It was that VoLTE wasn't supported for that particular model of phone. VoLTE is very much the norm here although I'm unsure if every phone uses it now. My flip phone probably doesn't, but it's hard to tell with how stripped down its manufacturer-customized Android is.
I held onto my Sony XZ2c for months after calls stopped working on it after the US 3G shutdown. I got a flip phone for making calls.
The worst part? The XZ2c has VoLTE calling capability, but all the US phone companies refuse to support it on their networks.
Now I'm begrudgingly using a OnePlus 6 and praying that I don't drop the massive thing >:[
Basically, even if we want to use aging tech we're held hostage by telecom companies, who obviously would prefer to rope people into new devices on credit plans. ARGH
it brings me genuine glee to see a Technology a Connections link replied to a Climate Town link like those are two of my favorite things
Mainly that they adopt popular writing and editing conventions and do them well, so that they're genuinely captivating in addition to being educational, thus making the info more accessible
That's the first book I ever encountered with an ending that made me angry.
i wonder how much of the Empathy for Cute Animals but Not Humans effect is due to not many people having bad experiences with cute animals but plenty of bad experiences with humans
I, however, have the unique privilege of having had a sister who owned a deranged rabbit that she let roam the house. I once woke up from a nap to it biting me hard enough to draw blood. That thing was a furry asshole.
What little unrepressed memories of Watership Down I have seem to corroborate that rabbits are surprisingly violent...
I also had a low thyroid stimulating hormone test result after several weeks of biweekly donations
If I hadn't found a job a few weeks later I would be in a really, really bad place. I got lucky.
That's O- blood type, I don't think they're the same thing
my diet has indeed been garbage lately and this is a likely source of many of my health issues
I'm mildly fascinated by diprosopus and found ye olde depictione of it on the wikipedia page
couldn't you argue that's the meddling sun and not the computer
oh god i'm so sorry guys i would have tried to tidy up a little if i knew you were coming over
i'd bet it's entirely possible Samos can yell loud enough to knock an eyeball askew
How could SI units be derived from scratch without the use of modern technology?
Think "you wake up in the woods naked," Dr. Stone-style tech reset. How could humans acquire a 1-gram weight, a centimeter ruler, an HH:MM:SS timekeeping device, etc. starting with natural resources?
My best guess was something involving calibrating a mercury thermometer (after spending years developing glassblowing and finding mercury, lol) using boiling water at sea level to mark 100 ° C and then maybe Fahrenheit's dumb ice ammonium chloride brine to mark -17.7778 ° C, then figuring out how far apart they should be in millimeters on the thermometer (er, somehow). I can already think of several confounding variables with that though, most notably atmospheric pressure.
I feel like the most important thing to get would be a length measurement since you can then get a 1 gram mass from a cubic centimeter of distilled water.
That's as far as I got with this thought experiment before deciding to ask the internet. I actually asked on Reddit a while back but never got any responses.
iDog and all its spin-offs (video by kkclue)
Invidious link: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=AbJrslGZx2g
kkclue's channel also has some other 00's-tastic videos on DDR, Webkinz, and 2nd-gen Tamagotchi.