It would be interesting to see statistics comparing who
1. Byod (just gets a SIM card from the carrier)
2. Keeps updating their phone to whatever the carrier offers via billing credits
3. Just keeps using the same phone they got from the carrier when they started
I want a physical home button. I want volume buttons. I want _extra buttons_ on the sides that I can program to do whatever I want, depending on whether or not the screen is on and what app is open.
I use duck.ai for simple stupid "creative" stuff like writing extremely short stories. I've come to the conclusion that I may as well use the smallest model (Gemma? Gpt-oss? I don't care enough to look) because they all get it so nearly the same every time. Provide a strict enough set of conditions (this is the plot so far, do A and B) and often enough they'll all come up with the same results on different words (A and B all the way through Z).
The office UI has changed dramatically over the years. We have floating toolbars, live preview, ribbons, collapsing menus, an undo button in the title bar, a tabbed interface. We've moved from SDI to MDI and back to SDI. If you had a customized toolbar layout in office, upgrading to 2007 meant you had to learn to use office the way Microsoft wanted it. The default font changed multiple times. Chart wizard, clip organizer (and later clip art as a whole) were removed. Print preview changed to a tab. Contextual help (the `?` button) was removed when Microsoft got rid of winhlp, followed by the office assistant, followed by offline help as a whole.
Want to extend the idea to office as a whole? Lync was replaced with Skype, OneNote came and went and then came back again. Groove, infopath, publisher, frontpage, SharePoint, various versions of Outlook, the office shortcut bar, photo editor, picture manager - they've all disappeared (some have come back again or been replaced with something else).
I used office XP and 2000 (blocked at the firewall; I mostly saved files as rtf for personal use) for years (admittedly this is mainly because they loaded in 0.5s on my crappy laptop and PC) until I was forced into upgrading to office 2007 by the need to pass around files for class with someone who complained incessantly about their stylesheets being lost every time I converted the file.
I'm still salty I can't waste my time editing 16x16 (32x32?) 256-color dicks into the toolbar icons i when I'm supposed to be writing essays or setting up autocorrect to quietly put typos into a shared computer (the computer isn't shared anymore, and it's no fun doing it to myself)
Dynamic DNS clients are a thing. I host a bunch of stuff on my domain, the only issues I have are related to having a local address when I'm at home. I don't host game servers much, but I hosted terraria (tshock) for few a few years.
You can't really host email with dynamic DNS. At least not well. You need stable MX records, you need various other DNS records for SPF/DMARC/DKIM, and most of all you need an IP address with a positive reputation. If you go changing your MX record constantly, you're not going to be receiving email reliably, if at all.
I work at a grocery store that used to sell batteries. They stopped. If I had to guess, I'd say the number of batteries that were thrown away due to being past the date on them had a lot to do with it. Nobody ever bought them. Everything important is rechargeable these days, with the possible exception of remote controls (which shouldn't need replacement batteries at all: remember solar-powered calculators? Put that on a remote and just leave it face up to recharge when not in use)
If I'm playing on my steam deck, I kill games fairly often. It's the easiest way to exit. Open the menu, tap exit, stick it on the charger and off I go. Admittedly most of the games I play either don't auto save, are cloud-based, or are idle games (who cares?).
Either the repo doesn't exist or it's private
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