twiclo

We have two three olds and a 6 month old. We decided long ago to just not have a TV in our house. It would be too much of a temptation to just turn on and have the TV watch our kids. I bought a cheap used projector that we sometimes set up for movie nights. Now it's an intentional event. For the most part my kids get maybe an hour of screen time per week. Obviously it's harder than if we had a TV but removing the temptation from ourselves has helped a lot.

I'm biased but I feel like our kids are much more imaginative than others their age. They make more eye contact, have more original thoughts, and are much easier to feed because they don't demand to be on their tablet the whole time. Our 6 month old has Down Syndrome so we regularly have nurses coming to our home. They tell us all the time how much more imaginative our boys are than other kids their age.

Doesn't meshtastic operate in the unlicensed bands? Would that mean they're blocked? The article says they're only blocking devices that need FCC certification and since meshtastic is unlicensed it doesn't need FCC certification as far as I know.

When I went to the UK for the first time I was blown away at how much old stuff you guys have. I was allowed to walk through a centuries old castle by myself. I could have taken home a castle rock if I wanted to. Here if something is 300 years old you can look at it from 6 feet away behind a velvet rope.

It was pretty wild to me going to a toy store that was itself older than America.

I forgot about the Librem. I originally used the PinePhone 5 years ago and had to switch to a OP6 because the PinePhone was unbearably slow. It looks like Mobian and PostmarketOS both support VoLTE on the PinePhone now which is good.

I'm always surprised when I read articles about Linux phones that don't mention VoLTE support. Without it, phone calls will drop constantly as we tear down old cell infrastructure. In my experience I've only been able to find one phone that supports VoLTE in America. I get the impression that there's much more interest in Linux phones in Europe where VoLTE (or whatever it is over there) support seems much easier to achieve.

The Furi guys put an insane amount of work into getting their phone working on every network in America. They have a Telegram channel where you can talk with the developers themselves. They will SSH into YOUR phone and poke around if they can't figure out what's going on on their end. These people work like crazy to make the experience seamless.

Phone specs, UI, security support, etc are important but if I can't make calls on the thing I'll never even consider it.

They're also required to identify the user with an address and ID. My understanding is some take your SSN

I'm not looking to get into a debate on the law just curious why these websites can't force accounts for everyone just like the gambling sites do.

I've never played a game where it was more obvious that the developers really played and enjoyed their game. It's just brimming with QoL features.

The problem isn't this developer being lazy or 15 years late, it's that this hardware wasn't built for Linux and only blessed groups (with a lot of money) get access to binary blobs. The FSF has a project to reverse engineer these blobs but it takes time. Same problem Linux used to have with laptops.

If you're looking for a daily driver the most reliable I've seen is the furi phone. Those guys are passionate and have put in a pathological amount of time to getting calls working world wide. They can only pull it off by supporting one phone that they sell.

I have a HAM level understanding of wireless communication and want to expand it. This book and the ones you listed seem like they'll go over my head. Any recommendations on an "101" style text book?

The get a percentage cut of the sale price of a house.

Turning my Unihertz Jelly Star into an Xperia Play like device. Basically I want to add a slide up controller to this tiny phone. I was reminded of my Gameboy Micro while watching a review of Mina the Hollower on it and now I'm determined to play that game on this tiny thing. No idea if it will actually run.

Learning FreeCAD to create a sliding insert between the body of the phone and the screen. If I can pull that off the rest should be easy.

Unfortunately the controller board will have to connect to the phone over BT although it will use the phone's battery. I wanted to connect it over USB internally but there's no bus on this phone and trying to hijack the lines running to the USB C port would be feature creep that would stop the project. Another idea was to take over an I2C line going to some peripheral I don't care about but I think that would require a custom android kernel so BT it is.

By the way this phone is awesome. Highly recommend for anyone who wishes they didn't need to carry a smart phone.

One of my 5 sources is from Fight the New Drug and you turn to an ad hominem because I guess Mormons can't make good arguments and it's ridiculous to say that people can be addicted to porn. Sounds like you're in denial of that for yourself.

We don't have to choose between two evils. If adults want to watch porn they need to prove they're an adult. You wouldn't say we should stop age verifying people for online gambling just because there are "dark web" gambling websites.

I agree with you. I plan to not be pressured by what other parents are doing. But that pressure is real and many parents end up thinking it's what's best. It's better that they have friends and a phone than neither of the two.