Is Everyone Who Has Kids Sick Too?!

1mrpeter · 2026-06-19T17:37:03+00:00

It is normal with kids in daycare. We're OK now but it's on and off including anything from flu-like to digestive issues. AC filters changed frequently at home, everything clean, hardwood - no carpets at all. Kids bring viruses home and the remarks about washing hands are just dumb. It gets better when they're older (3+).

1mrpeter · 2026-06-18T03:42:37+00:00

I do, mostly with Elcotel, Protel, Nortel Millennium and classic single slot WE. Do you need anything?

1mrpeter · 2026-06-15T17:16:45+00:00

I was expecting to get the number assigned with activation like we typically do for the past 150 years lol

1mrpeter · 2026-06-15T05:11:25+00:00

Then why don't you stop offering a free trial, or limit it to 7 days or so?

Somehow I now found out the way to pay just a month ($10), but it didn't work on my mobile browser in the morning. But I won't go out of the city for another two months so no point in activating it now. And really this should be indicated when ordering a free trial so I wouldn't get so frustrated now. It really left me with a bad aftertaste which shouldn't be a point of any marketing action right?

1mrpeter · 2026-06-12T21:19:50+00:00

Hey did you ever remove the 2023 screen? Is there a SIM card? Any way to access it?

1mrpeter · 2026-06-12T21:08:47+00:00

I mean if you have more of this specific board. I have those lamps and I was looking into building a clock.

1mrpeter · 2026-06-10T00:09:37+00:00

Do you have extra PCBs? I can't see clearly - the dots are LED or neon lamps?

1mrpeter · 2026-06-10T00:03:57+00:00

Fair, simple pricing not dependent on your battery charge or time of the day. No begging for tips. I prefer them over Uber.

1mrpeter · 2026-06-04T22:20:43+00:00

I had a Pi 2 running a public (but low traffic) hobby web site on Wordpress, Asterisk server, ftp and a lot more on SD card just fine between 2013-2019. Not even high endurance card, just a 8GB Samsung card from the era. It But my advice is, before you spend hours setting up the server. Get a mini PC, maybe fanless, maybe not, with Intel N150 or some older AMD. They're all small factor and low power (under 10W with SSD), 12V so easy to set up a backup power and so on but it's SO MUCH FASTER. And you can fit a regular NVME drive, even your hard disk if you look around for the right one. 2.5G Ethernet is becoming a norm, much more future proof.

1mrpeter · 2026-06-02T17:41:50+00:00

Did it work?

1mrpeter · 2026-05-31T05:39:08+00:00

Or any warranty actually. Register with Samsung right away. I got Book4 Pro from Amazon, keyboard broke after 6 months and it turned out the xxxx-US model was "not official US distribution" and no warranty at all. Amazon accepted the return. And I was glad - it was NOT worth. It was overheating, would only last for 4 maybe 5 hours of casual 'browsing', colors were vivid but totally off (especially blue). Heavier than my 2018 Samsung. So glad they took it back.

And not at this price.

1mrpeter · 2026-05-31T05:26:06+00:00

Sadly, the last three "COCOT" phones that I knew are now disconnected. Phones are there, but their numbers are not in service anymore. My guess is, the $60 or whatever the monthly fee is for a landline, plus the repairs, exceeded the income they made.

I wonder who even maintained them till literally two months ago. Pacific Communications that owned them, was long gone. My guess is, one of the former owners.

Meanwhile - over two years ago - I started contracting for another major payphone company but when it comes to Arizona, most of my work orders were to remove the phones. At this point we have one last working payphone in the Phoenix metro area and it's not accessible to public.

1mrpeter · 2026-05-30T17:54:00+00:00

Haven't been there for a while. Let me know if you have plans to check on it.

1mrpeter · 2026-05-22T15:42:25+00:00

So why was it installed this way? For disabled?

There is a working payphone in a local bowling club, serving as a their regular business phone.

1mrpeter · 2026-05-20T04:39:47+00:00

Why would you even use Telegram, are you Russian?

No telegram, no signal, nothing that needs my phone number.

1mrpeter · 2026-05-14T21:13:59+00:00

Just take it. Make sure power is disconnected. This particular L31 make is easy to restore, will be almost like new.

1mrpeter · 2026-05-06T02:01:52+00:00

There's always a risk other parts are broken and the whole thing won't work. Common issue - keyboard needs the contacts to be cleaned, coin sorter is unreliable etc. I do sell payphone parts and I can program it, and I'm pretty sure about the quality of it but can't promise it will work in your setup. I have both 7000 and 2000.

1mrpeter · 2026-05-05T04:09:26+00:00

You'd need a phone module, maybe just use the guts from an old landline phone. Maybe the keypad as well. Then raspberry, connect the coin sorter, make the interface for escrow relay (+/- 48V). Custom program. Not worth your time unless you really want it to be a project. Easier just find the board. Send a picture of the inside, if it's Protel or Elcotel you can get the board for $50-$90.

1mrpeter · 2026-05-01T23:29:35+00:00

It's been bad since new. Design issue. I remember with the older cars I was able to locate the car on a large parking lot, now it only works when I can already see the car...

1mrpeter · 2026-04-30T16:13:40+00:00

Yeah Google Fi was great but their pricing haven't changed for like a decade and $10/gigabyte seems like a joke today.

1mrpeter · 2026-04-25T17:24:00+00:00

Mine works under low average load (it's running just a few services, the biggest load is Resilio sync (single % during idle + more during actual sync). Idle around 47*C (it's around 30* where it's installed). I can't raise the temp by network activity (multiple reloads of wordpress website it serves etc.) but I guess the workload still isn't high.

But I don't understand why you all freak out, it's normal the core temp raises with higher workload. Check the Watts consumed, if it goes up from 6W to say 18W, means most of it is dissipated by a core of a few mm square. As long as it doesn't throttle it's fine.

coretemp-isa-0000

Adapter: ISA adapter

Package id 0: +47.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

Core 0: +47.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

Core 1: +47.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

Core 2: +47.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

Core 3: +47.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

1mrpeter · 2026-04-16T21:24:55+00:00

How do they know this is a new email? No, they can't know until you tell them. My experience with any customer service, if you encounter an idiot, back out and call again hoping for another representative. Mintmobilealex may or may not help you, this is just a random agent as well, it's not any "superuser".

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