SmashingSquid

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[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

We got an iPhone for my niece who is 8. It’s locked down so all she can do is text, call, and take pictures/video and she can’t contact anyone not in her contacts list. She has some games but can’t use them for more than an hour per day and they won’t open during school hours.

A big issue is parents not bothering to learn how to use and set up parental controls.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I can’t suggest anyone because I use gsuite legacy but in 2022 when they were going to stupidly start charging for something they said would be free forever people put together a spreadsheet comparing providers. Might be out of date for some but might be helpful.

Here is the Reddit thread for it and Here’s a direct link to the spreadsheet

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 14 points 8 months ago

My mother is like this. She will never be happy and is addicted to being a victim. My mother actually pulled the victim card during Covid because her work was paying her to not work but she had to call every morning in case they needed her. She said it was worse having to call in the morning rather than work so was basically a victim because she got free paid time off while lots of people had lost all of their income.

Nothing you do will make this woman happy. Don’t try and be more friendly to her because it doesn’t matter. Better to act disinterested in everything she says and don’t answer personal questions she can twist and gossip about to other people.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 4 points 8 months ago

Most self checkouts in the US work fine for me too. The only issue I ever have is when stores have the weight sensor in the bagging area turned on and it does the stupid unexpected item in bagging area crap. There is one model that I won’t touch when I see it though because it was slow as hell even when it was new.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 6 points 8 months ago

There are many people who can’t grasp anything technology related. I’ve seen people tapping a can against the scanner instead of scanning the barcode and getting mad it didn’t work. UIs on most self checkouts these days are the same with different branding and they work well.

It is impossible to make something everyone can use when people let their brains shut off any time they have to use a machine.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 13 points 8 months ago

Everyone having those things seems to be what republicans imagine hell is.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Every "unlimited" mobile plan I've heard of has fine print that says it slows to a crawl after some amount. I don't know if the real limits are different in practice, so I was asking about that.

These days you just get “deprioritized” instead of a hard throttle on most unlimited plans after reaching the amount. Deprioritized means the network treats your data as less important so if the tower gets congested it’ll slow down otherwise it’s still full speed.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if insurance would cover this with a police report.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 7 points 8 months ago

This is from 2022.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 2 points 8 months ago

I was going by sorting tldlist by renewal price but I see now the price doesn’t match. .link is cheap to renew.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I would spend the money on a domain. There’s lots of new TLDs to choose from and some are cheap. A .stream domain is $3.99 at namesilo as is .link.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This was posted to one of the communities I sub to a day ago: https://spectrum.ieee.org/flow-battery-2666672335

This would probably be the best option if it takes off.

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