A dumb phone and a feature phone are not the same thing, and a feature phone may connect to the internet.
Well, as long as their eligibility/registration isn't tossed under dubious means, there are enough polling stations where they live, they have the ability to go (as in not working or their work allows them to go), their vote sent by mail isn't caught in a USPS black hole until right after the deadline despite being submitted long before, so on, and so on.
Here's my tip - subscribe to a bunch of things of interest, and set your subscribed feed to top for the day. You'll likely see a bunch of interesting posts.
Then browse all, top for 6 hours, and you'll see some wide variety (except for days following a debate like today, that'd going to skew political heavily for obvious reasons).
You'll find new and interesting communities to subscribe to, and make your subscribed feed all the better.
Personally I have different accounts for different interests, and for a few of them I rarely leave the subscribed/top for the day. They are more focused, and without a good multi-community feature that's universal, its the next best thing.
Hope you enjoy it here!
I still think that's why Vance thinks Haitians are eating cats.
So, an actual answer if you're interested.
No, the President does not have the power to remove him. When the Post Office was reformed into USPS in the 1970's, the selection of Postmaster General is made by the Board of Governors of the Postal Service. These board members have 7 year terms, and are appointed by the President, with Senate approval.
The Postmaster General has no fixed term, and serves until the Board decides otherwise.
There are 9 members of the Board, and no more than 5 can be from the same party. The Postmaster General and Deputy Postmaster General are also voting members of the Board, though there are some things they can't vote on.
Removing requires an absolute majority - so even though a quorum is 6, there needs to be 5 votes to remove DeJoy.
No member of the Board can serve more than 2 terms, and they can't be removed without a gross violation - misconduct for example.
So despite the spongebob meme reference reply near mine, no, Biden can't just remove DeJoy.
The US doesn't want that either.
Be quiet, resident of "Further North Dakota".
I'd prefer no one change their minds. Getting it over with is good enough for me.
You dont know the ones who don't talk about it constantly.
Applies to both Linux users and vegans.
Especially since the folks who benefit from some water because they are in line for hours are usually the ones with not enough polling places, as in urban districts which typically vote democrat.
Yeah, its definitely fascist bullshit.
Giving food/water to people in line or on their way to vote is probably what they are referring to.
Oh absolutely.
I'd just find it hilarious for her to respond, but leaving the idiot alone is absolutely the best course of action.
Unrelated outside of the title... Pokemon Go to the Polls was a very fun bonus episode for dungeons and daddies
Related, I really hope the Taylor Swift fans register and vote (and more, but her fans are relevant right now considering the endorsement right after the debate)
I hope her response is just "Ew. No."
Though its more likely she'll just ignore him.
Which is why dumb phones and feature phones aren't common anymore, and the people choosing them are specifically choosing it to avoid being available via WhatsApp/Signal/Slack/Discord/Teams/whatever else.
My FIL for example has a clamshell feature phone, because he doesn't want to be reached except by phone or SMS. He doesn't want to read email or get messages on his phone, he wants to restrict that to when he's in front of his computer.
So yes, you would not be able to use messaging clients on a dumb phone, that's the idea behind their use today.
Racism, basically.
Vance told an easily disproved lie about Haitian migrants eating cats, which the racists that will vote for him like hearing because they are weird and hateful.
But if I had to bet, he heard someone say Haitians are good at eating another word for cats, and since that's not an option for that sofa cushion pushin', he was confused.
...so you just made it up then.
No, the phone industry made up these terms.
No one has done that. The only comments I'm downvoting are the ones spreading disinformation.
So how I read that is "Anything that isn't what I want it to say is disinformation".
Well, enjoy your day buddy, my participation in this thread is over. Its a neat feature phone, and that's where I'll be leaving that.
Several decades of phone technology as it developed...
Edit: and why are you just down voting everyone replying providing you with info?
While I get your opinion, these things have definitions. Here's a super simple version:
- A dumb phone does not connect to the internet. Its a phone. Just a dumb device.
- A feature phone is what you're referring to here, where it may connect to the internet, but isn't part of some larger ecosystem and is certainly not an app-first approach. Its a phone first, ancillary features are a bonus.
- Smartphones are your android and iOS devices, which connect to the internet, is part of a large ecosystem of applications, is an internet first oriented device, etc.
So yes, this is a feature phone from what I've read of the translation.
Honestly don't remember the names, its been.... Quite a while. I'll have to open and check.
Iirc it was also some I stored as gifts that became unknown or something, and I wasn't able to send them.
