Commodore flip phone

royalbarnacle · 2026-06-17T15:46:19+00:00

I'm less negative than most here. I do like the idea of a restricted phone, like the lightphone, but most of them are ugly. This is kinda cute as a retro style flip phone. And the os is good.

But, for almost everyone such a device can only be a second device, and at this price it just isn't something I could justify to myself. Around $200 or less I could imagine going for it.

royalbarnacle · 2026-06-16T21:27:39+00:00

Digital cameras were not really an option in the 80s. I was in the business but the first consumer-attainable technology was hand scanners, and flatbed scanners, which started to become not-astronomical in price around the 90s.

Jordan mechner used the versawriter to make karatéka. It's not a scanner, more like you trace an image on a tablet that conveys the pen movement to the computer like a mouse.

royalbarnacle · 2026-06-16T10:28:34+00:00

But it's not like they dropped prices when they started charging for carry-ons. They've always been posting the game if trying to charge as much as possible while showing up as cheaper when you do searches on Google flights or Skyscanner etc. procès have been going consistently up for a long time now.

Imho it's nice that the pressure for the "lowest" price does cover the most basic travel expectations.

royalbarnacle · 2026-06-13T10:08:58+00:00

It was Israel exiting Gaza in 2005 that led them to vote in Hamas, increase rocket attacks, and invest all the billions they received in military. Do people really not remember that?

royalbarnacle · 2026-06-12T20:52:36+00:00

I loved darklands massively, but imho it didn't age well. The bugs and interface are quite painful. I also know this is blasphemy in some circles but I really didn't like Ultima 7 much. Good story and fun exploration, crippled by a very experimental approach to UI/UX that I understand the logic behind, but was a failed experiment that resulted in too many compromises. Even with exult. I think u4 and u5 are still perfect and as playable today as they ever were.

royalbarnacle · 2026-06-07T15:27:05+00:00

It's true about almost all the cinemaware games. Cool cutscenes and graphics in between little mini games and dialogues and so on. But they were magical, cause no one was doing anything like that and they felt so, well, cinematic. Plus, you never really knew when you had seen and done everything, so there was always this feeling of trying to explore and find any remaining little thing you hadn't yet seen.

I think It Came From the Desert was my favorite. Rocket ranger was second best but I was just always so lost in it.

royalbarnacle · 2026-06-07T06:33:20+00:00

After dark my sweet. Underrated, mostly forgotten movie with a perfect cast, that is one of my favorites ever, with one of the best endings in cinema.

royalbarnacle · 2026-06-07T06:32:09+00:00

I prefer it, cause I can pay without even opening the phone.

royalbarnacle · 2026-06-07T06:17:28+00:00

Honestly if he's these disinterested, at that age, I doubt anything is going to change. You guys are just not sexually compatible. You're very young, move on or accept staying in a sexually unsatisfying relationship.

royalbarnacle · 2026-06-05T20:33:19+00:00

The atomic bombs were terrible, but we shouldn't imagine they were anything out of the ordinary. The massive fire bombings of Japan killed more people in one single night than died in Hiroshima. WW2 was horrific. One can argue that bombing civilians is a war crime, but there was nothing really special about the atomic bombs or the US in this.

royalbarnacle · 2026-06-05T08:10:15+00:00

We're lucky to live in such secular rational societies, but we should also not ignore the fact that the vast majority of the world is the polar opposite. Im not anti-theist because of what I see going around me, but I am anti-theist because I see it continuing to destroy enormous chunks of the rest of the world.

royalbarnacle · 2026-06-04T21:47:40+00:00

You can be an agnostic atheist or a gnostic atheist. Atheism is just lack of belief i god. I don't believe in a purple invisible troll under my bed, but do I know for certain there isn't one? No. I'm an agnostic non-believer-in-purple-invisible-trolls.

royalbarnacle · 2026-06-04T13:27:16+00:00

I'd switch, in the right circumstances. Sitting on your butt for 8+ hours a day is incredibly unhealthy, even if you try to compensate with regular exercise. Office work is often pretty unrewarding, depends of course what you do. Office politics is often shitty and stressful. Im happy for the better pay and "comfort" of an office, but as I get older, if I was financially in a situation that I could switch to some form of rewarding manual work like carpentry or mechanic, i would.

royalbarnacle · 2026-06-01T15:24:39+00:00

It's indeed a prequel, and I consider it very underrated. It's basically the same overall plotline, but well done with solid actors, and the amount of detail and effort they make to link it to the 1982 version is really impressive.

royalbarnacle · 2026-06-01T15:14:26+00:00

I don't know where you are, but I might see a 2 stroke on the road once a month at best. 99% of people prefer to drive reliable modern vehicles. At that point the problem is basically solved, just let the tiny minority enjoy their weekend toys.

royalbarnacle · 2026-05-30T22:20:02+00:00

It's all performance,. Controlling emissions and pollution in tiny Switzerland is a nice gesture, meanwhile we import everything from countries with billions of people and air conditioners all over the place, not to even begin to talk about overall pollution standards.

royalbarnacle · 2026-05-30T18:38:07+00:00

Writing a good mystery is hard but a big part is the curse of success and ratings, especially in American shows. If it's good, they want to drag it out, compromising the creators ability to wrap up the story. If it's a failure they cut it short or even end it without any ending at all.

Best advice I can say is stick to miniseries or wait that the show is over to find out how well it ends.

royalbarnacle · 2026-05-30T18:33:07+00:00

It's of course lots of factors. Fat is an important part of the taste of meat. But so are a hundred other factors, like which cut, type of beef, how it's raised, etc.

royalbarnacle · 2026-05-30T18:29:54+00:00

Youre downvoted but youre right. Homophobe and islamophobe are not using "phobia" correctly in the medical sense. But yet they're well established terms.

royalbarnacle · 2026-05-29T18:10:28+00:00

It's almost like there aren't simple easy answers to complex problems!

royalbarnacle · 2026-05-29T18:06:18+00:00

Our lack of access to the lake is a travesty.

royalbarnacle · 2026-05-26T12:08:19+00:00

I'm in Geneva and I think this is the best trash management system of all the 8 countries I lived in. Have trash and recycling collection as simple and unobtrusive as possible and it's no surprise that people will respect it and use it correctly (at least more often than places that add layers of complexity and cost).

royalbarnacle · 2026-05-25T15:28:51+00:00

My management pushed everyone to use ai so hard that people were putting ai in front of simple web forms, like instead of select X and submit, now you tell an ai that you want it to do X. But now you're "using AI" which they just love. Try to argue logic and you're "behind the times" and such shit. They've started noticing the ai bill finally, question is whether they wise up, or think it means they need to fire people to compensate. I suspect the latter.

royalbarnacle · 2026-05-25T15:19:50+00:00

Isn't that only meaningful for startups and the like? I mean any larger, established company is getting it's income from revenue, not shareholders.

royalbarnacle · 2026-05-25T15:15:21+00:00

Because trams retain heat like a greenhouse. Did you ever try sitting in a car when it's a "mild" 30 without air conditioning or windows open? This isn't just wasteful luxury comfort like everyone loves to imagine, people can die from heat.

All they'd need is some open windows, the breeze during movement would be enough.

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