Bkuefox NX1 https://aiphor.com/products/bluefox-nx1-4-0-android-smartphone?variant=54544491348041
My current phone is a Pixel 5, because size, unlockable, and fingerprint on the back.
The BlueFox looks promising, and a decent price! Could be my spare phone, especially since I migrated my phone number to Jmp.chat - they pipe your SMS into XMPP, so it’s no longer SIM/device bound.
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Oh, yea, Samsung has had this since like 2015.
Never worked well then, but I’m sure it does now
Since 1985 for me.
All my cars go to 300k, or more.
Color is absolutely part of VIN.
But your point stands.
It’s largely roll over protection safety requirements have increased dramatically. So you get massive pillars that have to distribute force into the rest of the body.
Which also has to handle that load, or prevent intrusion laterally from side impacts.
It’s largely driven by safety designs.
“If they break”, oh yes, let’s fund a strawman.
Go see what a broken mirror costs today.
Glass alone, if heated (many are) $100+. Actual motorized mirror: $300+. Then there’s painting to match.
Cameras would be smaller, less likely to get damaged, and are pretty commodity tech these days.
They do, but know what works better? A single panel in front of you with all the views - you don’t even have to turn your head.
As someone who’s raced, "Wink" mirrors demonstrated this fantastically: multi-panel rear-view mirrors where you could see everything behind and beside you in a single mirror.
I used one in my daily driver when I had a neck injury (whiplash) and could barely turn my head for 2 years. Way easier to see all around you, and better too.
The tech for a camera system has been available and trivial since the 90’s. A single 4" tall wide screen on the dash, or built into the center rear view would work.
Clearly you’ve never driven in rain, snow, fog. Side mirrors are very problematic. Cameras can be better protected, and done right even deal with rain and ajow a lot better.
Oh, man, no. Meds merely help you to manage the impulses.
Parents that deny their kids meds (in ignorance) really piss me off.
I’m probably your grandparents age, I’ve seen this nonsense a lot in my own family.
Meds are like crutches when you have a cast on - they help you with impulse control so you then have brain cycles to dedicare to learning new ways of thinking/processing.
Oh, she’s in for a rude awakening one day
Bold move, Cotton!
(Not really, Lineage updates are the most seamless I’ve ever seen).
Uggh, feel bad for them.
I’ve tried for years to get friends and family to have their data sit in a single point in the house and use backup services. That would be a massive improvement.
Family won’t listen, so I’m building minicomputers for them all that will handle it. Just have to configure their devices to store data there.
I don’t do upgrades (well, not in the sense most people think of them).
My approach is that upgrades are too risky, things always break. It’s also why I don’t permit auto updates on anything. I’d rather do manual updates than dedicated time. Keeping things working is more important, and I have backups.
I run everything virtualized (as much as I can), so I can test upgrades by cloning a system and upgrading the clone. If that fails, I simply build a new system based on some templates I keep. Run in parallel, copy config and data as best I can, then migrate. Just migrated my Jellyfin setup this way.
This is a common methodology in enterprise, which virtualization makes a lot easier for us self hosters.
I haven’t had a disruption from updates/upgrades in 5 years.
Well, pretty much everyone gets cancer of they live long enough.
I’ll take it.
No, it doesn’t.
The entire mid- and western US is largely unable to grow crops - “this land was made for the buffalo, and hates the plow”.
See Bowl, Dust.
To make it grow crops, we’ve been pumping out a massive aquifer since the early 20th century. Subsidence caused by this is a major concern, in addition to the aquifer not refilling as fast as we use it.
In the western portions of CO, basically all of Wyoming, NM, Arizona (arid places), crops simply can’t grow at any significant level - but that land can grow crops for grazing animals, especially cows. Sheep and goats destroy such grazing land, which explains the conflict between cattlemen and sheepherders in the 19th century.
Really the entire breadbasket is naturally suited to cows, not crops, as it supported millions of bison.
You should probably read more before pontificating.
I don’t know how private/secure it really is, but Teleguard doesn’t require a phone number.
I’d really like to see some research into them, though, to know how good/bad it is.
I don’t know where to even start.
Alternative: XMPP has been around for 25+ years, can be self-hosted, there’s numerous solutions available.
Because it overwhelms other flavors.
I’m not putting smoked provolone on a cheese steak - you won’t taste anything else.
Damn right.
Risky stuff, but damnit nothing else works.
OMV is an OS, and it’s a version of
UbuntuDebian.