No raindrop feels itself responsible for the flood.

I love that, and I don’t think I’ve heard it before.

Thankfully I have plenty of popcorn lol. 🍿 help yourself to some if you’d like.

It’s not fun because I am a functional adult.

Lol, yeah. Covers pretty much all of my needs and most of my “wants”. Even have a Lemmy app (web based) on there.

Definitely want one of those. My adblock and PiHole are both refusing to allow the link for the $89 samples to load, so will probably have to wait until they’re more generally available.

Also wish it had 2.5 Gb LAN as well so it could replace my current, power-hungry router for my 2 Gb service. However, $89 is still a good deal for an OpenWRT Wifi 6 access point.

Good point. Honestly not sure, and probably have no way to tell, how many might have been fine before they were set out. I just know that by the time I come across them, most have seen better days.

The inverter has definitely come in handy. Testing roadside appliances wasn’t its original purpose, lol, but it definitely does a good job of it. I usually just check if they power up and, in the case of TVs/monitors, that the screen isn’t cracked or horribly glitching. If it gets that far, I’ll load it up and take my chances with it.

(Luckily?) most of the ones I see out on the curb are usually physically broken (usually the panel is smashed). I have an inverter in my car and will just plug them in right there to test them out, lol. I think I’ve only successfully rescued one good one recently.

I wouldn’t say it’s a valid reason to throw them out, but the 32" LCD TV I found and brought home was pretty energy inefficient (110 watts) compared to the 32" LCD I got a couple years ago (17 watts). It’s an older model Samsung and has all the input type you could ever want, so I set it up in my basement with all my retro game systems hooked to it.

It’s not that they’re going to convince me, it’s that it’s annoying they keep trying (likely by management)

Thunderbird beta (email), Schildichat (Matrix), bank app, several local web apps (home assistant, etc), Mucke (music), key mapper, Aegis (totp authenticator), Organic Maps, Etar (Calendar), DAVx (contact/calendar sync), traditional T9 (keyboard), MALP and Snapcast (home audio)

Yep! Most of my “apps” are just web app shortcuts or self hosted PWAs

Cat S22 Flip. Not without it’s quirks, but I like it well enough. Had to digital detox, and it was great for that.

The problem is most apps are just low-effort web app conversions.

If only that. Web apps are relatively well sandboxed. Most dedicated apps (that should be websites) are designed to harvest as much data as they can and spam you with notifications/ads.

Not gonna lie, it was. lol. That’s one of several reasons I decided to keep it as my daily driver. It’s technically a smart phone, though, I just had all the smart stuff disabled for that challenge. I’ve since enabled those back, but it still looks enough like a dumb phone that I can convincingly bluff with it.

That’s what I used to do, but a good portion of the time they’d continue their spiel to try to change my mind. Have only had to brandish the dumb phone once, but so far it’s got a 100% shut down success rate.

My favorite part of the 30 day dumb phone challenge I did recently: I couldn’t install your crappy app even if I wanted to.

A little over halfway through the challenge, was paying for my order at a local eatery, and the cashier started plugging their new app and rewards points and digital coupons and shit. I was like “I’m gonna stop you right there: flip phone.” and pulled it out of my pocket and brandished it like I was the sheriff of Luddite-ville.

Kinda like this, but “Flip phone!”

It’s the default page for a Windows Server running IIS web server.

Yeah, that one is the dream (assuming a modern-ish phone with a side-out keyboard is off the table).

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Genre Shift

I think some of your formatting / image embed may have gotten lost in translation between Kbin and Lemmy. Looking at your comments on your home instance, there are images. Here, they’re just the (1/3) counter text. I’m guessing that would explain the downvotes.

For reference, the Lemmy format for embed images is ![Alt text](image url)