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Um it's small and throws a lot of lumens. Is the color adjustment useful at all? I'd rather have a nice fixed high CRI 4000k or so. And right angle LEDs for headband use. I don't understand why no one does that.

New PC hardware is mostly compatible with the old stuff or at least somewhat standardized except at the lowest end. Phone stuff is much worse about that. Idk what a Linux phone would mean anyway.

Yes the HW isn't comparable to a modern phone though.

It's worse. Linux desktop is only possible because of the relative consistency and openness of x86 PC hardware. Phones are nothing like that. At best we will have retro Linux handhelds with phone functionality.

Good luck, phone hardware changes very fast though.

For high value accounts, use 2fa with hardware tokens if you can, and maybe use a dedicated computer (old laptop) with a bare bones software installation to minimize the likelihood of malware.

https://feddit.org/post/9959466/5697405

[why blocked?] "a contributor made a push from a sanctioned region is what i saw. not even a main dev, and they didn’t receive any warning is my understanding. i might be way off, i’m not a final source:

Pretty stupid since if you use the bank's regular voice-menu phone service, chances are it asks you to enter your PIN on the touch tone keypad. It has no way to know what dialer app you are using.

I know that some banks used to give out hardware 2FA tokens and if done right, that's way more secure than any phone app, but obvs has convenience issues.

The usual answer for programmable voip is Twilio. I've been using vitelity since I've been there for a long time, and their support is quite good, but they're less flexible than Twilio and cost a bit more. A DID (direct inward dial) number from them is $1.50/month instead of $1.

These numbers all terminate in data centers, and some particularly obnoxous websites check for that and won't do 2FA verification through them. Worst case, you could get a real cellphone and leave it in a drawer and also have it as a useful burner. There are some very cheap ones with 1 year plans on qvc.com (search for tracfone). QVC seems cringy as hell but I'm a bit tempted anyway. There are also some on tracfone.com but QVC has more choices.

I have gotten by without usng bank apps of any sort. Maybe they are better than I realize and I don't know what I'm missing, but that's just as well.

You can bridge it through e.g. Twilio but it will add latency that makes the voice calls less pleasant. You're better off with a phone that has a microphone kill switch, or physically remove the microphones (hack the hardware) and only use an external mic. Or power down the phone altogether.

With very large SSD systems, these high throughputs mostly come from parallel chip accesses and transfers. Very low latency is more interesting. I'd like to see the numbers at queue depth 1 instead of 512.

Nice, I wrote one of those a few years ago for some specific sites, and another thing that rewrites links to get rid of tracking parameters and other stuff. But Newswaffle sounds more sophisticated, so maybe I can switch or merge.

KitKat (Android 4), If only. I still have an Archos 43 media player that runs Android 2.3.

There is also Rumble which I guess is similar.

Nice I guess, it adds 4g to the older T-deck. I guess with a SIP client app you could use it as a voice phone. The processor is an ESP32-S3 which has wifi and BLE though the Lilygo article doesn't mention either of those. I almost bought a used T-deck last year but figured it was another thing I didn't have a real use for.

I'd like to see a receive-only POCSAG pager built into a thing like this. I don't know to what extent 1-way pager services still exist in the US, but the idea is that it's a system that sends text messages in the SCA subcarrier of FM broadcast radio stations or sometimes other classes of transmitter. It has mostly been displaced now by cellular phones, but some people like doctors on call still use it, as it is supposed to be more reliable, plus the FM signal penetrates buildings better than cell signals do.

For me though, the main idea is privacy. It is receive-only, so there is no always-on connection sending your location anywhere. People can send you a text and if you're in the coverage area of the FM station, you receive it and can call the person back (in the old days, by finding a landline phone) or whatever. Some of the more expensive plans had regional or nationwide coverage, by broadcasting the message on a whole network of FM stations.

POCSAG itself is a digital protocol for which many software implementations exist, and it doesn't look too hard to write one. So the main challenge is having an RF receiver in the T-deck that gets a frequency where there is a pager service operating in your area.

I don't understand the attraction of small slow epaper displays. I'm fine with regular displays in a thing this size. I'd like to have a 13+ inch epaper tablet but no FOSS ones exist right now afaik.

Python sqlite3 module for the metadata and it has some features now for full text search that can probably handle a few thousand stories. For a bigger collection like ao3, try solr.apache.org or elastic search etc.

Why do non price sensitive customers go to dollar tree in the first place? They have daiso for that.

"Study war no more" was supposed to mean something entirely different.

Yes they have different stuff now, but same idea.