Many years ago Nokia made a couple prototypes of an official Star Trek communicator phone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3EN05faZVU

I would do some seriously regrettable things to have one of these that works with modern networks.

I’ve been weaning myself off video content altogether, which I feel is the most surefire way to avoid AI video.

I feel like I’m going to turn into such a paranoid tin-foil-hat nutcase and just trust nothing I don’t see with my own eyes… I mean I would be ok with that, it just sounds miserable.

I’ve done something similar. I’m somewhat different to you in that I don’t really care all that much about eating, but I was having BIG problems with eating because I was bored. I also started smoking weed (occasionally, like once or twice a week, just a little bit), and let me tell you, the munchies posses me.

I switched to eating 1 packet of Huel savory meal replacement for dinner each night, and keeping 0 other food in my apartment (I’m single and live alone, nobody else to feed), and my work has a cafeteria that serves excellent cheap breakfast and lunch. I truly mean nothing in my apartment, because one time I got high and cooked like 2 cups of rice and added a random can of diced tomatoes and some random spices and ate the whole thing. I don’t know why I don’t have the compulsion to consume more than 1 Huel packet, but I’m not going to question it. I’m also saving a buttload of money, because each packet is like $4, paired with the cafeteria at work, I’m never spending more than ~$12-15 a day on food, which is WAY less than what I used to spend buying and cooking myself stuff. I’m also lazy, and clicking the kettle on and pouring a packet being the only steps required to make a whole meal is a big bonus.

The packets are actually really tasty, I get 4 flavors and change it up depending on how I’m feeling. Everyone that I’ve told this to so far thinks I’m some crazy person lol, but it works for me.

I wasn’t originally doing this for weight loss, more just consumption control, because I was constantly feeling like garbage after eating random junk all evening when I had a bored night in.
In the last ~year, I’ve taken 4 inches off my waist, went from waist size 34 pants being snug to 30-31 fitting just right. I just sorted through my closet the other day to pare down the amount of clothes I have, and tried on a bunch of 34 inch waist shorts and pants I haven’t worn in a while, and they were HUGE, like even wearing them with a belt, they’d have been all bunched up and awkward. I have no idea how much I weighed before, or how much I weigh now…

Another aspect of this might be that in the last year, I learned that I am lactose intolerant. Instead of taking lactaid pills or whatever, I’ve just chosen to completely cut out dairy. No more ice-cream, no more pizza, no more fried cheese whatevers… and that definitely feels like it could be helping lol.

I do feel like I’m really lucky that it’s teken aproximately 0 effort on my part. I know plenty of people (like my mom) who have had a lifelong struggle to maintain a healthy body weight.

But that’s none of those genres…

I would like their stuff so much more if the nu-metal parts went away.

I am unsure what makes something “Swing”, but I absolutely adore The Roar of '74 by Buddy Rich. I discovered it via my dumb rule of “See vinyl record with car on it, buy vinyl record with car on it”

All the browser settings are also stored there, too. I turned all the AI stuff off, then the next time I booted up my PC the AI was back. Turned it off again. Same thing the next time I logged back on…

I finally looked into it and it was because I had firefox set to clear the cache on shutdown.

Thanks! Also a bit of fun directly responding to the post before it. I was ultimately inspired by the “allure of the pine forest” post from a bit ago, thinking “Hey, I have some photos that look just like this…”

I think I am going to have fun with this (photo from a ~1999 PDA camera module [original resolution])

It wasn’t super relevant to the story, but yeah, I could just browse the files right on their PC, definitely a “Not intending to share it for free” kind of situation, completely devoid of any authentication or security.

I’ve actually taken note of my navigational skills over the last couple years… I grew up in one state, and then a few years after graduating college, moved to a different state. When I was growing up, phone navigation didn’t really exist as it does now, cars didn’t have built-in navigation, and standalone navigation devices were slow and not all that great (at least the ones I could afford).

I find that when I return home, even 10 years later, I am able to navigate all the places I used to go unaided with ease, back-roads, niche routes, able to travel for hours without getting “lost”.

When I moved, though, I had very recently gotten my first smartphone, and google maps was very convenient to “learn” the new area. I ended up just continuing to use navigation since it was convenient. I’ve found that beyond the major main routes, I don’t have the same kind of “built-in” navigational skill that I do for my original home-turf. I never really learned the area.

I am moving towards a smart-phone-less life, and I’ve been able to let go of a lot, but GPS navigation remains a sticking point. I need to start training myself to navigate unaided in my current area.

Many many years ago in the paleolithic era when 2.4GHz was king, a neighbor in the next unit over had an unsecured wifi network… I connected my old laptop, figured out where the connection was best (turned out to be beside the stove in the kitchen?), piped the connection out the ethernet port and into the WAN port on my router, and set up my own “secured” network lol. I’m fairly certain anyone with a straight-up unsecured wifi network doesn’t have the skills or knowledge to detect someone leaching their bandwidth. I did that for like 3 years without a single hiccup until I moved and finally had to start paying.

