I may have started looking for a 2004 Sharp Carousel Multi due to this video.

Ah, to be young and -6 years old again

The owners of the debts fear their hegemonic nepotism empire of do-nothings will have to golf 3 times a week instead of 6, and this year’s fleet upgrade may only include avionics, and not in-flight entertainment on all 3 of the Embraers.

There’s a very grassroots Windows 10 ARM hack for the SD1, actually. It’s quirky, and lacks a LOAD of the driver blob that comes in a normal x64 install of Windows on AMD or Intel, but it can make outbound calls and run simple WinonARM apps.

I’ve been considering the GFold5 if my SD2 bites the dust, at least over a Pixel Fold. But I’m making this thing run until it completely dies.

I just worry about those plastic feeling screens, such as on my wife’s GFlex4- I’m always worried I’d scratch the interior with a fingernail and a stylus for editing a spreadsheet is just a no go, from what I understand. Have they improved in that regard?

Pocketable, foldable tablet with split displays, a pen with haptic feedback and rigid glass screens for stylus use without damage. Modern Android and a great camera don’t hurt and those make the SD2 better than the SD1; otherwise they’re fairly similar besides the accessory compatibility and some halo functions like wirelessly charging my Slim Pen with the magnet case.

I travel a ton, edit spreadsheets at clients site visits and trade shows while I have Teams open on the other screen, and use the stylus to mark up PDFs for architects and subcontractors. I enjoy being almost required to multi-task when I have my phone open, and the Duo 2 is the best phone for multitasking, bar-none.

They stuck to their word, technically. 3 years, with monthly patches for security, on a device that sold abysmally. There are rumors they sold (most of) the first run of SD2 in the first 4 months, and didn’t bother to produce any more. I know they’ve been out of the consumer SD2 since July/August of 2022- as of January this year, not even my Fortune 50 Corpo clients can get MSFT to pony up a SD2 replacement under warranty or otherwise. They just write a cheque to your account if you request as much.

Microsoft’s mobile team Icarus flew too close to the poorly advertised sun, in this case. Expensive ass phone to build, expensive ass phone to buy, but damn it’s a great device.

As one of the 17 people on the planet who daily drives the Surface Duo 2, which I traded up from my SD1 for on launch day - I really hope they pull it together for this “maybe/maybe not” SD3 next winter.

This is my all time favorite device I’ve ever owned, and every day I dread the standard wear and tear knowing the few New In Box Surface Duo 2 devices are getting more and more expensive by the day, and there are literally 0 devices in this category besides the SD2.

Sad times.

My wife and I both work from home in our respective offices, so we each usually have a show going that we’re each half-watching between meetings, and then one we were actually into that we follow together in the evenings while new episodes release. Maybe 8 hours a day, cumulative/for us both, if you count the steaming in the background.

I primarily just watch lots of re-runs of Futurama and such - so, Hulu is my main stream, I’d probably be fine with just that.

Wife is into watching the new stuff on all the random networks like Yellowjackets, Outlander, 1888, Bridgerton, Wheel of Time, and a lot of others. Those are scattered across a ton of services, sadly.

I have - most - of these services, but a few are bundled into other services I already have, such as Paramount+ with my Walmart +.

But by my quick math, it’s about 147$ of services, retail, per month if you’re going Ad-free, take ~20% off if you’re willing to waste the time with ads.

That’s about 40$ more than I spend on my monthly total, but your mileage will differ depending on if you add in things like Starz, Showtime, etc.

So, we’ve crossed the threshold where a “complete access package” is roughly what it was with cable in the mid 00’s.