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Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.

I've been terminally online for ~40 years, long before the big endless scroll. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. 1200 baud modems on fire from Usenet flame wars. I watched c-news servers stutter at the mere mention of Kibo. All those moments will be lost in AI slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.
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@glyph when the company I last worked for was purchased by a giant financial industry entity, we were at about 1200 employees. We were bought for about a billion dollars.

We had no librarian. Not even a dba.
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They grow up so fast these days.
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I'm not sure why, but Toys R Us carries a bunch of vinyl records.
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@cks Swipe to camera does NOT enable people to go from camera app to looking at your photos, unless you are looking at the camera right when doing the swipe to camera screen.
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@cks You can do that (locked, looking at whatever is on the screen) without it auto unlocking by face. I have to swipe up from the bottom to have the Face ID do its thing. Swipe one way for camera while still locked, or swipe the other way for a dashboard thing.
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@kkarhan Iridium, an OG mobile!
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@StarkRG The cycle begins anew.
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@gam3 An actual hand held phone vs mini tablet :)
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@rolfcronberg Time flies.
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@harmoniousanger Amazing, and hope it continues to do it's job for you.
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Wow, this poll is doing numbers. Pun intended.
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@cks Oh, I can see that.
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@cks You're already looking at the screen when unlocking though, unless you do blind unlocks with it in your pocket for some sneaky recording reason.
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@CommonSparrow Stahp, you’re falling off the of the far end of the bell curve and making people question their life choices :)
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@unchartedworlds that counts, given the recent news article trying to blame some down economy on people not upgrading yearly

If a device is used many years that’s a good thing imo
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I'm still rocking a 2020 era iPhone 12 mini. Runs iOS 26 just fine.

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html
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@kkarhan I had trouble with he poll, original post gone. Please comment on the new one :)
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How old is your mobile phone?
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Still rocking my 2020 era iPhone 12 mini, and it runs the latest iOS 26 just fine.
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@GlobalNews @edmonton-GlobalNews Hey Get in losers, we're taking you to the recall thrashing machine.