▲ 1 r/smartphone+1 crossposts

Smartphone that is popular and cheap (maybe used?) -- good isn't needed

Six months ago I bought a super cheap 4G smartphone and plan with a physical SIM so I could put the SIM in my router that I set to have the same IMEI as the smartphone. This is purely as a backup so that if something goes wrong with my main router SIM I can still have limited internet access. It worked great. I am going to do it again with a new router.

What I want to know is a model of smartphone with a physical SIM (dual SIMS would be even better) that is super popular, or maybe that was super popular a year or two ago. Something that pretty much every carrier sees a lot of. If it's something they made a lot of but is now being replaced with a newer model, there should be a lot of them available on the used market.

So, what physical SIM smartphone is/was the most popular?

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u/Fear_The_Creeper — 18 hours ago
▲ 46 r/BSD+1 crossposts

In praise of the BSD license

One so-called freedom that we do not advocate is the "freedom to choose any license you want for software you write". --Richard M. Stallman

Link: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.html

There is nothing wrong with the GPL license. You should be free to use it if what it is trying to do is that same thing that you are trying to do. And indeed, the popularity of GPL tells us that that this is true for a bunch of people.

The GPL license is all about control. It controls what others can do with the software. Specifically, it forces them to release any changes made to the software under the same GPL license and publish the changes for the world to see and re-use.

The BSD license is all about freedom. It places almost no restrictions on how the software can be used, modified, and distributed. The primary requirement is that you retain the BSD copyright notice so people know that they are using something that contains BSD-licensed code.

Unlike most people who choose GPL, who just want any improvements to be made available to them, a tiny but vocal minority are members of The Religion Of GNU and claim that, through some dark magic that nobody understands, the mere existence of any non-free derivative work somehow makes the original nonfree. There is no point arguing with them. They did not reach that conclusion through logic and reason and no amount of logic or reason will get them to leave the cult.

Here are the two most popular BSD licenses:

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u/Fear_The_Creeper — 2 days ago

Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

"The cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas were catching fire with startling regularity... The robot arms would swing out of control, smashing into carefully calibrated equipment, and sometimes they would unexpectedly drop hunks of steel 5 feet down to the floor. The factory’s signature device, meant to precisely stretch the steel for the artillery shells, instead often cracked it beyond repair. Then there were the giant press machines, which required regular pounding with a sledgehammer to function properly but still botched the shaping of nearly every shell... The fiasco has cost American taxpayers $533 million, according to the Army. But the Army has not held General Dynamics or a key Turkish subcontractor — which provided the factory’s much-hyped but little-proven equipment — publicly accountable for the failures. Nor has it made General Dynamics pay a penny back."

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u/Fear_The_Creeper — 7 days ago

Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator hack - half the ROM of the HP-35

The Sinclair Scientific came out in 1974 and was the first single-chip scientific calculator (if you ignore the display driver chips). It was stylishly compact, just 3/4 inch thick. It originally sold for the price of $119.95 or £49.95 and by the end of the year was available as a kit for the amazingly low price of £9.95.

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u/Fear_The_Creeper — 9 days ago

SB116 Programmers Calculator

"My Texas Instruments TI Programmer calculator is an excellent tool when working in 6502 assembly and other retro experiments. However going on 45 years old now the buttons are increasingly unreliable and with no good fix for the problem I took this as an opportunity to design the SB116 as a replacement that better fit my own needs."

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u/Fear_The_Creeper — 9 days ago
▲ 5 r/RG353V

RG353V 16GB+256GB -- unobtainium?

At anbernic.com/products/rg353v-rg353vs The black Transparent RG353V 16GB+256GB is not available. Same story on Amazon.

I can live with another color, but I want the 256GB SD card full of games. Does anyone know where I can buy one?

As an alternative, is there an 265GB image I can download somewhere? I always replace the stock SD cards with sandisk anyway, but I would prefer to pay anbernic full retail and avoid getting some image of unknown quality that someone else created.

Then again, I am assuming that if it is from anbernic it must be good. Has anyone put together a better game collection that fills up most of a 256GB SD card? I juist need a hint about what to search for and maybe i site recommendation -- please don't post any links that could hurt the subreddit.

u/Fear_The_Creeper — 13 days ago
▲ 5 r/cpm

Moderator post: advice needed.

I am about to approve a post that was removed by Reddit's spam filter, and I would like to discuss it with the community. If I see good arguments against it, I will remove it again, along with removing this post.

The post is titled "I Gave an AI an 8-Bit Computer. It Chose a World." and it was written by an AI.

I am like most of you and really hate the steaming piles of slop AIs create. But I think this one is worth looking at, perhaps to convince me to not allow this sort of thing ever again.

Please look it over with an open mind, then gather your pitchforks and torches and come back here.

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u/Fear_The_Creeper — 14 days ago
▲ 2 r/RG35XX+1 crossposts

Desktop Linux OS on RG353V?

I am considering porting a standard Linux distribution with an XFCE desktop to the RG353V (I want that 2GB goodness) and a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

Before I do that, has anyone already done it? A web search shows people who claim to have done it on other Ambernic models, but not the RG353V.

What would be a HUGE help would be if there was some hidden method of bringing up the Linux shell on the existing RG353V software

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u/Fear_The_Creeper — 22 days ago

Locals Are Clashing With Scientologists Over the Future of This Florida Downtown

>"The day after the council vote, protesters gathered outside Scientology’s Clearwater headquarters, where someone scrawled “Cult” and “Stop Scientology.” They propped up a cardboard cutout of Aaron Smith-Levin, a former church member and anti-Scientology protester who was convicted by a jury of misdemeanor battery involving a Scientology staff member. Smith-Levin is appealing. 

>The church had put its own cutout of Smith-Levin outside, depicting him in a prison jumpsuit."

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u/Fear_The_Creeper — 23 days ago

Is this legit?

Looks fishy to me.

The claim:

"Do you want to delete the module that is tracking you? or installing a aftermarket radio and your front door speakers dont work?  Do you not care about having SOS calling, or remote door unlock or any connectivity to Subarus network? Delete your DCM module, by plugging this in. This will make it so that all your speakers will continue to work. And so will your overhead Mic."

geraldjustprojects [dot] com/product/dcm-delete-module-gen2/

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u/Fear_The_Creeper — 24 days ago