It is a nice and legit Mason jar (actually has the “Mason” embossed at the top).

I just dug mine out because I wanted to smell it; thankfully it was where I thought it was. After several years, it mostly just smells like strawberry slushee now but there are still hints of the original nostalgic smell.

Warm cashews, strawberry, and buttery popcorn also known as the “Hill’s Snack Bar” smell. I always remember that smell associating with getting a new toy or picking out a birthday present.

There’s a novelty candle that tried and largely succeeded at recreating that smell, and I bought one several years ago. I still have half of it left, but it got buried in a box when I moved and is probably still there.

Stock picture, but mine looks exactly like this:

Yeah, I really like mine and it’s used pretty frequently. No complaints. I just mentioned those aspects as things that worry me but otherwise so far so good after 5 years.

Yeah, that’s exactly the kind of thing I worry about breaking on it. I’m not sure about the blender pitcher, but the food processor attachment definitely has that.

Haven’t had any issues, but I’m always just super careful with it.

I really like my Ninja one but it’s got some weird mechanical sensors in the base that tell it what attachment you’re using (blender pitcher, food processor, single-serve cup, etc). I’ve had it for about 5 years now and use it regularly, and it’s held up, but I always worry about those little sensor things messing up.

FWIW, until I decided on the S22 Flip, the Nokia 2780 was my preferred candidate.

Look at the Nokia 2780, Nokia 110, and/or the Nokia 3210.

They’re modern equivalents to their predecessors of yore and run a simple non-smartphone OS (Kai OS) and use VoLTE so are compatible with modern networks. Bonus is they can do things like hotspot.

I was looking at those and similar about a year and a half ago when I wanted to switch to a dumb phone. I ended up compromising with the CAT S22 Flip which is a low-end Android phone in a flip phone form factor. Wasn’t difficult to de-Google and was able to root it. Unfortunately, they’re not made anymore so what’s left is what’s left. They’ve also jumped quite a bit in price since I got mine for $69.99 back in 2024.

I’ve wanted an electric motorcycle ever since I first saw the “el Ninja” conversion forever ago.

sounds too good to be true?

Didn’t see a (suggested) price listed, so the devil’s in the dollar signs.

Let me first say that I love the idea of this phone and it breaking free of the “tall, skinny rectangle” form factor. The physical keyboard is a huge draw for me as well. However, there are some things on the software side that are definitely making me wary.

While it offers a screen for viewing and responding to messages, the Communicator doesn’t provide access to addictive social media apps or games. Instead, the company partnered with the maker of an Android launcher, Niagara Launcher, to provide access to messaging apps and productivity tools like Gmail, Telegram, WhatsApp, and Slack.

I don’t understand why it would limit apps. $499 is a lot to spend on a secondary device, and I don’t know that I’d want to EDC two devices. That’s a lie. I know I wouldn’t want to everyday carry two phones because I did that for work and absolutely hated it.

Most apps work fine on smaller screens. I’ve been daily driving a Cat S22 Flip with a portrait-oriented 480x640 screen for over a year, and most apps scale just fine.

I’ve at least heard of Niagara Launcher. Is that saying the only way to use those apps is through the launcher’s integration? That sounds shitty.

The company is teasing the possibility of integrating AI applications with this button

Dear god, no.

The phone’s standout feature is its Signal Light, a light-up button on the side of the device that can be customized with different colors and light patterns to indicate when you’ve received messages from certain people, groups, or app

So, a feature that has existed for years but was taken away from us? My old OnePlus had a customizable RGB light which could be configured the same way. It was really handy, and I hated the “always on” display that replaced it. I could tell from the color and pattern what kind of notification it was without having to preview it which was nice as it didn’t stress me out with a need to reply.

I want to like this, but it seems like they’re being very opinionated on how you actually use it. Maybe we’ll get lucky and it’ll be bootloader unlockable and LineageOS can save it from the shitty decisions of the manufacturer.

Edit: Submitted a question/ticket to ask support. Every time a promising-looking device is announced, I always ask. The answer is usually either “What? What do you mean?” or “No”. One of these days, there will hopefully be a manufacturer that doesn’t equate Android with Google.

The sign of a quality meme is me feeling both attacked and validated at the same time lol. Well done.

I do a spam sweep every morning and follow that up with a look at the modlog from overnight. If an account is actioned a lot or for some egregious things, I’ll review its profile and modlog history to see what else they’re up to and decide if that’s someone that should be kept around or given the boot.

Honestly all admins should do that.

Hell, half of Tesseract’s feature set was built around making it easy to do that kind of cross checking without having a bunch of tabs open or losing your original place in the app. So if you’ve ever wondered why you can do so much from the modals when you click on a user, community, or whatever, that’s why.

The real crime is that rag existing at all.

From federated user to the community’s local instance, yes. From the community’s local instance to federate) mod accounts, no.

They’re apparently still not except from Piefed. (Thanks PoVoq for clearing that up).

Well shit. You’re right. All those reports I got were from Piefed users only.

What’s Lemmy’s excuse?

At best. And it’s probably gonna be a <= $2 Google Play Store gift card.

I think with automatic updates enabled, they seem to install automatically without confirmation. I usually wake up every few days to a notification that a few apps updated overnight.

Yeah, I wanted to buy one but by the time I was in a position to, they were gone. Ended up getting a Fusion Hybrid instead. Love it, but wish I’d have bought the plugin version.

This is mostly adding on to another reply, but there’s two types of hybrid drivetrains:

1. Parallel: Both the internal combustion engine and the electric motors are coupled to the drivetrain and “share the load” or operate independently depending on demand. (electric only, engine only, both simultaneously). This is the most common type and is seen in the Toyota hybrids (Prius, Camry Hybrid, etc) and in Ford’s previous hybrids (Ford and Toyota cross-license a lot of their hybrid drivetrain tech, so this makes sense).

2. Series: The drivetrain is fully electric and there is an internal combustion engine that only drives a generator to provide power to charge the battery and send power to the traction motor. The Chevy Volt is (well, was) the only true series hybrid I can think of right now (not to be confused with the Chevy Bolt which is an EV).

For all intents and purposes, these gas-powered range extended trucks are just series hybrids. I think the main differentiator is that the traction battery and generator portion are a bit larger.

Not all of my devices have smart lock, and the two that do only support on-body detection, GPS-based location, or trusted bluetooth devices. Those two are also the ones that aren’t fully de-Googled, so I’m guessing the smart lock is dependent on that?

I also have a block house with metal roof. With LineageOS not having A-GPS support it makes location-based smart lock untenable.

Bah. Probably just going to disable the lock entirely.

Ugh! Well, this comment of mine aged like milk:

Main post from 6 months ago that also aged like milk: Ford plows ahead on EV battery factory amid political storm

Uh, a good chunk of that is non-Americans posting just to shit on Americans. And I take offense to your sweeping generalization.