There was a 1950s radio drama show called X-Minus One that adapted stories from a science fiction magazine. There’s a comedic one that is a surprising critique of capitalism in 1950s America called “Snowball Effect” [spoilers ahead] about an economics professor who comes up with a formula for unlimited growth and tests it out on a small women’s organization in a small town in Wisconsin. It starts working too rapidly, but he has built a flaw into the formula where the organization will quickly collapse if they stop getting new members. But it becomes so successful that the organization takes over the world. At the end of the episode, the world leader (who started as the president of the organization in the tiny Wisconsin town) announces that they are landing the first people on Mars to look for Martians because they desperately needed new members.
Holy fuck I have just discovered that the phone app in Android 13 [EDIT: no; see below] vibrates when an outgoing call connects
An outgoing call
There is no way to turn this off except to disable all vibration on your phone
So you make a phone call, you put it up to your ear, and then this thing that you've put up to the side of your face vibrates intensely. It is the most deeply unpleasant, unnecessary thing. I already knew I was making a fucking phone call I pressed the button
@mcc Most service providers have some sort of menu you can access. It occasionally has some really basic settings for various things such as enabling/disabling VoLTE and etc. Sometimes it might have a few settings related to such modifications they have made for at least simple things like that vibrate on connect "feature." Usually accessible by dialing some special combination like #64# or somesuch. You would have to look it up based on the branded device itself.
1/4 A Pile, To Be Sorted by @spinkdinky (Chris McCully) combines a visualization of life's complexity with a metaphorical pursuit of clarity into captivating, vibrant, abstract pieces of art.
The artist dedicated it to his father and, in doing so, paid tribute to a piece of advice that he gave: To tackle life's challenges one small step at a time.
"Heardle 1 Hit Wonders #64
Maybe a 1 hitter in the UK. This artist had a Billboard #2 hit in 1977"
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[Ha, you made me go play this one. Yeah, I would never think this was a 1HW.]
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C64/Amiga emulator with PAL shader and runAhead
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