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Getting a jump start on #caturday, before I forget.

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

I have a service provider credit for a phone that I am looking at getting around July. The phone that it would replace is sold out. I don't know if that means that the new one is coming out sooner or if AI companies just bought up all of the inputs for the current model.

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.

So that was "interesting". Mrs LT was trying to use her phone to look at the Odeon website to check some film times, but kept getting blocked by Cloudflare.
We spent a good 15 minutes checking our network, DNS setup, all sort of things. Then she remembered that her Pixel phone had updated fairly recently and we discovered that Google had automatically switched on their own VPN.
And Cloudflare, for some reason, had classified any requests from Google's UK VPN exit nodes as being used by bots or scammers.
Anyway long story short: Google VPN off, Proton VPN on, all is well again.

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)...

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

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

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.

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 @…

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.