From abc0930b8839d94465b8405adf5f7573d59fd1f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neale Pickett Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:24:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] more phone crap --- .../index.md | 0 .../2024/01-23-featurephone-woes/index.md | 57 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+) rename content/blog/2024/{01-21-noka-2780 => 01-21-nokia-2780}/index.md (100%) create mode 100644 content/blog/2024/01-23-featurephone-woes/index.md diff --git a/content/blog/2024/01-21-noka-2780/index.md b/content/blog/2024/01-21-nokia-2780/index.md similarity index 100% rename from content/blog/2024/01-21-noka-2780/index.md rename to content/blog/2024/01-21-nokia-2780/index.md diff --git a/content/blog/2024/01-23-featurephone-woes/index.md b/content/blog/2024/01-23-featurephone-woes/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0367e75 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2024/01-23-featurephone-woes/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +--- +title: Featurephone Woes +date: 2024-01-23 +tags: + - featurephone +--- + +It's day 4 and some of the irritations are becoming apparent. + +Not being able to shut it up at night is bad. +I may start storing it in another room, I'm not sure. +My wife seems to think no featurephone ever had quiet hours: +that was a smartphone thing. +Maybe. But I don't like getting notification sounds +at 11pm when there's a blip in Internet connectivity. + +KaiOS 3.0 is locked down hard. +I can't sideload apps: +the only way to test things out is on my device is to register a developer account, +upload the app to their store, +and then sign my phone up as a tester for the app. +I'll do that, but I'm not happy about it. + +I did make an audiobook player, though! +And it seems to work just dandy. +So I've restored that function. +There's a W3C standard for audiobook manifests, +so in theory I can make an app where you just provide a URL to a standard-compliant manifest and blammo, +you have that audiobook. +Pretty easy, +and I [i]love[/i] that the app development platform is just HTML and JavaScript. +Every mobile OS should work this way. This is the right thing. + +Some of the things I thought would be problematic just aren't. +The loss of the Signal app just doesn't matter: +I'm using the desktop app, +which I like better anyway, +since our chats are more long-form. +And it looks like my crew is dipping their toes back into IRC anyway, +which is great, +because it's an open standard, +so I can develop an app for it. + +I need to deposit a check today. +It looks like nobody's web page allows that: +I must use a smartphone. +That's... irritating. + +A couple of nice things have happened, too. +Because texting is so much less convenient, +I'm spending more time in voice calls with my kid, +which I like quite a bit. +It also didn't take long at all for me to lose the compulsion to "check my phone". +It's totally gone, +no withdrawl symptoms or anything. +That may be worth all the other inconveniences. +We'll see.