Cool, thanks!

Is there a Github link?

Totally respect that.

I tried a month of dumbphone but realized there was a minimum of “smart” I needed in a daily driving device. My compromise was a low-end smartphone in a flip phone form factor which is just smart enough for what I need.

Hard agree!

I downgraded to a pseudo dumb phone a few months ago, and it’s been life changing in all the best ways.

“My Life is an Onion Article” is now on the short list of titles for my autobiography.

No idea what app it was. Mom was just like “my phone got hacked so i got a new one” and a new phone number with it. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Did your mom also install a random sketchy app from the app store and click “Allow” when it asked to access her contacts?

Because my mom did, and I get all kinds of spam. 😠

I’ve finally gotten back into Tesseract development after a 2 month hiatus. I can only hyper-fixate on one thing at a time, and I spent the last 2 months reading books and lost track of time 😆

It’s as bad at Kroger.

There’s one and half aisles that are basically unusable because it’s where they stage the online orders. Then you’ve got the employees pushing these giant trollies around full of baskets for online orders. Ugh.

I can’t say I notice any difference, either**, but it does seem like it reduces headaches for me and makes it easier on my eyes in low light.

** I’m an insomniac, so “better sleep” is often “any sleep I can get” lol.

I just manually turn on “Night light” if I need it before it automatically kicks in. I think that’s available in stock, but I only have LineageOS on my devices.

“Balance a checkbook” doesn’t have to mean a physical transaction log. It just means keeping track of expenditures and deposits so that you know the money in your account is sufficient to cover your purchases. You’d be surprised how many people my age can’t manage that. Also, at first, I read that as “Who owns a Chromebook?” lol.

Outside of using cursive for my signature, yeah, I’ve never used it in real life.

If you want to learn something you will.

True, but we learned computing because we had to.

I think it’s more a generational gap in basic computer skills.

Millennials grew up alongside modern computing (meaning the two matured together). We dealt with everything from BASIC on a C64 to DOS and then through Windows 3 through current. We also grew up alongside Linux. We understand computers (mostly) and the (various) paradigms they use.

Gen Z is what I refer to as the iPad generation (give or take a few years). Everything’s dumbed down and they never had to learn what a folder is or why you should organize documents into them instead of throwing them all in “Documents” library and just using search. (i.e. throw everything in a junk drawer and rummage through it as needed).

As with millennials who can’t balance a checkbook or do basic household tasks, I don’t blame Gen Z for not learning; I blame those who didn’t teach them. In this case, tech companies who keep dumbing everything down.

Edit: “Balance a checkbook” doesn’t have to mean a physical transaction log for old school checks. It just means keeping track of expenditures and deposits so that you know the money in your account is sufficient to cover your purchases. You’d be surprised how many people my age can’t manage that.

“One of the biggest functions of blocking is giving women the ability to stop weird men from constantly making them uncomfortable and scared,” one user wrote. “So of course Elon had to change that.”

They buried the lede a bit there, but that’s pretty much it.

A cropped version of this used to be the outgoing message on my voicemail for years. People hated it, but it did seem to trick robo calls with that tone. But yeah, it depends on the carrier not inserting their own message before the user-configured greeting.

Yeah, I read that the other day. Wish it would do more than that, but it’s a start I guess.

I can’t wait until a Senator or comparable “it’s not a problem until it happens to me” lawmaker loses access to their digital library and goes on the warpath. That’s the only way out of this “you will own nothing” hellhole we’re in and moving deeper into.

Lol I didn’t either.

MythTV?