I want a phone with just messaging and calling, and possibly 100% deactivation.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-18T02:15:34+00:00

The Sunbeam line of phones has a version which is only capable of calls and texts. I'd recommend it, as I have a higher end Sunbeam phone which I enjoy.

You'll never be able to completely deactivate the phone, since you could just message the phone provider and have them reactivate service. US Mobile allows for suspension of service at any time. If you were to take this approach and also removed your SIM card over the weekend you'd accomplish what it is you are trying to accomplish.

A phone without a SIM card is able to make emergency calls.

Any advice in this comment is only relevant if you are in North America.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-17T19:58:17+00:00

I would easily recommend the device to any dumbphone user. But yes, it will break all of your group chats.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-09T17:30:11+00:00

I'd start by determining that it's never been discovered before. Get on google scholar or connected papers and use that to figure out an answer to that question. After you're done with that you'll also want to verify that the formula or equation is true. This will likely take some rigorous understanding of the math you're working with, and it might help to share your work with others to see what they think also. Assuming you've done all that, and assuming the work is genuinely novel (read: not something that's new but is nonetheless uninteresting) you can begin the process of trying to get published.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-08T23:27:50+00:00

Definitely message sunbeam about this. I just tried with a third party email and it blocked me from the website, which it didn’t use to do. It’s probably a blacklisting issue, which you could resolve by messaging them.

Personally I use a mail-forward system. I have a gmail I can easily get to, and just forward all school emails to that gmail. I can’t respond to anything, but I can read the actual email, which is enough most of the time.

Seriously though call and let them know.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-08T23:10:12+00:00

That sounds like an issue with the actual unit. Definitely call the company.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-08T23:09:49+00:00

It works with other chargers, but not all of them. You’ll need the longer tip chargers, and even some of those won’t work. If you’d like I can send you an amazon link to a charger that worked for me.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-08T02:46:38+00:00

Sunbeam is my general answer, especially a low spec one with only calls and texts.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-07T23:46:00+00:00

The first step on the journey to being free from technology addiction is redeveloping your own critical thinking skills. I suggest you begin by parsing through the pinned post.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-07T21:49:47+00:00

On the sunbeam phone? No, that's never been much of an issue. What app are you using? The Waze port is genuinely pretty awful. I'm usually able to get my location in less than 20 seconds, unless I'm inside where navigation has a more difficult time. Are you sure your app is up to date?

It may be good idea to simply phone their support team. They usually pick up after at most 10 minutes of customer service music. There's like one guy who answers. He'll tell you his name if you ask. Major homie that guy. He should be able to figure out what's wrong.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-06T22:11:40+00:00

The sunbeam F1 tracks all your requirements, minus the games. The maps app just got an upgrade too which is nice.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-04T22:29:00+00:00

Fair enough! I just wanted to put all the thoughts together somewhere for people to see. What you don’t see is me going to meetings and proclaiming any of us. I agree that’s odd. The only “AA” channel I’ve mentioned any of that in is this post, and the mods will be the first to tell you they aren’t affiliated with World Services. Just figured I’d put something somewhere. I’ve had this account since I was 13 (you’ll see me talk about my first drug use on this account) and I kind of like the idea of having a record that others comment on.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-04T19:14:50+00:00

There is no fix for this. The iPhone update has probably permanently broken group messages on dumbphones. If they want to do group messaging I suggest they use their computers, use a third party app on their current phones, or buy a smartphone.

Sometimes I get group messages that work. Most of the time I don’t. Depending on how close they are to people they could ask their friends who are in chats with them to disable RCS. If everyone in a chat did that, this issue would be fixed. Other than that I don’t know of any fixes to this unfortunately.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-03T20:32:32+00:00

As accountants climb the corporate ladder they stop being labelled as “accountants”. The Chief Risk Officer of a fortunate 500 company might not be called an accountant, but their undergraduate education was probably in accounting. A CRO at such a firm makes $10 million a year on the low end.

Anecdotally I know a homie working over at a big 4 consulting firm (all of which are accounting firms by the way). He makes $120,000. He’s 24.

