I’ve always had uncannily good luck on Friday the 13ths. I think I’m gonna start making wishes. 🤔

Me right now:

Nothing, really, though it took a good bit of detox to get to that point. I’m only using a pseudo dumb phone, though (it runs Android 11 in a flip phone form factor).

Last August, I did a 30 day challenge and used it like a true dumb phone. No email, no chat, just the same things a comparable KaiOS true dumb phone would do. That was…limiting but I quickly got used to it. After that, I decided to un-dumb it a bit and am still daily-driving it almost a year later.

The only apps it runs now:

• Thunderbird Mobile for email
• Aegis for TOTP
• Bank app (a necessary evil since I bank remotely and nearest branch is 50 miles away)
• Organic Maps
• SchildiChat (Matrix group chat)
• Meshtastic
• Fennec (though mostly only for looking up business phone numbers/addresses while I’m out)

So it’s not a true dumb phone now, but it’s pretty bare bones. I think even true dumb phones have mobile browsers (KaiOS is basically Firefox OS, afterall) as well as some kind of mapping, email, and even TOTP apps. All the rest of the “smart” stuff it does is just annoying enough that I don’t spend all day on it, but works well when I need it.

I don’t know if I could go to a Light Phone III since I need my bank app, but something like the Minimal Phone with its eink display and QWERTY keyboard is probably my upgrade path.

I’d have probably thought the same thing except a group of girls played/sang it during the high school talent show, so I already knew it was a real song.

FWIW, they did a kickass cover of it.

Unrelated to the thread, but love your username (took me a minute to get it)

Also, yeah, love the “good intentions until proven otherwise” attitude. Two years here have nearly beaten that out of me (despite me knowing better).

I’m the dev of Tesseract.

New accounts have badges that show their age if they’re between 0 and 30 days old (among other tricks up my sleeve)

LOL, please tell me there’s a “let’s play” of that

• One Thousand Miles: Lip Sync Battle
• White Chicks: One Thousand Miles

I…kinda actually do (long story), but I also have a lot of pet peeves lol.

I think I also recall some comments from somewhere from UK people saying Fahrenheit makes more sense for weather-related temperature.

But yeah, definitely human inconsistency lol.

Gracias!

I didn’t say I had a problem with any of that. But spinning up a burner, posting, and deleting everything afterward takes other people’s conversations with it (and those don’t currently come up in search results because the post is deleted). Granted that’s a platform limitation, but it is what it is. Posting from various alts but leaving things intact…go for it.

Imagine being a legit new user and being shunned because your account is not 30 days old.

That’s part of my complaint against the ones doing that “hit it and quit it” bullshit; it makes people wary of interacting with new accounts.

Not a shit meme at all ! In fact, I want to convert that to ASCII art and have it as the MOTD when I sudo -i or console in as root.

A+ for the article saying “in {number} states” and actually listing the states. So many articles fail to do that, and it’s one of my biggest pet peeves.

Having had to manually white-balance the cameras in broadcast journalism classes in college, I love this question. Wish I knew the answer, but commenting so I will remember to check back in.

Often, they just spin up a disposable account, post, and delete the whole account w/content after they’re done. It’s annoying AF and incredibly selfish. For a while, it was the same person doing it, though not sure if that’s still the case.

Regardless, those people have ruined things for everyone (especially legit new users) and I will not engage with accounts newer than 30 days. Lemm.ee evacuation notwithstanding, I kinda wish other people took a similar stance and maybe these people will knock that off.

Assuming it’s this (LAPQO71A) …

Guide: https://cdn.cs.1worldsync.com/a5/d0/a5d06ff2-92b9-4510-a5af-b71e1deb4083.pdf

Page 20

Looks to be on the left (in the image) below the fan and underneath where your hand is in the image.

In most if not all places, the municipal tap water is perfectly safe (old lead service lines, neglected areas, and occasional local boil-water advisories notwithstanding). Private wells are another matter, but there’s often little regulation on those, but there is lots of guidance available.

N. Fowelri requires something like 30 times the standard chlorine dose to kill. In municipal water systems, the most common source is biofilm that builds up in pipes in the water system and more often in the home/customer-side service line. This is especially true for older homes and poorly maintained apartment buildings.

I know it’s all the rage right now to shit on the US when and where one can, but our water system isn’t the place to do it.

Refs:

• https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water
• https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/drinking-water-regulations
• https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/lead-and-copper-rule-improvements

I worked at a Walmart in college, so…yes.

I guess my favorite one (meaning it was more funny than aggravating) was this lady trying to return a Nintendo Wii. She said it was broken and wanted to exchange it (so far, so good). She said she lost the receipt (later claiming it was a gift), but for an exchange, that’s usually not an issue (we record the serial numbers for things like video game consoles, computers, etc and those are tied to the transaction which lets us pull up the sale info).

So, we scan the serial number, and it’s not in our system. This could mean one of two things:

1. It’s stolen
2. It didn’t come from our store

So, to rule out #1, we sent the serial number to the loss prevention people to see if it was on their report. (It wasn’t.)

But we didn’t even have to wait for them to respond because I took a look at the box, and it clearly came from GameStop (had their stickers on the opposite side).

So I tell her that this console wasn’t purchased here, and she needs to take it back to Game Stop for service.

She did not like that. At all.

She demanded the manger, who, thankfully, was nearby. Manager took one look at her, got on the radio, and seconds later all three loss-prevention people came out of their little security room and escorted her out (with her yelling obscenities / threatening lawsuits the whole way).

Apparently she was a frequent-flier who had already been banned from the store (and neighboring stores) for return fraud.