Great review, thanks!

Are there any other phones with e-ink? Recent ones, I guess I should say. I think Pine had one?

Wtf

I’ve also used it in a hacky script pipeline to bulk download podcast episodes with yt-dlp, create searchable transcripts, and scrub ads by having an LLM sniff out timestamps to cut with ffmpeg.

This is genius. Could you appify this and I’ll pay you in real or pretend currency as you prefer

I’ve found it great for DMing TTRPGs — simply record your session with a conference mic, run a transcript with WhisperX, and pass the output to a long-context LLM for easy session summaries. It’s a great way to avoid slowing down the game by taking notes on minor events and NPCs.

Okay that’s just crazy. ;)

it can’t be ruled out

I don’t know that Google gets to log your access in that scenario, Plex is just using their login system.

What

All of my less tech literate friends are getting a warning to abandon their computers entirely.

So you don’t do a lot of tech support. Nice.

Babe wake up - new Google calculator dropped

Hilarious and pathetic.

Like Brexit.

Also they suck. Like, in general.

It can be done, but it’s a pain in th ass and it varies by vendor, model, and version (and region). Whether it breaks any functionality is dependent on those things although usually not. If it breaks something it’s usually like the ability to change volume over bluetooth and stuff like that vs - y’know the screen not working or something.

Namecheap

You can run several custom roms on a Galaxy Tab but the process is slightly infuriating. Well, it’s very infuriating. I finally got it to work after about two moths of fairly-regular futzing with it.

The key is to find the ROM for your specific model number before you buy - and don’t get anything carrier locked if possible.

Pixel is really the best option because the custom ROM process for it just works pretty easily. Everything else - including and especially Samsung is ridiculous. It can be done, yes, but it’s a lot of searching through forums and finding things that don’t work.

ahh, classic micro$quash. “We’re making everything worse! Now pay us.”

iirc it’s the reason Signal didn’t have gifs was the data leakage from them

hehe. Agree Ubuntu is probably your best bet for ease of install and getting up to mischief quickly.

OpenSUSE is not for beginners. Neither is Gentoo. Nor Slax. I mean - don’t let that stop you - but I tried all three recently and . . . it was more frustrating than fun. They’re powerful, yes, and I know some old heads that won’t go near anything else. But for beginners? Noooooo.

Edit: Sorry, OpenSUSE is probably fine, they didn’t have a 32bit version so I didn’t try it. Also, elementary os 8 is pretty slick. And PopOS. Both have very easy install & setup wizards.

I dunno, I just installed 12 on a 32-bit oldster and it was smooth and painless. I guess you need apt but any linux distro is going to have a little bit of a learning bump.

I say any distro you want to try - go for it. You’ll likely overwrite it in a week or two anyway. In the process you’ll pick up the 1337 sk33lz and eventually find your flava.

Yeah, but also would be interested in how you put it together.

Whoo - tough room

Take my shell, please!