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2. Watch the railroad, not your electronic worldwide web communication device.

Aromatic

ARE YOU PART OF THE_PACK? AROOOO!!!

Interesting. I don’t know who he is, but based on (part of) the Russian shopping video I saw of him yesterday, where he was excited at what everything a Russian supermarket has to offer, finally cumming into his pants after finding that Russia has bread, I wouldn’t expect much.

Thankfully in HS nobody really seemed to care what I was doing to begin with. In the end I was already going through with a fuck it attitude, as the principal rejected my request for individual study plan (also signed by a doctor as required).

For example, on one math class I just pulled out my laptop, put in earphones, and did whatever else I found more useful (specifically at that time studying CCNA). Teacher called me to the board, I got an A, went back to my activity. Just one teacher got a bit upset when I was preparing for a national competition I was going to, and when asked to put away my laptop, I said that “I don’t have time for it”.
It didn’t occur to me that it might seem rude, as it was true. But anyway…

For majority of other classes, I was just doing whatever all the time, and only being mentally present for exams, which typically were laughably easy.

Not if it’s on someone else’s expense.

Not that, but I just feel weird to do anything but non-stop work during work time, so I’ll drink less water to not have to use a toilet during the 6 hours till break/end (just a part-time job).
Once I was told to wait for something without being officially put on waiting time, and I just felt weird standing there doing nothing, because officially I was supposed to be working.
When I was told that I am too slow (based on statistics for the day) and once that I did something wrong I took that quite personally. And fearing a negative point basically flooded my mind, meaning I couldn’t quite concentrate, meaning I was more prone to further mistakes, which just made me fear more… positive feedback loop of fear.

I don’t know, I’ve been there for over a year. I just kind of have a dog-like “pleasing the owner” mentality. As such, getting an email saying I got a positive point feels pretty good.

I am assuming dialup is still a thing in parts of the country

Fun (sad?) fact: AOL will soon shut down dial up on September 30th 2025: https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

Can’t recall them, but there are some words in which I keep typing double letters even though they aren’t supposed to be there.

Yes, of course. That always assumes a lack of good choice (i.e. no choice also being a bad option).

In various technical contexts

You probably do this all the time without thinking much about it. For example, updating mains-powered devices without UPS. There’s a chance the power goes out and something gets screwed up.

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Bronski Beat.

Or in a VM

Problem is, some of this software may likely be made to specifically not run in a VM, since it is supposed to keep track of everything the student is doing during exams.

I just realized I sound way too paranoid but it’s an interesting question

Nope. Not paranoid enough. If school/work requires such software, that goes onto a separate device only for those purposes, which will then be considered untrustworthy environment like any public computer.

Although perhaps in a sense it is paranoid compared to what others do. Recently I’ve had to get something printed without having own printer. I’ve found out people have no problem logging into their Google or Microsoft account on public PCs.
I brought the PDF on a CD.
There’s a certain small chance that something malicious could be written to a USB, and I don’t know about all the possible vulnerabilities. If mounted, perhaps the automatic media thumbnail generator could be exploited. That is probably paranoid, worrying about random software installed on your own computer is certainly not.

I feel like that “running errands” might include new furniture and repainting.

I got this (1-5 is like A-F in my country, but I’ll go with the letters anyway):

A = +€1
B = +€0.50
C = €0
D = -€0.50
F = -€1
Teacher’s note = -€1

With some static monthly base. At first, the base was low enough I sometimes got debt as my pocket money in middle school…

Teacher’s notes were even for shit like “doesn’t have a pen” or “pencil not sharp enough”.

Elites:…

Elites: “As a large language model I am unable to answer that question.”

That’s how I got that, xD. Android doesn’t otherwise list 2G as an option anymore, though it can still display it.

I wish I could deselect 3G however, since that isn’t a thing in my country anymore. (While keeping 2G)

Even more advanced (on MediaTek) stuff is in *#*#3646633#*#*. It’s called engineer mode, and typically gets removed in OS shipped to customers, but some manufacturers just don’t do that (smaller Chinese). There I can even select specific network bands, or even specific cell tower by EARFCN and Cell ID, as well as tinker with settings I rather won’t touch because I don’t understand them. And for example, manual MTU setting can persist a factory reset, so not everything may be resettable.

Even funnier, and probably part of the reason for removal, there’s Tx tests. For WiFi and cellular. Unfortunately, it only works for 4G on my current phone, and it blasts full power no matter the setting. But on my other MTK phone I can select 2G, 3G or 4G, frequency to transmit on, bandwidth, modulation, power level, type of data to transmit and some other settings.
Welp, that one sounds illegal.
I checked it with my SDR, it works. (The lowest power only seems to reach a few cm).
Lastly, based on screenshot found on XDA, some variants allow easily changing IMEI via GUI, or at least using AT commands. Also likely illegal.

I find it very useful for the band selection.

As always, a difference. That’s it. That’s all. Needs no logic. A difference from main crowd. If just color of the skin is enough, then logic clearly isn’t needed in these cases.

If someone wants to find the justification for themselves, they will.