Verizon will tell you to fuck right off and will never unlock your device.

Will never unlock their device.

Yeah, you can also find “crystal radio” kits — radio receivers that use only the received RF to produce sound (no external power source).

“Over the last 3–4 months, we have observed that CPUs initially working well deteriorate over time, eventually failing,” he claims. “The failure rate we have observed from our own testing is nearly 100%, indicating it’s only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail.”

Not used to seeing significant age-related degradation in silicon used under normal conditions. Sounds like Intel dun goofed…

For a while Intel’s QuickSync was I think one of the better for transcoding (e.g., for Jellyfin). Didn’t see mention of this in the article, I wonder if AMD is on par now?

Double-sided phone could be pretty neat.

I was curious, so I looked it up and it seems that around 3KB is the max for a single 177x177 code (though I imagine this is a “soft” limit?). With 600DPI being common for laser printers, a DPI-limited 3KB would be well under 1cm x 1cm. My hunch is that this wouldn’t be super reliable (DPI limit not necessarily the resolution of the printer?), but I’d be curious to see what the usable QR density actually is. But yeah…a few QR codes should do the trick!

I would be surprised if you couldn’t get 8KB for 200 years out of standard flash simply by extreme duplication — 8GB/8KB means a million copies on one (very small by today’s standards!) drive.

Or is the failure mechanism something other than bitrot?

1. Print out 8KB on high quality paper.
2. Store in good environment…

Had Linux support too! (From day 1? Not sure…)

I had a copy, and during undergrad I figured out that I could copy it over to /tmp on a computer in the University’s Linux cluster — no root required. They were high end machines at the time (Xeons with Quadro cards I think?), and UT2K4 played great on them.

My work phone is nice (~$700 new?), so I use that for camera when possible.

My personal phone is an entry level “free” phone. Through Google Fi, and for this one you pay up front, with bill credits for the next year (I think?) which covers the cost — so basically I give Google Fi a $200 loan where the “interest” is a cheap phone. No complaints, it’s not premium but it works.