God Emperor of Mastodon (new account)

@michal@sapka.pl

This is my new, future account. While most interaction still happen on the bsd.cafe one, I aim to migrate fully here.

I am posting mostly culture, emacs, bsd and anti-ai based ramblings. I don't curse and I try not bait people into pointless anger rages.

I am a nerd (or dork? I don't know), a software engineer and I started to hate what technology has bacame.

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[?]God Emperor of Mastodon (new account) » 🌐
@michal@sapka.pl

I may replace my phone with a Jelly Star later this year. The size is a much bigger issue than I anticipated.

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[?]fall3nsun🌄🐧 » 🌐
@pepdmin@fedi.local.hasel.cloud

@michal unihertz.com/en-de/products/je That one? Isn't that a tad too small to be comfortable?

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    [?]God Emperor of Mastodon (new account) » 🌐
    @michal@sapka.pl

    There's no such thing as "too small to be comfortable". Just ask my wife.

    (I found the iPhone 13 mini to be a bit large at times. iPhone 4 was perfect.)

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      [?]fall3nsun🌄🐧 » 🌐
      @pepdmin@fedi.local.hasel.cloud

      @michal Well on the size of 13 mini or 4 being very nice I can wholeheartedly agree. Those were comfortable sizes. I was thinking back to a Sony Xperia-smartphone I had many years ago that looked quite similar. Was super pocketable and nice to phone with, but everything else was... meh.

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        [?]God Emperor of Mastodon (new account) » 🌐
        @michal@sapka.pl

        This is the trick: I don't want anything else. Call, SMS, run an app when needed. I love how inconvenient my e-ink phone is. It's just too big (and has huge problems with android auto).

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          [?]fall3nsun🌄🐧 » 🌐
          @pepdmin@fedi.local.hasel.cloud

          @michal Well in that regard I really love my Nokia flipphone and would really love to still be able to use my Xperia Pro with slider-keyboard.

            [?]fall3nsun🌄🐧 » 🌐
            @pepdmin@fedi.local.hasel.cloud

            @michal Just on the weekend my chunky Samsungs battery ran out and I had to be reachable - so I tossed the sim-card into my Nokia Flipphone and went out and about. Gosh golly, it was liberating af.

              [?]Eli the Bearded » 🌐
              @elithebearded@fed.qaz.red

              @pepdmin @michal

              I used a Jelly 2 (~74mm screen diagonal) for months. The only time I had real issues with it was looking at maps. I am using a Jelly Max right now. Size is fine for me. I just replaced the screen (myself, with parts Unihertz sells on their website) last week rather than get a newer phone

              Diagram of a Jelly Max phone with dimensions. 128.7 mm tall, 62.7 mm wide, 16.3 mm thick.

              Alt...Diagram of a Jelly Max phone with dimensions. 128.7 mm tall, 62.7 mm wide, 16.3 mm thick.

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                [?]God Emperor of Mastodon (new account) » 🌐
                @michal@sapka.pl

                but this is... just a normal smartphone. I don't want such a hellish, soul-sucking device.

                CC: @pepdmin@fedi.local.hasel.cloud

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                  [?]Eli the Bearded » 🌐
                  @elithebearded@fed.qaz.red

                  @michal

                  Like I said, the 74mm device was fine, until I needed to look at maps. Absent that, I would have used it longer. The Jelly Max is much bigger, but still a lot smaller than other phones. I got a lot of attention using the tiny Jelly 2, including comparisons to Zoolander. And it was delightfully light in my pocket

                  @pepdmin

                  Ben Stiller as Derek Zoolander, from the 2001 film "Zoolander" holding a flip cellphone about the size of his thumb

                  Alt...Ben Stiller as Derek Zoolander, from the 2001 film "Zoolander" holding a flip cellphone about the size of his thumb

                    [?]slash » 🌐
                    @agreeable_landfall@mastodon.social

                    @michal I wonder how much of that price is driven by RAM costs? I recently bought some servers. Double the RAM doubled the price. So Dell is giving away their servers for free, but charging only for RAM. Weird.

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                      [?]God Emperor of Mastodon (new account) » 🌐
                      @michal@sapka.pl

                      I think they are expensive not for real reasons, but for novelty.

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