nylo
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- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 16 hours ago:
that’s true there’s a form you need to fill out but still, better than paying taxes to a place you’re not.
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 19 hours ago:
to be fair it is pretty comprehensible but I am amazed at your eleven-comma-having paragraph sentence.
bravo! long live the comma!
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 19 hours ago:
not always true, quoting an older comment of mine:
on the off chance it applies to you, the FEIE rules state that if you spend 330 days (out of a 12 consecutive month period of time, important to note that it does not have to be a calendar year) outside of the US, you don’t have to pay taxes on the money you made during that time
- Comment on What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids? 1 week ago:
i won’t usually make the case for a usamerican concept making sense (because most don’t), but the UK standard is kinda backwards, innit?
like, a “Public school” (UK) is very much not open to the public … a concept commonly referred to as being “private”, yeah?
am i missing something??
- Comment on What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids? 1 week ago:
are you referring to the UK or the American concept of Private schools? It’s backwards over there, right? Private are the basic schools most people go to whereas Public schools are the fancy ones rich kids get sent to?
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 2 weeks ago:
do you remember where you heard about that auction find? I’d love to see some pictures or video of that restoration if there are any
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
my god it’s finally been done.
they found the stupid question.
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 1 month ago:
i think they look pretty cool. kinda steampunky
- Comment on What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops? 2 months ago:
I love me a good Vonnegut reference
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 2 months ago:
most definitely not in the same circles. I’m sure the 5 year old singing their songs is adorable aw
definitely do NOT play anything from before Dreamland around the kid though… their older stuff has a much more… sultry… vibe to it
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 5 months ago:
“You’ll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.”
David Foster Wallace
- Comment on From a purely political perspective, if you oppose the US tariffs as a US resident, should you buy or avoid buying products subject to tariffs? 6 months ago:
melatonin helps you stay asleep, melanin is what causes skin, hair, eyes to darken
- Comment on Why Titles Are Written Like This? 6 months ago:
that’s the golden ratio. the Golden Rule is when people pee on each other as a kink
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
who is the Nazi that was almost president instead of FDR?
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 7 months ago:
per @ilmagico@lemmy.world in another comment here:
The old jelly pro had a decent modding community, and I definitely was able to unlock the bootloader and root it, though not sure about degoogling.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 7 months ago:
I’m not really sure. what happened when it was no longer officially supported?
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 7 months ago:
yeah the screen is very small but that’s kinda the point for my use case. I didn’t want all the limitations of a dumbphone (i.e. I wanted banking apps, gps, useful browser) but I wanted to add friction to my phone use to encourage me to use it less.
battery life is great, lasts me almost 2 days without a charge and will typically go from almost dead to almost full if I plug it in while driving to work. part of the battery life being so good is that I use it less and keep it in grayscale 99% of the time I figure though.
camera is great, it’s 48MP the same as an iPhone 14 Pro. the pictures don’t look great on the device because of the tiny screen but when I look at them on my computer or the pixel 6 I still use at home they look great.
speaker is pretty awful, it’s fine for calls but music, fuhgeddaboudit! I have a Bluetooth clip on speaker that’s great and I don’t really watch videos on it so non-issue, for me at least.
screen res hasn’t bothered me but again that might just be use-case. most of what I do is reading text and it’s fine for that esp with high contrast on, looks ugly but again that’s friction and I want that.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 7 months ago:
not sure. stacking niches means there’s a good chance the answer is no though.
if it’s just a matter of specs it should be up to it, the hardware is pretty beefy for a phone, but I figure there’s more to it than that.
personally I don’t have the spoons to pour in the effort required to degoogle. the fact that the algs and few ads I see are completely irrelevant to me suggest that I have thoroughly confused them by how non-standard my internet usage is. I’m not overly concerned about the data they do get or what they do with it.
there are enough Man-Made Horrors Beyond My Comprehension™️ keeping me up at night but you do you
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 7 months ago:
this is definitely a trade off. batteries are either small, tall, or thick. my phone with a 3" screen is quite bulbous.
I prefer that to it being thin and having like 3 hours of use time though
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 7 months ago:
there is one option.
well and a couple others that are also made by Unihertz depending on your needs/wants
more companies making them would be cool but the general consensus I’m reading here is that there are 0 and that is incorrect.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 7 months ago:
you could get a Unihertz Jelly Star like me
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 7 months ago:
I’m probably gonna annoy people with this but I will shout it from the rooftops
Unihertz makes one.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 7 months ago:
my Chinese tiny phone has a name, it’s the Unihertz Jelly Star. they even have a subreddit, not sure what makes you think it’s a “no name” they make a lot of phones for niches in today’s world including one with a physical qwerty keyboard.
now the fact that they’re the only company filling those niches sucks, but it’s better than nobody doing it.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 7 months ago:
I’ve been maining a Unihertz Jelly Star, I quite like it.
- Comment on YSK that if you hover your mouse over each segment of Wikipedia's IPA pronunciation key (typically found at the beginning of an article), it will let you know how it sounds in the tooltip 7 months ago:
“arcane academic patois” is peak. you win the internet today.
- Comment on YSK that if you hover your mouse over each segment of Wikipedia's IPA pronunciation key (typically found at the beginning of an article), it will let you know how it sounds in the tooltip 7 months ago:
no no no no no no no