I didn’t know what these were until a couple days ago, I saw them posted elsewhere and did a little digging. There must have been some release on Sunday because I went to the mall to meet up with some people before heading elsewhere, and there was an absolutely apocalyptic line with hundreds and hundreds of feet of little rope barriers, armed security guards, people brought chairs to sit in line since god knows when… all in front of a tiny little shop that sells things that all just look like funko-pops to me but are apparently unique and desirable for whatever reason… There were even more people all over the mall with bags from that shop carrying the weird little fuzzy things around.

Ah the good ol’ corner-of-a-building shot. I know it well.

I interact with nostalgia by using the actual tools that are the focus of said nostalgia., so like kind of a more difficult round-about way of achieving a similar extreme result… (All of those are SOOC, no editing, from various mid-to-early 90’s cameras)

(I also really like your shot of the stick “levitating” over the lake.)

I would unironically love if there were enough people in my life that also wanted to live that way to make it viable… Also the lack of functioning payphones these days would be challenging.

The place (at least in the USA) where I’ve found the most functional-looking payphones was actually Hawaii… And even then, so many are decaying and non-functional. I’ve had a silly idea to go back and just roam around and photograph as many as I can.

My original choice was between the BRZ and an MX-5… I don’t have another car, so I needed just the tiny bit more practicality of the trunk and back-seat space. I HAVE in fact taken 4 people in it, though it’s only a last resort kind of thing… It was really tough, because I fucking love convertibles. If I had a more reasonable car, or even the space to park a more reasonable car when I was looking into it originally (I live in an apartment in a downtown metro with only 1 parking space), I’d have 100% gotten a convertible miat.

And I’m only 5’10", but I think I just have a long torso. My seat is all the way down, and there isn’t enough head clearance for me to wear a helmet, which just saves me from the temptation to beat on it at autocross or something, so honestly a positive.

You’re right, I stand corrected. I was looking at a post on Lemmy.World that was a changelog that mentioned adding keyword content filters.

Turns out that it was a changelog for a particular mobile Lemmy client (Summit).

My quick glance wasn’t quite deep enough, it seems.

Piefed has a content filter to remove it. Signing up for piefed.social, one of the first questions it asks is “How tired are you of the Trump/Musk spam?”. I just checked my filters, and the only 2 words are “trump” and “musk”, and I have not seen a single lick of US politics in any of my browsing over the last week or so since joining. (EDIT: Lemmy doesn’t have content filters, I was looking at the wrong info, sorry!)

I get my news elsewhere and I’m part of local political action groups. One of the reasons I left Reddit a couple weeks back was to get away from the constant dooming. Even after meticulously curating my communities, it was hard to get away from. There’s a time and place for worrying about news and politics, but anywhere and everywhere 24/7 isn’t it.

I can see how it could be a problem if you WANT to see a little bit of it, though.

I drive a BRZ, lowered an inch and a half, and I’m tall enough that the seat needs to be as low as it will go so I don’t bump my head on the roof. Stopped at lights, I can look over at regular non-lifted pickup trucks and think “Huh, that guy’s asscheeks are at the same level as my eyeballs”.

I’ve gotten over the feeling of being small while driving amongst traffic, but the stark differences while stopped close to other vehicles is hard to ignore.

I really wish I could buy the new Suzuki Jimny. I saw one in person for the first time on a trip a few months back, and it’s so perfect.

It’s funny, I was JUST hankering to take my SW out to browse the airwaves, and then I log on to see this post.

I have a Halicrafters S-119, still runs on tubes. Picks up 2-16MHz.

I already spent some time rummaging around for my antenna, but I can’t find it and don’t have a spool of wire handy, so I’ll need to work on that. Last time I had it set up was a couple years and 2 moves ago.

That solidifies my suspicion that it’s a standard Android feature… I also don’t get many spam calls, and only distinctly remember performing that action on this most recent phone.

Based on OP’s comment “…I always assume that rejecting the call outright will also be detected as a deliberate action and therefore a person is on the other side…”, I figured maybe they didn’t know about that feature and/or have an iPhone and they somehow don’t behave that way.

I also miss the old days of Android… I got a smartphone specifically to play Pokemon go in 2016 lol, up until that point I was still rocking one of those Casio Gzone indestructible flip-phones. Walked into WalMart, bought the cheapest LG whatever phone I could find (Android 5 I think?), caught a bazillion Pokemon. I remember buying multiple batteries for longer sessions, because you could just pop the back off and replace it on the go.

I don’t know if it’s a universal thing, I’ve never bothered to research further. On my several-year-old Oneplus phone (Android), if I single-press the power button, it mutes the ringer and vibrate but the call doesn’t end or reject (I could still then go and answer or reject the call normally, it doesn’t affect the user interface, just the ringer/vibrate). That’s how I’ve been “rejecting” unknown calls for a long time. A simple, elegant solution that doesn’t give the caller any hints.

I discovered my all-time favorite video a while ago, and I feel like yes, sometimes the simplest most descriptive title is the best. Not quite as old as some of the ones here, but still, over a decade. Man time flies.

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