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sagrotan, (edited ) in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?
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I don’t know, the last one was maybe a Motorola clamshell, but from the “old” ones I had a Bosch GSM909, yes, they made phones. Barely usable and horribly expensive to use. But it had a blue 2 line display. A BLUE DISPLAY. Woooooow.

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droidpenguin,

That blue is very nice!

sagrotan,
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That’s what I thought back then… I believe. Everyone had a green or orange display, I was the young rebel I was back in the day ;)

Devi, in How effective in their activities do you imagine a coordinated colony of jellyfish could become?

Jellyfish are really weak, obviously they don't really have control over themselves but I think even if they did they'd be pretty hopeless. maybe they could travel where they want together?

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks, in How effective in their activities do you imagine a coordinated colony of jellyfish could become?

I think it’d be pretty but not much else.

Taringano, in How would you go about a low maintenance personal website today?

I use Netlify. I’m not a technical person.

AngryDemonoid, in How would you go about a low maintenance personal website today?

Another vote for a static site generator. I use Publii on Cloudflare Pages. I switched from Wordpress, and I find the maintenance significantly easier.

waz, in Those of you who work 8+ hours outside in the cold regularly, how do you dress for the job?

Have done that, but don’t anymore.

My regular day was: Feet: boots over heavy socks over lighter socks

Legs: pants over thermals and sometime a layer of sweatpants in between

Main body: hooded canvas coat over heavy sweatshirt over long sleeve shirt over thermal shirt over T-shirt. alternating layers tucked into pant layers

Head: jacket hood over sweatshirt hood over heavy winter hat.

Hands: usually bare for the work I was doing, but when I could, I put them in some fantastic mittens my brother gave me that have been nicknamed “bear vaginas”.

If I got too warm, I could shed upper layers pretty easily to regulate temp, but rarely did I ever need to do more than lose the coat and sweatshirt.

BattleGrown, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?
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Is Nokia 5230 a smartphone? It didn’t feel very smart

Raiderkev, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

cnet.com/…/samsung-sch-a950-verizon-wireless-revi…

This beast. Yeah, it has an mp3 player in it so I could put all my tunes from Kazaa on there.

Dee, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?
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I had this sweet thing, I was the coolest kid on the block I tell ya.

droidpenguin,

That appears to be running Android tho 😄 (granted Gingerbread, a very old version) but I don’t think that counts as a “dumb” phone haha

oakey66, in What's a food you forget you like? Then you eat it, and wonder why you don't buy it more often?

Persimmons. I love persimmons so much.

Fosheze, in Those of you who work 8+ hours outside in the cold regularly, how do you dress for the job?

I used to work for a big hardware company and we regularly sold heated jacket that just accepted tool batteries. For example our Milwaukee jackets just accepted the Milwaukee tool batteries. So when you’re on the worksite you just swap out and recharge the batteries as needed with all of the other tool batteries. I got one of those jackets myself once and they are super nice. It could toggle between 3 different power levels depending on what you needed and the battery actually lasted a surprisingly long time.

As far as the rest of your body goes just layer up. Long wool (or goretex if you have the money for it,) socks, long underwear, thermal pants, boots, gloves, ski mask, and maybe an additional hat plus your coat hood. Of course you also want torso layers with the heated jacket but if you’re using one of those then it will be doing most of the heavy lifting as far as keeping you warm goes. If you frequently get cold feet/hands then you can also add glove liners and an extra pair of socks or just toss some instant heat packs in your socks and gloves as needed (they normally last several hours).

Also when it comes to your inner layers avoid cotton like the plague. The saying in boyscouts was always “cotton kills” because even though cotton is insulating, it loses all of its insulating properties the moment it becomes even slightly damp and it will not dry on its own. When it gets wet, wearing cotton is worse than wearing nothing at all. I personally made that mistake once and I was literally better off once I pulled off my socks and just walked around with my bare feet in my boots. When it comes to fabric choice the ideal choice is wool because it’s insulating and getting a little wet doesn’t impact that too much. But if all you have are synthetic fabrics then go with those; they typically don’t insulate as well but they still work better than cotton when they get wet. If you have the money and feel like splurging, goretex is a synthetic fabric that is supposed to be even better than wool; I’ve never gotten the opporitunity to try it out though so I can’t say much there.

sour, in How would you explain Lemmy/Kbin to a Reddit person or to a social media person?
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does using an analogy about an unrelated topic work

Damaskox,
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What do you mean?

sour, (edited )
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Damaskox,
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My guess?

Maybe.
Should look into the analog first before being certain though.

Damdy, in Those of you who work 8+ hours outside in the cold regularly, how do you dress for the job?

Disclaimer: I don’t do that.

But as other have said, layers trap warm air better than 1 thick layer. This is the theory behind double glazed windows. Also why multiple thin blankets warm more than one thick one.

So long Johns, vest/light t, long sleeves T-shirt, sweater, and coat. Strip down or keep on as desired.

BillMurray, (edited ) in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

Motorola V635i

Motorola V635i

Karyoplasma, in What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?

Sony-Ericsson J110i. Still have it somewhere.

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