@noondlyt
Interesting.
Good question. Text of bill not published yet. Will show up here when it is. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7022/text
#USPol #Congress #HouseBill #Space #satellite #EmergencyAlertSystem #EAS #CellPhone #HR7022 #Congress119 #house
Speculation: Is it for sending out EAS messages via the new satellite cell phone systems?
A digital #CellPhone #photograph of a #BlackAndWhite film photograph of my sister and I watching a black and white #Television.
I refuse to go to an Alamo Drafthouse cinema again until this awful policy is reversed.
https://www.kut.org/business/2026-01-14/austin-tx-alamo-drafthouse-mobile-ordering-phone-policy
#AlamoDrafthouse #MovieTheater #Cinema #Cellphone #Telephone #Phone #Austin
Verizon is having a big outage right now in the United States, with phones showing SOS mode for connectivity. However, my wife and I are on AT&T with iPhones and she has been unable to send or receive any texts or phone calls today and her phone has been showing SOS all day in DC, and about an hour ago, I found my phone showing SOS connectivity in an area where things are normally fine.
Is this "Verizon" outage somehow affecting AT&T as well? What we've been seeing with our phones today would seem to be quite a coincidence, if not.
Any other AT&T people seeing oddness?
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/verizon-down-jan-14-2026-outage
#Verizon #outage #cellphone #cellular #ATT #cellservice #AT&T #news #technews
Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #banksy #streetArt #graffiti #beLikeThePanda #civilDisobidience #resistance #fightforyourright #moralCourage #emblematy #monkey #chimpanzee #skull #smartphone #cellphone #mobilePhone #communication #death #mementoMori #vanitas
A Pew Research Centre survey found that 41% of U.S. #teens support #banning #cellphone use during #class, while only 20% support a #fullday #ban. Support for #bans varies by race and ethnicity, with White teens being more supportive than Hispanic and Black teens. Adults are significantly more supportive of cellphone bans. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/01/13/about-4-in-10-teens-support-cellphone-bans-in-classrooms-fewer-back-all-day-restrictions/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
iOS ライブ留守番電話
iOSではiOS 18以降で「ライブ留守番電話」という機能が使えるようになっていて、iPhone本体が通話相手の音声を録音できるようになっていますが、これは普通に知られていることでしょうか。この機能があれば、携帯電話キャリアの留守番電話機能を契約しなくても録音できるようになるだけでなく、文字起こし機能によってテキストで読めるようにもなるので、格段に便利になっていると思います。
私も以前はIIJmioの留守番電話サービスのオプションをつけていたのですが、ライブ留守番電話のおかげで不要になったと思い、この300円のオプションを解約していました。しかし、どうも一向にメッセージが記録されないので不思議に思っていたのですが、わざわざ自分宛に掛けなければ確認できないので放置してしまっていたのは、めんどくさがりな私の悪い癖です。
先程とある人から電話がかかってきたのをPebbleの通知で知ったのですが、iPhoneが手元になかったので留守番電話に任せようと思ったものの、留守番電話に切り替わらなかったようなので、改めてこのライブ留守番電話機能について調べてみました。すると、ライブ留守番電話が使える地域と言語は限られていて、この組み合わせでないと使えないということがわかりました。日本では日本語でなければ使えない、つまりiOSのシステムが日本語の設定になっていないといけないということです。私は表示が日本語になっているよりも英語の方がスタイリッシュに見えるから、というだけの理由で英語の設定にして使っていたのでした。
改めて日本語に設定を切り替えてみると、これまで電話の設定にはなかった「ライブ留守番電話」のスイッチが表示されるようになり、おそらくこれで問題なく受けられるようになるはずです。私に電話がかかってくることは稀ですが、これまで不在着信があったものの、本当に用事があればメッセージを残すはずと思って放置してしまっていた方々には申し訳ないことをしました。きっとこれからは大丈夫なので、用事があるときはメッセージを残してもらえると嬉しいです。いや、我ながらレベルの低い話でした。
#cellPhone #ios #iphone #technology
Obviously the #zeebo flopped, espechally due to #Qualcomm's #BREW #OS ¹ which is basically '#JavaMobile but worse in order to circumvent #SoftwarePatents' whilst also having dogshit performance and being hard to develop for or even port games to, making it even worse than #Gizmondo or #NGage which used #J2ME.
But even in a starved market like #Brazil most households weren't gonna dump over 1 month minimum wage on an aging #3G-#Cellphone with composite video and 6-button #USB #controllers.
So yeah, blame Qualcomm for this shitshow...
And lets be honest, #Edutainment is not a cash cow because in places like #Mexico it's way easier to get even cheaper #PC|s due to #NAFTA #FreeTrade (i.e. all the stuff #refurbishers couldn't sell in the #USA anymore got offered there before being sold further south...
