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  1. Software #Developers Say #AI Is Rotting Their Brains

    by Emanuel Maiberg, May 13, 2026

    Excerpt: "The developers I talked to found AI useful for some tasks. Several developers said that it was good for experimentation, allowing them to quickly prototype an idea or to implement something in a domain they’re unfamiliar with. One developer said it was a good information interface. Specifically, he said, the AI helped him find where on the server a certain request is handled, summarize logs, or find documentation related to code changes.

    "The problem all the developers I talked to agreed on is that the more they relied on AI to code, the more the skills they’ve honed for years deteriorated. This is by now a well studied phenomenon sometimes referred to as '#CognitiveDebt' or '#CognitiveAtrophy.' The idea is that people who use AI to automate certain parts of their job lose the ability to do those tasks well, therefore #DeSkilling themselves.

    " 'I had some issues where I forgot how to implement a Laravel API and it scared the shit out of me. I went to university for this, I've been a software engineer for many years now and it feels like I am back before I ever wrote a single line of code,' the software developer at a small web design firm told me.

    " 'It's making me dumber for sure,' the fintech software developer told me. “It's like when we got #cellphones and stopped remembering phone numbers, but it's grown to me mentally outsourcing ‘thinking’ in general. I feel my critical thinking and ability to sit and reason about a problem or a design has degraded because the all-knowing-dalai-llama is just a question away from giving me his take. And supposedly I tell myself ill just use it for inspiration but it ends up being my only thought. It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before.'

    " 'When I was using it for code generation, I found myself having a lot of trouble building and maintaining a #MentalModel of the code I was working with,' the software engineer at the FAANG told me. 'Another aspect is that I joined late last year and [the company’s] codebase is massive. As a new hire, part of my job is to learn how to navigate the codebase and use the established conventions, but I think the AI push really hampered my ability to do that. '"

    Read more:
    404media.co/software-developer

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/2vjJm

    #AISucks #DumbingUsDown #BrainRot #AIBrainRot #MentalMaps #CriticalThinkingSkills #UseYourBrain #UseItOrLoseIt

  2. Software #Developers Say #AI Is Rotting Their Brains

    by Emanuel Maiberg, May 13, 2026

    Excerpt: "The developers I talked to found AI useful for some tasks. Several developers said that it was good for experimentation, allowing them to quickly prototype an idea or to implement something in a domain they’re unfamiliar with. One developer said it was a good information interface. Specifically, he said, the AI helped him find where on the server a certain request is handled, summarize logs, or find documentation related to code changes.

    "The problem all the developers I talked to agreed on is that the more they relied on AI to code, the more the skills they’ve honed for years deteriorated. This is by now a well studied phenomenon sometimes referred to as '#CognitiveDebt' or '#CognitiveAtrophy.' The idea is that people who use AI to automate certain parts of their job lose the ability to do those tasks well, therefore #DeSkilling themselves.

    " 'I had some issues where I forgot how to implement a Laravel API and it scared the shit out of me. I went to university for this, I've been a software engineer for many years now and it feels like I am back before I ever wrote a single line of code,' the software developer at a small web design firm told me.

    " 'It's making me dumber for sure,' the fintech software developer told me. “It's like when we got #cellphones and stopped remembering phone numbers, but it's grown to me mentally outsourcing ‘thinking’ in general. I feel my critical thinking and ability to sit and reason about a problem or a design has degraded because the all-knowing-dalai-llama is just a question away from giving me his take. And supposedly I tell myself ill just use it for inspiration but it ends up being my only thought. It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before.'

    " 'When I was using it for code generation, I found myself having a lot of trouble building and maintaining a #MentalModel of the code I was working with,' the software engineer at the FAANG told me. 'Another aspect is that I joined late last year and [the company’s] codebase is massive. As a new hire, part of my job is to learn how to navigate the codebase and use the established conventions, but I think the AI push really hampered my ability to do that. '"

    Read more:
    404media.co/software-developer

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/2vjJm

    #AISucks #DumbingUsDown #BrainRot #AIBrainRot #MentalMaps #CriticalThinkingSkills #UseYourBrain #UseItOrLoseIt

  3. Software #Developers Say #AI Is Rotting Their Brains

    by Emanuel Maiberg, May 13, 2026

    Excerpt: "The developers I talked to found AI useful for some tasks. Several developers said that it was good for experimentation, allowing them to quickly prototype an idea or to implement something in a domain they’re unfamiliar with. One developer said it was a good information interface. Specifically, he said, the AI helped him find where on the server a certain request is handled, summarize logs, or find documentation related to code changes.

