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I think no matter how you cut it, the fediverse is not up there (yet) so I’m right even without having an answer 🤷

How would you?

It seems to me that what’s happened in recent years is individual companies that offer some sort of information service have been centralizing and gatekeeping

I thought that’s what you meant but your statement that the fediverse “trying to layer some order over a decentralized physical infrastructure” is totally removed from that.

BTW I’m not cynical about AI, I’m against it. There’s a difference.
Were Luddites “cynical” about mechanical weaving? I don’t think so, but the people who called them Luddites in the first place certainly were.

fediverse is it’s trying to layer some order over a decentralized physical infrastructure.

I’m not sure I follow you. The Fediverse is about social networking which is not all, not even most of the internet.

And the internet itself is a layer of order over its decentralised physical infrastructure.

You really really hate the new 3310. To the point that you’re inventing adversaries where there are none.

TBH I forgot that I had this discussion elsewhere and I’m about 99% sure that these phones simply become unusable when 2G is shut down, which is why some countries shut down 3G but not 2G. But I don’t remember or understand the technical stuff behind it.

There’s also somehing about these specs that we just call 2G or 3G etc., in reality it’s much more complex.

Yes, the internet is decentralised in every way, not only its infrastructure. Even unorganised. If that’s your big discovery, I respect that. But…

the library was the main source of human knowledge, and it was very organized through the Dewey Decimal System

Not all of humanity uses the DD system.

Today, even the search engines are failing us, and we are turning to AI.

This simply isn’t true, and everything you write after that. It’s an insult to actual librarians.
There is no “Artifical Intelligence”.

Indexing the internet is a big job. We had data centers even before A-not-I. And people were complaining about how much energy they use. Had we known then how much worse this is going to get very soon…

Artificial Unintelligence does not do that job better btw. It doesn’t do the indexing at all. It just wastes energy. And, as another commenter pointed out, it actively makes the situation you describe worse.

BTW, proper dumbphones still exist these days. They don’t release flagships every year so there’s little to report on, but they’re being produced and sold.

Many of them even bear the name NOKIA but have little to do with the original.

An important aspect to consider here is the networks - the original 3310 had - at most - 2G.

Most countries are shutting their 2G and 3G networks down these days.

I wonder how that affects telephony capabilties of both old and new dumbphones.

Thanks for bringing this up. Most places - even Finland where I still saw original 3310’s in use a few years ago - are shutting these networks down. The 3310 did not have 3G btw. I don’t think they even called whatever it had 2G back then.

No dude, I am. I once fixed a car with a paper clip.

Meaningless hate aside,

has nothing to do with the original one except the name.

It has the form factor and the buttons. Being different inside was the whole point.

But you probably couldn’t use it as a bottle opener.

Actual dumbphones are also sold by the company that bears the name of the original Nokia, but I guess you hate those too.

Your username really checks out.

A reboot has existed since 2017.

I don’t care much about 2nm, but this one probably runs an OS that’s miles more complex than whatever the original ran. Still I’d be curious about its battery life.

BTW those batteries are replaceable so you can actually test that part.