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Commodore is making a flip phone. In 2026.

If you have followed the rebirth of Commodore, you may be aware they brought out a new Commodore 64 computer. This model was using an FPGA to simulate/recreate the hardware in the original 1980s home computer, with a claim of being 99.9% compatible with existing Commodore 64 stuff. What came next was a surprise (and even shock) to most Commodore followers: …...

Commodore is making a flip phone. In 2026. If you have followed the rebirth of Commodore, you may be aware they brought out a new Commodore 64 computer. This model was using an FPGA to simulate/recreate the hardware in the original 1980s ho…

When it's bad, it is "A.I. Slop".

When it is good, it is just "clip art but different." Much like when folks were made fun of for using clipart (not very original to have the same graphic that you see on hundreds of other websites), I see more and more folks being made fun of for using AI generated junk on their pages/websites. "It just has that look." Pity. It had so much potential.

YouTube's algorithm is interesting. On June 11 I posted a reel (short video) about a theme park. Three days later, June 14, I posted a clip of a soap tray in a hotel. Guess which one YouTube is showing to people? Is this really what people watch? Soap trays? I need to do more soap tray videos...

Sometime around 2000, I signed up with Sprint PCS (remember them?) so I could get a Palm PDA smartphone - the Kyocera 6035. I went through two or three different PalmOS phones until the iPhone came out in 2007 and I switched to one of those, and ported my number to AT&T. When I had some "severe financial challenges" starting around 2011, I had to give up my home internet, home phone, and cellphone. To save my number, I ported it to Google Voice, where it has remained ever since. But these days? Nope, you can't use it in many places. Even though that number has been "mine" for 25 years... But they will accept the prepaid phone number I have, which has also belonged to a bunch of other folks (based not he texts it receives). AH, security. When a burner phone is allowed, but not a number you have had for a quarter of a century...