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Off topic, it was very interesting to peek into libphonenumbers metadata. I find it curious that we have so many ways to write down an already standardized identifier.


When traveling, I always try to use local payphones and call friends or just myself. Maybe the name is not quite apt because the phone service is often provided for free.


That's such a cool little travel ritual... kinda like sending yourself a postcard, but more ephemeral


LIDAR itself has much much lower resolution that the depth maps shown. It has to be synthesized from combined LIDAR and regular camera data.


Yeah I thought LIDAR was used for actual focus and depth map was then computed from the multi-camera parallax.


Is SMS federated though? Genuine question. As far as I know it requires manual each-to-each setup on MNO level thus very fragile when we talk about cross-border or even cross-operator messaging. It is nowhere near email in terms of federation.


Even more, there are convenient Shortcuts for messaging a number on WhatsApp quickly, implemented through the same wa.me OpenURL action.


I got served with an invalid certificate too, just for one hit, then the site loaded normally. Haven’t made a screenshot, but the certificate was issued by crewai dot com.


Sadly this phone turned out to be barely usable on my VoLTE network: when someone whose number I have in phone contact list calls, the phone displays number only and no name unless I turn off VoLTE, thus degrading voice quality and reception. Also the UX is generally bad. It is nowhere near the good old Nokia days.


I had a Nokia flip phone running kaios a few years ago. Kaios was the worst phone software I've ever run. The Nokia hardware was even worse. More often than not, keypresses wouldn't register at all or would act like you'd pressed the button four times.


This is the major way roaming is implemented, transferring all data through your home network greatly simplifies things.


They can detect your country by IP address. Also AFAIR your cellphone sends CellID and/or location with every wifi calling connection attempt.


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