Remember when billionaires used to become wealthy by building useful things, like railways? Then to flex their wealth, they would build things like libraries, museums and universities?

What has happened to society?

Thanks for the search term - the Light Phone seems like one to watch. I note also that it ha a removable battery, which the Mudita doesn't. Now I'm trying to find if it has a proper headphone jack...

Not judging, just commenting. This is a very strange anachronism.

I do this and it emphatically *has* improved my life. My biggest frustration now is watching other people try to do anything productive online with a phone. All I want to do is tell them "use a real computer!"

Except for navigation. Having a GPS-connected map in your hand is awesome. In fact it's probably the only useful thing about smartphones that has lived up to my early-2000s expectation. of what an always-online computer in your pocket could do.

I note also that this Mudita thing comes with maps. If the software is any good, it might be worth a second look.

So, just because not everything is covered by the free system, there's no point trying?

I've been saying this for years. the big advertising outfits try *really hard* to hide the details of who has seen your ads, while at the same time claiming you haven't paid them to show the ad to anyone out of your target market, let alone your target country. And they never ever admit that you have paid them to show an ad to a bot or a spider.

"Tax for doing business on the internet" is a nice phrase. Every new business plan these days seems to be to insert the business into some existing system that already works, then add just a tiny bit of friction that can be profited from.

The theater thing could have been taken care of with an old fashioned email list. If the theather doesn't have one, but are relying on facebook, this is a Bad Sign for the long-term future of the theater. A weekly mailout can be handled out by one volunteer for free. When that one volunteer is unwell, or simply moves on, the handover is easy. Instead, someone is paying Facebook to do this. Maybe a volunteer is paying that bill as a gift/donation, but what's the succession plan?

I do local run runs too. When I go to an event, I tend to talk to the other runners. This is how I find out about the next event(s). Maybe they advertise these on facebook too, I don't know.

Perhaps I'm just salty because a recent high school reunion was *only* advertised on facebook. I've maintained my email and phone number since I graduated in the 1990s, long before Zuckerbeg had even though of stealing his little "hot or not" site from the Winklevoss twins. So why in hell would the reunion oganisers use facebook at all? I did eventually get word about the event (from a real friend, by phone) but my point is that facebook sucks for learning about things you might be interested in.

I see what you're getting at, and job security is nice. But all of these are jobs that are hard on the body, it's not unusual to hit 40 years old and be no longer able to do the bending and lifting required for HVAC, plumbing, electrical trades. And that's if the chronic asbestos exposure hasn't given you cancer yet. Meanwhile a good tech worker is just hitting their stride at age 40, finally getting to the stage where they can pick and choose which jobs they do, or name their price.

Of course, on both sides there's the option to go into management, and start supervising the work of others, instead of doing it all yourself.

This guy gets it.

They had mods?

I added it to my PiHole blocklist. Some of us have limited bandwidth, don't waste any of it on these parasites.

Have a look at the terms and conditions of your credit card sometime.

Nobody is censoring what these kids read. They are removing the distraction of mobile phones while in class. If a student was reading a newspaper instead of paying attention to their math class they'd have it taken away too.

And that's completely fine. It's not about stopping kids using phones, it's about removing distraction when they should be paying attention in class.

I was concerned about this too. The Wikipedia doesn't give any info about RTGs on board. A quick search couldn't find any info about RTGs on the other Soviet Venus probes either. It doesn't mean there *isn't* a plutonium RTG on board though.

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