I’ll upvote a Suzy Izzard bit any day.

Here’s some things I found in my research before I bought that one. Maybe you’ll find them helpful since you’re looking at it from the same angle I was.

Modern dumb phones have come a ways since the mid 00’s. The few dumb phones I was looking at also support hotspot. That was the big thing that pushed me to try this since I frequently rely on my phone being a hotspot for work, and I assumed dumb phones couldn’t do that. Seems like that’s a fairly common feature on them these days.

A lot of them run KaiOS (which is kind-of FirefoxOS in the same way that Android is a Linux distro). They have decent web browsers (Firefox, obv) as well as apps, including TOTP. The only reason I “need” the bank app versus the online banking through the web browser is occasionally needing to do a few things that only the app can do (scan to deposit checks, etc). I was willing to go without the bank app, though.

I was originally looking at the Nokia 2780. The only reason I went with this one instead of a true dumb/feature phone is that I knew I could use this one as a SIP handset, if nothing else, after my 30 day challenge was up. It was also about $15 cheaper than the Nokia, so that pretty much sealed it. I could probably get by with a regular dumb phone, but this one is kind of the perfect middle ground for me.

I know it sounds like some tone-deaf parent saying it, but putting the phone down and going and doing literally anything else really has been the breath of fresh air I didn’t realize I needed. I’ve also been doing a lot of reading lately, too. The Kobo was a fairly recent “treat yo’ self” addition because when I did read my ebooks, I did it from my phone.

I’m not even Canadian and the CTV television station is what came to mind. Have also never heard “CTV” to mean connected TV.

Clearly they only saw the movie and never read the novel.

The movie depicts that the park failed; the novel describes why the park failed.

Several reasons, but digital detoxing was one of the goals.

1. Out of curiosity, I wanted to see if I could go 30 days in the modern world with a dumb phone. This one was actually cheaper than the other dumb phone I was looking at but was more capable (I also liked that I could re-purpose it after the experiment was over). I just disabled a lot of its functionality for the 30 day challenge to dumb it down to just what a modern dumb phone can do. Challenge was successful, but afterward, for quality of life, I re-enabled the app store, browser, and allowed myself some basic apps (bank, TOTP, email, Matrix, etc).

2. I’m beyond bored with the “tall skinny rectangle” form factor and wanted to try something different. I’m old enough that T9/tap typing is still in my muscle memory, so that was a surprisingly easy transition. Only took me about a day to get back into the full swing of it.

3. I spent too much time doom scrolling. During the 30 day challenge, I cut out most of that by way of not having it available. Afterward, the small screen and weird form factor kind of helped reinforce that. I do have a Lemmy client on there, lol, and have posted from it.

After using it for 30 days, I found that I just didn’t really miss my tall skinny rectangle all that much and decided to stick with it (after un-dumbing it). It covers all of my needs and most of my wants. I still keep my actual smartphone in my bag if I need it, but it’s mostly just a mini wifi tablet that sees occasional use.

Cat S22 Flip. Low-end smartphone running Android in a dumb phone form factor. Bought it for a 30 day challenge / digital detox and ended up loving it and kept using it as my daily driver.

I realize it’s not for everyone, but I absolutely love this thing. My old smartphone has been demoted to wifi tablet when I need it, but it mostly lives in my bag.

Never really occurred to me to charge a USB power bank with it during the day though

Lol. I used to just charge things directly, but I found it was less fuss to just charge a big power bank and then charge the rest of my stuff from that later. There’s some efficiency loss with that method, but I don’t have to spend my relaxation time worrying about resource management and swapping devices around.

It depends on your use case, but this one is on my wish list. (Amazon link) The small ones that are the size of regular power banks will take a week or more to fully charge and should be avoided as junk. I’d also recommend avoiding any that have integrated batteries (more below).

The one I have is discontinued, but it’s the iClever 12W solar with integrated 8000 mAh battery. It’s not the best design with the integrated battery that sits out in the sun all day. It will often overheat and stop charging until it cools down, so I have to check on it periodically. Luckily, with what I’m charging with it, I only ever run it down to about 60-70% most days, and it will charge back up before it gets too hot out in the sun. I’ve used it since 2020, and it’s still going strong (I try not to deplete it below 40% which I think helps keep the battery happy).

Those are good for backpacking/travel as well as around the house.

It’s a lot less portable, but for camping, I’ve got a 12v 50 watt panel that I hooked a 12v 45 watt USB-C power delivery adapter into. That will give me 5-20 volts DC at up to 45 watts. I mostly top off my big power bank from that, but it has also charged my laptop easily.

Sadly, until we, the US, as a country, get our heads out of our asses and vote these people out, regular news and nutjob news are going to have a lot of overlap.

There’s also !nottheonion@lemmy.world I guess.

Facebook makes a pair of smart glasses, shoves in AI, and the app is where they find the privacy concern?

You post a lot of quality stuff to News / World News. Why do you keep deleting your accounts and taking all the posts with it? That’s kind of rude.

Ugh, I miss the simplicity and “just works” of OBEX.

That’s when Americans will go online to see the latest results or share their opinions as the votes are tabulated. And that’s when a fuzzy photo or AI-generated video of supposed vote tampering could do its most damage, potentially transforming online outrage into real-world action before authorities have time to investigate the facts.

The bigger problem, as I see it, is that enough people are dumb enough to fall for that shit. I…don’t even know how to fix that in the short term.

On one hand, eff Microsoft and install Debian. It’ll run on a potato.

On the other hand, I look forward to the coming glut of secondhand PCs I can install Debian on.

As melon scratchers go, that’s a honey doodle.

If your device supports USB-C video, you might have luck with a USB-C dock that has video output; from there, either disable invert colors directly and see if that fixes it and also authorize your current PC’s ADB while you’ve got access. The dock is also useful there since you an use a keyboard and mouse to work the UI.

Beyond that, without ADB being authorized, I can’t think of any solution that would not involve wiping the device’s user/data partition via factory reset in Lineage recovery. Unfortunately, Lineage’s recovery can’t mount the encrypted user partition like TWRP can, and if there’s no TWRP build for it, then you may be out of luck.

I was going to suggest using Lineage’s recovery, enabling ADB (which works independent of the main OS’s ADB authorization), and pulling an image of the encrypted user partition. However, I believe the encryption keys for those are bound to the hardware, so you won’t be able to do anything with the encrypted partition image.

Was also going to suggest trying to boot into safe mode, but I don’t even know if that’s a thing on current Android. What I can find of it is old (2013) and seems to require being able to long-press the power button from the OS. I tried the steps with the physical buttons, but that puts my phone into EDL mode. May still be worth a shot. Note, I don’t know if that will work since it seems to just disable certain 3rd party things rather than an OS setting like invert colors.

1. Press and hold the power button, then choose Power Off.
2. Turn your phone back on with the power button, and hold the power button until you see an animated logo appear.
3. Hold the Volume Down button once you see the animated logo appear.
4. Continue holding Volume Down until your device boots.

Typically, when I have a device that’s in the “unbricking” phase, the data on it is already considered lost.

I believe you’re right. Updated comment lol.

In a social media post on Monday, Trump said of North Carolina: “I’ll be there shortly, but don’t like the reports that I’m getting about the Federal Government, and the Democrat Governor of the State, going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.”

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He added in an election-related conspiracy theory, saying, “They stole the FEMA money,

Translated from projection-ese: He would withhold disaster aid from areas that don’t support him and would steal FEMA money. Edit: again.