Pentium100

While I use incandescent lightbulbs for my home, I like LED flashlights - they are quite bright and small. While sometimes there is a problem with a bad contact or switch, it is not that big of a deal. I also use one a lot and usually do not buy the expensive kind. The flashlights I use are small, powered by a single AA cell or a bigger one I have uses 4xAAA cells. From what I have noticed a LED flashlight flashing rapidly can be a sign of battery being discharged and no longer able to supply enough power.

To me, the art style is OK (way better than the 2D G5) and it has Twilight in it, so I'll at least try to watch it.

If/when they switcho off 2G I'll just buy a feature phone that can do 4G (yes, they make such phones). Yeah, though it seems that EU will force phone manufacturers to make batteries replaceable. On my phones, replacing the battery is no "repair" - remove the cover, remove the old battery, insert new battery. In fact, removing the battery is needed to access the SIM card.

I dislike touchscreens in general, but specifically on smartphones it's not just the touchscreen. The screen is relatively small, so when the phone displays a full keyboard it is difficult for me to hit the key I was aiming for. Even worse is that since this is a touchscreen, I have zero tactile feedback whether I am pressing the correct key. I can type better on a physical keyboard with the same size keys. If the keys on a physical keypad are smaller than my finger, there is no problem, as I can still feel which one I am pressing. Not so much on a touchscreen. Making the phone display just the numpad and typing like on an old phone is better (larger keys), but still more annoying than on a phone with physical keypad. A lot of functions are not obvious. That is, on a PC I can left click, double click (performs some action) or right click (displays menu). On a phone it's tap or hold, but sometimes I have to tap something and then find a button to edit or whatever, some other times I have to press and hold until a menu shows up. The phone itself is big and uncomfortable to hold in my hand. I am used to holding the phone with one hand and pressing buttons with the thumb of the same hand. This is difficult to do with a big phone and especially with a touchscreen. Making it smaller would make the UI or rather trying to press a key suck even more. The software is crap. Everything wants an account, logging in and then agreeing with tracking. If I could have pure Linux (something like Debian) running it woudl be better in this regard, though it would make the hardware/UI part suck even more. Advertisements. I despise ads with a passion. The phone itself is less durable. I am sure there are ruggedized versions, but in general an old phone handles dropping much better. I just need to find the battery and put it back in. Speaking of batteries, they are hard to replace on most phones. There are ones with replaceable batteries though, so I guess if this was my only problem I could get one of those phones. The smartphone I actually tried was with Android 2 OS (IIRC), but sometimes I have to handle more modern ones (someone asking me for help etc) and IMO the modern ones suck more than Android 2 as far as UI goes. Also, I do not really need it. I can call and send text messages from my current phone. I can (and usually do) carry a handheld PC (for example, GPD microPC, but I have a few others) if I need to actually use a computer (which is not often), it is way better than a phone (both the hardware and the fact that I can use normal Linux on it). Interesting. Here, in Lithuania, 2G (GSM) network is still active and runs great. It's not just old phones, there are alarm systems and various other devices that likely use 2G for calls and text mesages. I have visited Poland and had no problems with my phones as well. I have a tablet that I almost never use. I got it for free and use it if some stupid site insists on it for identification or if I need to test an android app for a customer. A tablet is a bit better than a smartphone as it is bigger, so I do not have as many problems with typing. Still, it stays turned off for months until I need it.

I pretty much never used a modern smartphone, as I dislike them. I tried to use one for a while, got fed up and continued to use an older phone. If I have to use one now (someone asks for help) I get reminded really fast why I dislike them and give the phone back as soon as I can.

Out of the main 6, I relate to Twilight the most. There is a big difference though - I am not a pedant and I do not care about getting perfect grades in tests. That is, when I went to school I obviously wanted to get good grades, but I never cared about perfecion - just good enough to pass. If the subject was boring to me, I was happy with a 5 (the minimum passing grade) out of 10 and if the subject was interesting to me, I naturally got high grades. I also would refuse any higher level management or government position, especially if it turned me into a public person. While I think that I and Twilight could be friends, I don't think I would be able to have her come over to my house, because she would likely get very annoyed at the lack of order.

There are some long-running threads in a style of "Who is your favorite pony?". I may want to post in such a thread, but I do not want to repeat myself every month or year. However, so far, the only wa of knowing if I posted in this thread before that I know of is to go through all the pages and search for my name. Is there any faster way to find out if I posted in a thread before (let's assume that my memory is not perfect and that I am too lazy to keep notes)? If not, I think there should be.