Lol, yeah. Covers pretty much all of my needs and most of my “wants”. Even have a Lemmy app (web based) on there.

It’s not that they’re going to convince me, it’s that it’s annoying they keep trying (likely by management)

Thunderbird beta (email), Schildichat (Matrix), bank app, several local web apps (home assistant, etc), Mucke (music), key mapper, Aegis (totp authenticator), Organic Maps, Etar (Calendar), DAVx (contact/calendar sync), traditional T9 (keyboard), MALP and Snapcast (home audio)

Yep! Most of my “apps” are just web app shortcuts or self hosted PWAs

Cat S22 Flip. Not without it’s quirks, but I like it well enough. Had to digital detox, and it was great for that.

The problem is most apps are just low-effort web app conversions.

If only that. Web apps are relatively well sandboxed. Most dedicated apps (that should be websites) are designed to harvest as much data as they can and spam you with notifications/ads.

Not gonna lie, it was. lol. That’s one of several reasons I decided to keep it as my daily driver. It’s technically a smart phone, though, I just had all the smart stuff disabled for that challenge. I’ve since enabled those back, but it still looks enough like a dumb phone that I can convincingly bluff with it.

That’s what I used to do, but a good portion of the time they’d continue their spiel to try to change my mind. Have only had to brandish the dumb phone once, but so far it’s got a 100% shut down success rate.

My favorite part of the 30 day dumb phone challenge I did recently: I couldn’t install your crappy app even if I wanted to.

A little over halfway through the challenge, was paying for my order at a local eatery, and the cashier started plugging their new app and rewards points and digital coupons and shit. I was like “I’m gonna stop you right there: flip phone.” and pulled it out of my pocket and brandished it like I was the sheriff of Luddite-ville.

Kinda like this, but “Flip phone!”

I think some of your formatting / image embed may have gotten lost in translation between Kbin and Lemmy. Looking at your comments on your home instance, there are images. Here, they’re just the (1/3) counter text. I’m guessing that would explain the downvotes.

For reference, the Lemmy format for embed images is ![Alt text](image url)

Depending on what shape it’s pressed into, kind of lol.

My two winter drink jams are Hot Toddies (with bourbon instead of brandy) and hot chocolate + Baileys + whipped cream vodka.

I’d usually start with my suite of cleanup tools, do some manual cleanup if needed, apply all the software and security updates, and then give it a day with some light test usage. Then I’d re-run the tools to see if they picked anything back up. If not, I released it back to the customer. If anything at all came back, I’d backup their data, pull all the product keys I could (Office, Photoshop, etc), nuke the OS, and reinstall what I could as close to the original as possible.

And then of course, the least fun part of that era, the guys who would bring their machines back weekly despite very stern warnings to stop visiting “those sites”.

Hey, they were good for business lol

Can confirm 100%.

During Vista’s heyday, I worked in a PC repair shop. All the ones that came in because “Vista sucks” were all Walmart specials with the bare minimum 512 MB RAM and crappy, bottom-of-the-barrel Seagate HDDs.

The thing would start thrashing as soon it booted with the default assortment of bloatware. By the time they brought it in, the HDD was in rough shape which made the thrashing even worse.

Fix was always to upgrade the RAM and, most often, replace the dying Seagate drive with a good one. Removing the bloatware helped as well once the root problems were addressed.

The UAC stuff was also annoying, but those could be tuned.

Happy Spocktober to you as well. Can’t wait until Spocktoberfest

Can you please link to the actual articles instead of using the Google redirect?

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/new-florida-law-bans-homeless-from-sleeping-outdoors/

Non-AMP link: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/hasan-piker-twitch-political-commentary-election-rcna172136

Found it in “Unsaved Document 4.txt” LOL

MERCER: I have to pee. Bortus, you have the conn.

BORTUS: Aye, sir.

MALLOY: Why not just use the teleporter?

GRAYSON: You pee in the teleporter booth? That's disgusting!

MALLOY: What?! No! Of course not. Watch.

[The bridge crew watch as Mallloy presses buttons on his console to initiate a site-to-site teleport. He then switches the main screen to display a view off the starboard bow where an amber blob of liquid materializes and begins to boil and freeze into an icy nebula]

MALLOY: Ahhhhh.

MERCER: Did you just...? Gordon, you're relieved.

MALLOY: You bet I am!

MERCER: No, I mean get out.

GRAYSON: Wait a minute. I remember right after we got the teleporters installed, we spent two months in orbit around Galavar VI. During that time their moon mysteriously and miraculously developed a ring system. That was you?

LAMARR: Yeah, I, uh, might have helped with that.

ALARA: Me too.

MALLOY: Yeah, and even Issac got in on it.

ISSAC: That is impossible as I am an artificial lifeform and do not produce urine. However, I do require periodic coolant flushes which could be considered crudely analogous.

MALLOY: And do you have any record of coolant flushes during that time?

ISSAC: [BEAT] I do not. To use your parlance: You. Bastard.

BORTUS: Is that why my Ja'loja is late this year? Dr. Finn was unable to determine...[INTERRUPTED BY MERCER]

MERCER: [PICARD FACEPALM] Oh my God. [BEAT] You know what? It's fine. Gordon, you're fine. Return to your station and set a course for Galavar VI. We've got to go tell them their holy miracle ring is just a bunch of piss. It's fine.

GRAYSON: Ed?

MERCER: You know what they say: there's a good story and a bunch of idiots behind every warning label.

I’m now considering this both 30 Rock and Star Trek canon: Lower Decks is a prequel to 30 Rock. Who says immortal beings have to obey linear time?