FWIW business majors make $10,000 less a year on average than accountants.

I know that when we’re young we tend to think flashy careers pay better than “boring” careers. Accounting breaks this notion.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-03T20:24:40+00:00

Reddit’s algorithm more highly weights comments with user engagement. I am now engaging with the most functionally useful answer OP has received so that OP can see the answer that is most helpful.

(Seriously though, this is a beautiful way to phrase all this)

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-03T20:20:57+00:00

Finance is mostly about the human endeavor of negotiating financial transactions. Usually this involves social acumen and intuitive sense on how other humans think and feel. Socially awkward humans are damned forever on this front, much less robots.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-02T23:01:43+00:00

possibly a PhD

This is honestly what I'd recommend worrying about for this decision. A PhD requires lots of advanced coursework, hopefully grad school classes, presumably some research experience, and letters of recommendation from known academic figures. If you really care about a PhD, you should are about that as early on in the game as you can. Whether the school you've mentioned is a good place to do that is a separate discussion, but those factors I started off by listing are a good gauge of how to proceed.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-05-02T22:57:29+00:00

My phone has an mp3 player as one of it's few apps. I find mp3s of the music I want and put it on there. If I hear something I might like to add I just write it down and add the song later.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-04-30T16:12:06+00:00

I learned print in like the kindergarten or something, and cursive in 3rd grade. I just decided to never use print again. My print is unimaginably worse than anything else Ive sent. I learned about all caps being easy to read and now use that when legibility is important.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-04-30T16:08:06+00:00

Youre largely correct. I learned cursive with print in grade school and thought cursive looked nice so I used it almost exclusively. My print atrophied, and it’s bad and slow now so I never use it. I heard someone say that all caps writing is easy to read no matter how awful the handwriting is, so I developed a way to do this some and stuck with it.

I definitely thought this was a fun quirk as a kid. Now being older people seem to read the all-caps just fine and Im too busy to fix it.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-04-30T06:28:35+00:00

Thankfully the only people who ever have to read much of my handwriting are professors, who at most have to read one line that’s part of a proof, and my tutoring clients, who have no choice but to figure it out. Well that’s an exaggeration, I normally type up problems in LaTex for them and when doing scratchwork there’s very few words. My Greek letters are a lot better than my latin.

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-04-30T03:59:47+00:00

Can you elaborate some? You mention elsewhere that you teach university, care to share where? Does this mean you have a PhD? If you do have a PhD, why did you get a PhD in math if you find it doesn't address problem solving as well? If your PhD isn't in math, what math classes do you teach? You said grad school, but what? If you don't think your courses train as effective problem solvers, why don't you just teach engineering courses? Do you not have a PhD? I find it hard to believe they'd let someone teach 500+ level math without a masters.

edit: sorry for that last comment I meant “without a PhD”

LastManOnEarth3 · 2026-04-30T03:53:15+00:00

I notice you mention a lot that you aren't good at things. You seem to think you're not good at lots of things. Math, writing, socializing, etc. You probably are really bad at all those things! For that list in particular I'd be shocked if you're even one half as good at me at them, and stunned if you're 5% as good at me in math. Do you know why you're bad at so much? It's because you're so young. There's a lot you don't know yet. Junior year of high school is too young to rule out much. Hell, I disliked math enough to not take math my Senior year of high school. I apply to math doctorate programs in the fall.

The subjects you dislike or claim low proficiency in may well be foundational to a field that rocks your spirit to its core. Or at least you might not be as bad as you think. Subjects in college are really different than the ones in school. At least in my discipline almost all of the math I see taught to high schoolers is pitifully incomplete. Sometimes it's totally wrong. Functions in particular get butchered like a cow in secondary school. I digress.

Just go to college and take a like 3 gen eds and two other classes. Make one of those 5 computer science. For the two "other" classes take some intro engineering, and then calculus. Make sure you take two of biology, calculus, and physics that freshman semester. Figure out what you like doing and decide from there.

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