Can you talk with the IT team?
I was able to switch my MFA to a Yubikey.
They rolled out the MFA policy quite recently and I immediately sent an email like “Hello. I do not have a smartphone. What are my options?”
They also had the option for SMS verification, but I had been looking at getting a Yubikey for myself anyway so might as well get work to pay for it.

The “Boops Boops in a bucket” photo used to be the main article image on Wikipedia and it tickled me in just the right way, I screenshotted it in 2021.

I went to check on it a couple years later after telling someone about it, and the photo was completely gone from the article! I was so sad. But I still had my screenshot.

Looking now, the bucket photo has returned further down the page!

Looking at the Wikipedia history for this page is funny, there are so many edits for one page for a small little goofy fish. Really shows how much work goes into maintaining that encyclopedia! And looking at the little spats about such things as the color of the bucket, and whether or not it is appropriate to mention such in the caption… Fascinating. EDIT: I keep going deeper. The caption for this exact image has been HOTLY contested. Also it has been said that the bucket is blue, and also that the bucket is turquoise. Also it can’t be decided on if “Boops boops in a bucket” is an appropriate caption because it is literally correct, or if it is “roflcopter nonsense” simply because the name of the fish happens to be silly…

The Center of Science and Industry (COSI) in Colombus OH has a little mock-up of the space station you can walk through that shows all the different tools and stations and whatnot, and there’s a hygeine station that has a familiar reference . I audibly giggled when I saw it.

Make no sudden movements! In 12 years it will backhand you into the bye-bye realm!

Thanks! It’s on my (very long) list of things to do lol.

Ideally I’d love to host it, too, I’ve been building up a small network rack with some fancy equipment, but I never seem to have the time to sit down and actually figure it all out… One of these days!

I’ve had a really really REALLY fun time using “shitty” old cameras.

Just grab a cheap early 2000’s digital point-and-shoot. (Or in my case, over 100 of them)
My instagram is linked on my profile, I have almost 2500 photos posted from my entire collection.

I’ve been rocking my Lightphone 3 for a month as my full-time daily driver, with no companion device (Well, I have a Boox palma, but I only read on it, don’t have any need for its other features/apps)

If I would have went straight from my previous normal of being super connected and addicted to my phone to where I’m at now, I wouldn’t have been able to swing it. It’s taken me almost 3 years of slow progress to be able to just fully ditch the smart stuff. Just start slow, keep on it, and you’ll get there eventually is you really want to.

And all you have to do to move where your number points is to swap the SIM card. It takes only a coupe seconds. I still have my old smartphone that I pop the SIM into when I go to concerts so I don’t break/lose my various dumb devices I’ve had over the years. The Lightphone 3 doesn’t support eSim yet, though it’s on the roadmap somewhere. It might be an idea to get a cheap smartphone that can use a regular SIM. Especially if it’s a really low-tier device, you’ll be able to use it, but the poor performance might push you to ditch the apps faster.

I tried for a while to dumb down my existing smartphone, but I just didn’t have the drive at first.

It was actually the Cat S22 flip that I found and instantly latched onto that really helped me wean off instagram, reddit, etc. It ran full Android, so you COULD do those things, but the experience on the tiny-ass screen and slow processor made the experience piss poor. I rocked that brick for almost 2 years. I eventually got to the point where I was no longer using the apps on it, just calling, texting, using the calendar, etc. I was tired of having such a thick device in my pocket, so tested going back to a dumbed-down smartphone, and had no problem (most of the time).

My other big hurdle at the moment is listening to music. I’ve been a spotify premium member for a long time, and my music library has continued to exist, but my music taste has changed and evolved over the last half a decade, so it’s missing a lot of what I want to listen to. I’ve been meaning to get away from Spotify, but it was just so convenient! Not having it has forced my hand, and now I need to do something about it, so hopefully soon I can get my jam on.

Low-tech is the way to go. I’ve gotten really into digital cameras from the 90’s, and carry at least one (of the many that I now have) around with me for taking photos. I’ve got a pile of old beige desktop computers to support the ones that need proprietary software, and also have a nice stash of old “offline” softwares like MS word, photoshop, CAD, etc. that I have access to if the internet ever implodes lol

I’ve had my Lightphone 3 for about a month now, and I have been really enjoying it. (I pre-ordered it wayyyy back when it was $399, I wouldn’t have paid any more than that)

I’ve been on my “dumbphone” journey for almost 3 years now. It’s been the best change I’ve made in my life in a LONG time.

