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Often has cam videos too, which are recorded from theaters before being released outside. The quality is not necessarily as bad as it sounds.
For the case of better quality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesync
While the other end of the spectrum may be a shaky smartphone footage.
Functional ones. Like this case for an RSP1 clone that used to be sold on AliExpress: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5507066
Might be good idea to tape it over with aluminum tape for shielding.
Or this for a Ulefone uSmart adapter to make it into a USB-C: https://www.printables.com/model/493211-ulefone-usmart-usb-c-adaptor
This connector is basically just pins from USB-C, but in a way that can only be used with their own accessories. Honestly this should be sold by them. I'd be willing to buy it even if it was like €15 (just better quality than a 3D print, of course).
I use a laptop, so I iust put it to sleep. I only restart it when I do updates or when the system crashes. I also turn it off (when I remember to do so...) if I leave it unattended in untrustworthy environment due to encryption.
I also have a mini PC, but I only turn it on when needed, which isn't often since I haven't really figured out what to use it for. It's running Linux Mint headless, because Mint fits my laziness. I can use it via Tailscale, but I don't really know what to do with it. So far it's been mostly useful with OpenWebRX, SDR++ server which also offers compression unlike RTL_TCP as well as being able to use any SDR++ supported SDR, and I also intended to use Navidrome on it as well. My intention was to just download full albums on there, rather than picking out individual songs, but I still have the urge to put all of it on my phone.
Well, probably my mistake calling it a plan, but it seems all of them are subscriptions at least. Even "pay as you go" cards I found have monthly payments.
It seems the cheapest was T-Mobile PayGo, but that got sold to Ultra Mobile. I don't know what they offer though because there's an infinite captcha on their website for me. But from Google preview it seems they still offer the $3/month PayGo.
Well, I did. And I am in one. Most teachers don't care about it. Technically the current principal banned them, but only one teacher told us, and it was a pretty sarcastic "I am supposed to tell you that you aren't allowed to use phones during classes anymore."
Anyway, they got partially integrated. There's an online school system we are supposed to use, and teachers often send us study materials there, including during classes. At one point we even took online exams (physically at school) and most used phones for that too (I prefer a desktop if I can use that).
Basically it became an expectation. "Look this up, take a picture of this, open what I sent you, send me this, confirm that,..."
But yeah, anyway, most exams are probably AI-written nowadays. This is known, and not particularly discouraged. Well, one teacher even told us we'll be given computers with internet access on (part of the) graduation exams, and shown us how we can just copy-paste it to and from ChatGPT. And that was true.
But hey, we also often have classes of absolutely nothing that you just have to wait out.
The level of Slovakian education is setting the bar so low it clipped through the ground.
Already included.
- SMS and classic calls are dying. Things moved to Discord, Instagram, Snapchat, or whatever else for the most part
- Burner SIM, or better yet, burner eSIM. Maybe VoIP would suffice.
And the original SIM could still be used in some cheap older phone.
Although it seems everything in the US is a plan, meaning monthly payments. But perhaps I haven't looked far enough.
I transferred some files that would have taken windows about 5min, it only took 20sec.
If we're talking about storage devices, this may just be lots of caching, which in my opinion sucks for slow removable devices, because the transfer stays in background and you still can't unplug the damn USB.
Though there can also be some difference with filesystems. I can get pretty fast and stable RW with F2FS compared to exFAT on these devices.
pay bills
I don't trust the phone browser anymore after I had it crash during a payment. The money was sent, but the token wasn't sent back to the website.
Thankfully we now have instant bank transfers, so the state of the browser doesn't matter.
Anyway, I still prefer to take out the laptop for serious stuff like payments.
The year of Linux desktop?
Fuck that shit, I was ready to go to a shop, but later found out it's a holiday. I have nothing. 3 packets of instant oatmeal and I just ate some tiramisu from Lidl and don't feel so well. Probably because it was 0.5kg (1.1 lbs) which is apparently 6 servings. But who knows, those servings always lie.
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That's the neat part, no one.
But hey, you're not alone being alone. (Sorry, I kinda like that sentence)
Lemmy is a federated platform, not a single website, nor a single community.
Nowadays, I have a 2-in-1 laptop and use a stylus to take notes instead!
I also have one, and it's cool. But, but! Have you tried a fountain pen? I mean, I may be weird, but it's kind of cool. But I really, really should invest into some better paper. Regular paper seems OK, but something better... would be... better.
Though I did have some luck with certain cheap notebooks from Papírny Brno. The ones that have smoother, white paper. Not the darker, coarse, recycled stuff.
And that's even with that cheap paper (though most paper won't show any sheen at all). Better paper would likely show more sheening, especially in combination with wetter pen, but I don't know where to get it.
Although... the Skull & Roses dries a bit too quickly. If you stop writing for a bit, it dries in a few seconds in the nib, and won't write anymore.
Another issue is that the ink can be a bit distracting. I like to watch it dry, I like to write with it, I like to look at the sheen which makes me angle it under light to see it better. So I just end up scribbling something, and look at it, and my mind is gone.
Unfortunately we do most stuff on computers, so I don't get to write much.
A cheap dumbphone could come in handy at almost any age* (calls, short SMS, especially in emergency situations). Though there is a possibility they wouldn't want to be seen with that. Kids will bully each other for whatever isn't a norm.
Anyway, preferably a simpler one. I used to spend hours each day on Java games. Really, the only thing that stopped me was headaches.
Almost any - you don't want a 3 year old calling 911 for fun