Showing off
 

A couple of very simple questions,

How do you show off your nokia?
what makes it stand out from the crowd?

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It can play my pr0n in hi-res compared to my friends with their tiny screen phones! :P

Nah, with liqbase, canola2, Duke Nukem & Quake 2.

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Xournal in classes/meetings, and Deblet achievements at work :P

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I take it out XD

nah seriously, most people aren't used to it so I get a lot of questions. for show, canola is a good idea, the web browser itself takes a few ohs and ahs, and letting people handle it while telling them how light and convenient it is, gets a whoile lot of agreement.

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Xournal, except now liqbase, for note-taking. Otherwise, not so much. People just notice it without showing off.

It has occasionally served as a head unit for my bicycle's sound system -- a couple computer speakers + a battery/inverter pack in the laptop bag, N800 on the bars. That might qualify as showing off, but that's not why I do it, and I've had no comments (yet).

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You ride around with speakers on your bike? Why are you doing that? Are you making announcements?

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Different people are impressed by different things. When I showed the X Terminal and VNC client to the sys admins here, they both went out and got one ;)

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Listening to music and cyborg navigational protocol. Just for fun (my headphones do still work, and are used more often).

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That would be bizarre, seeing a guy ride by, and hearing a synthetic voice saying, “TARGET DIRECTION THREE O’CLOCK DISTANCE ONE POINT THREE KILOMETERS ETA FIFTEEN MINUTES” from handlebar speakers...

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Yeah, that would be bizarre, but as long as it says "clicks" instead of "kilometers" and "minoots" instead of "minutes", all is normal and sane.

I do try to keep it at a sane personal volume (like in a car with all the windows down), so I'm not sure they'd even catch that it was a voice separate from the music. (Unless they were also on a bike, in which case they might catch it as I passed them. Most of the students here ride astonishingly slow around campus, though...)