That is about the most generic statement possible, with nearly zero knowledge of what I’m doing on yours.

So… What problem? Feel free to enlighten me.

Yeah, there have definitely been, we’ll call them “prominent posters” here who fit the bill.

Eh, I’d say mostly.

I have one right now that looks at data and says “Hey, this is weird, here are related things that are different when this weird thing happened. Seems like that may be the cause.”

Which is pretty well within what they are good at, especially if you are doing the training yourself.

Around the time of KIA, the NRA getting money from Russia, the change in T_D from laughing at trump t9 being full maga, the changes to r/conspiracy, etc?

Yeah I think that was the specific influence of a certain former superpower that has spent a few years fighting a few days worth of war, but that’s my bit of conspiracy theory. Its just too coincidental (with too many known incidents) for me not to believe its all related.

Earlier than that actually, by another 10 years, in an event called the Portland Massacre by opponents of changes which dropped the elements of the Dallas Accord. That’d when the takeover occurred, though the takeover began about 10 years before that.

So its effectively been a total shit show for about 30 years by my estimates.

Yup, debian is where I was before Ubuntu, and where I went back to. Still what I run mostly, plus a few different flavors of it (proxmox for example).

Though I’m also running an arch desktop on one of my play machines, kind of reminds me of having to write my x conf out in the 90s! Not bad overall.

(Never giving up my deb stable servers though!)

Yes, and I don’t consider that an “easy to disable” option for regular users, but that’s just my opinion.

“Easy to disable” is also the wrong approach, IMO. It should have been “easy to enable” - stuff like this should always be opt-in, not opt-out. Opt-out, to me, demonstrates a company’s motivations more than anything else.

Ehh… not at first. That was a later release.

I’ve definitely trimmed some artists from my personal music library over their politics.

A dumb phone and a feature phone are not the same thing, and a feature phone may connect to the internet.

I still think that’s why Vance thinks Haitians are eating cats.

The US doesn’t want that either.

Be quiet, resident of “Further North Dakota”.

Which is why dumb phones and feature phones aren’t common anymore, and the people choosing them are specifically choosing it to avoid being available via WhatsApp/Signal/Slack/Discord/Teams/whatever else.

My FIL for example has a clamshell feature phone, because he doesn’t want to be reached except by phone or SMS. He doesn’t want to read email or get messages on his phone, he wants to restrict that to when he’s in front of his computer.

So yes, you would not be able to use messaging clients on a dumb phone, that’s the idea behind their use today.

Racism, basically.

Vance told an easily disproved lie about Haitian migrants eating cats, which the racists that will vote for him like hearing because they are weird and hateful.

But if I had to bet, he heard someone say Haitians are good at eating another word for cats, and since that’s not an option for that sofa cushion pushin’, he was confused.

…so you just made it up then.

No, the phone industry made up these terms.

No one has done that. The only comments I’m downvoting are the ones spreading disinformation.

So how I read that is “Anything that isn’t what I want it to say is disinformation”.

Well, enjoy your day buddy, my participation in this thread is over. Its a neat feature phone, and that’s where I’ll be leaving that.

Several decades of phone technology as it developed…

Edit: and why are you just down voting everyone replying providing you with info?

While I get your opinion, these things have definitions. Here’s a super simple version:

• A dumb phone does not connect to the internet. Its a phone. Just a dumb device.
• A feature phone is what you’re referring to here, where it may connect to the internet, but isn’t part of some larger ecosystem and is certainly not an app-first approach. Its a phone first, ancillary features are a bonus.
• Smartphones are your android and iOS devices, which connect to the internet, is part of a large ecosystem of applications, is an internet first oriented device, etc.

So yes, this is a feature phone from what I’ve read of the translation.

Part of why I’m collecting up whatever ones I find to use for my small electronics projects… Even saw someone recently use about 50 or so to make a nice battery bank (was posted here to Lemmy)

I’ve been using them as the overnight batteries for solar powered projects (like wled controlled lights). I’ll be happy to get batteries elsewhere instead and reduce the massive waste.

Yup, xmpp is the way to be still IMO.