A buddy of mine has a foldable Samsung and likes it. IDK what model but it’s big, looks like a full sized phone when folded, and opens out into something with 2x the screen space of a normal phone, basically a mini tablet.

I had a number of flip phones in the old days and they all broke at the hinge. So there’s that.

Android was initially developed by some other company, that Google acquired when it decided it wanted to do smartphones. The alternate universe that I see is they pick a different company instead, and things play out about like before. Maemo (Nokia product) unfortunately died before its time, but maybe it could have been where Android is now. PalmOS and maybe others also might have been viable. Dunno about the Blackberry OS. Windows Mobile (spawn of Windows CE, I think) always stunk.

The domain name in the certificate has to match the one in the browser. Does it? You haven’t said.

Normal employment background check only looks for criminal convictions.

Talk to Dr rather than internet randos. This was interesting though (Naltrexone):

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/addiction-drug-shows-promise-lifting-long-covid-brain-fog-fatigue-2022-10-18/

What does it even mean? People can recompile the kernel to turn the crap off.

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These days if the file is write protected, you get prompted for whether you really want to remove it. I don’t know when that change appeared or whether it’s universal.

€890, meh

I’m old enough to remember chemistry sets and they kind of don’t exist any more. Anyway the stuff for making PCB’s overlaps only slightly.

You probably want to first gain some understanding of the stuff you are trying to do, before messing with expensive dangerous chemicals and all that. I like Ken Shiriff’s reverse engineering blog righto.com and maybe you can follow links from there.

I’ve always been told through hole plating is quite difficult. Make some single sided boards first, then double sided using vias to connect stuff across the two sides, before pursuing PTH. But I think home PCB’s aren’t really a thing any more either, at least for digital circuits. You can get super cheap board fab from JLPCB or whatever, instead of trying to do fine enough pad pitch for modern tiny SMT parts.

Lemm.ee is shutting down from lack of admins, apparently.

Bought a Samsung mini laser printer and found that it is Windows only. I gave it to a neighbour.

Just be nice, say your romantic feelings are getting to you too much and that you want to back off if you can’t pursue them. Staying open to occasional contact (like by email) is a lot better than cutting the person off completely.

Getting involved with someone with serious mental health issues doesn’t sound like a great idea either, if they’re not under some reasonable level of control.

Meh, I’m feeling like this whole concept is pretty flawed and it might be better by now to just run Graphene or Lineage out of the box. Maybe a niche Android phone manufacturer like Unihertz could find incentive to do something like that.

A fully FOSS dumbphone would possibly be of more interest than a smartphone, fwiw. Enough smartphone projects have failed that I’m unexcited about this latest one.

Just use a sip phone app on your mobile. I use Linphone but there are lots of them.

Just pick up a little bit of French and then when you meet them, you can get by with a mixture of Frenglish, gesturing, cross-language dictionaries, and help from Domenic.

I use it to initialize new VPS with my usual setup, but it might be easier to use a container format. I think Ansible itself has become a bit unfashionable since I started using it. I don’t know what is cool instead now. It was Saltstack for a while but idk how long that lasted. Ansible is working mostly ok for me so I’ve stayed with it, til whenever.

Someone posted this last week:

Caption: “I hope the NVidia driver doesn’t crash”.

Yes, that too. I hadn’t even thought about trying to send email from a home ISP. Everyone knows you basically can’t. I thought the idea was to receive email rather than send it, so you wouldn’t be relying on some bigtech company to store it for you.

I think there are still enough v4-only systems out there that you don’t really want to host a mail server on v6. You are right though that it would be nice to be able to get static v6 (or for that matter v4) addresses from home isp’s. Some do offer that of course.

Another issue can be that the average home internet user has no idea keep even a client system secure. So ISP’s might use NAT and default firewall configurations partly to stop incoming connections on the theory that they are likely to be malicious. On home routers you can usually open ports if you know what you’re doing. I don’t know if that’s even possible on mobile phones.