

I was enormously annoyed by the screen keyboard with my clumsy fingers, constantly being on the brink of throwing my phone at the wall out of frustration.
Switched the keyboard to handwriting recognition some years ago, and never went back.


I was enormously annoyed by the screen keyboard with my clumsy fingers, constantly being on the brink of throwing my phone at the wall out of frustration.
Switched the keyboard to handwriting recognition some years ago, and never went back.
Ich bin etwas neidisch.
Bei uns funktioniert anscheinend alles, also keine MS-Auszeit… :-(


Um für mich die Bahn für Fahrten mit der ganzen Familie wieder attraktiver zu machen, würde es schon ausreichen, einfach die Familienreservierung zurück zu bringen.
Familienbereiche sind nett und alles, aber wenn die Platzreservierung dort den Gesamt-Fahrtpreis in die nächste Stadt verdoppelt, kann die Bahn sich das aus meiner Sicht gerne schenken.


Oh no, reading OPs text again I have to conclude you are probably right.
This totally sounds like some artificial low-effort slob.
Damn.


It is from a time when manufacturers still were a little experimental, as the now dominating slab-touchscreen-design wasn’t a thing yet.
And it was really fun to use, most TOS-Star-Trek-Communicator like device I ever owned, and the huge metal keypad also felt incredible when typing.
I am missing the haptically much more satisfying designs of the past.
(Not just for phones - touch-only-elements mostly suck!)


The craziest drop I had was my Siemens EF81 falling down into an abandoned stone quarry during a geocaching expedition.
Not quite as high as your drop, only perhaps 20m height, but it hit rock outcroppings halfway down, disassembling it in the process, with phone, battery and back-cover spreading over a wide area.
We finally found a way to get down to the bottom of the quarry, there it took us some time to locate all the seriously scratched and tended parts between the rocks.
Assembled it without much hope, but turned on again without complaint.
A hell of a phone, almost full metal casing, hardened quartz glass outer display, massive metal hinges and inner skeleton.
This is a picture of the phone type, an elegant phone from a more civilized age:



As someone who grew up at a time when wood/brown-coal powered stoves still were the dominant form of heating in my part of the country, I am not surprised in the slightest.
Especially during atmospheric inversion weather during autumn you probably could have used a modern car engine as a air regeneration unit, as the car exhaust would have been cleaner than the original air the motor consumed.


I hope the people of Delray Beach people parade even harder, with a detour to the townhall with a thousand leprechauns then synchronously wiggling their naked arses in the direction of the mayor’s office.
Number 3:
I spontaneously become Kali, the goddess of relentless war and saber-toothed fury.
You don’t even have time to realize what has hit you.


One would think so, but for me, I noticed that it works best with the insanely fast pace.
My brain desperately tries too follow the rythm but is soon completely overwelmed by the galloping double-base and just gives up trying to pay attention to anything, while the music begins to mentally blend into a sort of highly structured noise, finally covering your thoughts on the way to sleep.


l once had an app doing that, but nowadays just use a suitable youtube music stream instead.


Listening to recorded rain sounds.
Alternatively: Industrial Thrash Metal.
l already blocked all communities that are explicitely dealing with domestic US-only stuff.
There are lots of those, so if I stumble upon US-defaulting posts in the remaining general communities, l sometimes can’t stop myself bringing some international perspective into them… 🤷♂️
“abolishing ICE would make it harder to have a cold drink”
Wouldn’t work in the same way because this kind of ice is:
a) not a unspecified 3-letter-acronym
b) completely lowercase
c) not a term being valid only in a limited geographic region
We should also try to abalish those…
Funnily I didn’t know of the ICE engine abbreviation until recently.
Let to some confusion reading an “ICE cars cannot be transported on Rhine” post.
First thought of the railway cars and after reading the article was convinced it was talking about cars for the immigration guys…
abolishing ICE would improve city air quality tho
lt would increase car traffic, so quite certainly no.
Is ICE a transit agency somewhere?
A type of train connection, the ICE-(Intercity-Express)-Network.
Do you like think ICE is public transportation or something?
Sure, Intercity Express.
But apprently we are talking about US inmigration politics instead, as l got from another comment already…
Abolishing ICE will accomplish nothing except making moving between cities harder.
We have to improve and expand the network instead to be able to also provide better regional connections.
It doesn’t sound like just a translation, but at least a complete stylistic rewrite (as it uses AI-typical phrases and is just too slick).
And seeing the effort OP is expending on interacting with the community in their own post (none), I strongly suspect the post to also be a minimal effort thing, so probably giving the AI five scribbled keywords and the prompt “Write a forum post in English based on this”.
Also: A 32 story building you just can drop a phone down?
That is not so easy to achieve, and no context given on how and why specifically this happened, but a bunch of generic stuff instead.
And profile link leads to some fishy AI-generated site trying to sell some Temu-tech-gimmick-crap.
No, I am now even more sure the post is 99% AI slop and 1% minimal effort marketing.