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   lorddimwit: not a typewriter (lorddimwit@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 12:33:49 JST lorddimwit: not a typewriter

   I don’t mean to pry, but is there something to the trend of talking into the edge of your phone and having it on speaker while in public? I’m seeing that more often recently and I don’t understand the purpose. Is it a microphones suck kinda thing?

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     pbarry25 (pbarry25@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 12:33:47 JST pbarry25

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     • Tod Beardsley
     • Chris Siebenmann
     • Brent Cook

     @todb @cks @lorddimwit pic attached! Can make and receive calls on an old lineman's ROTARY handset via POTS-to-Bluetooth device to bridge the connection to a paired mobile phone (yes, it works! add in a common USB power brick, and you're fully mobile!). HT to @busterb for showing me his cell2jack a couple of years back! For a modest ~$65 investment, you, too, can have your partner roll their eyes at you!! 🙄😭💀

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     Tod Beardsley (todb@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 12:33:48 JST Tod Beardsley

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     • pbarry25

     @cks @lorddimwit My Nokia 3200 candybar phone had a really good earpiece speaker. That was the last mobile device I owned that was worthy of being called a "phone," in that, I could hold entire voice conversations comfortably and without needing an extra app to do it.

     Also it had an FM radio tuner which was so sweet for motorcycle use.

     Ask @pbarry25 about his current phone setup. It's pretty sweet.

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: repeated this.
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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 12:33:49 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     @lorddimwit I've assumed that the speakers thing is more 'non-speaker phone use sucks/is too quiet', and once you're doing that you may well not trust that the microphone will pick up your voice from very far away.

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