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SunDay's numerology: 27 = 9 Hermit Higher-Self Essence: Discipline, inner higher knowledge, the eternal seeker
i cannot possibly say enough negative about legacy backwards compatibility
with "standards" which are "the least common denominator",
and i can think of few things which compare to the obsolete limitations of
the filesystems of Disk Operating System, (e.g. VFAT), upon which
was built the "Windows" abomination by the MicroSoft OBAMinAtion.
Not only does this blight my Panasonic Lumix camera,
i was recently gifted an "AlcaTel TracPhone",
and it refuses to deal with microSD cards formatted for a reasonable modern operating system,
e.g. ext4 format from the world of GNU / Linux™.
The software has a bug where when you tell the entire phone via its preferences
to utilize an optional microSD card for media storage,
the Music app fails to switch along with the Galleries and Videos Apps
to looking at the microSD card,
insisting i have no music because it's still looking in the phone internal memory.
TracPhone receives a D- grade for handling of multimedia,
and likewise also for its' miserable "web browser"
which refuses to do anything when fed a "file:///" URL,
preventing browsing .html files on the phone :-(
What is absolutely inexcusable about all this is that it has created a directory
at the root of the microSD card named .android_secure, which rather suggests that
the phone's software is based on the Free/Libre
Open Source Software Android
which is Google's OBAMinAtion of corpse-orate spyware paved over the GNU / Linux™
FLOSSware, which itself,
before all the Corpse-Orate crapware embalming it to serve agendae of spying,
was fully capable of actually being useful.
Hopefully,
once i can get online to their website to punch in the activation codes,
it will at least be able to make and receive "telephone calls".
i am grateful for the gift and the service to make it work,
but we all must come together to demand the non-deployment of
5th Generation Cellular "(tele)phone" service,
and the reversion to 4G.
Faery blessings -- celeste