There’s FrogFind, search engine + converter/proxy for old machines. Runs via non-secure HTTP of course, which was standard in 1999.

Some sites have simple variants, such as

https://text.npr.org/

https://retro.hackaday.com/

https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/

The most similar all-permeating changes I could think of would be the surveillance (“targeted”) advertising that slowly took over most of the web. Just like the AI craze, users did not get a choice of whether it is enabled, but unlike AI, it mostly happened behind the scenes.

Real ABS turns white/grey too, from both stress and acetone (in liquid form, vapor does not seem to discolor it).

Back in my day when we were leet and pwned noobs, it was gg.

Eh, slang was always dumb and obscure. That’s the point, isn’t it?

People were also (allegedly) terrified of The Arrival of a Train, but soon realized it is all just pictures and there is no train.

For me, it was not monthly, but rather “when it bites you in the ass”.

• Delete all empty rooms and federated rooms without local users.
• Clean up state_groups_state table.
• Delete old media.

All of this is made worse by having more active users and made better by having a large hard drive (my VPS had 20GB, which I almost filled up with the db and media after a few years, with only few users)

The only instances of this I have seen (on mobile) were not very tech-savvy people who click links in messages and apps, rarely open the browser, and/or don’t understand how to use the browser to begin with.

Fake it! Make the phone think it has a charged battery: https://yaky.dev/2022-09-06-smartphone-without-battery/

Hey, just stumbled upon this too, Android4Lumia, and 520 is one of the supported devices: https://android4lumia.github.io/downloads.html

Check out the comic series Department of Truth. It takes that idea further, and weaves common conspiracies into it.

At a loss who this is aimed at. Corporate? Because people who call without asking are not gonna bother with clicking a reason. (Or worse, click emergency every time because that means the other person will pick up) And people who ask already know if person is free/available/wants to talk.

If you’re on Android, try GeoShare, it allows you to share location from Google Maps to CoMaps, so you could easily use CoMaps for navigation.

Just to confirm #1: moved to another city, and pretty much any address within the city is now searchable and correct. POIs are a bit off, but I try to update them.

Some years ago, mentioning Linux for daily non-gaming use:

Guy: “Installing Linux is complicated though”

Me: “It wasn’t bad 10 years ago, and now it’s as hard as clicking Next a few times, even faster than Windows”

Guy: “Well duh, you have ten years of experience installing it!”

Difficult to argue with this non-logic.

AFAIK, custom ROMs ask for specific OS to get specific firmware for some peripherals (modem, WiFi, BT, etc).

E.g. installing Ubuntu Touch on Nord N10 5G requires a downgrade to OxygenOS 10 using the official tool, which (i believe) installs original firmwares.

Looks like it is partially supported: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Nokia_Lumia_520_(nokia-fame)

I have a Lumia 635 and got tmpfs to start, but then I am lost at “locate your ramdisk” https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Nokia_Lumia_630_(nokia-moneypenny)

IMO you would need a large capacitor between power (after diode) and ground, to provide enough current when device’s power consumption spikes (otherwise, it will shut down)

Here is my version without touching BMS or original battery: https://yaky.dev/2022-09-06-smartphone-without-battery/

Samsung Galaxy S5 was/is a good device for tinkering. Supports many custom ROMs from CyanogenMod to Lineage to Ubuntu and postmarketOS.

Has a removable battery, 3.5mm audio jack, SD card slot. IIRC it worked fine on 3G, but did not support calls on 4G.

IIRC app stores downrank apps that are not regularly updated too, hence the vague “bug-fixes and improvements” updates in many apps. But seriously, how much could a developer update in a calculator, habit/medicine tracker, sky map, or any other app that is a complete feature?

Some projects that kind of do that come to mind:

Beeper, which is a hosted Matrix server (probably Synapse) with bridges to other messengers, and a client (probably derived from Element?). But it’s all called Beeper to be more “normal”.

Snikket is a “rebranded” prosody XMPP server, Conversations client for Android and Siskin IM client for iOS. Also, all are Snikket, no scary abbreviations and different app names.