Needless to say the Zeebo is the strongest argument for #StopKillingGames as these devices are nearly useless these days and piracy is the only way to get / change games on it and play them these days.
Nowadays the nieche of the zeebo is served by cheap #PCs for #gaming even cheaper #Android devices and (aside from few stores like #Steam that managed to upstell a #DRM as a #feature), rampant #piracy to the point that #MobileGaming outside of #iOS is basically dead unless we account #PayToLoose #Shovelware of the "#DisguisedGambingGame" kind as "#Gaming" which is an insult even for #gambling, because there at least in theory, with a honest operator the chance of winning is greater than zero (tho I'd still disrecommend it because no gambling game is *"fair" beyond the theoretical chance of winning by the rules)...
More! We need More!
The US FCC has authorized SpaceX -StarLink to launch another 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites, bringing its total authorization to 15,000 Gen2 satellites. Satellites will be positioned into new orbital shells at altitudes ranging from 340 km to 485 km and will support space based Internet and direct-to-cell connectivity for new mobile phone services.
DL the FCC announcement here (PDF): https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-417881A1.pdf
#Space #SpaceX #StarLink #FCC #Satellites #Spacecraft #Internet #DirectoCell #SpaceJunk #SpaceSafety #CellPhone #Mobility
The Biggest #Satellite Ever Just Reached Low-Earth Orbit, And It's Coming For Starlink
The #BlueBird6 comes in at a full 2,400 square feet, or about the size of a three-bedroom apartment. The startup believes that bigger is better, because that very size allows it to do something even Starlink can't: provide direct #5G service to your normal old #cellphone. The company hopes to put around 50 more into orbit next year, and then open up to customers shortly thereafter.
https://www.jalopnik.com/2061330/biggest-satellite-ever-reached-low-earth-orbit/
Banana Phone
The BananaPhone is a USB-C to RJ-11 FXS-SLIC which turns any landline into what your cellphone will see as a nice headset with external controls! [...]
This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry | Lifehacker
I gotta admit, I'm seriously considering ordering it, I wonder what the durability will be.
I was ready to get a new iPhone 16e, a definite upgrade, overall, to my 11 Pro Max through my longtime service provider, AT&T, but they're charging a $35 "upgrade fee" and I noped out of my cart.
I don't remember any such fees in the past, but it's been almost 6 years, and about 5 years before that, since my last new phone.
Maybe I just didn't notice back then 🤷🏿♂️
I'm gonna call and see what's up.
Incidentally, my phone is a OnePlus 6T that I bought from OnePlus back when Carl Pei was the designer. Of course he left OnePlus, which promptly enshittified. I picked up phones from his next company, Nothing, but the goddamned phones won't work with ANY network that's available to us - although they claimed that they would. So that was a thousand dollars down the drain.
I honestly don't know what I'll do when my current phone dies. I hate Apple with a burning passion that goes back to the '80s, so I won't do an iPhone. Samsung sucks, so that's out. Google is pure evil now, so I really don't want to do a pixel. I didn't have a good experience with Motorola back in the day, so I don't know that I can trust them. Correction, I know that I CAN'T trust ANY big tech company.
So...what are my options?
A leading German education expert is advocating for a sweeping ban on mobile phones in schools, sparking a renewed debate about the impact of technology on stud... https://news.osna.fm/?p=28782 | #news #ban #calls #cellphone #expert
He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, He knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake!
Santa Claus?
Nope … your cell phone.
#bigbrother #privacy #security #ai #generativeAI #cellphone #iphone #Android
Oh yeah, the reason I looked this up in the first place was me being reminded of Cell Broadcast, solution used today for the emergency alerts but having more entertainment-related purposes in the early 00's. Phones back then had a section of the regular messages feature where channels could be subscribed to, kind of like the CB radio. You would enter the channel numbers and your device would listen for messages delivered to the nearest cell tower matching that channel. Those messages could be delivered instantly as they targeted specific cells, not recipients, and didn't have to wait in the regular SMS queue. Example services run by my carrier included jokes, horoscope, a newsflash, something called Graffity where anybody could post anything and some dating channels because what could possibly go wrong. I think the 050 channel was a standardized one for broadcasting the name of the nearest tower which was the equivallent of accessing your current location. Many Nokia phones had a dedicated setting for that one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast #CellPhone
Left the house to walk the dog this evening and forgot my phone, for about 5 minutes I was nervous, what if something happens? Then I remembered I've lived a lot of my life without a phone and for most of history people never had them. The dependency was disturbing, I should do it more.
