Dramatic music

Until it does not.

Interesting. I thought it was more like in Czech Republic. Buy a prepaid SIM, put it into phone, it activates with the first call and there you go.
When I checked one from T-Mobile, name and surname get automatically pre-filled in the personal data card, as “Anonym Anonym”, that is.

Why? Isn’t it usual for prepaid in the US already?

The Big Story is exclusive to subscribers

Just $4/month bro, $4 isn’t much bro, it’s just another small subscription bro.

Thankfully I don’t even trust TPM, so I just use regular passphrase unlock. This has added benefit of password expiration if unused (I will forget it eventually).

I don’t think I’ve ever used that much mobile data.

I only use mobile data, but…
My record so far is 591GB in a month.
Last month I used 451GB, this month (since Nov. 16th) I am so far at 347GB.

When I was trying Gentoo I very much didn’t forget, I went I want them all. But I ended at my first attempt. It was bootable, but I was missing network drivers, and on old Core 2 Duo the compilation already took 3 days.

But… people outside Lemmy.

High pitched noises sometimes. I have an audio spectrum visualizer app installed to confirm these. But they can be pretty weird as they bounce around. You’ll get these heat spots. Unfortunately, I feel like my ears are degrading now.

Anyway, dimmable LED lights are often a problem due to PWM. Only full brightness is quiet.

Smell, I don’t even know what the hell that was. There is or was something in the back of one bus. I wouldn’t say it’s smell, but… something. Just a spicy punch that doesn’t quite let me breathe in. I noted down the license plate if I’ll experience it again to confirm it’s the same vehicle, but this wasn’t the first time, though unfortunately I didn’t copy it that first time. Same line though, so possibly same vehicle as well.
But I am not sure if I was the only one, no one was visibly bothered, but who knows.

I don’t know, but I’d be too. I am even with regular items, honestly, and even with less damages. Like a single small scratch on otherwise pristine surface.

I am trying to get my hands on 6 or 6T since the announcement of Google developer verification. Unfortunately, it still seems like one of the best devices for PostmarketOS.

pingfs

Now that’s something I must try.

Something like this heavily modded WRT54GL?

Source: https://andrey.mikhalchuk.com/the-most-hacked-router-in-the-world-ever

Yeah, especially since I know I likely wouldn’t play it much.
On the other hand, if it was free (also as in money) and open-source, and I liked it, I could donate. Although I don’t have much money, so probably just smaller amounts, better than the 0 I do right now by not gaming instead.
For example, I absolutely wouldn’t pay $9.60 for Binary Eye (barcode/2D code scanner app) if it cost that much, but as a donation that was fine.

Well, I could make an exception for games on physical media. I like it, and it has resale value.

OK, here’s a somewhat famous case of email that could only be sent within something over 500 miles, but no further: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

Touch it until it works, then never again while it still does.

I am sure at one point I had some auto skip extension in Firefox for this, but I don’t remember what it was.

The problem is bugs being far bigger issue. Imagine a bug/crash causing your throttle to get stuck and brakes not working.
If it happens now, at least it’s the manufacturer who’d be liable, I hope.

I want a completely separate emergency shutdown+brake.

Biggest issue is whatever is going on with mobile devices compared to desktop. I don’t know what you call it here, drivers? But each device is just so closed down, you can’t “just run” another software on it. I imagine if desktops also each required custom images based on model, people would only be using unmodified pre-installed Windows.

Doesn’t help that I often get fascinated by the most basic things, and then they just occupy my mind.

Recent example: Internet
When I say I get distracted by the internet, you’d probably think I go to TikTok or YouTube shorts. No, I mean internet itself.

I set up Tailscale, and it’s running on my headless home computer. And oh my god, I for some reason find it fascinating. I might not even have anything to do, but I just SSH in, or even run VNC, and it’s just awesome.
I am accessing a computer in a different city, using it as if it was here.
Then I run sshfs, and it looks like local storage. How awesome is that?
And it’s mobile data on both sides. So much data going through the air, through walls, to a distant tower, on both sides.
Plus it’s so quick! Just milliseconds, and the bits are here.

Literally what web is too. Using computers from not just different cities, but even different continents.

I’ve used it for a few months now, but I still sometimes just log in just because. It still fascinates me that I can access my computer from so far away.
Oh and oh god, I almost forgot about when I ran SDR++/RTL-TCP server on it, and used SDR from a different city. Sampled RF signal live, right over the internet, how cool is that?

Welp anyway, right now I tried to watch some video, but got distracted by random thought of RAMdisk. So, now I am listening to music from tmpfs for no good reason.