    "The problem all the developers I talked to agreed on is that the more they relied on AI to code, the more the skills they’ve honed for years deteriorated. This is by now a well studied phenomenon sometimes referred to as '#CognitiveDebt' or '#CognitiveAtrophy.' The idea is that people who use AI to automate certain parts of their job lose the ability to do those tasks well, therefore #DeSkilling themselves.

    " 'I had some issues where I forgot how to implement a Laravel API and it scared the shit out of me. I went to university for this, I've been a software engineer for many years now and it feels like I am back before I ever wrote a single line of code,' the software developer at a small web design firm told me.

    " 'It's making me dumber for sure,' the fintech software developer told me. “It's like when we got #cellphones and stopped remembering phone numbers, but it's grown to me mentally outsourcing ‘thinking’ in general. I feel my critical thinking and ability to sit and reason about a problem or a design has degraded because the all-knowing-dalai-llama is just a question away from giving me his take. And supposedly I tell myself ill just use it for inspiration but it ends up being my only thought. It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before.'

    " 'When I was using it for code generation, I found myself having a lot of trouble building and maintaining a #MentalModel of the code I was working with,' the software engineer at the FAANG told me. 'Another aspect is that I joined late last year and [the company’s] codebase is massive. As a new hire, part of my job is to learn how to navigate the codebase and use the established conventions, but I think the AI push really hampered my ability to do that. '"

    Read more:
    404media.co/software-developer

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/2vjJm

    #AISucks #DumbingUsDown #BrainRot #AIBrainRot #MentalMaps #CriticalThinkingSkills #UseYourBrain #UseItOrLoseIt

  4. Software #Developers Say #AI Is Rotting Their Brains

    by Emanuel Maiberg, May 13, 2026

    Excerpt: "The developers I talked to found AI useful for some tasks. Several developers said that it was good for experimentation, allowing them to quickly prototype an idea or to implement something in a domain they’re unfamiliar with. One developer said it was a good information interface. Specifically, he said, the AI helped him find where on the server a certain request is handled, summarize logs, or find documentation related to code changes.

    "The problem all the developers I talked to agreed on is that the more they relied on AI to code, the more the skills they’ve honed for years deteriorated. This is by now a well studied phenomenon sometimes referred to as '#CognitiveDebt' or '#CognitiveAtrophy.' The idea is that people who use AI to automate certain parts of their job lose the ability to do those tasks well, therefore #DeSkilling themselves.

    " 'I had some issues where I forgot how to implement a Laravel API and it scared the shit out of me. I went to university for this, I've been a software engineer for many years now and it feels like I am back before I ever wrote a single line of code,' the software developer at a small web design firm told me.

    " 'It's making me dumber for sure,' the fintech software developer told me. “It's like when we got #cellphones and stopped remembering phone numbers, but it's grown to me mentally outsourcing ‘thinking’ in general. I feel my critical thinking and ability to sit and reason about a problem or a design has degraded because the all-knowing-dalai-llama is just a question away from giving me his take. And supposedly I tell myself ill just use it for inspiration but it ends up being my only thought. It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before.'

    " 'When I was using it for code generation, I found myself having a lot of trouble building and maintaining a #MentalModel of the code I was working with,' the software engineer at the FAANG told me. 'Another aspect is that I joined late last year and [the company’s] codebase is massive. As a new hire, part of my job is to learn how to navigate the codebase and use the established conventions, but I think the AI push really hampered my ability to do that. '"

    Read more:
    404media.co/software-developer

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/2vjJm

    #AISucks #DumbingUsDown #BrainRot #AIBrainRot #MentalMaps #CriticalThinkingSkills #UseYourBrain #UseItOrLoseIt

  5. Software #Developers Say #AI Is Rotting Their Brains

    by Emanuel Maiberg, May 13, 2026

    Excerpt: "The developers I talked to found AI useful for some tasks. Several developers said that it was good for experimentation, allowing them to quickly prototype an idea or to implement something in a domain they’re unfamiliar with. One developer said it was a good information interface. Specifically, he said, the AI helped him find where on the server a certain request is handled, summarize logs, or find documentation related to code changes.

