As someone who always had some kind of PDA (CASIO digital diary, Palm, Compaq iPaq) and switched onto the smartphone bandwagon pretty early (SonyEricsson P800/P910i, Qtek 9000, various Androids and various iPhones) … I don’t think I could enjoy the experience with a dumb phone. I love modern technology too much.

I once had a colleague that religiously only used a Nokia 3210 (the newer 3G/4G model). Which meant 160 character messages only. No emojis, no photos (as MMS were expensive). He was also the kind of person to use paper maps when driving - incl. stopping to look for alternative routes if some road was blocked or jammed. That’s definitely not for me.

The only way this could work for me would be to have some small PDA that can connect to the phone to use the Internet. And I appreciate that both devices have been merged into smartphones at some point.

Doesn’t look like it. Their website says:

The program covers affected AirPods Pro for 3 years after the first retail sale of the unit.

But you could try asking at your local Apple Store.

Can we stop posting stuff from MacRumors, please? They’re really awful as an information source.

The Hypertension detection feature is also coming to these models:

• Apple Watch 10
• Apple Watch 9
• Apple Watch Ultra 2

(Source)

I had brought my 1st gen with the clicking issue to Apple. Only had it on one side, but they’ve tested both and then replaced both for free. Never had any issues after that. And no issues at all with the 2nd gen. So, yeah, you might want to give AirPods Pro another chance. 😉

You mean that clicking? That was fixed in later APP1 generations and never occurred for me with the APP2.

Ion Fury just felt wrong to me. Looks and feels like Duke3D, but isn’t. And it’s somehow missing some of that character from back in the days. Hard to explain. I’d rather recommend Shadow Warrior Classic (or the Redux Version) which also uses the Build engine, came out shortly after Duke3D and has some great humour.

I know, I’m 6 years late to the party

You’ve qualified to join !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works and !patientgamers@lemmy.ml 😉

Return to Castle Wolfenstein, then found the RealRtCW mod after a few levels and continued to play that improved version. And now I’m doing Saints Row 2. (Played SR3 and 4 on the Switch several months ago.)

The 7th of September is today, isn’t it?

https://www.gov.uk/alerts/public-testing

If you have the iCloud storage available, you can do iCloud backups. It will backup all the data from the phone, but not the apps themselves. (Those apps will auto-install after a restore, though.)

As for the Macbook, the usual way is an external USB drive and TimeMachine (which should be preinstalled). You can also take a complete backup of the iPhone using macOS’s Finder (the phone should popup there as a “drive” once connected via cable) and then backup everything to a HDD/SSD via TimeMachine.

Maybe don’t try to fit in anywhere. Just be yourself, engage in communities of your interest (online and offline) and you’ll surely meet some compatible people. Most of how you described yourself matches with my interests, so there must be more out there. 😉

Huh, you’re right. Just checked my account again and I now see this message:

Under the UK Online Safety Act, Valve is required to verify that you are 18 or older before accessing mature sexual content. If you wish to do so, please add a valid UK credit card to your account and afterwards update the Mature Content Preferences.

That wasn’t there a few hours ago.

This is an US-based news article. They don’t know the difference between credit and debit cards. Debit cards will work, too. (As per this article.) And you basically get them thrown at you with any bank account.

Debian is usually pretty good at auto-detecting hardware. It might be that your Ethernet and/or WiFi adapters will get new IDs and thus you might have to reconfigure your IP address and/or WiFi. But that should be about it.

But how many of these cycles can the battery withstand until it goes up in flames or loses capacity?

I was using PhotoSync quite successfully until I’ve switched to iCloud.

Nowadays, my MacBook is configured to always download all photo originals. And my Photo Library is then backed up to my NAS using CCC. This allows easy restore in case something goes wrong, as I can either restore the whole library or open the backup library and pull out what’s needed. If that fails, there’s also osxphotos to work with the library.

There were ads! But these were simple banner graphics of 468x60 pixels. In the worst case it was an animated GIF. But hosted on the same server as the page and without any tracking shenanigans.

Yep, when Voyager had an issue with the iOS 26 Beta (blank pages), I’ve tried Mlem and it worked just fine. And you can configure it that it basically looks like Voyager - just a tad more modern.

Yep, back in the days the early bird price was $169 and MSRP was supposed to be $199. And now we’re looking at $225 pre-order price.

Born there and lived there until very recently. That’s why I’m so against it. 😉