That’s sequel material.

I did a shit this morning. Normal size, normal consistency. Just normal.

$200 + KFC, don’t be greedy.

You can get your local instance admins to delete the messages from its DB, but you can’t do anything for the other thousand or so federated instances, they all have a copy of the messages.

Safely depends on the content of your messages. But generally, consider your messages public.

“A super AI that is perfect at finding people” - firstly, doesn’t exist, secondly, by definition cannot be defeated. Otherwise, use e2ee when possible, and talk in person.

That’s how you get that job security…

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Nintendo+3DS+XL+Battery+Replacement/25068 - Looks easy, barely needs a guide.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/DualShock+3+Battery+Replacement/3255 - Definitely doable, although I will say that you should be careful with game controllers, they are often full of springs that will escape and be a complete pain to find and reinstall.

It’s very sad. He had some brilliant ideas, with a bit of mental health support he could have done incredible things. RIP :(

It’s the second coming of Terry Davis!

It’s a small enough subset of the available plans that it clearly hasn’t been an issue. Every other plan in Aus would expire and age off as you’d expect, but these ones just don’t. Before the one I currently am holding, I was holding a number for my Grandma for ~5+ years until I cancelled it. The number was never connected during those years, and I kept paying a bill with $0 in charges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Australia#Mobile_phone_numbers_(04,_05)

There is a decent amount of unused numbers currently, and we have another 100m spare numbers ready for use, and haven’t needed to dip into them yet. I suspect part of the reason we haven’t run out is that because we can port numbers easily, there is a little less churn of the numbers, you can change plans without burning a number. No evidence to back that claim though.

It’s definitely not 4 months, I’ve had it well over a year. I had one before that that lasted 5+ years.

This is Australia though, our numbers are 04xx xxx xxx, which is 100 million numbers. For a population of 20-30m, no real risk of running out.

I don’t think it does expire, I still have the number listed in my account. Probably depends on the mobile operator?

Retro consoles aren’t my thing, but i have replaced batteries for all kinds of devices, and it’s usually fairly easy to do. Aliexpress et al. have all the batteries you could want, and a little fiddling with some screw drivers and you cam usually get the job done. Fairly safe with some basic common sense as well.

Okay, I see we have some confusion, when you said “new retro”, I was thinking of the N64 raspi thing that came out last year. Those did have a manufacturer warranty.

In terms of second hand consoles, yes, no warranty, but, it’s still not messing around with emulators, it should play the games largely as expected.

Phone attached controller might be cheaper, but surely you can see that its a significantly worse experience than a properly built console?

Expensive is relative to income. 300eur is not much money for some. Also, 300eur is cheaper than a steam deck…

Buying a complete product means you don’t have to mess around with emulators not working quite right, and if it doesn’t work, you can just return it. Those two alone are pretty good reasons to get the prebuilt machine.

You can just get a free tier sim card if that exists in your country. I used an “As you go” sim, which is $10 upfront once, and then you pay for calls and data. Installed the SIM to get the signal registration setup, and then took it out and put it in a draw. Number is mind, cost is basically $0.

But realistically, a nation state actor wont struggle to get a sim with your number, they’ll just compel a mobile operator to give it to them. And even if they did, they dont get all your previous messages, they can just register the account. But you would immediately see it happening, as your phone would get disconnected. So the risk is pretty low.

You only need a number to sign up, you can throw the sim away afterwards.

Get a cheap/free sim card, sign up, and cancel. Risky, because someone else could get the number and steal your account.

It’s a good site for that, because it’s a very non-suspicious domain name. It’s also a very bland technical site, so you won’t know it’s about buttplugs until you scroll to the bottom.

I don’t know of one, just want to warn you that you’ll likely be collecting personal identifying information (PII), which requires careful storage and protection. You may want to seek some legal advice before going down this road.

Clear win for xbox: https://iostindex.com/devices/microsoft/xbox compatible gamepad/

(Site is for programmable buttplugs, and all things that vibrate. You may not want to visit from a work PC. Or you might, your call)

It’s a direct bribe to have access to trumps ear. That’s why they are paying for entry.