Here’s my tip - subscribe to a bunch of things of interest, and set your subscribed feed to top for the day. You’ll likely see a bunch of interesting posts.

Then browse all, top for 6 hours, and you’ll see some wide variety (except for days following a debate like today, that’d going to skew political heavily for obvious reasons).

You’ll find new and interesting communities to subscribe to, and make your subscribed feed all the better.

Personally I have different accounts for different interests, and for a few of them I rarely leave the subscribed/top for the day. They are more focused, and without a good multi-community feature that’s universal, its the next best thing.

Hope you enjoy it here!

I still think that’s why Vance thinks Haitians are eating cats.

So, an actual answer if you’re interested.

No, the President does not have the power to remove him. When the Post Office was reformed into USPS in the 1970’s, the selection of Postmaster General is made by the Board of Governors of the Postal Service. These board members have 7 year terms, and are appointed by the President, with Senate approval.

The Postmaster General has no fixed term, and serves until the Board decides otherwise.

There are 9 members of the Board, and no more than 5 can be from the same party. The Postmaster General and Deputy Postmaster General are also voting members of the Board, though there are some things they can’t vote on.

Removing requires an absolute majority - so even though a quorum is 6, there needs to be 5 votes to remove DeJoy.

No member of the Board can serve more than 2 terms, and they can’t be removed without a gross violation - misconduct for example.

So despite the spongebob meme reference reply near mine, no, Biden can’t just remove DeJoy.

The US doesn’t want that either.

Be quiet, resident of “Further North Dakota”.

Especially since the folks who benefit from some water because they are in line for hours are usually the ones with not enough polling places, as in urban districts which typically vote democrat.

Yeah, its definitely fascist bullshit.

Giving food/water to people in line or on their way to vote is probably what they are referring to.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/nov/08/liquid-death/giving-water-voter-within-150-feet-ga-polling-plac/

Unrelated outside of the title… Pokemon Go to the Polls was a very fun bonus episode for dungeons and daddies

Related, I really hope the Taylor Swift fans register and vote (and more, but her fans are relevant right now considering the endorsement right after the debate)

Which is why dumb phones and feature phones aren’t common anymore, and the people choosing them are specifically choosing it to avoid being available via WhatsApp/Signal/Slack/Discord/Teams/whatever else.

My FIL for example has a clamshell feature phone, because he doesn’t want to be reached except by phone or SMS. He doesn’t want to read email or get messages on his phone, he wants to restrict that to when he’s in front of his computer.

So yes, you would not be able to use messaging clients on a dumb phone, that’s the idea behind their use today.

Racism, basically.

Vance told an easily disproved lie about Haitian migrants eating cats, which the racists that will vote for him like hearing because they are weird and hateful.

But if I had to bet, he heard someone say Haitians are good at eating another word for cats, and since that’s not an option for that sofa cushion pushin’, he was confused.

…so you just made it up then.

No, the phone industry made up these terms.

No one has done that. The only comments I’m downvoting are the ones spreading disinformation.

So how I read that is “Anything that isn’t what I want it to say is disinformation”.

Well, enjoy your day buddy, my participation in this thread is over. Its a neat feature phone, and that’s where I’ll be leaving that.

Several decades of phone technology as it developed…

Edit: and why are you just down voting everyone replying providing you with info?

While I get your opinion, these things have definitions. Here’s a super simple version:

• A dumb phone does not connect to the internet. Its a phone. Just a dumb device.
• A feature phone is what you’re referring to here, where it may connect to the internet, but isn’t part of some larger ecosystem and is certainly not an app-first approach. Its a phone first, ancillary features are a bonus.
• Smartphones are your android and iOS devices, which connect to the internet, is part of a large ecosystem of applications, is an internet first oriented device, etc.

So yes, this is a feature phone from what I’ve read of the translation.

Honestly don’t remember the names, its been… Quite a while. I’ll have to open and check.

Iirc it was also some I stored as gifts that became unknown or something, and I wasn’t able to send them.

The bigger issue to me are games that were removed from steam and I can no longer get.

Which is why I don’t bother buying on steam anymore. If I’m buying, its DRM-free only.

Part of why I’m collecting up whatever ones I find to use for my small electronics projects… Even saw someone recently use about 50 or so to make a nice battery bank (was posted here to Lemmy)

I’ve been using them as the overnight batteries for solar powered projects (like wled controlled lights). I’ll be happy to get batteries elsewhere instead and reduce the massive waste.

Yup, xmpp is the way to be still IMO.

Yes but it wasn’t marketed that way. Which is why there is more interest.

Apple has been blatantly obvious that they want it to remain proprietary and exclusively on their hardware.

Because imessage is proprietary and apple is against it being publicly available and a standard.

https://iceshrimp.dev/