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Anatoly's mother had her eyes lowered, beneath the table.
"Why are you looking at your phone? The roast is getting cold!"
She put the phone down with a quick, seemingly involuntary gesture.
"I haven't heard from my son in two days.
It happens, sometimes:
at the front they have no signal,
and until the mission is over, no one gets in touch.
But this time... I don't know."
We looked at each other for a second …

Anatoly's Mother
Anatoly's mother waits for her son's messages with the quiet, stubborn hope only a mother can have. In the space between one phone call and the next, war enters the house through silences, small gestures, and the unbearable weight of what everyone already knows.

Upgraded to a new phone and the posts on here aren’t getting better, might return it

👿 Porting Doom to a 20-year-old VoIP phone
#doom #games

Wow, serious rite of passage: my younger son playing his first lp... On our turntable unused for a decade or two, with a just-replaced cartridge... These speakers are also getting their first airing despite me having had them for years (gifted by a mate as excess to requirements)...

Privacy-focused MVNO Cape, which has raised $61M from a16z and others, launches across the US following a March 2025 beta, offering a $99 monthly plan (Steven Melendez/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91481000/this-

This new privacy-focused phone service is designed to keep your phone from getting hacked
Cape, which offers a range of enhanced privacy and security measures, is now offering service across the United States. 

With #GrapheneOS announcing support for presumably more smartphones by #Motorola starting with with 2027 models, I can finally dream of getting a clamshell flip phone that combines good HW, a nice OS with a small form factor: #RazrUltra

Listening to my father repeatedly asking Siri for directions to Mere (in Wiltshire) and getting results for his phone contact “Mia”.
“Try using a stronger West Country enunciation”, I suggest, knowing full well it will have no effect.
Eventually he asks for directions to nearby Wincanton.

I was looking to buy a new phone. I was considering the #hmd Pulse Pro...but a phone I can buy on their website at the moment is going to stop getting patches in May 2027... eWaste in ~1 year after I buy it.
On Samsung's webite I can buy a A17 5g that they claim will get security patches until 2031.
Both are budget phones (I don't care about the specs) - but the difference in the…

Yep, like this I'm getting nowhere. Another splendid rabbithole. I need to focus!
Did you know PostmarketOS has a desktop image as well? Not just for a phone, but a full-fledged DE? Neither did I. It's based on Alpine, and one image lets you choose between the likes of Gnome, KDE, Xfce, Cosmic. And that KDE is very sleek and up to date!
Gonna give that a longer go. Thanks @…

Lightning round privacy guide
https://microblog.jackiejude.me/posts/202602021855/

That was scary. My phone didn’t believe I was 18 at first. Was afraid of getting locked out of things. Thankfully it worked on second try.
Be wary of iOS 26.4 if you are in the U.K. or have a U.K. account.