I met someone this weekend who was carrying a pager… I immediately went to go investigate (well, immediately when I got home, because I can’t search anything on my phone), spurred on by exciting visions of becoming even LESS connected… but was disappointed at how expensive it was (Like $10-20 per month, which isn’t a TON, but I only pay $15/mo for my cell service).

I was originally wanting something like the minimal, able to do some smart-stuff… But the more I lived without the smart-stuff, the more I realized I didn’t really need it. The only thing that’s really inconvenient is the lack of the commuter rail app to buy train tickets (they introduced a $3 fee on top of a $12 ticket for not using the app, the bastards), and the lack of a ticket wallet for concerts that don’t have printable tickets… But considering one of the only times I take the train is to go to concerts in the city, and also I wouldn’t want to take my fancy Lightphone to a concert anyway (I’m a mosher), I will just hold onto my beat-up old smartphone (scuffed and dented from being flung from pockets in many-a-pit) and swap the SIM whenever I’m headed to throw down.

Do you find yourself tempted to go back to doomscrolling? Even years into my journey, I’d find myself re-enabling chrome to go scroll Reddit or something if I was in a bad mood… Not having that option has been really nice, forcing myself to deal with the moment in (probably healthier) different ways.

All the browser settings are also stored there, too. I turned all the AI stuff off, then the next time I booted up my PC the AI was back. Turned it off again. Same thing the next time I logged back on…

I finally looked into it and it was because I had firefox set to clear the cache on shutdown.

I would unironically love if there were enough people in my life that also wanted to live that way to make it viable… Also the lack of functioning payphones these days would be challenging.

The place (at least in the USA) where I’ve found the most functional-looking payphones was actually Hawaii… And even then, so many are decaying and non-functional. I’ve had a silly idea to go back and just roam around and photograph as many as I can.

Not very. Still working on getting a VPN set up and learning the ropes of self-hosting in general. Most of the research I’ve been doing has mentioned that Piefed seems to take less resources than Lemmy for some reason. We’ll see how it goes once I actually figure all this out. I just learned that my choice of home internet might make it difficult since I apparently can’t get a static IP. (T mobile 5G)

I’ll also comment to say that the “cancel” part of this is stupid and should be reconsidered. (There seems to be a pretty thorough consensus on that). Isn’t the whole point of this to have options, to spread the resources out to as many points as possible to prevent a single point of failure, corruption, or censorship?

I ended up at Piefed, because I’m interested in self-hosting, and I understand Python more than any of the other languages represented. That’s really the full depth of my choice, and I’m not sure there should be much more thought behind it other than “How does this particular software package perform and meet my needs?”

It’s funny, I was JUST hankering to take my SW out to browse the airwaves, and then I log on to see this post.

I have a Halicrafters S-119, still runs on tubes. Picks up 2-16MHz.

I already spent some time rummaging around for my antenna, but I can’t find it and don’t have a spool of wire handy, so I’ll need to work on that. Last time I had it set up was a couple years and 2 moves ago.

That solidifies my suspicion that it’s a standard Android feature… I also don’t get many spam calls, and only distinctly remember performing that action on this most recent phone.

Based on OP’s comment “…I always assume that rejecting the call outright will also be detected as a deliberate action and therefore a person is on the other side…”, I figured maybe they didn’t know about that feature and/or have an iPhone and they somehow don’t behave that way.

I also miss the old days of Android… I got a smartphone specifically to play Pokemon go in 2016 lol, up until that point I was still rocking one of those Casio Gzone indestructible flip-phones. Walked into WalMart, bought the cheapest LG whatever phone I could find (Android 5 I think?), caught a bazillion Pokemon. I remember buying multiple batteries for longer sessions, because you could just pop the back off and replace it on the go.

I don’t know if it’s a universal thing, I’ve never bothered to research further. On my several-year-old Oneplus phone (Android), if I single-press the power button, it mutes the ringer and vibrate but the call doesn’t end or reject (I could still then go and answer or reject the call normally, it doesn’t affect the user interface, just the ringer/vibrate). That’s how I’ve been “rejecting” unknown calls for a long time. A simple, elegant solution that doesn’t give the caller any hints.

I’ve been building a small 10" server rack and have also been using the bone PLA for the “beige” parts to match my stack of variously-yellowed desktops, but yeah, this will be awesome to have “authentic” beige! The bone white is a little too brown/tan if you look too hard.

I should pre-order some. I wonder if it will be a constant offering, or if I should order like 4 rolls haha.