Man, I don’t remember the exact model, but it was a newer black Nokia phone I think. I remember the one before it though, the OG Motorola Razr flip phone.
Yes you can go crazy with SSGs or write your own site but especially if it’s rare that you will blog/update then it’s way better to just use something off the shelf. That’s what I’d do as a software developer. Heck I paid for a static site with a simple web UI to update it just last week to serve as the marketing site for my software product (that I wrote from scratch).
Unless you enjoy tinkering and know programming I would shy away from the SSGs. I used them for years and now I self-host Ghost and even that I’m considering just paying someone else to do since it’s not how I want to spend my time (maintaining it).
I was late to the cell phone game and never got a "nice" dumb phone. I had a crappy TracFone. Reception was okay. Texting was torture. Bought an HTC Droid around 2010-2011 and never looked back.
Sony Ericsson W810i. Got it in 2007, I think. When it started to die on me in late 2009 i replaced it with an iPhone 3G, which was my first apple phone. It was also my last apple phone as I hated how locked down everything was.
EDIT: I just remembered I had a secondary dumbphone around 2012 or thereabouts. It was a dual SIM nokia of some sort that I used mainly as a backup phone in case my main ran out of battery while I was on the move.
I had a Sony Ericsson too as my last dumb phone but I don’t remember the model. I just remember it slides out to reveal the number pad and that it was great for music.
I just told my friends that the federation is like the states in a country. They exist independently, abide by similar, but specific rules and allow you to travel between each other without friction.
I definitely agree with the hobby bit. I’ve talked to plenty of people that don’t have any hobbies or any passion for anything and they are just so soul draining to be around. I find with these folks you cannot have a good conversation with, either they don’t know about the topic, or any topic or they only answer in one or two word responses. They are just a black hole of any excitement or energy.
Ugh, this one hurts to read. I have plenty of hobbies and interests, but for whatever reason it feels so painful and awkward to discuss them with people i’m not already decently acquainted with, so it probably comes across as you describe to many folks.
Probably not, to be like the people I mentioned and met you almost have to try to be as disinterested as possible. If you say more than just 1 or 2 words when talking to somebody you’re already a lot better.
Edit: I know how to put a link and a description, it’s square brackets and parentheses, plus the link and the text. It’s always the eight try that’s the right one.
Yep, I mainly used Deviantart as a quick way to move photos from home to external computers to quickly show them to others.
I have used Deviantart for 20 years or so, but this year, I got pissed off for the last time, it is just so slow, it takes ages to browse a gallery.
So I spent a few days building a menu in HTML and CSS that has a few simple effects, and importantly is easy to update, I then uploaded that to a personal webhost, and started creating HTML galleries with digiKam, uploading them there, and updating the menu.
I want to preserve my privacy, so I won’t link the site here, but if others are interested, I should be able to share the code of the menu system.
Get some liquid IV powder. It is full of electrolytes and minerals and easy on your stomach. The last time I was in your shoes I did it for two days straight and it kept me going even at work. With that or get some Pedialyte, is not as good in my opinion, but will do similar things for you.
I had one and it was great. I rode a scooter everywhere at the time, and I could pull this out of my pocket, let it spring open and stick it up inside my helmet for some easy one hand to hands free calls.
It all depends on what you are trying to get out of it. If you’re looking for more phone connectivity, you can bet you’ll need to charge it way more often. Easily once a day. If you’re looking for just a fitness tracker, get a fit bit or a Garmin, they last a week or so. I had a fit bit for many years, before Google purchased them up. I had the charge 2, 3, and 4. Had to recharge it about once a week. It worked fine for viewing texts and tracking sleep/steps. About two months ago I switched to a galaxy watch 6 lte, I need my phone for work but don’t always have it directly on me, so it was a compromise. I can deal with the rigorous charging, but having the expanded features, I actually use them. I am unbiased about apple watch VS galaxy watches, I went with a galaxy because I don’t have an iPhone.
“personal website” means you want a blog with a few static pages
"moderate technical knowledge" means you know how to use a CLI and write some basic JS/CSS.
For this use case, I highly recommend a static site generator framework like Hugo.
Make a repository on GitHub for your Hugo website, and set up your content as markdown files inside the repository.
Then, hook your Hugo website’s repository up to a managed static site hosting solution like AWS Amplify or GitHub Pages. Finally, set up your website’s domain name and you’re done.
Once these pieces are set up your authoring workflow is:
Open your Hugo website locally from a local copy of the Git repo and edit the markdown files to change the content of your site
Once you’re happy, commit the result
Amplify / Github pages will automatically pick up the change and redeploy your site with the new content
And that’s it. There’s no servers to maintain, so the only upgrade you have to do is keep Hugo and any dependencies up to date within your repo.
Thanks, the assumptions are about where I was aiming so this addresses the question pretty well I think.
An added question that this and other comments bring to mind though is, and this is admittedly a super basic question (which I’ve gone back & forth over asking in NoStupidQuestions tbh), but besides a cleaner and exclusive URL, why might someone go after a domain for a personal site, as in related to them individually?
If you don’t have SOME domain name, then people can only visit your site with an IP address.
Additionally, you pretty much have to have a domain name if you want HTTPS encryption - if you don’t have an HTTPS certificate, people’s browsers will show lots of scary warning indicators on your page.
But if you’re asking about buying your own domain name (firstname-lastname.com) vs. using a subdomain from your hosting provider (myblog.wordpress.com) then it comes down to preference. Having your own domain will make you look more professional and get you more clicks on average.
But if you’re asking about buying your own domain name (firstname-lastname.com) vs. using a subdomain from your hosting provider (myblog.wordpress.com) then it comes down to preference. Having your own domain will make you look more professional and get you more clicks on average.
Mainly the latter, and you cover the reasons for that, so appreciate it! For a more casual approach (and according to one’s preferences), it sounds like you’d be alright to stick with the subdomain-from-host approach, which is how I was leaning but I wasn’t sure if there might be more to it than that within the more managed hosting space.
If a subdomain from a hosting provider works for your use case, then there’s nothing wrong with that.
I have 10 years of experience making websites for a living for huge tech companies, and even then I still use ec2-[hash].compute-1.amazonaws.com as the domain name for a gaming website I run for just my friends.
If you don’t care about professionalism or SEO then its fine.
Nokia E71 with the full QWERTY keyboard. Loved it, even though the keys were too small to comfortable use. I guess technically speaking that’s still a smartphone so before that I had some Samsung flip phone, can’t remember the exact model
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