bryndos

Pretty much nothing i use my phone for can be done on a flip phone. Smartphone is no distraction for me - I just use it when I need it to do something for me.

maps - occasionally GPS. mp3 player
mp4s watching on long train / bus rides or when camping. large sd card (500gb) memrise/ language learning app. occasionally guitar tuner occasionally internet is useful for checking events, buying tickets, checking for hotels and stuff. occasionally checking emails. occasionally playing mindustry (when i want my battery to die).

I don’t carry a laptop most of the time that i’d need for most of that stuff above. TBH - I can’t use many other apps anyway because I don’t want GPS or microG installed - so I’m mostly just f-droid apps.

Edit - i’d also prefer something like simpleX to SMS, but I don’t actually know anyone else who uses it - so not an issue really. I just have to SMS.

A yard of ale is a large beer glass, based on a glass that is quite long probably less than a metre.

I do woodworking a bit too, but I normally just do the slanty ruler/tape trick to divide any straight parallel face into n equal lengths. I hate all forms of mental arithmetic; I also avoid measuring as much as possible too. Maybe that’s why everything i make is so shit.

I guess if you’re mass producing things you can’t just manually mark off each and every part though - but even then I’d probably want to work to a template rather than to measure.

I think a mile is specified in terms of ‘chains’ not really feet or yards. Feet and yards are meant for measuring smaller stuff, like the size of a foot, or a courtyard.

The ‘chain’ was a specific surveyors tool for measuring larger land areas. I imagine defined to be a length of physical chain practically manageable by the surveyor - probably pre-dating optical / triangulation methods before lenses got cheap.

I think an acre was then defined as 10 square chains or something.

But go back in time far enough and different jurisdictions have different lengths of standard chain, so different miles and acres derived from it. But it doesn’t really matter because if you were buying land in Scotland, then you’d probably want to use a Scottish surveyor and his big long chain.

The nautical mile is then a whole other kettle of fish.

A yard is about 1.4 litres in my book, or 2.1/2 pints - imperial pints mind, not US ones. I’m not ignoring away that 20% difference; it’s bad enough with all the fucking “pint to brim” glasses these days.

Coprolite

So long as they’re doing the dishes and shitting the the composting toilet; fair enough.

If not though, everyone can always blame their parents and use that as an excuse for never actually evolving into something better.

I hope it is better wherever you live, but I still see a lot of teenagers wanting to drive cars; so fuck those cunts.