This has been an open secret for YEARS. I remember joking about this with my buddies when I was a kid: Yes, the donations help kids… But they don’t mention it’s just Kars for OUR OWN kids.

Now THIS is a country that knows how to glad-hand a dictator.

Not a lot you can do with phones unfortunately. You could set them up as basic fileservers using CopyParty or Syncthing. Don’t use it for anything critical - these are not backup solutions.

Set up Tailscale to access it outside your network.

I’ve been told that government auctions canbe a good source for cheap used PCs but I never had much luck there. I suspect that they get snatched up quickly and stripped for parts. Try eBay or Mercari?

We should ask Claude how to solve this. /s

Sounds more like Fahrenheit 451

They all paid.

I follow more than I have time to listen to. Here are a few:

Stuff You Should Know

Hidden Brain

Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me

This American Life

I thought they charged by sitting on powerlines?

Oh, yeah. This is a good point. A lot of things require their own apps to do now and quick installation is not always easy. I’ve had issues that were solvable but required some effort like this. Some friends invited me to a scavenger hunt and it took a while to get the app working (another friend on iOS couldn’t get it working either, so probably not a great design). Every parking lot wants a different app these days, which can be a pain.

Event ticketing, work apps, etc may take a little longer than normal to find, install, and get working. Not like you can explain in a group setting, “ackshully, my phone isn’t working because its BETTER.”

I’ve just set it up about a month ago. Some apps work fully and some only halfway. I think it has to do with some kind of authentication that Android is doing. So CoMaps only works for turn by turn, but they have said if it is installed from the Play Store, then it will work fully. Sandboxed Google Maps works seamlessly.

Audio apps play in the mini player, including basic controls (play/pause, skip, etc.), but I get a crash anytime I try to launch one on the car’s fullscreen console.

As I said, I’ve just set it up and haven’t tinkered with it yet; it could be user error still.

My banking apps mostly work, but with some functionally problems. I can’t get Zelle to work or CashApp, so quick payments and transfers are problematic.

A better question is why the US can’t figure out this kind of payment system. Isn’t Trump supposed to be the crypto President?

Yeah… totally normal that a new technology has to be shoehorned into the workforce. I’m sure they only need to enforce its adoption because it is so useful.

Yes, although quantum effects also slow spinning celestial objects/systems, even in the absence of measurable tidal effects. That would take much, much longer to slow down.

I know of a wealthy family who own a mid-sized company and referred to a second wife of one brother as a “newcomer” for close to 20 years. They did everything in their power to minimize the wealth she and her kids got when he tragically died.

They were still pretty well-off, but not super wealthy. There can be really complicated dynamics around family money, so it could go either way.

No, if something rotated infinitely, that still violates thermodynamics and is “perpetual motion.”

This of course is impossible. Even the Earth slows down by about 2 ms per century due to tidal forces.

I was using CLI exclusively for a year or so, but recently added DockMon and it’s helped with updates and at-a-glance management.

Black & Tang

Can you imagine if this was what took down Trump?

But seriously, prosecute the Epstein list.

Yeah, it basically says, “researchers could potentially measure vibrations in the air to detect speech.”

I know. That’s how speech works.