I thought this old antirez “mythical 10x programmer” post was pretty good:

http://antirez.com/news/112

This was some years back but I think the multiple files were primarily because we took breaks in the interview and stopped the camera. I don’t remember if any parts hit the file size limits. I still have the files on a server someplace, so might check.

I’m old enough to remember when printers DIDN’T break. I’m sure lots of HP Laserjet II’s from the 1990s are still cranking out hundreds of pages per day today. Same thing with Okidata dot matrix printers from the era, for those who still want to use them. It was later when printers became crap.

I did the audio-only part with a separate audio recorder because the phone was full. The video is in a bunch of parts but I don’t remember if any are larger than 2GB. It is FAT32 so maybe they must be smaller. I remember the phone ran out of battery power after maybe an hour, and I plugged in a power bank (10000 mah) and that was enough for the rest of the session.

$3000, yowch, but I like the idea of a small-laptop sized screen that is pocket sized. It means being able to read or edit a reasonable amount of text. I don’t need the phone or camera in it for that matter. Actually how about just a foldable HDMI monitor that size, and I can run it from another phone or computer.

I shot a 4 hour interview on my 2016 Moto G4. The last hour or so was audio only because the phone ran out of internal storage (32GB) and I didn’t have an SD card in it. It has a slot though.

“the medium soda 40 cents cheaper than the large because it exists only to make the large seem like a better deal.”

“Fly first class if you can, third class if you must, but never fly second class”.

I dunno, maybe the diagnosis is fine but the companies that run it are sure to save copies. I can just see databreaches now, “5 million stolen dick picks uploaded to dark web”. Complete with labelling of which ones are diseased though, so that’s a help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_justification

Can you verify with wireshark that the traffic is only going through your lan? I’m not hip enough for nginx but I used to have to run apache under gdb all the time to trace random errors from the server. That would be next, if the traffic is really local.

Don’t forget Algol-60. Per Tony Hoare, “Here is a language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors but also on nearly all its successors.”

Back in my day, we only had ones and zeros, and sometimes we ran out of ones!!! (From old song, https://youtu.be/p1fBd7UbQPA?t=60 )

When I say it runs Android, the implication is that it is full of smart phone features, which it is. The idea of a dumb phone is that it is impossible for the user to get the phone into a confusing state, and there are no states that the user might want to enter but can’t figure out how. For example, if the phone can play music, the user will want to know how to activate the music playing feature, which means they will hassle you (you are the involuntary unpaid 24/7 tech support for this phone) to explain it to them, possibly multiple times per day.

So it is an IMHO essential feature of a dumb phone that it NOT have a music player, or any other feature that is not constantly visible in the UI. Phones of the 1990s could do that, but the technology has since been lost. ;)

Locked phone usually means you are stuck with that carrier’s expensive plans. A very basic MVNO plan for an unlocked phone is $5 per month or less. I don’t think Boost has anything like that.

Added: Hmm, here is a $65 “NeoFlip” phone that might not be locked: https://www.redpocket.com/shop/flip-phone/neo-flip-lte

Thanks, that’s kind of interesting, though it is an Android (AOSP) phone with a physical keypad more or less. $60 isn’t too bad but it appears locked to Boost Mobile. An unlocked Moto G Play 2023 is $100 cash at Best Buy so that’s probably more attractive given a suitable dumbifying app.

Looks still unreadable. Better to edit it down to about 1/10th the size at most.

Will they ban ad blockers next?

$210 lol and it’s a semi smart phone that plays mp3s. The defining feature of a dumb phone IMHO is there’s no app switching. Front panel is completely static. Keypad plus some preprogrammed speed dial buttons that never change.

I looked for this and it sort of doesn’t exist. I need it for a technologically challenged family member who gets hopelessly confused by smart phones. I have had the idea of writing an Android dumbify app that runs in kiosk mode (i.e. there is no way to exit it) that just disables everything except phone calls, and keeps the phone keypad permanently on the screen, like an old fashioned phone with physical buttons. It’s on my infinite todo list.

Once you say google maps you are back in smartphone territory so forget that.

Fwiw woot.com had an older (4G) model Samsung Galaxy XCover for around $100 a couple of days ago, that might still be there. It’s one of the few Android phones with a swappable battery.

Can anyone explain why Wayland exists or who cares about it? X has been around forever, it sucks but it works and everything supports it. Alternatives like NeWS came around that were radically better, but were too soon or relied too much on corporate support, so they faded. The GNU project originally intended to write its own thing, but settled for using X. Now there’s Wayland though, which seems like a slight improvement over X, but mostly kind of a lateral move.

If you’re going to replace X, why not do something a lot better? If not actual NeWS, then something that incorporates some of its ideas. I think Squeak was like that but I don’t know much about it.

Most everything everywhere is virtual these days, even when the host hardware is single tenant. Companies running hosted applications on bare metal are rare. I run personal stuff that way because proxmox was too much hassle, but a more serious user would have just dealt with it.