During the pandemic at school I was able to mostly get out of these by reducing it to basically a presentation.

First, bandwidth limiting to prove “bad internet connection” and inability of using camera. Simplest way was using mobile data on 2G EDGE.
Second, unlistenable audio. Increase microphone gain to maximum and nobody will want to hear you.

At that point you may even be requested to not use either camera nor microphone, like I was. Problem solved, video call -> presentation.

Most likely won’t work for your job though.

I could see myself in that situation (the user), which is why I so much prefer text. Either I could get distracted or bring some technical issue upon myself by trying (or continuing) to do things differently, or both combined.

I mean, for example even with something simpler like this if company wanted me to use my personal device. I may not be using a recent Android or iOS device in the future, or I may simply not want the company software on anything I use personally.

I don’t know what the case here was, but perhaps it made some sense.

I can’t even use the keyboard properly without haptic feedback.

About a quarter of one’s salary had to be earmarked for voluntary subscriptions, which were so numerous that it was difficult to keep track of them.

(From 1984 by George Orwell)

But just a quarter seems too optimistic though.

Take my upvote and get out…

would be way cooler if they used snapdragon cpus

I specifically looked for MediaTek since that band mode selector is part of their software, MediaTek Engineer Mode. Most manufacturers remove it because there’s things you probably shouldn’t play around with, but smaller manufacturers just leave it there. Some of these MTK phones in the past even let you change IMEI with AT commands in it (without root), I don’t know if that’s still available at least on some phones.

Armor 24. Not many options when you want a huge (not just large) battery (85.14Wh - 22Ah @ 3.87V), manual band-mode selection (also available on some Motorola devices), headphone jack and MicroSD card slot.

Oh, there’s also a separate programmable button. I’ve set it to:
Single-click: Open Termux (terminal emulator)
Double-click: Open Audio recorder
Long-press: Toggle regular (weak) flashlight

Just WebUI. I prefer landscape mode, so this fits me well.

I hate typing in portrait mode, and landscape also fits eye vision better. Plus tabs work far better than switching apps. I wish it could be more desktop like. Really, KDE Plasma + Wayland + maliit-keyboard would be nice combo to have on a phone. That’s what I use on my 2-in-1.

But anyway, Android could at least have proper taskbar. I mean, I have this in 3-button navigation, surely it could fit more icons for background apps (assuming it wouldn’t kill optimize them):

Yes, the text, it’s a Ulefone. There’s far worse bugs.

Yup, and this picture was just posted on there 10 hours ago.

That countdown timer just doesn’t want to work for me:

I only managed to load it in Opera browser on real Android phone.

Dude literally said “I’ve had a vasectomy. Come at me, fascists.”, basically a statement that nobody bats an eye about a man getting sterilized while that’s basically what the woman here had done, but instead people are attacking her for it.

At least that’s how it reads to me.

Lemmy.

No, I sort by date (last downloaded) and keep replaying few newly added songs on loop for hours until I download another.

Although it depends on way of access.

Folder music player on phone - sorting by date or shuffle playlist - rapid playlist (directory) switching
VLC player on laptop - sorting alphabetically or shuffle playlist - rare playlist (directory) switching
Navidrome server - whole albums or newly added played individually - rare playlist use (shuffle)*

* playlists generated using ls playlist_dir/* > playlist.m3u

I myself prefer inkjet. Mainly because I don’t really understand the laser printer operation, I can’t even name all the rollers, but the simplicity of pouring more ink into old cartridges and easy head replacement (built into cartridges in my case) is nice, as well as compactness when requiring color. Maybe when I’ll once decide to study it I’ll try a laser.

HP PSC 1315, somewhere around 20 years old. It has an absolutely botched USB replacement that’s not even fully inserted, but it’s somehow worked for years now.
It was my first soldering attempt. You’ll squirm now, I didn’t know what flux was. I thought there wasn’t enough heat and went to MAXIMUM. 520°C (968°F) cooked contacts. But somehow it works…

Hear me out, printers are relatively high-maintenance technology. I want some decent understanding to be able to deal with various faults first, but I am too lazy to study laser printers, so I use inkjet.

But actually, I kinda want a… dot matrix. 24-pin for sure, but hear me out, I want a slow one. I want to watch it and listen to it printing, so I want it to take enough time. I am not joking. Many times I used high DPI printing which takes 20 minutes per page (A4) and I was watching the heads the entire time.

Memory from middle school. The extension cord was unplugged. Of course the computers didn’t run.

2 of us wanted to tell the teacher who was trying to turn them on, but multiple times we were stopped right after “miss” with something along the lines of “Don’t think you know everything, I don’t need to hear your advice.”

OK, I guess. She called a technician. I just wish we were still there to see that.

Thanks for reminding me to take the fucking iron.

Edit: Taken.

Akshyually, that would have been 00000000.

According to nuclear safety expert Bruce G. Blair, the US Air Force’s Strategic Air Command worried that in times of need the codes for the Minuteman ICBM force would not be available, so it decided to set the codes to 00000000 in all missile launch control centers. Blair said the missile launch checklists included an item confirming this combination until 1977.

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children must not learn the english language

Reminds me of…

The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought—that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc—should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meanings whatever. To give a single example. The word free still existed in Newspeak, but it could only be used in such statements as “This dog is free from lice” or “This field is free from weeds.” It could not be used in its old sense of “politically free” or “intellectually free” since political and intellectual freedom no longer existed even as concepts, and were therefore of necessity nameless. Quite apart from the suppression of definitely heretical words, reduction of vocabulary was regarded as an end in itself, and no word that could be dispensed with was allowed to survive. Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum.

I guess Trump doesn’t want to be referred to as He/Him

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-appears-accidentally-declared-every-174749266.html
Hmmm, I see…