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  • W&O X9 Call. It's a terrible watch, basically just a shitty android phone inside of a knockoff applewatch case. It runs Android 9 on 2" screen, 4GB RAM and 64GB of space (didn't even test that one tbh), battery life - nonexistent (less than a day). But I've been looking specifically for stuff like this and bought a load of them at wholesale for like $28.5 a piece... and the specs didn't even exactly match between all of them. Loaded them up with cheapest plans for IoT devices, installed termux, nodejs and moved some of my personal scripts over to them. One app/script per piece, no need for VM's or containers 🤣 And they got their own links so firewall is also not necessary.

    None of them have static IP's accessible from outside though, so for stuff I need public access to I jam that into the remaining RAM space on one of the few of my $1/mo lowendboxes that I'm using primarily as VPN servers. Got them all on tailscale, so I could theoretically use Funnel to route traffic from public internet to those watches (haven't tried yet). And still to figure out some way for them to failover onto each other's internet because the plans are extremely limited, will probably have to learn android app development for that when I get to it.

    There is also HK Ultra 2 which I believe is essentially the same thing, and I saw a few other variants on the market without even a brand name, so the only way to find them would be to search for "sim card" or sorting smartwatches category by bad reviews first 😂

    Ah, and also a disclaimer: I am not promoting this as a viable way to host things. This is just my personal exercise at hobo engineering

  • Modern tech is so wasteful. Why'd you ever need all that stuff for.

    Back in the day I used to host all my stuff on a dinky little router (ASUS Wl500g, 300mhz 32MB RAM) with a powered USB hub and a spare USB HDD hooked to it. It handled downloading torrents overnight, hosted a few websites, an FTP/SAMBA server, an image/screenshots hosting and galleries for me and my friends, including that one script that generated a GIF of all my epic gamer stats on each access, a couple of bots, sent me weather reports via SMS, hosted a webcam to be used as IP security camera, and also a dumb printer so that it could be used by anyone on the network, besides working as my actual router.

    When it died* I moved all that stuff to an old UMPC. And nowadays, I host my shit on $30 smartwatches with Termux.

    Meanwhile, one of the commercial projects I've been working with lately, which is basically just a glorified image dump, with all the modern bells and whistles, doesn't even launch if the machine has less than 32GB RAM... smh

    EDIT: It was the HDD that died, the router itself is still chugging along, but with less duties as just a network switch for less demanding appliances

  • i will

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  • I'm tripping and seeing four panels of memes without the actual meme part

    ???

  • You can give waterfox a shot. It's back to being independent and is stable now, has long track record, unlimited extensions, unlocked about:config and isn't affected by mozilla's bulshit.

  • How relevant is this to modern Physics?

    As far as I know, modern math is mostly dealing with set theory and some imaginary 17D pringles in empty space, while modern physics is dealing with some imaginary 17D pringles in... uh...

    Well, to put it this way, if decent writing is a prerequisite for doing math, does that mean that all math is essentially just applied poetry?

  • That is one colossal fuckup. I'm wondering how that even happened. I can understand how a bunch of bozos blew up MH17 after being given AA weapons. I can even understand Prigozhin "blowing up his own grenade on his private jet". But this? Had to be actually competent military crew firing at a civilian aircraft, coming from a friendly country, that was scheduled to arrive at local airport, with transponder and all... like, wtf?

    I know this isn't much, but, on behalf of Russians, my apologies and condolences for those who perished on this flight.

  • One thing I found the hard way is that majority of backends for imagick, the suite that powers almost every file conversion and manipulation you see on the internet, are maintained by, at most, one person, if not abandoned completely. I'd say that'd be a good one to donate to, and from which most people would benefit from.

  • People can get used to weirdest stuff. Like my former coworker who uses mouse upside down, like, fingertip grip on the buttons and cord under palm. Said he used to love playing aerial combat simulators, but couldn't get used to inverted controls, so he just flipped the mouse and learned to use it inverted for everything else. Havent played videogames in decades but it's still stuck to him. The only problem is that he was a CEO at tech company, but from a passerby perspective it always looked like it's his first time using a PC.

  • Wasn't even public, most of those events were private, behind close doors, with entrance by invites only. That's the biggest hipocrisy of propagandists and lawmakers, they kept saying "we dont care if you're gay or lesbian as long as you dont flaunt it, we dont opress minorities, were just protecting the kids", and then they break into closed clubs and apartments anyway, just to make a show out of it.

  • As long as it goes right from my house directly to where I need to go, take me and whomever I need exclusively, and also optionally be my own little space I could customize to my taste, then hell yeah, I'd take the tram.

    But at this scale rails seem to be inefficient. PRT is where it's really at.

  • I hate this shit being routinely used in PHP. Symfony uses those functional comments for routing, essentially scanning every controller file as text on every visit, to gather the url patterns above functions. Laravel uses Reflection, which is functionally the same thing, to provide arguments to controller functions. Also, kind of related, the project I'm working now has few functions that use backtrace to return different results based on where they are called from. It is indeed very cursed and I'm ripping out any usages of them whenever I see one.

  • They are. It's a message, and rather expensive at that. For all intents and purposes, most notably to early warning systems, it was a nuke. Crazy Vlad over here flung one without a payload and triggered full on DEFCON 2 or even 1 just to make a point.

  • Definitely, yes. Win8 was unusable on desktops but was pretty good on tablets, win10 sucks on both. But the main thing is that spyware/bloatware explosion happened in win10. Xbox services, onedrive, cortana, that weather thing with msn news, fucking candy crush preinstalls, etc, all came with win10.

  • Gotta say, the original Newton logo would've looked sick if engraved on the back of a product. Too bad nobody has ever done it.

  • Yeah. It's kind of like being an actor vs just enjoying watching movies.

  • Watch porn, or make porn? I know a few friends who would find latter attractive. Not so much the former.