Notices by Matt 🌻 (matt@oslo.town)

@aral A game-changer with less than 10% adoption rate. Cool. 😎

😅

They're just innocent men. :face_laughing_with_sweat_drop_fb:

#DonaldTrump #Trump #Guilty #MAGA #TrumpGuilty #Verdict #Innocent #InnocentMen

Now that the UK has announced a Genital Election, I'm really looking forward to all the political content coming our way.

This isn't even sarcasm. I love a UK election.

#Politics #UKpol #UnitedKingdom #GeneralElection #Election2024

See, this sort of content is great. A bunch of people who always vote Tory being asked if they will still vote Tory and they mostly will.

https://youtu.be/FYT8MhP2EDE

#UK #UKpolitics #Politics #UnitedKingdom #YouTube

@MarkAssPandi @rysiek @katzenberger

Someone should update the comparison table on Wikipedia to help people find a good search engine.

🔴 Google = AI / Ads / Tracking
🔴 Bing = AI / Ads / Tracking
🔴 Brave = Cryptocurrency / Anti-trans / AI
🟠 DuckDuckGo = Ads / AI
🟠 Kagi = AI
🟠 Mojeek = Ads / AI
🟠 You.com = Ads / AI
🟡 Qwant = Ads
🟡 Startpage = Ads
🟡 Searx = Complicated
🟢 ???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

@aral Always interesting to hear your point of view. 🫶 And good luck with the move 🚛 📦

@ruari Yess! What I don't understand about feature phones is that people say the phones released today are WORSE than the ones that we had back in 2004.

I don't get how they can be worse. 🙉 Especially when they say predictive text is broken (I see that comment a lot).

Here's me wondering whether it was always bad on feature phones, our expectations changed but the tech didn't. Or, whether it has actually gotten worse.

Anyway, this past month I've been dreaming of making my own feature phone.

So tempted to buy a #Nokia flip phone to help me disconnect over Christmas. 🎄

I went into a phone store and asked to see the Nokia 2660 Flip and they were SOLD OUT of all their dumb Nokia phones.

Man said that they are amongst their top-selling phones right now, to all ages:

- Old people that don't know how to use other phones

- Millennials who want to disconnect

- Gen-z kids who think its cool to own a 2000s-style phone

So, that was that.

#MobilePhones #Cellphones #Nokia #FeaturePhones #DumbPhones #Technology #FlipPhone

To be honest, I think I would like owning the hardware, but could not deal with the software.

There seem to be a few companies making "feature phones" again for various reasons, but none of them are investing in the software.

KaiOS, running on some Nokia devices, is very very slow for the hardware. Nokia's S30+ operating system is dated and very crap. Other feature phones on the market seem to use Android or another bad proprietary OS.

I think it would be very interesting to have a feature phone device that was running a nice OS; one that could integrate useful messaging apps - so you can still chat to friends using Signal + WhatsApp, that encrypted the data on the device, that could sync your contacts or calendar with other services...

Punkt's MP02 started to do this, but it seems they shifted focus to making a smartphone based on Apostrophy OS.

https://aphy.io/about

@ruari I had a MP01 for a few years and even used it for about 6 months straight.

MP02 looks slightly better in the software department; it at least has Signal integration (they call it Pigeon). But I am sure it's still super buggy.

I agree that MP01 was a let-down. I can't talk for MP02 because I haven't used it. Their new project MC02 seems odd; they have gone into smartphone territory.

https://mc02.punkt.ch/

@ruari I really like the look of the hardware on both the 2019 (rounder) and 2023 (squarer) editions of the Nokia 105.

Very simple. Slim and compact. Robust. No camera (because who needs a VGA camera anyway).

But yes, probably very much let-down by the software.

@anguinea @stux That’s Britain today 🇬🇧 Post-Brexit.

😏

@aral You need to follow more cat accounts. :kakao_twirl:

@aral @RichardJMurphy The #UKLabour party conference voted to introduce #ProportionalRepresentation for General Elections - but #KierStarmer refuses to acknowledge it.

https://labourlist.org/2022/09/conference-passes-motion-urging-labour-to-introduce-pr-for-general-elections/

@aral Well, I hope you enjoy it 🤩

@aral You look like you’re sat near the back but also have a great view. 🔭 Small venue or deceiving camera angles?

@joelle @bert_hubert When you answer those captcha about traffic lights and zebra crossings you're actually driving someone's Tesla.