    "The problem all the developers I talked to agreed on is that the more they relied on AI to code, the more the skills they’ve honed for years deteriorated. This is by now a well studied phenomenon sometimes referred to as '#CognitiveDebt' or '#CognitiveAtrophy.' The idea is that people who use AI to automate certain parts of their job lose the ability to do those tasks well, therefore #DeSkilling themselves.

    " 'I had some issues where I forgot how to implement a Laravel API and it scared the shit out of me. I went to university for this, I've been a software engineer for many years now and it feels like I am back before I ever wrote a single line of code,' the software developer at a small web design firm told me.

    " 'It's making me dumber for sure,' the fintech software developer told me. “It's like when we got #cellphones and stopped remembering phone numbers, but it's grown to me mentally outsourcing ‘thinking’ in general. I feel my critical thinking and ability to sit and reason about a problem or a design has degraded because the all-knowing-dalai-llama is just a question away from giving me his take. And supposedly I tell myself ill just use it for inspiration but it ends up being my only thought. It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before.'

    " 'When I was using it for code generation, I found myself having a lot of trouble building and maintaining a #MentalModel of the code I was working with,' the software engineer at the FAANG told me. 'Another aspect is that I joined late last year and [the company’s] codebase is massive. As a new hire, part of my job is to learn how to navigate the codebase and use the established conventions, but I think the AI push really hampered my ability to do that. '"

    Read more:
    404media.co/software-developer

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/2vjJm

    #AISucks #DumbingUsDown #BrainRot #AIBrainRot #MentalMaps #CriticalThinkingSkills #UseYourBrain #UseItOrLoseIt

  6. Windows keeps asking me lately to hook my cell phone up to my desktop. My immediate reaction is always "NO!" to that sort of thing, but it would be handy to have access to my texts on the desktop. Has anyone done that? Is it a bad idea?

    #Technology #Tech #Windows #Cellphones

  7. #Nevada Police Can Now #Track #Cellphones Without a #Warrant

    “ signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time," reports AP. "All without a warrant." The software from #FogDataScience, adopted this January in Nevada through a Dept Public Safety contract, pulls info from apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices
    #privacy

    news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/

  8. #Nevada Police Can Now #Track #Cellphones Without a #Warrant

    “ signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time," reports AP. "All without a warrant." The software from #FogDataScience, adopted this January in Nevada through a Dept Public Safety contract, pulls info from apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices
    #privacy

    news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/

  9. #Nevada Police Can Now #Track #Cellphones Without a #Warrant

    “ signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time," reports AP. "All without a warrant." The software from #FogDataScience, adopted this January in Nevada through a Dept Public Safety contract, pulls info from apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices
    #privacy

    news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/

  10. Police Can Now Without a

    “ signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time," reports AP. "All without a warrant." The software from , adopted this January in Nevada through a Dept Public Safety contract, pulls info from apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices

    news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/

  11. So I've realized this morning that my Pixel 8 Pro no longer sits flat. It now has a noticeable twist along its longitudinal axis.

    Is this a cause for concern?  And what the heck could have caused this?

    #cellphones #pixel #google

  12. #Maine will require battery makers to provide #recycling options

    By Tina Fischer, April 9, 2026

    "Gov. #JanetMills signed into law a measure that will offer more options to recycle both single-use #alkaline and #LithiumIon batteries in Maine.

    "LD 474 updates the state’s current product stewardship laws to require national battery manufacturing companies to set up drop-off locations and fund a statewide take-back program so that all batteries can be safely disposed of and rare earth metals can be extracted for reuse.

    "Eight other states have enacted similar laws.

