Pine64 devices like the PinePhone still use it for serial: https://pine64.com/product/pinebook-pinephone-pinetab-serial-console/

But underneath it’s just unicast to your phone, no?

But anyway, beamed directly it may be, it’s called beamforming.

In the world of 5G, this is the act of focusing a wireless signal in a specific direction. Compared to simply sending a signal across a wide area, beamforming requires more sophisticated antenna technology.
[…] Beamforming technology, on the other hand, sends a precise and concentrated signal right to your smartphone. It is more deliberate and intentional with its delivery method.

Edit: Forgot source of quote: https://surecall.com/surecall-cell-phone-signal-booster-blog/5g-explained-beamforming-dss-in-plain-english/

I honestly just fear updates at this point. They always seem to break more stuff than fix, the only exception to that for me has been PixelExperience custom ROM (discontinued).

Edit: Android is simply missing proper backups. Bad update on my laptop? Timeshift. Bad update on stock Android? It is what it is.

First Moto G5s Plus which got high battery drain, sluggishness and crashes after Android 8.1 update. This was bad enough I had to fix it with custom ROM. Then Poco X3 Pro which reportedly had issues with performance after MIUI 13 update, so I stayed on older software. Now my Ulefone Armor 24, which only has one update primarily to fix Google pay, but also brings a newer security patch, reportedly causing many crashes that make the phone unreliable and a bad experience.
Also many Samsung phones had an update that removed access to manual band mode selection, and if I recall correctly, that update didn’t even revert them to default.

It’s not the best for security, but I basically now just fear any updates. If everything works, then it can only be broken.

Maybe I should at least somehow start checking known vulnerabilities. As of recently, I should probably stop using applock on my outdated Ulefone

Exposed ”com.pri.applock.LockUI“ activity allows any other malicious application, with no granted Android system permissions, to inject an arbitrary intent with system-level privileges to a protected application. One must know the protecting PIN number (it might be revealed by exploiting CVE-2024-13916)

https://cert.pl/en/posts/2025/05/CVE-2024-13915/

Though my device has AppLock v14, so I am not sure.

This makes me worried about the ultra cheap Chinese manufacturers. I mean the likes of Unihertz, Umidigi, Ulefone, Doogee, Oukitel, etc

Usually these don’t get updates at all.
Even weirder, for example I have Ulefone Armor 24. They used to ship with Android 13. They still advertised it with Android 13 when I bought it. Mine like a few others have said arrived with Android 14, but the earlier ones aren’t offered A14 update.
Someone on Reddit contacted support about this and they replied that they don’t provide cross-level upgrades because Google doesn’t allow them to release those to end users.

Anyway, point is, they save on everything possible, starting with software updates. And I have doubts about them changing this, unless EU is a large market for them.

1. Second cellphone.
2. You don’t need a SIM card to call emergency numbers.

2nd is also important in that your phone is always connected (unless in airplane mode) to some cellular network, and can still be tracked the same way (unique IMEI).

It also let’s you spoof some devices to download “incompatible” apps.

There’s also MeshCore, and now the networks are split between these 2.

Hey, hey, it’s average.

Maybe the heat could temporarily do something, but other than that this just sounds stupid. Especially with strong heat source like a flame.

Look at the bottom with server count. Likely something screwed up there, and when those instances were suddenly returned, the user count was added back before being subtracted when they disappeared from the data.

It does. I’ve been using it, I tested it, it works. They just get the info that I am “currently unavailable” and I get SMS with info on who tried to call me when I was “unavailable”. Just like airplane mode, but I get to keep data and SMS.

2G will be used only for emergency calls.

4G/5G doesn’t support traditional voice calls like 2G/3G did. Only VoLTE, VoWiFi and VoNR which are a total mess with lack of one universal standard. (And you can disable them, which is the point of my comment.)

But they can try, if that’s what you meant.

Problem solved.

You can’t call me.

(If you can’t disable 2G and 3G and they are still used by your carrier, you can switch to LTE only or NR/LTE or NR only in *#*#4636#*#* menu. This menu may be disabled on some devices.)

This also helps with reconnecting faster when travelling as it won’t have to unnecessarily search for 2G/3G towers.

Alternatively, you could forward all calls somewhere else, so you can still make calls yourself right away.

There’s different levels:

1. Shutdown at UEFI splash
2. Long press power button
3. Unplug PC
4. Turn off PSU
5. Turn off extension cord
6. Turn off room’s breaker
7. Turn off main breaker
8. Cut off the power lines
9. Shutdown the power plant
10. Declare war on any community using electricity
11. Declare war on thunder clouds
12. Destroy everything with electrons (total annihilation of the world)

What the hell is that? A 12MP 2MB meme? Hell no.

0.2MP, 16kB

Why close it though? In Slovakia we have a few train stops with stop on request. The train only stops there if there’s someone at the stop, or if someone presses a stop button in the train.

It is improving search result, with filters. Ads, tracking, data deletion possibility, in-app purchases, license, etc…

At least some of these are already tracked.

The other Arch user body type

So is ADB, and Bluetooth tethering, and wired Ethernet, and OTG,…

This can be solved with a warning like “You are not connected to the internet, hotspot will only allow access within local network.”

Absolutely yes. So many phones have USB 2.0, so the Wi-Fi speed is often going to be faster than cable.

Maybe. The way I understand it:

Normal is something that’s basically the way it should be, while common just refers to being of higher frequency of occurence, regularly seen.

For example: “Is police brutality normal?” vs “Is police brutality common?”
No and yes.