Pine64 devices like the PinePhone still use it for serial: https://pine64.com/product/pinebook-pinephone-pinetab-serial-console/

I think workers would be better than drones. Drones can’t even sting.

Without water, just the syrup.

There’s also this thing:

Source: https://e926.net/posts/5602468

Only found this from Yahoo Answers: https://web.archive.org/web/20131214042431/http://answers.yahoo.com:80/question/index?qid=20080416190703AADWFlA

Got it.

I am prey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Parties_International

By the way, Markdown also takes escape \, which is why sometimes the shrugging emoticon is missing left arm.

- So this
- also works with space

So you don’t even necessarily have to leave out the space.

That’s real, by the way.

Here, you lost this: \

But underneath it’s just unicast to your phone, no?

But anyway, beamed directly it may be, it’s called beamforming.

In the world of 5G, this is the act of focusing a wireless signal in a specific direction. Compared to simply sending a signal across a wide area, beamforming requires more sophisticated antenna technology.
[…] Beamforming technology, on the other hand, sends a precise and concentrated signal right to your smartphone. It is more deliberate and intentional with its delivery method.

Edit: Forgot source of quote: https://surecall.com/surecall-cell-phone-signal-booster-blog/5g-explained-beamforming-dss-in-plain-english/

Sometimes the headphones are just a public statement of “Don’t talk to me please.”, and the music is just secondary. In that case, the looks may win.

Perhaps they do, just don’t have enough energy to care about it in private life anymore and just go for convenience like the majority.

I should note it’s not all about speed, but also latency. Even 256kbps on 2G EDGE is sluggish while 256kbps throttled 4G is pretty usable for web browsing.
Although it also depends on how the limiting is done. Some may allow some higher burst rate, some may limit to the speed with queue, some may just drop all packets above the speed.
I like this diagram from Cisco to visualize it:

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/quality-of-service-qos/qos-policing/19645-policevsshape.html

Also about:

Genuinely surprised to hear someone using 2G data, given 3G was phased out as is.

At least in some countries around Europe, 3G was shutdown rather than 2G. It used up more bandwidth, and most devices can still fallback to 2G, plus at least in Slovakia 2G had superior coverage. Well, still has over 4G/5G.
Plus there’s a lot of 2G-only IoT devices like electric and gas meters, and those companies are less likely to upgrade than individual customers.

So far, only Orange plans to shutdown 2G, sometime around 2028. I’ve also seen an idea to keep one single 2G network that would be shared between all 4 carriers, which is an idea I quite like.
Remember, it’s also a fallback for modern devices when VoLTE/VoWiFi/VoNR doesn’t work.

I think you’re mixing it up with Kb/s. Bits vs bytes. 21KB/s is 168Kb/s, which is faster than the fastest dial-up.

Not the slight influence on statistics. I am contemplating actually downloading the Wikipedia over 2G too.

I wish the statistics were published, I’d like to see how much of a dent it makes, at least in total monthly data transfer. And of course, also connection time by technology and frequency band. Actually, no, I want to see all the statistics they have.

Sadly, the only ISP that publishes at least something is the Slovak Academic Network (SANET): https://samon.bts.sk/mapa/
But this is just a fixed connection ISP used at places like schools.

Plus it’s cool how the bytes got to me.

The first sentence.

And there’s also the thing that I just like seeing old tech still being used. For the last week of 3G before its shutdown, I switched my phone to 3G only, all the way until my phone got disconnected. It felt sad to see it go.
Plus I like to influence statistics, so I do certain things differently, just to influence them. I understand that I am a small sample, but still one that counts.

1. Second cellphone.
2. You don’t need a SIM card to call emergency numbers.

2nd is also important in that your phone is always connected (unless in airplane mode) to some cellular network, and can still be tracked the same way (unique IMEI).