doesn’t help that I also spilled beer on it once which made the touch screen really wonky.
I was thinking about upgrading to a LightPhone3, but there are a few smartphone things I wouldn’t mind bringing back (like Ticketmaster for example). I preordered a Minimal phone, and I’m hoping to lock it down to just messaging, specific apps (like my car key), and no web browser.
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 2 days ago:
As someone who carries around a flip phone on purpose, it’s not impossible to live without a smartphone, but it’s getting more challenging.
Ticketmaster now requires a smartphone. You can’t print tickets. Which means I can no longer go to baseball games.
So far, that’s the only thing I’ve found that’s a hard block, but many other things are certainly not designed for the phone impaired.
- Comment on Four pianos. Four. 3 days ago:
OK Go working on a new video
- Comment on Good afternoon these are stairs. 5 days ago:
NSFW
Not Safe For Walking
- Comment on Do spam calls "I wanna buy your house" ever work? Has anyone ever sold their house like that? 5 days ago:
I usually just give them the address. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
- Comment on Do spam calls "I wanna buy your house" ever work? Has anyone ever sold their house like that? 5 days ago:
I’m not so sure this logic holds with how out of hand things have gotten. I’ve got automated spam calls that ask if I’m interested, I said yes, and they hung up on me.
It’s like the spam machine got left on over the weekend or something.
- Comment on TW: suicide 6 days ago:
Also to add, look up suicide stats in England after coal gas was replaced with natural gas. Suddenly, poison gas was less available. Not only did gas related suicides drop, all suicides drop.
No way to prove causation, but for a lot of people, the decision to kill yourself depends a lot on convenience. There isn’t a lot of planning involved.
- Comment on TW: suicide 6 days ago:
Shotgun physics get complicated. I remember hearing a case where the gas in front of the slug (or shot or whatever) propelled the shotgun out of the victim’s mouth, and the shot ended up skimming off their face.
Leaving them disfigured but very much alive.
In any case, suicide is largely an emotional thing rather than logical. Don’t read too much into it.
But if you’re up for a dark laugh on the topic of conscientious suicide, consider youtu.be/snjCj0ntG8E?si=8omBU_VZA_MqL-Lp
- Comment on Anon is a white hat hacker 6 days ago:
I’ve always wanted to start a ghost busting business.
Just explain that after I’m done, all the strange sounds they hear have a perfectly logical explanation.
- Comment on Ewww 1 week ago:
Wait until you pay for your meal
- Comment on What game surprised you with their length? 1 week ago:
Well I mean the false ending
- Comment on What game surprised you with their length? 1 week ago:
Portal
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 1 week ago:
I mean there are a ton of efficiencies to be gained with using communal resources.
Why can’t a bunch of people share a park rather than needing their own back yard?
Not saying it shouldn’t be an option, but the American obsession with detached housing at the cost of higher density housing is a major contributor to insane housing costs.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Or public housing
- Comment on For those trying to cope in these trying times 2 weeks ago:
It
- Comment on Great opening movie shot 2 weeks ago:
Dude looks like a Rescue Hero.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s a tough call to make. It’s like those car donation things. Like 90% of your car’s value goes to the company managing the sale, but that’s still 10% to the charity that they wouldn’t have anyway. Unless you want to deal with selling your own car, and giving the charity the money, it still does some good.
I suspect a $1M salary isn’t too insane for a CEO if they bring tangible value to the company. Also, with a lack of shareholders to answer to like in a publicly traded company, their motivations probably align with the cause they’re supporting. It’s not like they’re going to sell off a shitload of assets to bump stock price and escape with a golden parachute.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 2 weeks ago:
I envy you.
- Comment on Will the price of Freeze Driers go down? (USA question) 2 weeks ago:
I’m missing something here…
- Comment on Will the price of Freeze Driers go down? (USA question) 2 weeks ago:
My sister has one specifically to sell novelty foods at craft fairs.
- Comment on Percentages 2 weeks ago:
We bought it at goodwill on a whim knowing nothing about it. Good to know about your other suggestions. Thanks!
- Comment on Sleep well tonight 2 weeks ago:
I read Second Hand by Adam Minter. Apparently it’s all the rage in some developing nations. To the point where the antique store owners he interviews in the Midwest have a direct line to some dude in Africa.
- Comment on Percentages 2 weeks ago:
I love Scotland Yard. We got it for a friend who loves detective stories. Then discovered that it’s a public transit simulator which is even better.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 3 weeks ago:
This and compost the rest. Now available in WA!
- Comment on Starbucks wants a Bachelor's degree for a barista 3 weeks ago:
Yeah Starbucks literally partnered with the Orion homeless youth shelter in Seattle to train these kids to be baristas.
Due to instability during their upbringing, for some of these kids just being able to show up at a certain location at a certain time is a job skill they’re lacking. Yet there’s a little half-Starbucks on site where they can learn that and more.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 3 weeks ago:
Frog Fractions
- Comment on I don't think so!! 3 weeks ago:
Rock > Dock
- Comment on How Trump's Tariffs Could Cost Gamers Billions 3 weeks ago:
I think the most made-in-America gaming hardware is probably the mac pro
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 3 weeks ago:
There are other powders for that
- Comment on What gives you hope to keep going? 3 weeks ago:
Over the past few weeks, I realized that I wasn’t reading the news to “stay informed,” I was reading it because I was bored. As a form of entertainment, it’s pretty awful. 99% of what I read will have no direct impact on me or my family, and just sitting there and worrying about it without doing anything to fix it serves nobody.
Also, I’ve learned to be skeptical of basically every headline good or bad. I saw a headline this week about how upset Trump supporters were with his cabinet picks. Comments in the thread were talking about leopards eating faces. The article was a collection of 8 tweets from supporters showing disapproval.
This news site was just praying on people’s hopes and making a story out of absolutely nothing.
So I started focusing on some personal hobbies and have tried to re-teach myself how to focus by reading some long form fiction.