Thanks, that’s kind of interesting, though it is an Android (AOSP) phone with a physical keypad more or less. $60 isn’t too bad but it appears locked to Boost Mobile. An unlocked Moto G Play 2023 is $100 cash at Best Buy so that’s probably more attractive given a suitable dumbifying app.

There was a famous incident of a badly designed PD cable frying Benson Leung’s fancy ($2000) Pixel Chromebook or something like that.

Looks still unreadable. Better to edit it down to about 1/10th the size at most.

Will they ban ad blockers next?

$210 lol and it’s a semi smart phone that plays mp3s. The defining feature of a dumb phone IMHO is there’s no app switching. Front panel is completely static. Keypad plus some preprogrammed speed dial buttons that never change.

I looked for this and it sort of doesn’t exist. I need it for a technologically challenged family member who gets hopelessly confused by smart phones. I have had the idea of writing an Android dumbify app that runs in kiosk mode (i.e. there is no way to exit it) that just disables everything except phone calls, and keeps the phone keypad permanently on the screen, like an old fashioned phone with physical buttons. It’s on my infinite todo list.

Once you say google maps you are back in smartphone territory so forget that.

Fwiw woot.com had an older (4G) model Samsung Galaxy XCover for around $100 a couple of days ago, that might still be there. It’s one of the few Android phones with a swappable battery.

Can anyone explain why Wayland exists or who cares about it? X has been around forever, it sucks but it works and everything supports it. Alternatives like NeWS came around that were radically better, but were too soon or relied too much on corporate support, so they faded. The GNU project originally intended to write its own thing, but settled for using X. Now there’s Wayland though, which seems like a slight improvement over X, but mostly kind of a lateral move.

If you’re going to replace X, why not do something a lot better? If not actual NeWS, then something that incorporates some of its ideas. I think Squeak was like that but I don’t know much about it.

Most everything everywhere is virtual these days, even when the host hardware is single tenant. Companies running hosted applications on bare metal are rare. I run personal stuff that way because proxmox was too much hassle, but a more serious user would have just dealt with it.

Put on some music that’s about the right length, or work out through some number of songs, or pedal some number of “miles” if the bike has an odometer.

You get used to driving, and automatic is probably easier to learn with but afterwards it’s not an issue.

“Best” often is a literary work that can be slow to read and/or very long. You want stuff that is short and quick, which is fine, I read a lot of fanfiction for that purpose. But I’m going to recommend Pohl and Kornbluth’s “The Space Merchants” and their other short novels from that era (1950s). Their cynicism is absolutely prescient. The Space Merchants is about a world run by advertising agencies. A quick read while hard hitting.

A pound or two a week sounds kind of moderate? I mean it’s a lot, but if you like peanut butter? I don’t eat nearly that much of it on average, but when I buy a 1 pound jar I usually finish it off in much less than a week. It’s just an occasional thing for me though.

Are those oxalates only if the PB is getting spoiled or anything like that?

Um lol no. It would have to be 3x the physical size of the original battery to have 3x the capacity. But if they made a new, thicker phone case to accommodate it, that could work and such things have been done a few times for other phones.

Height in centimeters? I don’t entirely get this.

Sad to hear. Newpipe is still working fine (as of a couple minutes ago) if that helps. That’s through a residential IP. I will try yt-dlp from a data center IP when I get a chance. I hope they haven’t blocked that.

Org mode has a time tracking feature, dunno about report generation.

Only if you say sudo.

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Off the topic of my head, maybe these can get you started:

Hackers, by Stephen Levy

The Hacker Ethic, by Pekka Himanen

True Names, by Vernor Vinge

Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig

A Fire Upon The Deep (SF novel), by Vernor Vinge

There is a famous Erik Naggum rant about XML at, no wait, I better not link it but you can find it with a search engine if you want, which means you don’t get to complain to me about it since you are the one who went looking for it. Very NSFW and VERY politically incorrect. Naggum died in 2009 but anyone who published a thing like that today would be raked over the coals.