    "The state’s existing battery recovery program, enacted in 1991, covers only nickel-cadmium batteries. Many hardware stores, town offices and Staples stores in Maine accept some types of batteries for recycling. The nationwide Battery Network lists on its website drop-off locations in Maine.

    "Improper disposal of lithium-ion batteries — commonly found in power tools, cell phone chargers and #vaping devices — has led to at least 24 fires at recycling facilities in Maine. Disposal concerns have driven up insurance rates for towns, according to the #MaineDEP.

    "More than 820,000 pounds of batteries are thrown away in Maine every year, according to the Natural Resources Council of Maine [#NRCM].

    " 'Holding corporate battery makers accountable for cleaning up waste will lower costs for Mainers and help curb demand for mining rare earth metals,' said Vanessa Berry, sustainable Maine program manager at the nonprofit.

    "It is technically illegal in Maine to dispose of rechargeable, button cell, or lead-acid batteries in the regular trash."

    Source:
    mainebiz.biz/article/maine-wil

    #SolarPunkSunday #MaineNews #BatteryRecycling #LionBatteries #Recycle #VapePens #Batteries #CellPhones #RechargeableBatteries

  13. Amid growing concerns about the effects of screen time on their children, some parents are reintroducing the communal simplicity of the household phone. #CellPhones #kids #telephones #parenting

    csmonitor.com/Arts-Culture/202

    Posted into America and the World @america-and-the-world-csmonitor

  14. Amid growing concerns about the effects of screen time on their children, some parents are reintroducing the communal simplicity of the household phone. #CellPhones #kids #telephones #parenting

    csmonitor.com/Arts-Culture/202

    Posted into America and the World @america-and-the-world-csmonitor

  15. Amid growing concerns about the effects of screen time on their children, some parents are reintroducing the communal simplicity of the household phone. #CellPhones #kids #telephones #parenting

    csmonitor.com/Arts-Culture/202

    Posted into America and the World @america-and-the-world-csmonitor

  16. How Michigan school districts regulate student cellphone use

    📰 Original title: We collected data on how 779 Michigan school districts are regulating student cellphones − here are the trends

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary: killbait.com/en/how-michigan-s

    #society #cellphones #schools #michigan

  17. I was just geezing about a new young family on the block. They have two tweens who apparently have motor bikes. They've been (loudly) riding up and down our block most of the afternoon.😠 Then I think again 🤔and realize that at least they aren't on #cellphones and getting addicted to #socialmedia and #ai "friends" 😅

  18. I'm getting the itch to get a new phone. Not because I need one, but I love trying out different form factors and seeing what works and doesn't in the mobile space.

    I really loved my Nokia 6xx series of windows phone. If the battery wasn't so terrible, the NextBit Robin would have been one of my favorites.

    I am feeling really drawn to the Moto Razr Ultra just to see how a clamshell phone feels.

    If anyone has other "quirky" phones that I should look at, let me know

    #askFedi #CellPhones #recommendations

  19. There is a hierachy of cell-phone alert levels in n North America. The highest level (1, "National," formerly "Presidential") can't be turned off, and automatically sets your phone to maximum volume. This is the "NUCLEAR ATTACK IS IMMINENT!!!" level.

    In Canada, all alerts, including weather and Amber alerts, are coded to level 1 by CRTC fiat. On newer phones, you can't opt out of any of them, any time of day or night, if you're connected to a Canadian cell tower.

    If you live in Ottawa and your phone woke you at 4:30 am today, screeching at max volume — despite being in "sleep" or "do not disturb" mode — for something happening hundreds of kilometres away in another province, once your heartrate slows and you're able to breathe again, the CRTC are the ones to take it up with.

    p.s. People without landlines keep their phones by the bed b/c a phone charging in the basement overnight is no use for calling 911 in a sudden emergency, especially for those of us with serious health issues.

    #Canada #cellphones

  20. Well, that was a first: Bumped into by a guy who was walking on the beach while looking down at and completely absorbed by his phone. No harm done.

    And certainly took nothing away from our pleasure of walking the beach on this warm evening.

