Good call.

Another unreasonably expensive approach would be to paint it into a faraday cage. Maybe it can work to block visuals and comms, and don’t even have to remove the device.

https://a.co/d/0aU2jhw3

Good idea. Dont forget to put your phone in it and give it a call, to see if it’s really blocking signals.

Get a faraday box instead. Better would be a bag, actually… you can slip it over the top, pull some draw strings to tighten up the bottom.

Do they make bags that work like faraday boxes?

Edit: found something close: https://a.co/d/0gUGuVMM

Edit2: this one looks like you can tie off the bottom better: https://a.co/d/0htiAqX6

If you are human, that is.

Now I’m imagining if a bot made such a joke. That would be a very different situation.

The hubris on you is phenomenal. I don’t mind having not “learned something” in this case. Be nicer. You ought learn something from this experience, not me.

Right to repair solves that, by mandating against designs which make simple replacements exorbitantly expensive for no good reason.

We could have had a deep philosophical … conversation about this.

Except you fell for the same trap hundreds of thousands of philosophers before you had. Talking right past people because you refuse to understand what they meant by the words they chose to use.

“Artificial” describes the process something underwent to become what it is. It doesn’t mean that it’s materially different than its natural counterpart.

So what’s ironic is that the deeply philosophical conversation you referenced; that conversation could have happened, but instead you chose to hop on your high horse and argue nonsense about material differences while the argument was really about procedural differences.

Had you rose your point, reasonably and fairly so, as a congruent but also slightly off-topic one, it might have been entertained more meaningfully.

If he made thin AR glasses, that could have been neat. Should have specialized in a set of consumer glasses that is smart enough to take over basic phone use. Including a type of FaceTime but through the glasses. They could have designed a weird system that uses fancy cameras and embedded AI to construct your face in real time. They could have specialized in making them very lightweight. All the stuff you might expect out of futuristic glasses, then allowed them to take eSIM. They could have reasonably considered entering consumer phone/data services under some weird niche.

I would periodically delete my account when I hit about 50,000 karma. That happened 5 or 6 times, so I’m like a spy with half your experience.