#AudioMo: Years ago, I got a GE microcassette answering machine just for fun. More recently, I got an AT&T digital answering machine and discovered it had some unusual but cool features, including a built-in talking caller ID. Inspired by a long thread about old phones and phone equipment, I recorded a demo of both answering machines, including leaving myself a message on the tape and playing back the famous "Answering Machine Song".
There are many "classic" (in intentional quotes) works of Harry Potter fanfiction I've never read. This weekend, it's the turn of the Sacrifices series by Lightning on the Wave. 80 thousand words down, only a cool almost three million to go.
@jscholes I either remember very little of these books or never got past book 2 at first. There's a lot to like about them; I can see why they were popular. Do you know if they were the start of the whole WBWL trend? I always thought that was a weirdly specific thing for so many authors to do, especially when you invent a whole brother for Harry.
I added the Tank Mini to my lineup of Unihertz phones. It's a 4.3-inch rugged phone with a 5800 MAH battery. Feels downright pleasant to use. The Jelly Star is very noticeable in its smallness, but the Tank Mini feels like using a normal Android phone. It has 33 watt charging which, hilariously, is the fastest charging speed of any phone I've ever owned by quite a wide margin. It's not much more expensive than the Jelly Star, and might appeal to more people because of its larger screen and massive battery. It also has two multifunction buttons, and like the Jelly Star, it supports a second SIM or a micro SD card, and has a headphone jack and fingerprint reader. It also has a whopping 12 GB RAM, compared to the Jelly Star's 8 GB, and 256 GB of internal storage. Pretty sure it uses the same MediocreTech chip as the Jelly Star, but it feels responsive enough ... except when I scroll, of course.
@drew There's rumours of a new Titan phone. Something that at least runs Android 13/14 would be amazing, I'd think. Have you tried one of their older phones or written them off because they're outdated?
@drew Agreed. I do wish I could look at all their phones though. They have some really interesting ones, they're just all really outdated, except for the Tank and Jelly line.
Neurodivergent pout moment here. I wish I had a way to set an alarm for later in the week. I have a doctor's appointment that I've already missed once because of brain fog. Had I remembered to set an alarm the night before, this might not have been an issue. I'm normally pretty timely when it comes to my appointments. I'm just, struggling medically and sometimes I wish I had tech that filled in the gaps for me. I'm working through these brain hiccups with my partner, and that's great. I think I'm just having a human vs. tech moment right now. Happy Tuesday, all.
@singingnala I hear you. Maybe look into other alarm apps if you can. Or use a Google/echo, which can in fact set alarms in the future. Or, set one for that particular day on iOS, as a weekly alarm. Then the worst that happens is you forget to turn it off. It is kind of a ridiculous limitation of the clock app though.
Oh! I'm so excited! They've made it so that M4B's extract properly in VoiceDream Reader! This has made my day all that much better than it already was. And now I'm off to sleep!
@NightDrake You mean you actually get chapters now? That was a big problem for a long time, it's the entire reason I started creating .zip copies of all my books.
@spaciath Oh, that makes sense. I've never thought about doing that, and don't have any experience with it. If Dropbox uses the kind of resources it does on Windows, I wouldn't recommend it.
Does anyone have the latest h1Essential firmware? I can't find a link to it on their site. Like, the text is there, but the link doesn't seem to be there.