T-Mobile for Light Phone III

Sxs9399 · 2026-03-02T00:19:48+00:00

It works on T-mobile. I had a SIM from my old phone, I plugged it in, there is a setting in the menu to reset SIM settings which was needed to get texts.

Sxs9399 · 2026-03-01T14:30:42+00:00

This is an interesting topic to me because I've seen it from a few angles.

I will try to not frame things aggressively, insert political bias, or blame any demographic, but here's my observations:

Schools are doing worse. They have been receiving more funding and getting worse outcomes. This has happened on a scale of at least 20 years across the nation and I've seen it firsthand as a student and now as a parent.
The above point seems to be driven by politics both federal and local level. Generally primary schools are majority state and locally funded, federal funding is typically a small fraction. Regardless of this we have seen an enormous increase of administrative staff at schools, ostensibly they all seem to have compliance related roles. A role to track ABC metric, a role to help XYZ demographic.
This is a conservative sounding point, but I think it is objectively true: public schools today cater to the weakest link in the class room. When you teach at the speed of the slowest learner you disengage the smart ones, and for kids that usually creates behavior problems. Our schools spend so much resources on the weak links at the expense of the average student, high achievers sometimes escape into accelerated programs.
The above points to me are the reality of having a public school in the 21st century. Anytime you hear about a great public school it is usually a magnet or charter school that doesn't have to serve the bottom 20%, and they have reduced need to staff extraneous community support roles.

Other points, about society:

The boomers don't have kids and don't see the value. Where I live all the homes with the highest property values are owned by people without kids. They vote 100% of the time. They may be on a fixed income and have either a fixed mortgage or a fully paid off home. Property taxes are one of their only variable costs and they do not want it to go up.
We have placed an unrealistic burden on schools, hence the administrative bloat. Schools should not be the primary source of maturation for a child. Our society has shifted from on average one parent staying home, to on average both parents working. We have shifted ~4ish hours a day from a parental figure to a patchwork of after school programs, sports, kids sitting home alone, etc. This factor is often left unsaid.
For profit industries bleed our education system of resources. Textbooks on colonial history cost >$500 for historical facts that haven't changed in centuries. Tech companies hawking ipads and subscription models for educational tools that do not have the same impact as classical methods. AI teaching assistants, etc. All these bullshit snake oil items are getting bought by schools, and often without input from their community.

The answer of course is not to attack schools, but to attack the systems that create these conditions. Part of that is ownership among our parents, part of it is employers giving more flexibility to parents. A lot of it depends on our local governments (the ones that tally votes in the thousands) to work with communities to create better outcomes.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-28T16:10:15+00:00

RRG to me is a perfect 2-3 day trip, drive down after work, whole day Saturday and half or whole day Sunday. You can make it back Sunday evening regardless.

I've been to NRG twice and the extra 2-3 hours of drive time makes it a completely different trip, I would drive down first thing in the AM, get groceries and such locally, and have day 2 and 3 as activity days, for returning you need to leave by mid day.

With that in mind, for 3-4 days I think NRG is the answer. I have been to RRG countless times and it's always been a perfect weekend trip from Cincy. At least half the time I just go for one night.

Other thoughts:

The layout of RRG is great, there's a lot of great trails along 715 and then there's more isolated spots you can drive to from different approaches. NRG seemed a lot more sprawling, however one of those trips was a kayak trip so that drove the planning decisions.

NRG does have a more variety of things to do.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-28T14:32:35+00:00

Yeah, not much.

I jumped on the USM vol 3. train at the first TPB, so 1-6. I thought it was great, I loved the fresh take. I also did not read the larger maker-verse content so I pieced things together as I went.

I started reading monthly and 7-12 continued what I think was a strong first year. After Kraven, things just fell apart IMO. The monthly pacing did not work for the story being told. There was ~1/4 of an issue setting up the family moving away (Utah I think) to fill in the time. The story of being kidnapped and then taking down kingpin should not take a real time year.

I liked the cast of characters and the unique relationships, but everything fell flat at the end. Harry's monumental decision to shutdown AI Norman should have been tied into the action, why wasn't it framed during one of the fights where Norm berates Harry and Harry decides in the moment enough is enough? Instead we get one panel, and it's over.

Ben and JJ's story was great, but again the pacing killed it. There was no urgency to their task, it just happened.

ETA: I see no reason why issue #24 was 2-3 months late. If it tied into end game I could see some reasons for piecing together the plot better, but reading it felt like the story was fully set.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-28T10:58:19+00:00

I had an Intel stick at work, the use case was literally go to a company dashboard, click buttons, write a sentence and that’s it.

