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So, same thing as today then?

Then the old Sony Ericssons would be her best option I think.

Definitely not. No chat apps, no proper camera, no email, no video calls.

Is there a reason to think that this might not have equally good software for taking pictures? Almost, at least. There are a lot of phones in the market with good cameras (yes, + software).

We won't know until someone tries it.

I can see a niche (or two) for this.

My wife hates every smartphone that is currently in the market. They are all too huge for her. She has an iphone SE which was the best compromise at the time, although she still finds it big. She doesn't want to get a new one, because there is nothing on the market of that size. She doesn't use most the smart features. She only uses it for chat with family and friends and getting email notifications (and reading them, but never replying on the phone). She also uses it as a camera. And calls, including video calls. This might be a solution, although for some reason they say "no email app". I'm hoping you can add one later.

And then as a child's phone to keep them off social media, while also having a chat app to actually communicate with them.

Even for me, it's been some years too that I've been thinking that I don't really need a smartphone. I mostly need a device that I can use to make calls and that I can use as a hotspot for connecting other devices such as a laptop when I need to.

The keyboard will definitely not be an issue. I'm old enough to remember teens using those kind of keyboards typing blindly in astonishing speeds, even without T9.

Lack of 5G might be an issue.

The price is steep. I'm not sure if that is going to be a problem.

You can't do video calls on those sub $100 phones though.

Don't let the form factor fool you, this is not a dumb phone.

They say that it has a 48MP camera so that shouldn't be a problem. I think I saw them comparing it to the iphone's camera even. Remains to be seen of course.

goto has its uses in C. This is not one of them though. The resulting code is horrible.

It's difficult for me to imagine what it would take to get a doctoral thesis revoked.

Personal grudges. Academia is full of them.

Oh, I stand corrected, thank you. I actually looked and couldn't find it. Indeed they could market it better.

No it isn't. Not unless it's free.

This is the main reason letsencrypt is so popular.

You don't have to span several centuries to witness that. "και" is pronounced in several different ways in modern greek as well. But that's besides my original point.

Haha, right!

Indeed, in ancient greek they put the "δέκα" (ten) part second. Τρία και δέκα (13), τέσσερα και δέκα (14), πέντε και δέκα (15), etc, but 11 and 12 was (and still is in modern greek) irregular, έντεκα (enteka) and δώδεκα (dodeka) respectively.

As the sibling comment already said "kai" (pronounced ke like in keg) just means "and". So it literally means 4 and 10 sides in greek. But I have often seen it written as τετραδεκάεδρο (tetradecahedron) in greek as well, so without the kai part. I'm not sure why it is 4 and 10 instead of 14 though. It would be more natural in greek that way (δεκατετράεδρο - decatetrahedron). Maybe it is for putting the distinctive part (4) first, or maybe it sounded more "poetic" like that to someone and then it stuck.

So, should they stop commuting to work to afford their AI subscription? Or perhaps just don't eat anything for 5 days a month?

Yes, that's precisely the reason why California is one of the poorest states in the US. People are just dumber there, it's the heat you see.

What a load of pseudoscientific garbage disguising racism.

At this point why not make it millions? Millions of Iranian jets have been shot down! It sounds better.

I hate April fools' day.

You can run this on a 10 year old celeron laptop.

The deeply nested menu for entering the url, that’s bad, I agree.

I'm not saying it is perfect, but it was not that bad, really. It's only one level down. And then you could also use a keyboard shortcut for it, which is always faster than anything mouse-driven if your hands are on the keyboard, which they would be, if you wanted to type a URL.

And even if you had to use the mouse, there is an interface feature we have lost: tear-off menus. If you found that you needed something in a nested menu often, you could simply tear-off that submenu and pin it on your desktop so you can always have direct access.

When watching this I'm shocked how bad the UX Was these days. The scrollbar left, the triple steped menu...

Perhaps the only thing "bad" about it is that you're simply not used to it. I can certainly think of someone used to that UI thinking the same thing about today's interfaces, with disappearing scrollbars, flat design and confusing icons.

Directory support and hierarchical filesystems were only supported after version 2.0. Until then, the experience was identical to CP/M.

Not that it was that much of an important feature at that time either. With the 360KB size of 5.25" drives, there were only so many files you could put in a disk. Support for hard drives was also introduced later, with version 2.0 and if I remember correctly, support for 3.5" 720KB drives came only with MSDOS 3.20.

GPT-OSS 120B: "Yes—the next calendar year after 2025 is 2026."

Good.

LLama 4 Scout: "To determine if 2026 is next year, we need to consider the current year. As of my knowledge cutoff, the current year is 2024.

If we assume the current year is 2024, then:

    2025 would be next year.
    2026 would be the year after next.

    2026 would indeed be next year.

Me: this is year 2025

LLama 4 Scout: "With 2025 being the current year, that means:

    2026 is indeed next year.

Fair enough.

Llama 3.1 8b: "No, 2024 is the current year. 2026 will be two years from now."

That was expected.

Qwen 3 32b: "No, 2026 is not next year. Here's the breakdown:

    Current year: 2023  
    Next year: 2024  
    The year after that: 2025  
    2026 will occur two years after 2024.

I wasn't expecting that.

"We've removed the distractions..." So, no browser is included then? That won't be very useful.

And also "Commercial-grade media support". Those two things are at odds, aren't they?

And why is it a "terminal" and not a "computer"? Is it because "terminal" is a geeky word?

And no pictures, other than the very obvious render? How thick is it? What kind of connectivity/ports does it have? Is it completely flat, or wedge shaped? Can the keyboard be detached somehow? What's the deal with those weird keys? What does it look on the inside? What's the software that it's actually using? What WM is that? Can I install it on my laptop? Where is the source code? So many questions.

It looks a lot like vapourware to me. And at that price point, I'm not sure who is going to buy that.

It really isn't. Hire someone that actually speaks the language and can review the page before deployment. Otherwise, don't do it.

What on earth is this abomination of a website? My locale is Greek and I'm presented with an auto-translated page in which most sentences don't make any sense. And I don't think it's AI slop, it's too bad to be even that. It feels more like google translate from a decade ago, translating everything word by word. FFS, go to fiverr and hire an actual human that knows how to translate stuff.

Oh, and of course you're presenting greek text, as awful as it is, but didn't think to check if the font you're using supports greek at all.

I'm sure it's the same for lots of other languages. sigh

WordStar was basically all we needed, and it still is. > Imagine if you had something that small and powerful today.

I completely agree with the first part. But why do you think we don't have that today, if we choose to do so?

Can you point me to the directive/regulation that states that? I am in the EU and I'm not aware of any such thing. I have two cars that are 2006-2008 models and I am not planning on replacing them.

You're right, but mp3 is still even more widely supported. It is also good enough, most people can't tell the difference between original files and around 128kbps ABR mp3 files, let alone higher bitrates. And there are huge personal libraries of mp3 files out there that are not going away.

That said, I don't see the use of this tool. It's a proprietary tool that does basic things for which free tools (in every sense of the word) have existed for a long time now.

Some of us never did. Well, it's XMMs in my case, but that's besides the point. A complete music library with stuff that I actually like only takes a very part of my storage. It's even possible to carry everything on my phone these days.

I keep hearing horror stories about online music platforms, from disappearing content, to AI slop and I'm so glad I never jumped on that.