Don’t care at all about dynamic lock screens. Actively want to keep AI out of my phone, maybe excepting specific apps. Battery tech by itself is nice but you know that stronger batteries will just result in even power hungrier phones, so no real good will come of it. Hinged phones break more and cost more.

NTN (satellite text messaging for when you have no cell coverage) is the main interesting phone tech to appear recently IMHO. Everything else is just little tweaks or outright regressions. I prefer more repairability and openness to more features by now.

My main suggestion is “don’t.”. Use a regular pen and paper notebook. Transcribing and expanding your notes into a computer later can help you retain the material.

SSDs for backup? Being rich must be nice. More srsly if you have the upstream pipe for it, remote backups are preferable in case something happens at home.

I’d never heard of this before. What are the upsides? And just make them user replaceable and standardized, and we’ll worry much less about cycle life.

Tools:preferences, about:config, file downloads, form prefills, remember password, etc. yes you can try to lock everything but it’s too easy to miss something. And then there are outright RCEs. There’s just too much attack surface.

There’s no way to srsly prevent a full-bloat browser from messing with its environment. Make a static VM image and reboot it at the beginning of every session.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_News_from_the_Vatican

I want to see the unfolding of a scorching romance between two partners, each not knowing that the other is an AI.

What does that even mean? But yes lots of us run Linux on servers. Just ssh in. Or even just wipe the VM and launch a new one if you want to upgrade.

I saw a reddit post claiming the shooting was because the judge was fooling around with the sheriff’s daughter. That also fits the stereotype I guess.

Excerpt:

In a letter sent to the National Shooting Sports Foundation on Tuesday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., questioned the legality of the “covert program” in which firearms manufacturers for years shared sensitive customer information with political operatives.

A hosted services ad on c/selfhosted, maybe not the right thing, but I’ll defer to others.

You can get right angle 3.5mm connectors that help with the cable durability, but yeah, serious full sized wired cans use 1/4" or XLR connectors still, I think. There are some lightweight bluetooth headphones that might not be BIFL but could hold up pretty well, especially compared to those silly airpod-like buds. You probably have more experience with those than I do though.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1700

Oh I see. The Sansa Clip is an old school device where you transfer files by USB. There are certainly Android phones with 3.5mm jacks though.

There are what I’d call BIFL blueotooth headphones but they are full sized cans, not earbuds. I wouldn’t want to ride a bike wearing them.

SanDisk Sansa Clip is the size of a matchbook. Not fancy but not a brick. Get the model with the micro SD slot and you have unlimited storage. With Rockbox it might even support sdxc so you can use a 2tb card. Otherwise 32gb limit.

It still has an internal battery (I hate those) but people have managed to replace it.

Use wired earbuds and a player with a 3.5mm jack. BIFL for that stuff is kind of difficult though. Just buy cheap and replace now and then.

just want some old junker (6/7/8th gen Intel)

You probably have to go back further than that for a 3.5" sff pc. Look on woot though, they have such refurbs all the time. Or scrounge a mini tower.

It doesn’t appear for everyone to see.

Every user of the extension then, which is apparently a lot of users, enough to affect the site culture, if the other guy’s report reflects reality.

If the label appears on your profile for everyone to see without further info then it’s truth value is thrown away. IDK how big a problem it really is on bsky now though. The other guy says it is, you seem to think the opposite, I don’t care enough to look into it further.

If Twitter went Nazi post-Musk while it’s software stayed about the same, that shows that management really does shoulder blame.

Oh sweet child. What has Apple done to people? A removable battery looks like this:

https://www.ifixit.com/products/lenovo-thinkpad-x220-x220i-x230i-replacement-battery

You just snap it onto the computer. No disassembly. No tools. No screws. All laptops and cell phones except Apple used to have them. You could carry several charged batteries with you and swap them as needed. Some laptops even used two, so you could hot swap with no power interruption.

And we walked to school barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways. :)