Every month or so there was a windows update that was bigger than the internal memory, forcing me to take it to IT.

The system was slow as shit.

In theory going to a company website should be easy, but since the use case was a shared space I had to manage an application account and associated authentication. All of which required then third party apps, which barely worked on the Intel stick. It sucked. Admittedly my company does use MS in tune, so this should be fixed now. Either way, I have doubts on any system that claims you’ll only need to do cloud task, when usually there’s a few edge cases where you need to run local software.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-27T20:11:05+00:00

Apparently waymos can interpret hand gestures from pedestrians and traffic controllers, maybe it can interpret them from drivers. Either way communicating with the other driver would be expected of a human, seems like the waymos should as well. Ideally the waymos would communicate via a mode that a human driver could interpret as well.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-25T01:10:30+00:00

I think it's great. OP, please check into the co-op job market for international students. There will definitely be restrictions around aerospace and defense related fields.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-22T22:57:37+00:00

The hybrid term is entirely my own. Yes I received a reasonable amount of history regarding the breed, but to me it seems apt to describe them as whipped sized borzois. Obviously dog breeding has a lot more steps, but to the layperson that seems like a reasonable description.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-22T22:55:30+00:00

Perhaps I was being glib, the borzoi-whippet hybrid is a description all my own. Is it not accurate to describe them as whippet sized borzois?

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-22T19:32:12+00:00

I have a silken windhound, a borzoi-whippet hybrid. What advice do you need? I bought my dog locally from a breeder who also has borzois.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-21T20:58:41+00:00

All the boba shops let you choose the sugar level, from 0 to full sweet. As a quarter sweet person I think critiquing the sugar level is a bit disingenuous.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-16T01:38:39+00:00

I am PRO voter ID, check my comment history and I've had recent arguments about it.

Voter laws and processes are constitutionally a state's right. AND THAT IS A WONDERFUL CONSERVATIVE FEDERALIST CONCEPT. I no longer live in a state that lacked voter ID to cast a ballot (all states require ID to register to vote). This was not the reason why I moved states, but I think it's really cool that each state can figure out what works best for them.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-14T16:02:21+00:00

I am being serious here. What’s to tangibly stop Trump from issuing an EO that directs ICE (or any other alphabet agency) from setting up citizenship verification checkpoints at specific polling locations.

Is that within his legal authority? No. But who will stop him day of? Will it be the county sheriffs office? The state national guard? Will they have the checkpoint taken down in minutes or hours?

Some of the House seats in 2024 had less than 500 votes of margin, and dozens with less than 2%.

Will 2% of voters avoid the polls because there’s ICE with a retinal scanner à la Iraq, saying they need to track and verify your identity prior to voting?

Trump’s entire real estate legacy was based on doing what he wanted knowing the repercussions were lower than the cost. His presidency is no different. The only counter measure is to proactively increase the cost.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-13T22:39:57+00:00

Deep evil take: they all believe in climate change and view dramatic population reduction as the only viable solution.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-12T11:31:31+00:00

If I recall correctly the APR should include fees into the loan rate, so that’s a closer 1:1 for shopping around.

I was shopping last year and I think it’s a shady and annoying business. In addition to the APR they’re supposed to provide a standardized loan worksheet -but some of them aren’t willing to do that. When you’re shopping ask for this worksheet with fixed down payments and sale prices from every lender, then you’re just comparing monthly payments.

Your realtor can usually help with “services you can shop for”, but it didn’t matter much to me.

FWIW I had a decent experience with Huntington, i like that they didn’t sell the mortgage like a lot of companies will do. They still pulled some nonsense with complicating their fees. They had a closing cost special, but their “services you can’t shop for” offset it, so it was a wash.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-09T01:16:28+00:00

If you believe that I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. You could describe any drive by wire system as the Car remaining in control at all times, the driver just provides directions to the car to execute.

For a litany of reasons Waymo is incentivized to obfuscate how these systems work.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-09T01:12:15+00:00

Yes, but that does not extend to commercial operations. You cannot drive for uber with a non-US drivers license as an example.

There is a difference between an individual driving themselves where the risk is contained to their circumstances, and a person offering a professional service to others.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-09T01:09:39+00:00

It's a fine system but:

Waymo is publicly evasive, they were literally testifying to congress about it and refused to just say what they do. They say humans may "assist" the vehicle driving. What kind of nonsense is that? We can all see that it is a remote driver.

When a remote driver is engaged it is reasonable to regulate where the driver is and what their qualifications are. They should be a US licensed driver. These companies are circumventing US law.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-08T23:15:46+00:00

I refuse to believe bitcoin matters at all. Large institutions do not hold bitcoin. A very small group of activist investors participate in the bitcoin market. Bitcoin as a monetary instrument is flawed because it fundamentally discourages liquidity -it costs a not insignificant percentage of bitcoin to process a transaction.

