Yeah, that would make sense that they’re targeting customers who are using the hardware or software in ways that they would rather it not be used. Because otherwise, if they weren’t using the service at all, then they aren’t pulling from the tower and therefore they aren’t hurting the capacity at all. So it wouldn’t make sense to kick them off.

Fair enough, they could give like a 30 day and then a 15 day notice that they were going to disable it. That way you had plenty of time to know that it was going to happen unless you changed something.

Eeeph. That’s not good at all.

That would be my guess. Although why they would want to kick somebody off the network who was paying them monthly is beyond me.

I use the TalkBack screen reader and it has a copy last utterance to clipboard. So I was able to just select the passphrase so that it was spoken aloud and then copy that text to clipboard.

I save my backup code in my password manager and I’m able to just paste it from there into signal in order to verify it.

Syncthing-fork since the origional is dead now

I used to live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. And I believe we had dial up until 2010. I specifically remember our first Wi-Fi router being an 802.11G Belkin 54G router. And our first high-speed internet was 1.5mbps fiber. We upgraded from 1.5mbps to 3mbps and then to 7mbps by the time I moved out. Because that was my childhood home. I can also remember that at that time, I thought our school internet was super fast. And yet we were sharing a T1 line for the entire school. But it was still way faster than the dial up I had at home.

Politics

Even if it’s more expensive, I will probably go with JMP because it’s open source and open source to me is a hill I am willing to die on. I do absolutely everything I possibly can to use only open source software at any time that it is feasibly possible to do so.

I have been thinking about going with JMP chat and if I do that’s probably what I would do just port my current number to them so that I don’t lose it since that’s my primary number and I don’t really want to deal with getting a new one and giving it out to everybody.

Depends on country. In the United States, you might look at something like the T-Mobile Connect prepaid plan and the Nokia 225 4G. And yes, prepaid numbers absolutely do work for app registrations. I’ve been on prepaid for years and had no issues. It’s voice over IP numbers that have problems.

You really shouldn’t be using a personal device for work purposes or a work device for personal purposes. So I would try to get your job to provide you a device to do work related stuff on rather than doing it yourself. Also, I ended up switching banks, not because my bank app didn’t run, but primarily because my bank would not allow me to do everything from the website that I could do in the app. And I do not want any Google Play apps at all on my device. And so I ended up switching banks for that purpose to one where I could use the online website for everything.

I have been using lineage with No play services since like 2019 and while it does take a little bit of getting used to, once you are comfortable with it, it’s just as easy. The big things you won’t get are notifications for most apps since most rely on Google Play Services for notifications. Some apps will refuse to run because of not having the Google Play Services for integrity checks. That mainly applies to banks and stuff, so you might have to either switch banks or use the mobile website instead of the bank app. The ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft do not work, but you can get an Uber through their website, at least for now. Although if that ever goes away, that could cause problems. If you use open streetmaps OSMAnd, instead of another mapping application, you won’t be able to do many addresses. So you’ll need something such as gps-coordinates.net to convert addresses to lat/long for use in OSMAnd.

Other than what I’ve mentioned above, there’s not really a huge difference.

Also, if you do use OSMAnd, please, please, please contribute addresses. When you go to a place, just add a point of interest to the map and add its address and stuff. And that would be super damn helpful. A lot of businesses are shown, but what’s not shown is a lot of the residential addresses. So, like, going and mapping your neighborhood with its addresses would be really helpful. Or nearby neighborhoods, etc.

Unfortunately, they run all the API stuff so they can easily make that the only way to interact. Literally, all they would have to do would be to update the API in such a way that it’s not backwards compatible with the previous app and not update it. And boom, it would be gone.

Yeah, I can’t really say I’ve seen AI do very much for me. I just kind of ignore all that noise and focus on them launching like the direct-to-cell connectivity from space and stuff like that, which are really useful.

Surprise Santa had time to stop for that. But talk about one lucky guy.

I think what we will get out of all this virtual reality research is good augmented reality devices because being able to look at something and pull up information on that thing or instructions on how to use it, etc. would be damn useful. I think I’ve heard of companies using AR and VR for training purposes, like how to work machines in a factory, etc. before you actually start using them.

I suspect that it’s one of those things that will happen at some point in the future, but we just don’t have the technology and equipment ready for it just yet. I figure it’s similar to AI research in like 2007 when they were able to put the computer on Jeopardy and have it compete against the contestants. It worked, but it wasn’t ready for mainstream usage at the time.

By the way, if you are interested in space weather, you might check out Tamitha Skov.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXjdDQ-db0xz8f4PKgKsag