You don't provide any more information, and are promoting your own site here without even saying so despite your name being on the About page. This felt like clickbait.
Many dumbphones only support technologies (2G, 3G, etc.) that are actively being deprecated at the moment. If you are using a modern one, you still get rid of many useful things like maps, Signal and WhatsApp (the latter I've found is sometimes critical for interacting with some companies that have migrated their support there, like my ISP). Are there dumbphones that support just those two features? If not, then I don't feel like moving over to one is realistic.
Rather, just don't install whatever application is distracting you, and try simply turning notifications off. I still can't believe how many people simply don't have the willpower to do this.
On the battery life point, when you remove a lot of this cruft, you'd be surprised how much gain back as well, since you're also not staring at the thing with the screen on all the time. I'm on a 5 year old iPhone mini that I'm still regularly getting two days out of.
Another pet peeve: graphs should have axes that start at zero, or clearly point out why they are zoomed in. It's to easy to mislead readers otherwise, and great for making something sensational.
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Does this mean you're opting out of the anonymization, but not the collection of personal information?
I did this for a friend once too, for a year and a half. My friend had been running backpackers, and lost the business (and their place to stay) fast and unexpectedly when the building it was in was sold to a hostile landlord. It paid off. He's back on his feet.
I see people like investments; in cases like this, I didn't want to profit in the classic sense, but I did want to see my friend succeed, and I knew my friend had it in him. All I needed to do was provide a roof over his head for a bit.
I'm sorry to hear you had a negative experience here. There are success stories out there though. In the end, its about taking the right risks for the right people.
Different South African here, but I grew up in Durban and now live in Cape Town, with regular visits to Johannesburg (2-4 times a year). Single-glazing is used in all three by default, despite the climate being quite different in all cases. Durban is tropical; winter (we joke that it doesn't have one) is dry, and summers are wet, but its warm year-round. Temperatures can vary quite a bit between seasons in Joburg and Cape Town. Cape Town has a Mediterranean climate; summers are warm and windy, while winters are cold and wet, often getting to 7°C at night (it's a cloudless 25°C summers day today though). Joburg can get a little colder, although its a much more dry kind of cold.
I respectfully disagree. I did exactly this for a number of years. A colleague (and is now friend since we've both left said company) made it clear he would not work overtime without compensation (and never did), but his day-to-day work was excellent. He knew he had a skill they required, and was good at it (and our skill sets were the same).
Our careers both grew at about the same pace for four years. He became known as the go-to guy for green-field projects, while I was the guy you could put onto over-budget tight-deadline projects to rescue them. I worked a lot of weekends for my troubles, and I always envied how he ended up on the "fun" projects. I learnt a lot from him. As a professional, some self respect is required, or you will be abused.
I have a 1977 MGB and a 2005 MG TF. I still prefer the MGB; its easy to drive, cheap to maintain (relative to buying any new car today), and you have the added benefit of being able to fix things yourself (if you're so inclined) with part availability still reasonably good after all these years (and I am by no means an actual mechanic).
I've already encountered issues with the MG TF regarding the electronics, and the difficulty in fixing things there due to proprietary lock-in (and it's 17 years old). Simply creating a spare key is a nightmare. It makes me wonder what the future of repairability on newer cars with deeply embedded but proprietary software will be like.
This comment really resonated with me, but I thought I'd tackle one point in particular:
Personally, I've felt that retirement is an outdated concept. Don't get me wrong, I'm planning for it, but I'm in no way expecting it to be entirely possible; not without some form of at least part-time work to support it.
Maybe this is a factor of my environment (3rd world country, but one you've heard of). I look at my parents (who are in the lucky position to be able to retire), my peers and their parents (who are often in a worse situation, but might be OK with part-time work, or with help from their children), and the general public I interact with (massive income disparity makes this a dream to most). We're also living longer on a generational level, so the "early" part becomes even more difficult to obtain.
Not related the article, but I cannot get off of Kraken's mailing list, and they won't stop spamming me. Clicking on the unsubscribe link in any of their emails has this quote in it: "Please note that this process will take 30 days to implement across our system". They they simply don't honour this, despite the 30 days in itself being ridiculous.
I've also worked at some start-ups that don't put this into their contract (or remove it when asked) so as not to scare the talent away.
I think you're right for the larger corporates though. It's often not enforced, but you run the risk of them claiming that it was "done on their time"-style issues later if its successful.
Funny you should say that: I actually do the something similar with with music videos. DJing is a hobby of mine: I learnt very early on just how much a video can influence how feel about a song.
An amazing video can make an average song look good. You probably don't want to play that song at a gig though.
I've been using DuckDuckGo as my default search engine for the last year or so; it's certainly improved a lot. Something that can help this transition is the bang support [0], with `!g` prefixed to your query. This redirects you to google with same query if you find that the results are not satisfactory. I used to use it a lot, but I've found I've needed it a lot less lately.
My MikroTik started going nuts late last week; it managed to upload ~90Gb worth of data in 3 days (downloads weren't nearly as bad). Considering I only have a 300Gb cap, that hurt. I subsequently re-flashed it, and secured it properly this time, which solved the issue.
Using the hardware reset button doesn't fix things, so heads up for others in that situation. Use MikroTik's NetInstall to re-install RouterOS instead.
I definitely read it as exploding. It's not what you do, it's how you do it. Swearing (even if partially censored) and capslock are bound to result in a negative emotional reaction from the target, which will only make the target resent you, regardless of your justifications.
Even Linus recognises that "I just go ballistic" a bit later in the thread ;-)