I wonder which LTE modem this is using. Some LTE modems (like the PinePhone one) run Linux on one of the processors and folks have replaced the proprietary distro on that processor with a free one. If this were using the same modem as the PinePhone one, you could run all the Arduino firmware code on the modem instead.
New (LTE) Rotary Cell Phone [video]
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#32My favorite feature, is that the power switch actually separates the battery from the electronics. The thing is OFF!
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#33Recommend checking out the rest of Justine’s YouTube channel. I’ll die on a hill for ex-spearmint though. That’s ok. She can’t be right about everything.
That was in reference to her video about how to pronounce "experiment" [1], right?
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah that surprised me too. Is it there so that when the finger stop moves, it registers the number? I've only had a few rotary phones in my life, but I've never seen one where that doohickey (which I believe is the technical term) moves.
The moving finger stop was a feature of the Trimline dial phone.[1] It allows making the dial slightly smaller. On most dial phones, there's a large gap between the 1 and 0 holes. On Trimlines, and this new thing, there is no gap. Without that moving finger stop, you get a dial handset like this AT&T prototype: [2] That was called "the Schmoo".[3] Huge bulge in the middle of the handset. The moving finger stop also a…
etymologically, the term Schmoo or Shmoo (typically based on the characteristic shape) originates with the cartoon character popularized by Al Capp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo
A favorite example is the shape of a budding haploid yeast cell, known in the literature as a shmoo (though as that wikipedia page will indicate, there are a lot of other delightful schmoo/shmoo eponyms): https://web.archive.org/web/20071111122821/http://discoverma...
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#35Love the quirkiness and that it dose one thing well. For myself I would have loved to make the switches a little less fiddly. A phone I can turn on and dial in my pocket would have been my target.
However I can actually see it being quite attractive for accessibility reasons. Where it always being in one mode ready for dialing the same way every time has its advantages.
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#36Recommend checking out the rest of Justine’s YouTube channel. I’ll die on a hill for ex-spearmint though. That’s ok. She can’t be right about everything.
> I’ll die on a hill
Meanwhile in multi-lingual laboritories all around the world where 'international English' is the language everyone uses, or attempts to, and 'experiment' is a word used multiple times a day, I keep hearing both. Which gives me the impression there might not actually a single right way anymore, or perhaps there never was (as in: could be British vs American or older brritish vs newer), and I stopped caring.
I realize there might still be people claiming their way is correct, in which case I have to ask: is there a single authorative reference? Only if there are no other references to be found claiming something else you can in my opinion be right, when it comes to language. Or else you have to narrow down your claim and specify a region, or a certain type of usage.
For example recently someone pointed out I'm wrong not using a comma after 'e.g.' or 'i.e.'. Which sounded strange to me, because I keep on reading that, including in redacted texts. That person then came up with one single textbook as reference, claiming it's the authority. I went looking around and easily found other texts, which definitely seemed to be reference-worthy material according to where they were used and referenced in turn. I never got a good answer to my question why I should believe that one book is 'the' authorative one and the others aren't so as far as I'm aware both forms are ok.
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#37Am I the only one who is blown away by what looks like a PCB chip assembly machine in a personal residence near the end of the video?
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#38Cool. Consider embedding speech recognition features too!
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#39Cool! I'm relatively young, so the only interaction I've ever had with a rotary phone was my dad finding one in a box at my grandparents' house. Still, this seems like fun. Cool that you can communicate with the cell modem directly.
I still have a rotary landline (well, VOIP, using a Grandstream ATA). It is fun! But I hate people with a lot of 8's, 9's, and 0's in their numbers. They take forever to dial :)
>It is fun! But I hate people with a lot of 8's, 9's, and 0's in their numbers. They take forever to dial :)
That's when you cheat and just input the pulses with the switch hook by pressing them quickly. 8 times in rapid succession for 8, 9 for 9, 10 for 0.
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#40Recommend checking out the rest of Justine’s YouTube channel. I’ll die on a hill for ex-spearmint though. That’s ok. She can’t be right about everything.
> I’ll die on a hill Meanwhile in multi-lingual laboritories all around the world where 'international English' is the language everyone uses, or attempts to, and 'experiment' is a word used multiple times a day, I keep hearing both. Which gives me the impression there might not actually a single right way anymore, or perhaps there never was (as in: could be British vs American or older brritish vs newer), and I stop…
Part of the issue are professional style guides for written English, and they vary. The biggest ones off the top of my head are AP, Chicago, and MLA. I love the Oxford comma as shown in the last sentence, but in the AP guide they do not use it and it is wrong to use it for their style.
English is the best and worst language we have currently on the planet because it’s such an amalgamation and continuing to evolve and branch in ways that are hard to keep up with sometimes. It’s hard not to end up chugy don’t ya know.