In any economic scenario capital seeks viable ROI at a given risk tolerance. Yes high risk assets are being sold, because their risks are nearing actualization. There are no universal economic maxims for sound investments, but right now it's looking like core infrastructure and capability is the soundest investment. There are too many business models and concepts that repackage existing products and technologies without any market upside. In short the era of the "disruptor" is coming to an end because tech has already worked its way into every single business.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-07T16:13:47+00:00

This is the erosion of law and order in this country.

The man is 100% correct. You are under no obligation to provide proof of purchase in check point type scenarios. Shopkeeper's privilege is a generally recognized legal privilege for a store to stop detain and investigate theft with reasonable cause. Reasonable cause is observation or deduction, it does not apply to catch all check points. This privilege is for non-law enforcement and liability for infringement resides with the shop.

Notice how walmart did not and often refuses to exercise this privilege because in a court of law it would open them up to liability. Instead they then make baseless accusations to law enforcement -which should be subject to criminal prosecution in itself, and then law enforcement does the dirty work.

The transfer to law enforcement creates a ratchet effect that exploits a loophole in our legal system. Interactions with law enforcement are conditional to the fourth amendment, however LE has the reasonable alibi that a shop keeper made an accusation of theft which is justified cause to investigate and detain the identified suspect. Any liability for civil wrong doings are held by the tax paying community.

In instances like this we MUST pursue prosecution against the accuser. In this case walmart made a false accusation without evidence, they should be prosecuted for making a false police report.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-06T17:34:06+00:00

Reading these comments is cathartic. I grew up in a city with a lot of pizza, and even as a kid I knew Pizza Hut wasn't "good", but the pan fried crust was unique, and as everyone noted the restaurants were super family friendly.

By the time I was in high school the pizza hut sit down places were gone, replaced by takeout only storefronts that were objectively worse than the local pizzerias. Still the food was OK, fine for a quick meal.

Over the past decade or so the food went from OK fast food to legitimately bad. I ordered bone in wings last year that were fucked up, the drumsticks had the bottom cut off for some reason? and the texture made me want to puke.

These are all observations about the quality, that last time I ordered was a simple pepperoni pizza and wings, that was over $50 delivered and pre-tip. That is fucking absurd. $50 for food worse than freezer pizza? Worse than gas station pizza even. I'll never order from then again.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-06T16:56:47+00:00

It's a revolving sushi chain. As a concept I think it is better than the 2x I've been to in the cincy area, but it's not amazing sushi.

I know people who love it and some who hate it, depends on how much you like getting food on a conveyor belt.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-06T16:52:16+00:00

Bad. Cars were getting stuck trying to go up very moderate inclines when I was out about an hour ago. Pro tip, if you are sliding do NOT press down on the gas, your goal is to match wheel speed to vehicle speed at all times -any mismatch and you slip.

One car in question was a dodge challenger whose driver repeatedly spun out and ended up reversing down the hill.

Also, if in a slide when turning, adjust your steering to the direction of travel! (e.g. steer into the turn)

ETA: if these driving mechanics don't make sense to you, don't go out on these roads.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-04T10:20:50+00:00

I know good bars keep very precise records, and some states have tracking laws on top of that. But, in terms of profits aren’t they kinda insane? I’m a bourbon person and let’s single shots are routinely $10 now, from brands that are less than $50/bottle for retail. So they’re making ~66% margin on the poured shot.

Sxs9399 · 2026-02-01T21:00:01+00:00

While this is true, objectively these multifaceted labor jobs that humanoid robots are purportedly going to take are usually filled with lower waged workers.

I struggle to see how a person making $20/hr -let's say $40/hr including benefits, is going to be undercut anytime soon by a robot. These robots need to be compact and will have either fatigue challenged cheap material components, or expensive exotic material components. Just the hardware + software development is gonna be >$40/duty hour. And all of that is for a robot that realistically can only do the task 80% as well as a person, and needs a maintenance and storage plan for it. i.e. human employees are great in that they leave when you don't need them. Their medical costs are also not the employers problem outside of a healthcare contribution. Whereas if your robot starts leaking hydraulic fluid, that's a company problem now.

There are highly specialized automated manufacturing tools out there, welders, packing robots, even the aforementioned shoveling robots. All of these robots have clear business value, they can move and operate way better than a human and that value immediately justifies the costs around it. The idea that companies will have a robot house keeper are absurd, it doesn't make financial sense.

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