rone

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i disable this wherever possible rone 9/15 '25

STOP DOING TYPING INDICATORS

• YEARS OF ONLINE CHAT yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for "x is typing..."

• Wanted to see what your partner was typing in real time? We had a tool for that, it was called "talk(1)"

• "Please cause me anxiety by giving me the illusion that someone is taking their time composing a thoughtful reply" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

"Hello please give me blinking, bouncing ellipses"
They have played us for absolute fools

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9/15 6 Comments
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Lindsay Harris Friel
PREACH.

I turn that shit instantly off. Nobody needs to know if I've read their text, nobody needs to know if I'm typing, nobody needs to know if I'm online. My phone is for my convenience, nobody else's. Damn kids today.
Jill "xtingu" Knapp
I find this useful in slack at work. When we're enthusing and in danger of speaking past each other, it's a hint to maybe let the other guy finish a thought.
Thomas Boutell
Oh, jeez, good point.
Lindsay Harris Friel
Also it made for a cute scene on Ted Lasso.
Thomas Boutell
I miss “talk”.

Also “write”.

Also “yes JerryAlexandratos | write boutell”.
CM Adams
 

fool me once rone 2/7 '20

My FXTec Pro1 finally arrived!  Except it won't work on Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile.  Hope i get my $700 back.

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2/7 '20 9 Comments
Late to the party here, and very sad to hear this review. Dammit, I had such high hopes! I was really pulling for you, and it.

Looks like I'll keep using my KeyOne. (Gotta say, it's been a total champ.)
Jill "xtingu" Knapp
Fack. Who DOES it work on?
Matt Lichtenwalner
It's a mystery.
rone
It should work, according to specs, on Verizon.
Kevin Schnitzius
Agreed. Forums were ambivalent on Verizon but insisted it was a gimme on AT&T. It is possible that i got a lemon.
rone
oh man! That is an interesting gadget. I read this review, which is definitely unflattering, but the reviewer does say that it worked for him fine on AT&t and T-Mobile. Maybe you got a straight-up lemon. Maybe that's a relief, judging from the rest of the review.

https://www.androidauthority.com/fxtec-pro1-review-960653/
Thomas Boutell
"The physical act of forcing the top half to open is maddening. Rather than simply pop open with a little pressure, you have to press the top half forcefully to convince the hinge to budge." 100% agreed. If it had worked, though, i was ready to live with it. Now we each have a Pixel 4 that already go dead at the end of the day with mild-to-moderate use. Fuck phones.
rone
I'm not immune to the shiny though. I always wish for a better camera. And an optical zoom.
Thomas Boutell
LOL. My Moto X4 is two years old and has better battery life than that.

My unsolicited Internet theory is that in any purchase, it's always better to own something on the high end of midrange than something "top of the line." Like... a Camry, not a [insert car here, I don't know enough about luxury cars].

Not enough people actually get the top of the line thing, the rough edges don't get ironed out, there's pressure to do bleeding edge things and it winds up flaky and poorly supported.
Thomas Boutell