Well, probably my mistake calling it a plan, but it seems all of them are subscriptions at least. Even “pay as you go” cards I found have monthly payments.
It seems the cheapest was T-Mobile PayGo, but that got sold to Ultra Mobile. I don’t know what they offer though because there’s an infinite captcha on their website for me. But from Google preview it seems they still offer the $3/month PayGo.

Well, I did. And I am in one. Most teachers don’t care about it. Technically the current principal banned them, but only one teacher told us, and it was a pretty sarcastic “I am supposed to tell you that you aren’t allowed to use phones during classes anymore.”

Anyway, they got partially integrated. There’s an online school system we are supposed to use, and teachers often send us study materials there, including during classes. At one point we even took online exams (physically at school) and most used phones for that too (I prefer a desktop if I can use that).
Basically it became an expectation. “Look this up, take a picture of this, open what I sent you, send me this, confirm that,…”

But yeah, anyway, most exams are probably AI-written nowadays. This is known, and not particularly discouraged. Well, one teacher even told us we’ll be given computers with internet access on (part of the) graduation exams, and shown us how we can just copy-paste it to and from ChatGPT. And that was true.
But hey, we also often have classes of absolutely nothing that you just have to wait out.
The level of Slovakian education is setting the bar so low it clipped through the ground.

Already included.

1. SMS and classic calls are dying. Things moved to Discord, Instagram, Snapchat, or whatever else for the most part
2. Burner SIM, or better yet, burner eSIM. Maybe VoIP would suffice.

And the original SIM could still be used in some cheap older phone.

Although it seems everything in the US is a plan, meaning monthly payments. But perhaps I haven’t looked far enough.

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I just did so for the first time today. Oddly, I didn’t feel any effects (aside from the needle puncture). I was really worried I’d feel terrible, or that I might even vomit (I asked what to do in such case beforehand), but thankfully nothing. (I mean, I am underweight, just OK enough for the limits)
I only got a bit freaked out when I removed the bandage and it took my dumb ass a while to realize that the extra drop of fresh blood is too light (I probably peeled off the scab). Anyway, so I just put a band-aid over it. At least I didn’t have a white shirt.

I am just disappointed that I got A+. I mean, this isn’t school, I hoped for 0-. 😕 Well, searching the internet, it seems it may be good for plasma or platelets, but I kinda fear the machine xD

Anyway, the personnel was really nice, so that was quite helpful too.

I have a MiBand which for me is primarily a regular watch with notifications.

I haven’t used audio notifications or ringing on my phone for years. I can also just allow the most important apps, while the less important notifications I’ll see just on my phone when I unlock it, unless I blocked those notifications too.

Currently this means I get SMS notifications (mostly useful for verification codes / package pick-up codes), Lemmy reply notifications (and few other e-mails), bank notifications (like payments), phone battery charged (80%) notification, and notifications of upcoming space rocket launches with webcast available (within 10 minutes).

My phone doesn’t make a sound, it doesn’t light up the screen, it doesn’t show notifications on lockscreen, it doesn’t vibrate, it doesn’t use notification LED. The smartband is a replacement.

Activates god mode

Are you sure if was an actual choice?

Not the person you replied to, but I prefer neither of those in this context since they only represent age-based sexual attraction, which may also be given as a diagnosis.

The more fitting name is a “predator” or “sexual predator”. If specific to children, then “child molester”. Both technically correct (as far as I know), while also sounding more serious (in my opinion).

Ignorance. Lots of if.

Just like 3 weeks ago I started using Tailscale. I’d highly recommend trying that.

It does some uuuuh… magic to establish direct connections on most networks. You can verify whether you’re using direct connection or relay using tailscale status on Linux.

It uses Wireguard under the hood. There’s also Tailnet lock feature (still in beta) in case you don’t trust Tailscale to not maliciously add devices to your Tailnet.

This would give you lower latency than the VPS solution. I use it with CG-NAT on both sides. I also started using it for LAN since it establishes direct connection over LAN too, and seamlessly switches between networks so I can disconnect from LAN and keep current connections going over WAN or vice versa.

But I’ve just tried now, and it won’t work even on LAN without internet access. Still better than a VPS solution in some way.

But you may also try looking into headscale which is basically a lightweight self-hosted private Tailscale control server, but I haven’t tried anything with that.

Not sure if you’ll find something that cheap, but RackNerd has some pretty cheap offers sometimes. Thing is, they don’t seem to expire, so there’s this: https://racknerdtracker.com/?sort=price

But I haven’t tried them yet.
Also keep in mind the monthly bandwidth limits.
You get what you pay for, and $10/year is basically nothing.

Oh, and you may be responsible for random people’s traffic depending on the provider. I think I’ve read in ToS of some VPS provider that you have to notify them about running a public service for this reason.

I sometimes get this with Mullvad in official YouTube app as well.

I haven’t seen it yet.

Description of how tritium smells like by Cody’s Lab: https://youtube.com/shorts/PvRP3Jor19M

I wanted to say allergies, but I am not sure you mean abnormal stuff too.

Breathing otherwise. Annoying + can’t stay underwater for long enough.

Though if add, direct thought + feeling sharing. Current communication is way too inefficient.

Well, not for KDE it seems.

I was referring to the ?i=number part, just like google uses si for YouTube.

Isn’t it called Meta?