The End of Landlines: What We’re Losing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYAi5Zzf9Y

#PlainMeaning #Documentary #Telecom #Phones #SpecialInterests

Finding yourself continually paying to get your phone repaired? Now might be a good time to go big and buy a new one. But it can be difficult to know when it’s worth it to give up your old, cracked device. @Engadget helps you out with the decision:

https://flip.it/Iq4FeL

#Tech #Phones #Technology

Do you remember when people used to camp outside of Apple for the latest iPhone? Those were the days of pure excitement over the newest and most innovative phones. The Atlantic explores why people are more likely to buy used than queue up for hours for the latest release.

https://flip.it/q8UJsW

#Phones #Apple #Nostalgia

New #blog #post: My Failed Tech Predictions

https://rldane.space/my-failed-tech-predictions.html

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(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #computing #phones #smartphones #enpoopification #retrocomputing #programming #slop #MacOS #Macintosh #data #InformationAge #SCSI #Mobile #TuringTest #LLM #LLMs #ChatBots

Just tried to reboot my Pixel 6 into #Android 16, and…the #phone is stone-cold dead. Black screen, no response to buttons, power+volume doesn't work.

This is not acceptable!

When a PC operating system gets bricked, you can still boot into BIOS, enable booting from USB, and use a rescue/installer USB stick to repair or reinstall the OS.

Can we please have #phones that are similarly fail-safe? Not this unreliable nonsense? Thanks.

😡

New #blog #post: Re: Ghosts in my phone

https://rldane.space/re-ghosts-in-my-phone.html

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This is a #JulyReply post in reply to @hyde's post

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(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #loss #phones #SpringCleaning

🚨 U.S. folks. There is one day left to comment on the FCC proposed rule to eradicate anonymity on all phone lines!

If they pass this rule government ID, physical address, and alternative phone number will be required for every new phone line. Anonymous phone lines and burner phones will cease to exist. That means no connected privacy via cellular at protests.

** Please add your comment! **

For the first field (proceedings) use these two:

17-59 and 02-278

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express

#Privacy #InfoSec #OpSec #FCC #Anonymity #Phones #Protest

One great thing about smartphones is you’re always connected. And a negative thing? You’re always connected. Enter Dumb Co, the flip phone company run by a small team in their 20s and 30s that grew up with iPads but now crave something simpler: like a flip phone that syncs to your smartphone, forging a happy balance between the two. Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/j.OX9i

#Tech #Phones #Technology

If you use or have used Visible by Verizon, is the service worth it? #question #cellular #iPhone #phones

Or DexMedia might also ship them to your region if you have a land line.

In my area they mail them to certain neighborhoods where the geriatric boomer brigades and the hippy generation are known to still reside. The last place I lived 4 years ago they still delivered them every year. In my new place they don't deliver to my neighborhood. For everyone else you need to order them, and they are only available for certain areas.

I surmise that the print phone books will never be completely extinct. They are critical infrastructure if the data grid goes down in some disaster. There are still millions of active copper phone lines across the country, and the way they were buried, it should be another two generations before all that copper corrodes. I have lines that are 50 years old and still in good condition. It is just sitting there, waiting in case it is ever needed.

#YellowPages #WhitePages #PhoneBooks #Telephones #Phones #RetroTech

I also have a paid, parked, Internet SMS number. The entire industry got together, decided that we are not allowed to send SMS messages anymore, and offered plans to pay $20 a month to use a SMS TEXT number that we're ALREADY PAYING FOR.

They are literally converting a free service that has been free since forever, and arbitrarily adding mail servers to their blocklist for no reason. Then they are taking the paid service, and saying, pay us $20 more per month for your SMS, and we'll let you actually use it. Thieves, all of them.

#SMS #Cellular #Phones #Telephone #PhoneParking #Grifts #Ripoffs