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Cake day: June 7th, 2025

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  • A feature phone is somewhere in between a true “dumb phone” and just a basic smartphone. In practice there’s a grey area, but feature phones can do some basic basic stuff with 2G and 3G data. Feature phones vary, and sometimes only have a carrier or manufacturer app store, so sideloading Signal and just not accepting video posts would be possible on a phone from 2005 or so.

    But since the feature phone market is very niche in developed countries, it’s not the same as just all the phones running on one of two operating systems.

    To answer the question of how does one install Signal on a feature phone? It will really vary by phone. Likely just moving a JSON file or something onto a the phone, but just a guess.








  • I’ve lived in a subsistence farming community. You know who doesn’t glorify and romanticize it? Farmers.

    Don’t get me wrong, hobby farming often is the best of both worlds, and smallholder farming and gardening fucking make life 20,000 times better. But making the jump to letting your whole life depend on rainfall just to eat is madness.

    We as a species have 50 centuries of receipts to tell us that subsistence farmers eventually lose the game in a long enough time line. It only takes 1 season for that to ruin lives and communities.