[-] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

headphone jack, NFC, and microSD

The holy trinity.

I need to move on from my LG (RIP) G6 soon due to battery life and apps becoming unsupported so I've been shopping around.

Right now I have a headphone jack, NFC, MicroSD, FM Radio and 4k video recording. I'll probably have to give up the radio at least if not more to get a well rounded phone.

The G6 came out 7 years ago but it feels like most new phones are a downgrade in comparsion.

[-] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 24 points 3 months ago

Thank your ancestors for that. Couldn't think up any new names on their way over so they resused a bunch.

[-] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Is it? The ATMs have been all over the place for half a decade at this point.

As for fees it cost me 3 cents to send a $50 Litecoin transaction a few days ago. If I did that with Bitcoin it would have cost me $8 in transaction fees so you're right there.

Now days there's a coin for every purpose.

  • Bitcoin = gold bars

  • Litecoin = mundane transactions

  • Monero = digital cash

Crypto has been around for 15 years already. Time flys.

[-] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 months ago

We better adapt soon becuse the village is dead and it isn't coming back.

[-] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And you get crucified by them if you bring it up.

I understand battling the pull of phones and tablets with kids is hard but you're lying to your self if you think it's going to work out ok if you give in, every other kid has one how bad could it go really?

https://12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/

[-] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We all know this yet the ones with kids who need to do something about it don't, as a result kids are getting dumber by the year.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183445544/u-s-reading-and-math-scores-drop-to-lowest-level-in-decades

TV had a limited capacity to mess kids up and it largely didn't. Youtube and the internet on then other hand are in the vast majority of kids pockets with 0 restrictions.

Reading the first hand reports of what this looks like from /r/teachers will black pill you on the future quicker than any post on climate change or war.

[-] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah storage is cheap but I last reformated my boot drive in 2017 so my root partition is 20GB and now I have no room for Flatpak. Now I could just resize it but wheres the fun in that.

TL:DR "A 20GB root partition ought to be enough for anybody."

[-] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's an impressive FOSS project, scracthes the fast paced Quake itch but not a lot of people have that these days.

I use to play it's predecessor Nexuiz for years, you might recognize a few maps as some were updated for Xonotic.

Shout out to the crew who played on the HOCTF server. Had well over a 1000 hours on there.

[-] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

How can this be a legally enforceable contract?!

I'd like to think it can't be but it's the US so who knows.

Changing the terms after buying the device and in a way that your kid could accept them by hitting ok on the remote is bonkers.

[-] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 13 points 6 months ago

Keeping up Appearances meme out of left field 😂

I'm surprised there's enough overlap in fanbases for this to have 100+ votes but I'm here for it.

[-] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Wow that was a great read. Leif comes across as very perceptive on multiple fronts here.

Unfortunately I think his warning about the internet ending up like "souped up TV" is looking more likely by the day.

Right now it's quite easy to force a site or service to bend the knee to outside pressure. No matter how right or wrong that pressure is. People will go after hosting and ISPs, if that doesn't work they'll tie people up directly in the courts. You must provide real contact info and be willing to play ball if you operate on the old web.

Embracing encryption is the only thing I can think to do to avoid that. Which honestly kind of sucks, because while true anonymity would save sites like Omegle who act in good faith and police themsevles in a reasonable manner, others that don't will also be protected. I think the pros out weigh the cons with anonymity but that is a hard pill to swallow for many.

[-] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 23 points 7 months ago

Kevin isn't as rare as you'd think in Europe especilally in the early 90s. Motorcycle racing AKA MotoGP was very popular and the champion in 1993 was Kevin Schwantz.

You also had the rise of Kevin Costner around then that probably contributed to it as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/05/kevin-french-name-national-mockery

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