When you ditch the smartphone, you make up for it on other ways.

Only picked it up a few days ago.

I went the dumb phone route in March of 2023 because I was constantly scrolling or getting distracted while I was out with my wife. (Still use my iPhone on WiFi at home). Found that it worked well for me, but there would be the occasional question I’d have and have no way to look it up besides asking to borrow my wife’s phone.

She got annoyed, so I got the Rabbit used on eBay for $130. Got a $5/mo sim for it. I think it’s made a lot of improvement since initial launch comparing my experience to reviews. Battery life is well over a day for me, and I haven’t had it glitch out too terribly. Even the scroll wheel isn’t as bad as they say.

You just have to assume that 20% of the time, it’s entirely wrong. Like Diane Keaton wasn’t in 1989’s Parenthood, it was Diane Wiess.

I bought it under the assumption that the company would fold in a year or so, but there’s already a community rooting them and installing base Android. For $130, it’s worth whatever I can get out of it.

Edit: also aware of the glaring security hole, so no personal questions to the R1

Right pocket: Sunbeam F1 flip phone, space pen, moleskin notebook

Left pocket: rotates between Arduboy, Moaan eReader, Flipper Zero, or Rabbit R1

Rear right: wallet (containing car keycard)

Attached to belt: Ricoh GRIII camera

4 gigs of ram, 100+ gigs of storage, and a cute design. Meh. At least it’s not totally useless.

I bought a Rabbit R1 for half off used on eBay, but only after I learned you can install full Android on it.

How did you feel about the L3 charging rate? 50kW isn’t super fast.

I just want an EV company to make the equivalent of a shitty Toyota Prius.

Yeah, but he’s right about that part. Hybrid cars are just BEVs with more steps that can’t be recharged at home. Maybe useful for planes and other specific applications. Dumb for cars.

Techbros love reinventing trains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5M7Oq1PCz4

If you want to spite this guy, ride a bus.

Huh. Didn’t know TiVo was still around.

We use a Tabo at home. Like TiVo, but primarily for network access from phones/media streamers. Has a similar lifetime subscription too.

You could even use one from the 1940s if you want!

Assuming your tuner was manufactured later than around 2005 and supports ATSC digital broadcasts. Also makes me wonder when you got your TiVo. I thought they were dead long before everything went digital.

What a coincidence that the best broadcaster who ever lived or will ever live happened to be alive in time for us to record him and immortalize his voice to use for generations to come.

That’s why we’re doing this, right? Because there’s no other human alive who is capable of reading a script as well?

Yeah, mine can boil a liter of water in 101 seconds at 450ft altitude.

I had a unique opportunity to directly compare my infrared cooktop (which I mislabeled as resistive) and my new induction cook top, so I did a little experiment to compare them: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/seaint/for_anyone_contemplating_upgrading_from_an/

TLDR: It boiled water in half the time using roughly half as much energy. Part of that may be due to the test pot being smaller than the burner, but this was the case for both stoves. It’s just the induction doesn’t heat the space around the pot.

Handling a pet peeve of mine. 3 seconds into the video, he talks about induction stovetops and shows a picture of a glass top radiant stove.

Radiant stoves are just slightly better than electric resistive stoves. They are not induction though they can look similar. People try them and hate them and assume induction is terrible when it isn’t.

Zero grams sugar? That is not Sunny D

Something something book by its title.

Real book https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2877780-the-jewish-japanese-sex-cook-book-and-how-to-raise-wolves

If you are really super deep into the ecosystem and the AR pass through is that good, then I can see it working. On Oculus, I often find myself peering through the gap by my nose to see whatever notification or whatnot on my phone. Apple Vision can fix that.

Though you still have to contend with the comfort factor. It’s a lot to wear on your face when you’re supposed to be casually enjoying content for hours at a time. Heaven forbid you care about how your hair looks.

Issue is that if I remember correctly the vive was an outside-in concept that required base stations to be setup

But that wasn’t the complaint levied. They were literally complaining about needing to walk around.

And for many of that it is just fine to sit on a couch and still have a benefit from the technology.

But everyone knows the people watching at home on traditional 2D TV get the best view. Zooms on the players/performers, slow-mo recap, etc. I can’t imagine the nausea of having your entire field of view warped across the court to see every special angle. Not to mention, until whatever VR app has a plug in for every thing you’d want to do on your phone while you’re watching the game, you’re stuck paying 100% of your attention to the sport.

Hell, even the people at the concert or sporting event spend half their time on their phone.