To get your…battery replaced, and they want to charge you for a new engine.

Right? It’s a frigging battery.

Surely we can get a group of battery techs and mechanical engineers together to come up with a solution.

Hell, I’ve been bastardizing the “wrong” batteries into devices since the mid-70’s, while today I’m usually replacing crappy built-in batteries with 18650’s. And I’m no EE, just have a little skill and vision.

Surely the battery spec on this is pretty clear, and it’s an off-the-shelf tech (not some odd chemistry devised by the company). Not that it really matters - a replacement merely needs to fit in the space, and match voltage and current requirements.

Laser is your long term answer. Brother seems to be the brand today.

Lol, so true!

Also, don’t buy inkjet.

My first inkjet was an HP bubblejet, about 1994. My last was some garbage about 2000. Since then I’ve refused to own one.

My 1997 laserjet (that I bought used in 2008) just died. I bougt a color laser on Craigslist for $50. And my current BW laser is a 2014 HP, that just got it’s second cartridge.

You can’t give me an inkjet.

I would never allow non-corp equipment to connect to our network.

Is helium used in deodorants these days?

The difference is even this pittance of a fine wouldn’t happen in a planned economy - it would be like the planners fining themselves.

What we’re seeing here is a result of the amoral “beastly” types concentrating power. What you’re suggesting is to intentionally concentrate that power from the start.

And you’re ignoring what happens in the SMB space, where people aren’t part of the corrupt circle.

You’re welcome to start a small community anywhere in the US with a planned economy, as proof of concept.

You could call it… A commune, to indicate its goals.

I wonder if maybe some kind of notification system for her, and you, would be useful (in addition to blocking).

Then maybe you can interrupt her, perhaps talk about it, or setup some tools for her to use to help manage stuff and learn along the way.

Guess what I’m going for is the learning/growth angle, rather than just automatic constraints (which hy themselves don’t teach or help us learn to manage this stuff ourselves).

Seems like there’s a need for all this for all kids, not just neuro-atypical.

Your “job” isn’t to “change” anyone’s view - and a real pastor would know this.

Change is an individual thing, and a “real” pastor would be appalled at your idea of the implication of denying individuality by thinking you can make another person change.

Your job is to help people examine the world, examine themselves, and gain understanding, so they can determine for themselves what change needs to take place.

Thinking you can make others change (and thinking that the change you choose is the “correct” one) is the height of hubris, and offensive to the very concept of personhood.

Pastor my ass. Nothing more than a sophist.

By supporting networking (and also using a mesh to increase range).

As I understand “walkie talkie” radios, the spectrum they use (GMRS/FRS/CB/MURS, etc) isn’t permitted to transmit data in a way that’s useful for proper data networking (there’s some allowance for data but not really anything like what most people think of as networking, and encryption is right out of the question).

For the most part, these radio specs can only increase range by use of repeaters. IIRC meshtastic takes a mesh approach to increasing range and reliability.

Yep, an OS would need to be monolithic for a given device.

Something the computer world decided was a Bad Thing in about 1978.

My experience with C:

It’s not as robust as claimed. I’ve had 4x as many C connectors fail as even Micro USB (and I’ve had 10x as many micro devices/cables as C).

Which is really disappointing, as C is just nicer in general - not having to try 3 or 4 times is such a better design. I’m still confused as to why A, Mini, Micro didn’t have a dot to indicate “this way up” on both cable and device as part of the standard. I added one to everything with either a sharpie or a paint pen.

So yea, robustness - A/B are just more robust in my experience.

The MDM APIs in android land are a hot mess

Ain’t that the truth.

I avoid Google stuff, actually going Google free on the phone I’m setting up now, so Family Link is out for me. And I try to avoid all-eggs-in-a-basket anyway.

Yea, it sucks. I’ve looked at a LOT of MDM for Android.

Hmm, I couldn’t find that anywhere. Thanks again.

Oh, cool. Thanks for the recommendation!

What’s Activity Watch do?

I looked at Github, by like so many projects there, the descriptions vary from minimal to non-existant.

For phone, a couple things.

Look for Mobile Device Management. I’ve been meaning to do this for family for years.

Flyve is an open source MDM. I’ve only tested it so far. You may want to look around for others.

To help with file management on Android, I setup sync jobs between the phone and a desktop (or a user’s laptop) for certain folders, things like DCIM, Download, Movies, Pictures, etc (and certain app data folders such as Camscanner) using Syncthing-Fork on the phone, and Syncthing or SyncTrayzor on a pc. Doing this enables file management from the pc, as changes can sync back to the phone (and since I want my photos on my pc anyway…). Syncthing can work across most any network, including the internet and your phone data plan (so don’t let it sync big stuff using data). It can be locked with a password too, to prevent little hands from mucking things up.

You could, in theory, just let it sync the entire sdcard, but lots of stuff changes all the time, such as app data in the Android folder. No reason to sync that stuff. Plus doing that doesn’t permit finer control of sync for things like DCIM, which I permit to sync over any network and any power state.

Syncthing also works between two or more phones, or PCs (windows or Linux), and has lots of flexibility for sync. I use it extensively to share stuff with friends so we don’t have to think about sharing, especially for larger files. I sync files between phones with no PC, some sync jobs use a pc as intermediary so both phones don’t need to be connected all the time, etc.

Another sync tool, Resilio, is really good. But on the phone it’s a major memory and battery hog, so I use it only for it’s selective Sync feature, and keep it turned off otherwise.

These are just my ideas, everyone’s use-case is different. Your problem is one I’ve been lazily working on for years, so I look forward to the other ideas that come up here.

Agreed.

This is some of the best writing as to how/why/when cloud sucks.

I’ve shared it with my consulting friends, so they can more easily explain to (SMB) clients why cloud isn’t necessarily a good answer.

Yea but the people who use this today grew up after T9.