yep. Always more costs to a phone number than people realize, You now have a device that can be broken, stolen, etc. Getting data to a phone is more expensive than just running a email server that can serve thousands of people for the cost of power and data
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One might argue that the same is true for a tablet/laptop. Also for a desktop but less likely as you (usually) only use that at home.
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I never really thought of it like that but that makes a lot of sense. its always been a thing here to have a phone here even if its just a very cheap one for receiving calls. though Iāve always preferred email just because of its not real time nature. phone calls give me anxiety and I can take in and express my thoughts way better through text than I ever could verbally over the phone plus I donāt have to be there to receive it and can get to it when Iām ready.
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Do what all the homeless people here do and use the demo laptops at walmart XD. Ive seen some that have steam installed kek
Plus librarys, churchs, and a few other places around me have places where you can use use a computer,
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most all of our libraries here have computers you can freely use though I did hear a story once that apparently some homeless guy was masturbating to porn in the library using one.
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Then those homeless people can hack or the people at Walmart who set the laptops up forgot to lock them down. Here they only have some fullscreen spec page and you canāt access anything.
And why are those laptops connected to the internet? Wouldnāt it be Walmartās liabilty if someone did something illegal with them?
Ah, yes. The public masturbation stations.
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most computer stores here have their phones/tablets/computers unlocked so you can test them and see if you like it. people go in the apple store here and change all the phones backgrounds to funny shit lol
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Pull one out of the box, lock it to the floor post, and just setup it as you would at home. auto login to admin, with default setting for literally everything. Someone brick it? Just unplug the power cord and have it be a physical demo
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Theyāre all either locked away in the cupboard under the display or in the back.
Itās been a while since Iāve been to a big electronics store but at the small carrier shops here most have the phones locked inside glass cabinets or on display where you can touch them but theyāre all powered off with just the spec list screen protector on them (and from what Iāve seen they donāt turn on).
Itās almost as if they donāt want people to try them out before buying them.
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how out all of them be optional besides password?
Its for a job so they have to have some way of contacting you
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cant give an address or give them a bat signal or something?
edit: or be like ill be back in a week tell me then
no one would put up with that. They would rather just hire someone who has a contact method
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same thing with email then lel
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what you butt bois upto
It atleast gives you a chance to check it. It will happily sit in your inbox while you come back the next day to answer it
spinning up a SMB server for the makerspace
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communist tool shop?
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Not entirely communist but pretty close.
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Not communist but everyone gets to have their turn lighting up Mario & Luigi lol
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