    #pedestrians #CellPhones #MontereyBay #Beach #Beach #Sunset

  21. Every #scrape, #site, range and page; every game, download, hack, song, movie and virrie on the Web. Everything on your #phone. Everything on your 'puta. Even the content directories of your cupboards. Almost every #system has been brute-forced; passwords cracked, firewalls breached. Nothing has been left untouched.

    L. Ashley Straker, Connected Infection

    #quote #quotes #cellphones #it #infotech #informationtechnology #code #coding #hack #hacks #hacking #privacy #invasionofprivacy #humanrights

  22. And, sure, fine, I do check my #phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it's better than smoking, that's what I say. It's the new, lung-safe cigarette.

    Aimee Bender, The Color Master: Stories

    #quote #quotes #cellphones

  23. As long as you have a Cell #Phone you're never alone

    Stanley Victor Paskavich

    #quote #quotes #cellphones

  24. Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell #phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.

    Tim Dorsey, Nuclear Jellyfish (Serge Storms, #11)

    #quote #quotes #cellphones

  25. #HOME is where the heart is, but today, the #PHONE is where the Heart is!!!

    Rachitha Cabral

    #quote #quotes #cellphones

  26. Man should never work for the #machine, machine should work for the man.

    Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

    #quote #quotes #cellphones

  27. The interesting thing about #text is that, as a medium, it separates you from the person you are speaking with, so you can act differently from how you would in person or even on the #phone.

    Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

    #quote #quotes #cellphones

  28. Unlike the Man with No Cell #Phone, the Man Who Can See around Corners owns several, which he places on the table, like talismans. So far, so good. But you can imagine my disappointment when he promptly disabuses me of this seeing-around-corners stuff. "That's all bullshit," he says.

    Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

    #quote #quotes #cellphones

  29. Ah, the days when your #desktop had less than half the memory on your current #phone.

    stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

    #quote #quotes #cellphones

  30. What's making us uncomfortable...is this feeling of losing control - a feeling that instantiates itself in a dozen different ways each day, such as when we tune out with our #phone during our child's bath time, or lose our ability to enjoy a nice moment without a frantic urge to document it for a virtual audience.

    Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

    #quote #quotes #cellphones

  31. You have not had any privacy since the first day you owned your first cell #phone. They can track everything. They can hear recordings of anything you have ever said on your cell. And read everything you ever read, and everything you ever typed. And see every location you've ever been to. That's just how cells work. Your privacy is a willful illusion.

    Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

    #quote #quotes #cellphones

  32. No cell #phones?” Macey said as if we’d just told her all students were required to shave their heads and live on bread and water.

    Ally Carter, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls, #1)

    #quote #quotes #cellphones

  33. A #smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives

    Munia Khan

    #quote #quotes #cellphones

  34. My assumption with smart #phone teenagers is they suffer from distraction issues.

    Steven Magee

    #quote #quotes #cellphones

  35. Amid growing concerns about the effects of screen time on their children, some parents are reintroducing the communal simplicity of the household phone. #telephones #CellPhones #teenagers #parents

    csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2026

    Posted into START A CONVERSATION! @start-a-conversation-csmonitor

  36. Amid growing concerns about the effects of screen time on their children, some parents are reintroducing the communal simplicity of the household phone. #telephones #CellPhones #teenagers #parents

    csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2026

    Posted into START A CONVERSATION! @start-a-conversation-csmonitor

  37. Amid growing concerns about the effects of screen time on their children, some parents are reintroducing the communal simplicity of the household phone. #telephones #CellPhones #teenagers #parents

    csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2026

    Posted into START A CONVERSATION! @start-a-conversation-csmonitor

  38. I'm thinking that my next cellphone might be a Fairphone. I've generally tried to shop wisely for phones, and mostly I've been quite successful. They generally last me at least five years each, often a year or two longer.

    I go with as close to vanilla Android as much as possible, with high RAM and good specs - never top-tier phones, but solid mid-range phones. I don't buy from Samsung, because I have no interest in having crapware foisted on me or helping a corporation violate my privacy.

    My current phone is a OnePlus 6T, which is still running solidly after nearly seven years. But Carl Pei left OnePlus some time ago, and OnePlus has apparently gone downhill as a result.

