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  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 100%

    I find https://gsmarena.com is the right place to start as you can search, among many other things, for phones with a 3.5mm socket.

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  • Twitter getting worse, weird political shit. What's the best Mastodon server and Android app?
  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 100%

    Tusky for client. Lots of good medium sized instances (avoid mastodon.social). I'm on mas.to for a general account and mastodon.scot for a local one (both reliable, run by the same person).

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  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 93%

    I still only buy phones with a 3.5mm socket.

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  • SITE CHANGED HEADLINE: Harris says she would appoint a Republican to her Cabinet if elected
  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 100%

    She didn't "pledge" to, but she didn't seem adverse to the idea if it was the right person.

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  • Bagging a Munro gets easier as volunteers fund repairs to mountain paths
  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 100%

    IME "path repairs" too often means making steps which are more difficult to descend than the path that was there before unless you have exactly the same agility as the (generally young and fit) path builders.

    Depressing how often this happens. The path down off Cairngorm towards the cafe is a prime example.

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  • Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts?
  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 100%

    Not every country has elections either.

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  • Where Easter Monday Is a Public Holiday
  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 100%

    Scotland: we have such a massive hangover on New Year's Day that we need the day after off too.

    Rest of the UK: heh, OK, so you can work on Easter Monday instead

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  • Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price
  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 100%

    They offered it to me. I've not been on reddit since the API issue kicked off.

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  • What Podcasts are you listening to?
  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 100%

    Upvote for "Cautionary Tales". Just discovered that and loving it.

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  • AI Girlfriends
  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 50%

    I believe it's youth speak for "respect". Being cool as we old people might say.

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  • Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing
  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 100%

    This is what puts me off.

    Runar Bjørhovde, an analyst at Canalys, said return rates of foldables are 5-10 percent, far higher than traditional smartphones and a deterrent to repeat purchases.

    A phone costing me four digits with that high a return rate. Nope.

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  • A9 to be dual carriageway from Perth to Inverness by 2035
  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 100%

    And not a word on the dualling of the A96 from Inverness to Nairn. Sigh.

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  • SNP MP Lisa Cameron defects to Tory party over ‘toxic and bullying’ treatment
  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 100%

    Anti-abortion, anti-GRR, anti-independence. The SNP is well shot of her.

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  • 'North Lanarkshire Council to close libraries, pools and sports centres'
  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 100%

    lemm.ee (where I also couldn't see my own post until you commented on it...)

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  • www.bbc.co.uk

    *[I think I saw this posted earlier but it seems to have disappeared.]* I have to say my view, speaking as a councillor on Highland Council, is that the more I think about this it's gesture politics as the council presumably own most of these facilities so closing them still leaves them with significant revenue budget costs. Plus "No dates have been given for the closures and affected staff are likely to be offered redeployment" which smells of something not well thought out - a big chunk of the cost of these premises is payroll so redeploying doesn't save money ... and then making people redundant is expensive too, as HC learned to its cost the last time it was "saving" money. So I think this is a Labour led council just trying to embarrass the SNP/Green government into coughing up some more money.

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    Life of a 30's
  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 90%

    Largely new friends. Interestingly those who had children later seemed to cope better with the balancing act between parenthood and socialising.

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  • Life of a 30's
  • tallpaul tallpaul Now 100%

    Now in my sixties and still CF. In my thirties the only real down side was the loss (largely) of friends who had chosen to have children so could now no longer come out to play.

    But life was good, on the whole.

    And still is.

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    tallpaul

    lemm.ee

    Semi-retired Internet geek living with my wife and dog in Nairn, Scotland. When I'm well enough I'm trying to make the world a better place through the application of technology but I'm also the SNP councillor for Nairn & Cawdor which is taking up most of most of my time.