Been looking for this sort of device for my Pantech laser.
The cartridge is good for 1,600 pages - no more, no less.
All well and good, they’re cheap, except… the vast majority of my printing is in A5 size (roughly half-letter, or exactly half-A4).
Those half pages count just like any other page against the total, and I get shorted by the better part of 800 pages or so.
Probably cheap at the price compared to burning Jet A by the tens or hundreds of gallons.
Not that I am unconcerned about the resource usage. Lesser of two evils.
And no asinine private jet commute required for the AI CEO…
Sell them to someone who will test and resell them to the airline or medical industry… Manufacturing is a likely customer as well, plenty of legacy equipment there that’s airgapped and still running decades-old hw/sw.
Youtube warning, some Boeing 747s
(This is a wrong answer since you only have a single pack. If you had several cases, you might actually be able to make a buck)
Saw a post on mastodon in the last day or so that someone dug up a network card for the old 486 they had been working on getting back to life. Might be a use case there, as well as in aviation and medicine - fields that move exceptionally slowly and tend to have expensive equipment with long lifetimes.
Was always curious why there was an extra step to confirm when making a call through the GV app. Not using it anymore, but I see the logic behind requiring that confirmation.
Google Voice, with built-in dialer, voicemail, etc., was useful once upon a time, from when they acquired GrandCentral (original company) up through a few years ago.
Not so much anymore, just recently ported out the last couple of numbers I was using them for. I don’t see much use case for replacing the dialer, except insofar as the ability to do so has value in terms of freedom and open markets.
It’s already trivial to get local banking details from many countries, (e.g., ‘multi-currency’ debit cards) but as far as I’m aware there’s not a practical way to get a foreign debit card without the usual hoops that the full account would require.
Probably because demand for such a thing is low - I can generate disposable card numbers on the fly, but only from my home country. Can’t imagine (aside from this specific edge case in question) generating foreign card numbers would be all that useful most of the time.
End-user support for such a thing would also be a challenge - I’m very accustomed to entering the usual data points with my card, but users would forget the associated postal code, or any number of other things, and then call support whining that it’s ‘broken’.
IOW, not something that one stuck in Ameristan can realistically override. Damn.
A handful of those factors are fairly trivial, but addressing all of them concurrently sounds like a tall order - especially since presumably one can’t talk to countryd directly and feed it the desired data.
Appreciate the clarity - iOS just isn’t a platform I have a need or the tools to code in.
I use Arch, btw…
Kidding, of course - but there are some of those folks out there. TBF, they’re the vocal minority, but they are vocal nonetheless.
There really is a dearth of choices. I’ve little love for Google’s version of android, mostly for privacy reasons.
If I could get a decent phone that ran at reasonable speed for a tolerable price, without the tracking, I’d be willing to give it a go - and endure more than a few pain points.
The value of my labor, daily.
The nominal “cost” of my healthcare, at every encounter.
Etc.
Had some very similar questions, TY. Hoping to get another 2ish years out of my Lenovo P70, and then I’ll be on the hunt for something smaller and lighter, preferably Linux native.
I liked the form factor of the older ThinkPads, but not much with current hardware that’s Linux friendly.
Insanity. I spend $5.00 or so on $eCommerceSite and am perfectly happy with the result.
I make that expenditure maybe every four or five years. I don’t need a ‘forever mouse,’ they already last practically that long.
Dead on, and applicable to nearly everyone.
I walked away from reddit after Alien Blue had to get pulled, and haven’t looked back.
There are a few niche areas Lemmy hasn’t had a chance to build a community yet - AskHistorians comes to mind - that I miss, but time will hopefully solve that.
Thanks - it’s a shoulder, so one of those “Either live with bone-on-bone pain for the next 30 years, or get the surgery and hope” kind of deals.
I had an unexpected… medical detour that delayed getting the shoulder done, and you’re 100% right about things being compensated for. The shoulder was planned for a couple of weeks ago, and then some other stuff happened, and I’m noticing simple things like using I can use my other hand to turn a doorknob, but then need a foot to actually push the door open - until I was recovering from something else and cognizant of additional pain, I had no idea I’d even been doing that sort of thing.
All other things being equal, after surgery and PT, I’d be happy with getting back to around 80%. At that point, the (relatively weak, apparently) joint will be able to save my tail in a pinch. - right now, I am sworn off of all alcohol and any meaningful activity if I wake up in the middle of the night because if I fall and further damage the shoulder, it gets exponentially worse. Not that I’m planning to be a falling-down-drunk post-recovery, but it’s the principle of it. Just walking outside for a smoke before going back to bed requires some thought and risk consideration. It’s a whole new world I’d never even considered.
This is incredibly interesting. Gives me a bit of future hope as well. About to have a joint replaced, and the doc was very clear the operation may well need to be “revised” in 10+ years.
I acknowledge and accept that risk, of course. But if we can regenerate cartilage (in that very specific context), revision could look more akin to removing the joint socket liner and replacing it with new cartilage by then.
Or by the 20 year mark - let’s be honest, I’m in my 40s so having a second revision is not out of the question at all, if I’m otherwise in acceptable health.
Even if the (smashed) ball side of the joint has to be straight replaced again at that time, half the surgery is better than all of it.
What Google password?
I don’t intend to browse RMS-style, but I have zero need of a Google account, nor of the major search engines directly.
I just add layers between myself and that particular company. I still can get their data, but without the creep factor.
Mostly.
It’s an imperfect solution, but I’m more comfortable with access by proxy than direct access.