    The Fairphone sounds appealing, but I'm concerned that I might have to switch carriers. Meanwhile my son is pulling for a Pixel; I'd rather avoid doing business directly with Google because they're so fucking evil.

    So...suggestions? Thoughts?

    Thanks!

    #cellular #phones #Cellphones #Android #Fairphone #Technology #FediAdvice #FediTechSupport

  39. I'm thinking that my next cellphone might be a Fairphone. I've generally tried to shop wisely for phones, and mostly I've been quite successful. They generally last me at least five years each, often a year or two longer.

    I go with as close to vanilla Android as much as possible, with high RAM and good specs - never top-tier phones, but solid mid-range phones. I don't buy from Samsung, because I have no interest in having crapware foisted on me or helping a corporation violate my privacy.

    My current phone is a OnePlus 6T, which is still running solidly after nearly seven years. But Carl Pei left OnePlus some time ago, and OnePlus has apparently gone downhill as a result.

    The Fairphone sounds appealing, but I'm concerned that I might have to switch carriers. Meanwhile my son is pulling for a Pixel; I'd rather avoid doing business directly with Google because they're so fucking evil.

    So...suggestions? Thoughts?

    Thanks!

    #cellular #phones #Cellphones #Android #Fairphone #Technology #FediAdvice #FediTechSupport

  40. I'm thinking that my next cellphone might be a Fairphone. I've generally tried to shop wisely for phones, and mostly I've been quite successful. They generally last me at least five years each, often a year or two longer.

    I go with as close to vanilla Android as much as possible, with high RAM and good specs - never top-tier phones, but solid mid-range phones. I don't buy from Samsung, because I have no interest in having crapware foisted on me or helping a corporation violate my privacy.

    My current phone is a OnePlus 6T, which is still running solidly after nearly seven years. But Carl Pei left OnePlus some time ago, and OnePlus has apparently gone downhill as a result.

    The Fairphone sounds appealing, but I'm concerned that I might have to switch carriers. Meanwhile my son is pulling for a Pixel; I'd rather avoid doing business directly with Google because they're so fucking evil.

    So...suggestions? Thoughts?

    Thanks!

    #cellular #phones #Cellphones #Android #Fairphone #Technology #FediAdvice #FediTechSupport

  41. I'm thinking that my next cellphone might be a Fairphone. I've generally tried to shop wisely for phones, and mostly I've been quite successful. They generally last me at least five years each, often a year or two longer.

    I go with as close to vanilla Android as much as possible, with high RAM and good specs - never top-tier phones, but solid mid-range phones. I don't buy from Samsung, because I have no interest in having crapware foisted on me or helping a corporation violate my privacy.

    My current phone is a OnePlus 6T, which is still running solidly after nearly seven years. But Carl Pei left OnePlus some time ago, and OnePlus has apparently gone downhill as a result.

    The Fairphone sounds appealing, but I'm concerned that I might have to switch carriers. Meanwhile my son is pulling for a Pixel; I'd rather avoid doing business directly with Google because they're so fucking evil.

    So...suggestions? Thoughts?

    Thanks!

    #cellular #phones #Cellphones #Android #Fairphone #Technology #FediAdvice #FediTechSupport

  42. Competitors to the SpaceLink/T-Mobile Direct to Device Tie Up are Getting their Act Together

    SpaceLink and T-Mobile are not the only players in the “Direct-to-Device” market. AST SpaceMobile successfully deployed the BlueBird 6 satellite into low earth orbit, and it will initially be leveraged by AT&T and Verizon in the United States. AST has agreements with more than 50 mobile network operators worldwide that will be served by BlueBird.

    BlueBird 6 provides 10X the data capacity relative to previous versions and is designed to connect directly to standard smartphones without specialized hardware. The system supports peak data rates of up to 120 Mbps for voice, data, and video applications.

    “Direct-to-Device” (or “Direct-to-Cell”) technologies will merge terrestrial mobile and orbital networks into a singular, ubiquitous fabric, paving the way for mass-market adoption.

    news.satnews.com/2025/12/24/as #Mobility #MobilePhones #CellPhones #Satellites #AST #ATT #MNO #DirecttoDevice #Verison #BlurBird