Don't forget Algol-60. Per Tony Hoare, "Here is a language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors but also on nearly all its successors."
solrize
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Back in my day, we only had ones and zeros, and sometimes we ran out of ones!!! (From old song, https://youtu.be/p1fBd7UbQPA?t=60 )
When I say it runs Android, the implication is that it is full of smart phone features, which it is. The idea of a dumb phone is that it is impossible for the user to get the phone into a confusing state, and there are no states that the user might want to enter but can't figure out how. For example, if the phone can play music, the user will want to know how to activate the music playing feature, which means they will hassle you (you are the involuntary unpaid 24/7 tech support for this phone) to explain it to them, possibly multiple times per day.
So it is an IMHO essential feature of a dumb phone that it NOT have a music player, or any other feature that is not constantly visible in the UI. Phones of the 1990s could do that, but the technology has since been lost. ;)
Locked phone usually means you are stuck with that carrier's expensive plans. A very basic MVNO plan for an unlocked phone is $5 per month or less. I don't think Boost has anything like that.
Added: Hmm, here is a $65 "NeoFlip" phone that might not be locked: https://www.redpocket.com/shop/flip-phone/neo-flip-lte
Thanks, that's kind of interesting, though it is an Android (AOSP) phone with a physical keypad more or less. $60 isn't too bad but it appears locked to Boost Mobile. An unlocked Moto G Play 2023 is $100 cash at Best Buy so that's probably more attractive given a suitable dumbifying app.
There was a famous incident of a badly designed PD cable frying Benson Leung's fancy ($2000) Pixel Chromebook or something like that.
Looks still unreadable. Better to edit it down to about 1/10th the size at most.
Will they ban ad blockers next?
$210 lol and it's a semi smart phone that plays mp3s. The defining feature of a dumb phone IMHO is there's no app switching. Front panel is completely static. Keypad plus some preprogrammed speed dial buttons that never change.
I looked for this and it sort of doesn't exist. I need it for a technologically challenged family member who gets hopelessly confused by smart phones. I have had the idea of writing an Android dumbify app that runs in kiosk mode (i.e. there is no way to exit it) that just disables everything except phone calls, and keeps the phone keypad permanently on the screen, like an old fashioned phone with physical buttons. It's on my infinite todo list.
Once you say google maps you are back in smartphone territory so forget that.
Fwiw woot.com had an older (4G) model Samsung Galaxy XCover for around $100 a couple of days ago, that might still be there. It's one of the few Android phones with a swappable battery.
Most everything everywhere is virtual these days, even when the host hardware is single tenant. Companies running hosted applications on bare metal are rare. I run personal stuff that way because proxmox was too much hassle, but a more serious user would have just dealt with it.
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Can you verify with wireshark that the traffic is only going through your lan? I'm not hip enough for nginx but I used to have to run apache under gdb all the time to trace random errors from the server. That would be next, if the traffic is really local.