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.

1. SMS and classic calls are dying. Things moved to Discord, Instagram, Snapchat, or whatever else for the most part
2. 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.

deleted by creator

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.

All this just came out of the blue.

I have a MiBand which for me is primarily a regular watch with notifications.

I haven’t used audio notifications or ringing on my phone for years. I can also just allow the most important apps, while the less important notifications I’ll see just on my phone when I unlock it, unless I blocked those notifications too.

Currently this means I get SMS notifications (mostly useful for verification codes / package pick-up codes), Lemmy reply notifications (and few other e-mails), bank notifications (like payments), phone battery charged (80%) notification, and notifications of upcoming space rocket launches with webcast available (within 10 minutes).

My phone doesn’t make a sound, it doesn’t light up the screen, it doesn’t show notifications on lockscreen, it doesn’t vibrate, it doesn’t use notification LED. The smartband is a replacement.

Should have made it customizable rather than hard-coded 3 days.

Aside from being able to harm small wildlife like hedgehogs, squirrels, snakes etc.

Well, that’s enough of a reason.

Yeah, no way I’d leave something like that running unsupervised.
I don’t even feel good leaving batteries charging without me near.

I sometimes get this with Mullvad in official YouTube app as well.

Any chance he might be used to a different name? Like [L]R03 (L for alkaline ones).

Description of how tritium smells like by Cody’s Lab: https://youtube.com/shorts/PvRP3Jor19M

Oh boy, you haven’t met some Dell Optiplexes.

That shit, for whatever reason, can’t boot from internal DVD drive. I tried with 2 of them. Both had functional drives, I tried disabling secure boot, enabling legacy boot and some other settings which seemed related, but nothing worked. Then for shits and giggles I tried a USB DVD drive and that worked just fine.

I mean, they have a hole in the middle, so if I stack them they let stuff pass.

Meanwhile me with a CD book that has 17 bootable DVDs and CDs plus a separate DVD+RW for more random, less permanent crap and a portable USB DVD drive (the drive is sourced from e-waste and fails to write both DVD+/-RW and CD-RW at 4x, only 2.4x and 10x respectively work).

I like spinny media.

I mean, I also have a Ventoy disk, but I haven’t used it for a looooong time because it’s no fun, but discs are.
I just need a bigger backpack. The WRT54GL is taking up quite some space too.

Much cooler than ventoy, no?

If you ever catch me smiling at my phone, it’s probably because I started laughing randomly and it’s weird so I am staring at a blank screen which is something you don’t know but the whole thing suddenly looks normal.

Previously solved by facemasks.
I didn’t even have to interact with people much.
I want another pandemic. I mean, in a good way or something…

I often see people reply in other languages, even under English posts (usually in German over here).