I don’t know the specific methods, but 3G, 4G and 5G do authenticate bidirectionaly, just 2G doesn’t, partially why Android now has “Disable 2G” toggle.
Also probably why they said they can downgrade you to 2G to intercept communication.

What’s happening here is probably similar to anyone being able to send Wi-Fi deauthentification frame to your device to disconnect you. Unless you’re using WPA3.

After a year there’s only something about linux-firmware requiring manual intervention.

I thought I wasn’t reading the news in correct place. Manjaro had update snapshot discussion threads, and usually there were things to fix manually. Usually just minor things.

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/

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

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

0.2MP, 16kB

The other Arch user body type

In a sort of way, yes. Everyone makes the decisions they feel a bit better with, even the selfless ones.

The way you describe, I don’t think so. Maybe if you include “for a good feeling”.

Sell you a new motherboard?

I connect to mine with a USB serial adapter, since my laptop doesn’t have one built-in, which I wish it did. Software-wise, I just use screen because I am lazy to use something like Minicom.

Just don’t set any low baud rate for Linux. It will wait for logs to be printed out while booting. Though perhaps you can reduce the loglevel, I haven’t tried that. I’ve tried 300 baud for fun, and that wasn’t fun. I think it was over half an hour to boot up just waiting for logs to print.

I honestly don’t remember what I did, but this lies in my /etc/default/grub and looks relevant:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=ttyS1,115200"
GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT="console serial"
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm serial"
GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --unit=1 --speed=115200"

Also it’s useful to then set width, height and terminal type. I think terminal type is in $TERM , and size is set with stty, but I am not sure. It’s been a while.

You may also need a “null modem adapter” to reverse RX and TX, but oddly enough, that actually makes it not work with my adapter, despite it also working when directly connected to a switch. Maybe it can figure out which end it’s supposed to be? Dunno.

That rare occasion where you’re actually on a console

Actually having login console on a serial port can be pretty useful if you screw up something with network on a headless PC. I wish modern computers still had that as it also works better than USB adapters.

You forgot one m.

Did they say “six to seven”? Perhaps because it’s 6-7 MM-DD. Only idea.

More battery drain with anti-skip.
The tables have turned later on. The anti-skip would extend battery life. It would get enough buffer allowing the CD to spin-down and then it would spin back up when needed. This time could be even longer if playing MP3.

For example, my Panasonic SL-CT520 does 100 second “anti-skip” (at this point it’s not really just anti-skip), and with MP3 cites up to 155h of playback time. Unfortunately, the unit I have can’t play CD-RW (it is mentioned in the manual) which probably means a degraded laser.

But even with CDDA, my Sony D-EJ000 cites 16 hours with anti-skip and only 11 hours without anti-skip. Unfortunately, in this case the anti-skip also reduces audio quality slightly since it uses lossy compression, so I keep it off.
At least I think that’s what the manual is trying to say

To enjoy high quality CD sound, select “G-off”.

Let me think, when did I last use a CD player like that?

Oh, I remember. Today morning. Oh, it’s been a while.

Perhaps a problem in museum, but at least where I live any highly portable CD player like this gets called “discman” same as with portable cassette players being called “walkman”.

Reminds me of this gem: “Download now”

Download what?

“Basically nothing”
Felt mostly like a waste of time.

While at it, they could also add option to decrease minimum volume. Often it’s too loud, at least for me. One dumb phone I planned to use as MP3 player has this same issue.

Actually, I feel like it’s most phones. Thankfully the music app I use has equalizer to tune it down.
Hell, even many separate music players. Only stuff with analog volume control is basically always OK.

Google brings up some running band with brand “Naked”.