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RubyJunk

00:46

@Cfinley ping

Cfinley

Hey whats up @RubyJunk?

RubyJunk

Just wanted to know if you had anything esle to add to me post...

Cfinley

Not that I can think of. I am sorry that I missed that last line

I even read it like 3 times

RubyJunk

Lol, its OK :)

Cfinley

Do you have anything planned for the weekend?

RubyJunk

00:53

idk

Why is it such a bad question? :(

Cfinley

01:13

@RubyJunk Got an upvote from me. You have listed a good amount of requirements and the price makes it hard to Google. The only thing I might add is the location where you want to buy this.

Journeyman Geek

@RubyJunk since I know there's 10 dollar android phones from walmart, whether its locked/unlocked would be useful to add

RubyJunk

01:40

@JourneymanGeek I don't care.. I stated that I would only use it for WiFi

Journeyman Geek

ahh

RubyJunk

@Cfinley The USA is all I'm willing to let the internet know, sorry.

Yea, @JourneymanGeek I won't ask for such a low budget if I need it to be unlocked :)

Journeyman Geek

so something like this would work? arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/11/…

RubyJunk

Niiice... Small screen though @JourneymanGeek

Journeyman Geek

10 dollars is essentially coffee money tho ;p

RubyJunk

01:43

eggcellent point

sorry :P

Journeyman Geek

also

RubyJunk

Gtg, thank you so much for that recommendation :) You should post it as an answer!

Journeyman Geek

what do you want to use it for?

RubyJunk

Google voice w/ WiFi

Mostly

Journeyman Geek

ahh

That would determine the choice of OS

RubyJunk

01:45

Well, about the coffee money

Journeyman Geek

lol

RubyJunk

You drink expensive coffee, I just realized ;O

Now, srsly, I've gtg

Bye :)

Journeyman Geek

Over a month or so I suppose. Also, essentially

I consider up to ~$30 semi impulse buy money tho

RubyJunk

I'm technically not here, but I think someone serial downvoted all of my questions..

They all have at least -1 votes...

Either they're bad questions, or I don't like downvotes, or I'm right

Unfortunately, I can't tell who downvoted...

Journeyman Geek

if its more than... er, I THINK 5 downvotes from the same person in a short time, it'll get autoreverted.

Cfinley

02:00

I look away for 15 minuets, and chat blows up...

Journeyman Geek

Q: PC that is not able to browse the web for Node.js code editing and testing

I have a need for a computer that I can code and test Node.js on, but is physically not capable of web browsing (an absolute requirement). It would be nice if it had internet capability (even through a gsm chip) so I can update software and test server applications. I figured there might be some...

what the what?

He does realise that any modern system can browse the internet right?

Oh.

Yeah, this is just strange.

I donno. Hot glue the monitor inputs?

and lol

I misread the question and designed a reversibly airgapped NUC ._.

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Rudra Matroja

09:41

5 hours later…

Andy

14:16

hello

Journeyman Geek

woof

JTL

14:53

Hmm.. sooo... if you have a phone like this

or this, does it not work at all (even just wifi) if you aren't paying for the plan?

Undo

@JTL I would think it would still work over WiFi

Especially if you own the phone outright

Journeyman Geek

@JTL: oh, you can always use the phone with wifi only apps I think

JTL

@Undo Cool. It sounds that way, since they aren't associated with contracts or anything. It would make me sad if they locked it up like that somehow.

Undo

@JTL I suspect there would be enough unhappiness that we would have heard about it if they were doing that

Because putting WiFi in a phone, letting people buy it, then only letting them use WiFi if they also use your service is... nasty.

Also, you aren't the first to try this, so if you can't find anything on the Internet about it not working, it probably does

JTL

The demand for phones that don't actually work as phones unless you use them with a VoIP service on Wi-Fi is probably low enough that they can afford to help pay for phones for a few people who will never use their service.

@Undo That is true.

Ok, I confirmed this by logging onto the World Wide Web.

Journeyman Geek

15:05

also, don't most smart phones turn on without a sim card?

Undo

@JourneymanGeek Never seen one that doesn't

JTL

@JourneymanGeek I haven't owned many smartphones (in the last 5 years); I've had dumb phones that don't really do anything at all if you don't have service/sim card, which is why I was curious about this. They probably at least turn on, though.

Journeyman Geek

yup

precisely

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RubyJunk

22:47

almost got a heart attack when I went on this morning