I’m starting to think maybe Elon isn’t the ‘free speech absolutist’ he claimed to be.

Honest question; why would someone need a touchscreen, or a display at all beyond a battery indicator, on their earbuds case?

“That’s why we build the wall, we build the wall to keep us free!”

Jenna Ellis, a lawyer who assisted Mr. Giuliani in his efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power after he lost in 2020, expressed frustration over the looming legal costs a few days after her indictment in the case. “Why isn’t MAGA, Inc. funding everyone’s defense?” she asked last week on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Oh look, a crack in the wall.

I was with this guy at first, blaming rich men for the exploitation of mine workers. But then, in verse two, he turns around and points the finger at people receiving welfare. I stopped listening after the quip about “Fudge Rounds.” Just shows that these kinds of conservatives correctly identify the problem, yet are still brainwashed into blaming the poor. The cognitive dissonance is intense.

Oh, it’s going to be great if there’s a camera on him in court. Not because I particularly want to see him, but because I know that the presence of cameras will greatly increase his likelihood of acting up, speaking out of turn, and repeating false things, all for his “audience.” We’ll see how long it takes for him to forget he’s in a court of law and not in a talk show interview chair.

Oh yeah. Vivek Ramaswamy, who is an Indian American, is running a blatantly white supremacist campaign. The mind boggles.

Nothing about the dude makes sense - including the apparent hope that American conservatives who bristled at the name Kamala (“She is named after a Hindu goddess! Literal satanism!”) would vote for someone whose name is Vivek Ramaswamy.

Good one! It was certainly an unexpected cover when it was released, and it wouldn’t surprise me if the Johnny Cash version had overshadowed the original in terms of audience familiarity. I’m also fond of Nine Inch Nails’ cover of Queen’s “Get Down Make Love”, it was a rather niche track for both bands - so much so that despite being a Queen fan, I heard the NIN version first.

Sorry, I tend to gush a little bit about Genesis, they’re one of my favorite bands. Thanks for indulging me!

I didn’t know, so I went and looked. There is indeed an option to record calls.

a band called Genesis.

Man, this made me feel old, and also I had to laugh. Yeah, little band called Genesis. 😂

When I was young Genesis was everywhere. You couldn’t listen to the radio for more than 30 minutes without hearing a Genesis song. Since you seem to not know of them, allow me to introduce you: Phil Collins (vocals/drums), Mike Rutherford (bass/guitar), and Tony Banks (keyboards) is the lineup that most people know. They were the three left over after Steve Hackett and Peter Gabriel left the band in the 1970s. In the 70s, they were a prog-rock band, but in the 80s the three remaining members shifted from prog-rock to pop, and the rest is history.

I adore their old stuff, and there is so much to potentially introduce you to, but let’s go with this performance of Abacab from '87. The song was released in 1981, and is still in their ‘transition’ period from a prog band to a pop band. They were absolute powerhouses onstage. Phil Collins in particular is an incredible performer. This song sounds like the 1980s squeezed into pure music, but really, Genesis didn’t sound like 80s pop music. 80s pop music sounded like Genesis. Have a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvOms5JXDXY

“Mad World” is the classic “what do you mean that’s a cover?” song… here are some great ones that I haven’t seen mentioned yet:

• Nine Inch Nails “Dead Souls” (from The Crow soundtrack) is a Joy Division cover.
• Guns ‘N Roses "Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door" is a Bob Dylan cover.
• Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” is a Dolly Parton cover.
• Nirvana’s “The Man Who Sold the World” is a David Bowie cover.
• Fugees “Killing Me Softly with His Song” is a Roberta Flack cover, but Roberta Flack’s version is also a cover, it was initially recorded by Lorie Lieberman.

It’s an android, so yes. Spotify, Deezer, YT Music are all options.

Oof, yeah. The 3310s are basically bricks now with so many carriers discontinuing 3G service. Nokia makes a couple of 4G feature phones, the 225, the 6300, and the 2780 Flip. The 225 runs S30, the 6300 and 2780 run KaiOS so they have some app support like a web browser, but functionality is very limited. And you won’t get good photos out of any of them.

If you’re looking for privacy, look into the Fairphone. If you’re looking for a feature-rich phone that will force you to use it a lot less, look into Sunbeam. They run a stripped-down variant of Android with only the most basic functions.

I got a Unihertz Titan Pocket earlier this year, I highly recommend those too, though they run Android 11 so if you are serious about privacy you’ll probably want to do some degoogling. Its camera is… okay.

I have some stuff at work that requires 2fa too. I have an old iphone with no SIM in it in my office, I use it for authentication and that’s it :)

I used a dumbphone for quite a while last year and honestly loved it. I have a small collection of them at this point since they are relatively inexpensive.

Today I use a Unihertz Titan Pocket which is technically an android, but looks like a Blackberry. I’ve gotten a bunch of comments on it. It will certainly do more than I need, but I’ve disabled the play store and use it mostly like a dumb phone, with the exception of streaming music, which the dumbphones obviously wouldn’t do. I bought a dedicated mp3 player for that purpose, so that’s not the feature that brought me back.

I switched because while I could absolutely use the dumbphone to do everything I needed to do, group texts were ultimately the thing that brought me back to an android. Though it’s been a known issue for many years, group texting on Nokia’s feature phones is just bad… when it works at all. I still keep an eye on the dumbphone market and will absolutely switch back when group text messages are sorted out.

The Tao Te Ching. Honestly I really adore The Tao of Pooh as well, and I habitually buy copies for people.

I left Thunderbird ultimately because of dwindling O365 support. How is it now? My work and school emails are all O365, because evidently companies think Microsoft is the only option.

“Dad, don’t call me Jeezy Creezy! Holy Ghost, this is not an episode of Scooby Doo!”

My old Ultima Online character’s name was Tintagel (like the castle from Arthurian legend). I used LadyTintagel as a username for a long time, and eventually it was shortened to just Tin.