It feels like i didn’t have the VII for a solid year before the service got turned off. The iPAQ had a docking sleeve for a cf wireless card. That was when i felt like a mad pimp. 🤓

I had the Palm VII, which had a mobile data connection and an antenna you would flip up. I felt like a god. When i “upgraded” to the Compaq ipaq i felt that the world was my oyster!

Now i hate my phone.

Sounds like a fun project. As other commenter stated, those brackets really make the best use of an old case. Can’t think of a better solution for that. For power, you can grab one of those 200w USB power/charger adapters, put it in the case and feed the power cable out the back. Might look a little janky, though.

Good luck! Let’s see what you come up with!

Hey, kinda unrelated but related…

I had an ant problem and read about mixing borax with flour and sugar to make a dough. Roll this dough in to little balls, about the size of a BB, and leave a bunch near the ant sources. They go crazy for the stuff and take it back to their nest. Except borax kills them in quick order. I was skeptical, but damn it if it didn’t work like a champ. Good luck… they can be resilient!

Drats! Oh well, nipples it is then!

You had me at “eat it”. What’s it taste like?

True. Tough if you’re wearing hats!

I don’t know… between that massive bezel and taking up the gpio power, that’s kind of a drag. Price is right, however. And i’m sure my petty issues don’t speak for the masses!

Probably because consumers have made them billionaires.

Look how smug and happy he is! Anyone wanna tell him?

That’s fine, but they did what they said and if you want to turn off your credit line because dishonest fuckfaces are stealing from you, you don’t have a lot of choices. I offered up what I did as an anecdote of how I accomplished it.

If you want to freeze your credit with the three major agencies, I called Experian first and they said they were sending the request to the other two agencies. I did this for another reason earlier in the year. Your mileage may vary now as I hear they’re getting crushed with requests.

Get ready to answer a grip of extremely specific questions to prove who you are.

MEGACAR

The turnaround from screen to home media has gotten short enough to where it’s fine to wait for a high quality version. Cams were good in the 80s when you bought the VHS tapes from some dude selling them out of a box down in the subway. Though the odds of brining home a blank were pretty good!

Anyone try this on Android TV-like box? Perhaps I will. Though will be kind of hard to usurp the Stremio/Debrid/Torrentio/Orion setup. Might be a nice Plan B for when Debrid lays an egg.

The way that worked best would be to stumble across a site you liked with common interests and hope they had links to other sites of the same ilk, etc. The WEB! 🤪

Fediverse seemed to start out pretty strong, but little napoleons running their instances de-federate everything they don’t agree with, essentially killing the idea with their little walled gardens that would just be better off running phpbb or vbulletin.

While cheap healthcare here is nice, without private insurance (pricey) it can be months to get an appointment with a primary care doctor. I had to fire one doctor who just refused to make progress on treating my conditions or help in the aid of persistent pain. Many doc offices operate as patient mills, where you can wait up to 90 minutes past your appointment time to be seen for 5 minutes. Office gets the pay from insurance, and you need to return 3 months later with the same ailments. I was stuck in that system for a year before I found a new doc that would listen to me and take me on as a patient.

So, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. It is a better setup than in the US, where insurance has ruined the industry, but unless you’re diligent about getting a good doctor to take you on, or pay for private insurance, It’s just a grind. A lot of chopping, but no chips are flying.

The system here is better, but the treatment you get in the US is ultimately more beneficial.

This has been my experience and perhaps not representative of the system as a whole.

It’s crazy! The doctor said they weren’t allowed to use email because fax was more secure. I explained that using e-fax wasn’t any more secure. I also reached out to a guy I know who works IT for a small village and the way he laid it out is that Germany doesn’t want to have to upgrade and train everyone on email, buy all the computers, go through the growing pains of new tech.

This sums up Germany in general… if it’s not broken then shut up, there’s nothing to fix. You can’t even go grocery shopping or wash your car on Sundays. The rest of the EU runs laps around Germany on tech and progressive life.

(Transplant from USA, I should note. It’s been a journey.)

Are you in Germany? They’re still using fax, predominantly, here. My doctor wanted to fax my records, couldn’t email them to me. I said of course don’t have a fkn fax, it’s 2024. I asked if people still have pots lines for fax machines and she said they use e-fax. There’s your German efficiency!

Anyway, government passed some law saying they have to cease using them (for gov business) by end of 2024. In the meantime, don‘t throw that telegraph out just yet!

Combination of Sportsfire and Streamfire apps.