There’s always Faraday cage bags for cell phones

Yeah, they don't work though. They're about as effective as those signal-boosting stickers you could get at truck stops in the 00s.

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No no—the CDs were coasters, the floppies you could put a piece of tape over the protection window and reuse

This orange site is fine but I wouldn’t hold my breath on any others

Something low-resource demand (like my blog) would probably be okay, save for a few large pics on some pages. Most people who run in the smolweb circles also like vintage computing, so creating webspaces using only HTML & CSS is common practice, which should do fine over a 56k connection.

It picks a bad path forward and keeps doubling down on it

I reach for ChatGPT, but if I’m on a Google property and they shove Gemini in my face, I use Gemini.

Memories are the biggest pull for me to keep coming back to ChatGPT, but I can’t imagine that’s a big moat.

Not a solution for this instance, but if you use a Privacy.com card you can set a limit (eg $20/month) and a charge mistake like this will just fail

I’d meet Keanu. Hope there continues to be no skeletons in his closet.

Before he joined the nWo, I remember Hall/Nash referring to it as Blunder in Paradise, and that really made 13 yo me giggle.

I use Goodreads to track what I’ve read/listened to and my ratings, and then I dump it into LLM chat and ask for more recs. It’s not perfect but I get better recs than Goodreads itself.