TL;DR: Got any of them "banned" book recommendations for kids? We have a 2 1/2yr old and a 6 yr old who love book time
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So a recent popular post in politics was about a book that stirred up controversy - My Shadow is Purple, which is the second book in a series (Here's the first).
Local library doesn't have them unfortunately, so I'll be putting in a request (then checking out a local store).
It made me wonder about some other great books out there that more conservative areas might not have. My township is pretty progressive (, but not large, so the school library is only OK. The county library is literally a few blocks away, so no town library. And while amazing as a library, the in-county magas have made the library slow down on some kinds of books. Its ridiculous, but one problem at a time.
So I'm hoping to get some kids books they might not otherwise see, like the My Shadow is Pink/Purple books mentioned, but I don't know what's out there.
Anyone have some favorites to share for the young kids? Looking forward to any ideas!
I got my hands on a Lenovo ThinkSmart Hub 500 - you may have seen these in conference rooms, its a small Teams Room or Zoom Room device, based off their Tiny lineup, with a built-in touch display thats about 11" in diagonal.
https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkSmart/ThinkSmart_Hub_500/ThinkSmart_Hub_500_Spec.pdf
I left the 128gb nvme in there for now, and threw Debian 12 on it. Touch worked throughout the installation process, all I did was attach a keyboard, power, and network (along with the thumb drive with netinstall), now installed with KDE.
Considering the specs, the only part I'm surprised works well is the touchscreen, its otherwise just a generic lenovo tiny (which I have several of already, 6th-9th gen, as part of my tiny/mini/micro server stack). I could have chosen a different flavor, but I'm a long, long, loooonngggg time Debain user so its my go-to.
In terms of touch, tap, drag, and long press are all working. Video looks good with the UI set at 125% scaling, and to be candid its rather snappy and responsive.
I did this 100% for my own personal entertainment, so now for some thoughts for the community - what would be fun to use it for? A few of my thoughts....
- I could use it as a HomeAssistant kiosk. Neat, but.... overkill compared to the tablets doing the same job.
- Make it an emulation station, attach my steam controller and maybe my usb adapters for N64/GC/Sega/PS/etc.
- Use it to test a series of distributions to see how well they handle touch drivers for this silly thing (EndeavorOS is probably going to happen, I may be a long time Debian guy but I should spend more regular time in other things, and not just my arch VMs).
- I don't know, gcompris for my kids? They already have it though on an android tablet and an old mac mini (like, 2011ish) hooked up to the TV in the living room.
- Make it another proxmox endpoint for the cluster, install a DE anyway, and then let it be an always-visible display for grafana?
- Install OBS, let the hdmi capture have some purpose?
What about you folks, what would you find fun to do with this box?
TL;DR: How do you sort your books for your book server?
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I'm thinking of reworking my eBook/comic/etc library, and I'm curious how other people structure things.
I don't want to separate fiction out by genre or anything since some can fit multiple genres, so I'm leaning towards Dewey decimal system categories personally.
I'm also planning a bit ahead since my daughter is now starting to read more than sight words books, so I'm thinking of separating kids fiction and adult fiction.
I also currently have a section for comics, manga, and LNs. Those are separated mostly for who goes to what, and what they do/don't want to read. So my library right now (plus the kids section) will look like:
- Kids Fiction
- Adult Fiction
- Comics
- Manga
- Light/Web Novels
- Non-Fiction
Simple for navigation, and searchable, but maybe not the best for browsing. So I was thinking maybe the Dewey categories:
- Computer Science, Knowledge, and Systems
- Philosophy & Psychology
- Social Sciences
- Language
- Science
- Technology
- Arts
- Adult Fiction
- Kids Fiction
- History/Geography
Nicely browsable, but some of those sections will be really light on books.
What method of sorting do you use? Any librarians out there with thoughts on better approaches than the Dewey decimal system?
EDIT: I really like what @thayer@lemmy.ca mentioned, which I've currently adapted to:
- Instructional (How-to, manuals, gardening, etc)
- Tech (Electronics reference materials, programming reference books, etc).
- Equine (all my wife's horse stuff)
- Kids Fiction
- Kids Non-Fiction (I've got some geography books and such my daughter likes, I'm sure it will expand over time)
- Adult Fiction
- Adult Non-Fiction
- Comics
- Manga
- LN/WN
I can easily allow the kids accounts to have access to the Kids section, not include the comics/manga/tech my wife has no interest in, etc.