PhobosAnomaly

Absolutely love that CCC talk, very interesting and quite entertaining too.

Cheeky bastards.

All I needed was a reason

Just to be a proper poser…

…obviously that was a lie, I could never afford persistent storage. Floppy swaps were king.

Intelligence is domain specific.

I need this on a plaque above my desk phone. It’s perfect.

Ah sorry, I wasn’t clear - I meant the way the issues were sensibly and rationally outlined!

yeah yeah yeah but how can we get the rage about sensible and rational issues like that???

Right click?? Why did we ever need a second or third or seventeenth button anyway?

They have played us for absolute fools

Don’t

simple really

Obligatory:

My experience is that EE are pretty decent - pretty decent and well-supported network, and brilliant customer service. Even the £2/day charge to use your package allowance while roaming wasn’t brilliant, but wasn’t terrible either.

I took both my contracts elsewhere this month after 13 years though because price-wise, they just take the piss. I’ve got a phone that’s almost brand new after an insurance swap, so I only wanted a SIM-only month-to-month contract, and they were easily at least 50% more expensive than the rest, even without the other sneaky shit like throttling, 4G-only provision, and such like on some packages.

Fuck that. They’ve gotten greedy. Quelle surprise.

I mean, I personally have no problem with you creating and keeping up a community, that sounds pretty awesome.

What is the deal with Lorcana anyway? It seems to have the backing of Ravensburger, a decent ruleset, and some of the most beautiful art on the cards that I’ve seen…

…but it seems to be destined to failure? I’m not sure if Disney just can’t be arsed with it - my local department store has an ubergeeky TCG section and the lad who runs it has heard of it but doesn’t know much about the logistics or when it’s getting stocked. It just seems to be on life support already, much like the straight-to-VHS Disney movies or single-run clothing lines that end up in Orlando stores en masse.

I hope it gets a fair shot at expanding and finding it’s own lease of life.

The hack is coming from inside the instance!

It certainly was weird yeah, but nothing I couldn’t get used to.

The only real pain in the tits was accessing the numpad, that was really unintuitive.

I had the Titan. I wanted to keep a QWERTY phone after BlackBerry pulled out of the hardware market. It’s the opposite of the small form factor that you’re after, though I understand the Titan Pocket goes some way to addressing this.

It was… functional. The keyboard was good, and certainly robust. The battery lasted a day and a half of fair to heavy use, and it was sturdy enough to shrug off most bumps and grinds with the Unihertz gel case. It was also super affordable, even at it’s peak of interest.

Unfortunately, the camera was utter shit (even with decent third party apps like Opencamera), and a design quirk with the fingerprint sensor mounted on the home button meant that it was the on the most raised surface of the front of the phone, meaning that it took the brunt of scuffs or scrapes, so the sensor became less effective. Some of the included apps were a bit janky but certainly workable, and even though the screen was super pretty the aspect ratio did funky things with apps designed for standard portrait displays.

For the money, you can’t go wrong with Unihertz phones, just don’t expect them to be flagship quality, and be prepared to put up with some minor annoyances.

I enjoyed my 18 months with it overall. I jumped to the Samsung Galaxy Flip 3 when I ran out of QWERTY options.