I tried using the pinebook as a daily driver and broke it by updating the os; worst $250 paperweight ever. Lol

either that or the people in charge are saving up lol

did you respond to the wrong person? lol

i wish i understood why people use those apps to browse lemmy. i used to think that they were pointless, but watching them drive up the userbase numbers up for .world and .ee made it seem like i must be missing something so i tried all of the ones i could find and the experience was the same for me as it is with a browser.

the phone i used was a redmi note 13 pro.

i had it on tmobile prepaid for a little bit over year or so and i had the account since 2009 w 2 other chinese phones in the past. i tried switching to at&t in january and it worked for the first day, but then i got a text from at&t saying that my phone is no longer compatible and i had no signal. the store told me that the imea number had to be whitelisted and that i had to put in a request at their website. the signal reception sucked anyways, so i tried switching back to my old t-mobile account by popping in the sim, but it didn’t work either and the t-mobile store said that chinese phones aren’t allowed on prepaid anymore for “public safety”. (he literally used air quote fingers and rolled his eyes. lol)

google recommended mvno’s to get around the ban, but they’re just as unaware as most that this is a thing in the united states; their websites still show that my redmi is compatible but i’ve literally tried them all and none have worked.

chatgpt recommended getting around the ban by purchasing phones that share the same hardware like they do with oneplus, oppo, etc. and that was the approach i was going to take until i decided to get a fairphone and put eos on it instead.

The phone won’t get a signal w the SIM card and the stores are the only people the carriers have shared this information with.

stories like these keep reminding me how lucky i am that i don’t need a car because of where i live.

besides, i like trains more. lol

i use zsh on my work macs and now i’m thinking of doing so too on my linux machines because of this lady’s videos.

i’ve been using bash for 20+ years and my work macs keep reminding me that the transition is going to have hiccups because bash has become muscle memory for me.

what prevents it from being a daily driver; i use the browser instead of apps for everything except google maps.

it’s hard to imagine anyone using lemmy wo excerpts to articles since lemmy is 90% links to articles.

I’m shocked they’re letting this guy off with a plea deal. This was so far beyond misuse of systems. This was full on treason.

but he didn’t try to run or get caught running in russia; so he’s ok. lol

that’s the one loophole in this effort to black list chinese branded phones; that non-chinese brands that use the same hardware are allowed on their networks and, until recently, i was looking for an oppo or oneplus that could leverage this loophole.

you’re fucked if you try to use a xiaomi or huawei or any other chinese brand that doesn’t share hardware w non-chinese brands like i have been doing for the last few years.

the problem w this is that google or chatgpt is going to point you to the most popular ones; which might include this vpn.

go visit your local t-mobile or at&t store and ask them about puting an unlocked chinese branded phone on their network.

no one is immune to propaganda and i suspect that a huge majority still thinks gates and other oligarchs have become good guy because of it.

Gates is a good guy now

gates has put his money into a charity to protect his money; charities are only required to share a pittance of their wealth by law and lots of oligarchs have been putting their money into charities because of it.

it’s troubling to read that people are actually buying the bullshit that the pr firms are putting around this activity.

We have reached the point where it feels safer buying a random Chinese phone

1. they got rid of that choice for you: the american carriers has pre-complied with trump by blacklisting all chinese phones based on their imea numbers; it no longer matters that it’s technologically feasible for it to work in the united states. so now, if you want premium phone quality but 1/3rd the price; you must buy an american brand and the full price tag.

2. you don’t have anything the chinese gov’t wants, so they don’t care about keeping tabs on you. also buying into the propaganda that they’re tryping to keep tabs on your carries with it the implicit acceptance that you’re okay with the american gov’t keeping tabs on you.

TIL that tankietube is part of the fediverse

i got my hand slapped for describing a project that i put together for an old-silicon employer in the recent past; i reverted it back just before i left. lol

Show me what you got.

you’re doing the same thing i am, so there’s not point. lol