Why one should have more than one cellphone?

This may sound strange.

From a guy who who posts blogs posts here, why I hate cellphones, little over two, years.ago..

It is all due to, common sense, economics and more importantly Coronavirus incarceration.

You must also.read why I hate cellphones, posted here.

I won't repeat them.

I have more than 20 reasons.

Biggest one is money.

You have been using a cellphone with old Android version and you have dropped it on the bathroom floor and its liquid crystal front is getting rough for your fingers.

In fact, my third cellphone, the 12 year old screen got unresponsive and would freeze.

Reason, limited RAM and more applications than it can handle.

Solution, go for factory reset having backed up the data.

Google does a good job holding the back  up data in the Google Drive.

Coming to economics, all cellphone prices have gone up in Ceylon due to.depreciation of our rupees and debt crisis (individual and national level).

You do not have the money to buy the next generation cellphone.

Solution.
Sell, not pawn your wedding ring before you kick the bucket and buy the cellphone which is more usefully than the gold ring.

Due to debt crisis you get a reasonable sum for your ring.

If you do not do that,  you have to settle for a cheap Chinese  built cellphone that won't last till you kick the bucket in less than.a decade or so due to age, if not to Coronavirus.

The Coronavirus itself drives you to have a better cellphone to keep in.toich with your loved ones and the family.

Now coming to my argument one should have two cellphones instead of one, if you put all your money on a.fancy new cellphone which you do not know how to operate to begin with, it is far batter to have two of slightly more advanced but cheaper ones with which you are comfortable with.

One for rough use and you carry it with you, mainly for calls, the other you keep it at home for fancy IOT stuff and play a few games when you are bored or watch YouTube.

I.hope you got the message loud and clear and cellphone have become an extension of your soul or an extra limb with more digits to hold the World Wide Web  tightly under your control.

Now this piece is in development and other points of advantage I will add at my pace and time and you.can revisit on weekly basis till.Mid July and it will end abruptly.

Reason.
My finger tips are getting shorter and stumpy, the simple wear and tear effect which is getting faster due to aging.

1. Reason one for me before Coronavirus hit us is, one is on charge while the other is being used.

There is no stop gap in communication with your carriers.

2. Number two.there are two SIMs in use.
They are prepaid and not postpaid on a monthly basis  (I am reticent to paying for cold time of not serving you or on hold).

3. The charging time of old phoned are long. I used to use the computer while I am typing busy with my large  keyboard and mouse.
The mouse is something I love simply because I can squeeze it hard, if the page is slow to download.

4. The bottom line is it is stupid to use energy hungry PC to send an email.

5. Number 5 is the charger can 6be used when power is out due to lightening.

6. Point six is that there are so many handy typefaces some with French letters. But I love the Grammerly Typeface.

7. I can.blame the typeface for all my mistakes and  typos and some put words into your mouth.

They.are a mouthful when you are typing fast.

8. It has made me to shorten my lengthy desertations .

9. It saves me time and sometimes boredom.

10. It is good as TV news but downtime is brisk and save electricity.

11. I sleep a lot probably due to.eyestrain and hand strain holding on to the phone, when typing.

12. Bridge has become an.addiction of mine and have improved my bidding techniques.

13. Unlike the land phones I can switch off the regular phone and still use the other one to browse the web, in the loo, especially if I am constipated (instead of morning paper with comparatively old news)

14. Now I do not read the Sunday paper with old news and I get my regular news and Google knows my interests better than me.

15. My Linux and Tech updates are reasonable if not perfect.

16. One cellphone is for gossip collection and the other is for mission critical work.

17. The third cellphone I am using VNC for updating Unix commands that I have forgotten due to lack of use.

18. The Updating my French has become easy with.Minsky.

19. Music downloads are extremely fast in spite of advertisements.

20. Importantly I am not learning anything NEW more of the old stuff.
Now guys are talking about black holes and a film going to be out in June.
I am keeping my New Physics to myself fearing they might have a another film and spoils my latent interests.

21. One can have a good lovely discussion if one has a friend or two  who is/are  intellectually at par with you but also have opposing and contradictory views on any matter, not only Coronavirus.
I.am.getting.fed up with Coronavirus clinically and academically.

This is written with Somanasda
Citta and not Somanassa of Coronavirus and I have given enough clues to why I am quitting the Web, soon.
I do not want more of the same and ruminations but some critical and cheerful stuff.
They are in.short supply.
Good Bye.

Digital Competency and Linux

I have some good things to say about Microsoft.
Not about its operating system.
Many moons ago, there was a public exhibition in Kandy.
I wanted to display, few Linux desktops to school kids in public.
I.prepared a small leaflet and a PowerPoint presentation and a set of FREE DVDs to be dished out if any body asks for FREE disk.

I spoke to a guy who was a businessman who was dishing out Windows in Kandy to reserve me a vacant spot and only a desk and not a HUT.

He promised me.and also gave me an invitation card.

I went there with a friend of mine, who knew nothing about Linux but a Windows guy.

There was a rush and we had to fight with children to get in.

Having got in I could not find that particular  organiser inside and after waiting for some time  and looking for a particular spot for getting on with Linux Introduction and not finding a place was bad enough.

Coming to digital competency Linux is way ahead.

Take desktops that there are many currently KDE plasma is ruling even the GNOME.

Knoppix is my favourite.

Its elastic windows implementation  is simply superb.
It is boxed,too.

Even to the surgical touch of my fingers they are soothing.

That is what call real digitalization.

Western Digital, Seagate, Transcend and Sandisk have Linux behind their framework not Microsoft.

Microsoft is only.frontend.stuff, for the monitor but.never backend.stuff'.

So my.sincere thanks to.Microsoft for doing underhand stuff with school kids.

I would have never got engrossed in Linux to my ripe old age.

Coming.back.to the Microsoft vender guy, I could not see him inside the exhibition hall for the entire day, most likely avoiding any direct confrontation with me inside if not.the bar.

His stall was there with all Windows software but not him.

I realized I was taken for a sucker and decided the outcome was void and.went.with my friend for a beer.

Of course I had more than my share to douse my anger.

I was actually wanted to meet the guy when the event was coming to an end and of course, face to face confrontation (he was not an.academic guy.but a crafty businessman).

While we were at the bar school kids less than half of my age (my friend was few years senior to me) were having a booze.

Thanks to Microsoft Donations.

Shutting me out I could take but bribing school kids and offering them liqueur on top of that made me furious.

That day I said good bye to Microsoft and I never turned back even for Apple (except briefly testing with Redhat).

Linux was my assault weapon to Microsoft guys and.girls.

Debian on an External SATA Disk

I have tried Debian on 16 GB USB stick and I could not.

Generally Debian does not support USB booting, like Puppy Linux and Knoppix, for good reasons.

It has enormous repository of over 60,000 parts and stating them as Android phone is improper.

Some parts are a few MB but other parts are heavy like language support and kernel.

I had few problems with my Laptop but using TrueOS I have got a two copies in my laptop.

Currently I am installing it on a one terrabyte SATA having resized the home partition to satisfy my needs.

I did not mount a ESP partition of my own creation first by using BSD but let Debian.does the honours.

Hope it will work that way.

I am installing all the Desktops and it takes over one hour to finish installing.
If you are busy do not rush its installation buy plan it ahead.

Yes it does seamless integration of.Three type of Desktops and it has kept the TrueOS Boot Flash to remind me of how it all began.

Moment I.find an.external case for the 120 SATA, BSD will be booted from it.