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.

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 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.

Similar, except I thought the existence of the pile was tipped by the flies (as there was many of them).

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.

Depends. Some at least.
For example, I dug out this old screenshot of how I used to listen to DAB radio, because regular radio receiver is too simple:

Lots of visual stimuli.
You can bet I use --verbose with every command possible.

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.

I looked at it, but it seems to be for micro-blogging (like Mastodon), not communities (like Lemmy).

I unfortunately don’t have much time to play games.

I’ve tried Zork a few times, but I always get stuck near some clearing, and I don’t know where to go. Basically at the start.

Anyway, curiosity combined with imagination, yeah, could be fun.

Main reason I haven’t tried it is pretty stupid. I don’t know how to save and reset, otherwise Zork is also on our SDF pubnix. But I also didn’t really go out looking. You can try it without sign-up on telehack.com. Also, why the hell can’t I run telnet (freezes or takes long time to respond) on Arch + KDE in terminal emulator (I tried 2), but it works in TTY?

And a list of many BBSs: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

I’ll just get 3 hackers to my keyboard, just wait.

I didn’t know what Lemmy was, but I’ve seen SDF say they now host an instance on Twitter, so I joined.

It is not very stable however. Sometimes it can go down for a week or more, sometimes the federation is broken. Historically, beehaw.org will always federate with us, even if somehow nothing else works.
Up until recently there was a 2 day delay with federation of some content inwards, however the Cloudflare outage probably gave us enough time to catch up, so it’s working again for now.
Jerboa client often won’t work with it because it times out after only 20 seconds. Sometimes you have to be more patient, at least 2 minutes. The MLMYM frontend seems to just load right away though.
The admins haven’t been posting or commenting for 2 years, but they randomly changed banner and picture of the main community, so someone is still here.

At first they went big, with multiple instances. There is this US instance, but there were also ones in Germany, India, China and Japan from what I recall. But they’re dead now.

My issue is they only take donations via PayPal which doesn’t like my debit card.