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AFAIK, they are used as relays.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-bit_computing#1-bit

Computers and microcomputers may also be used, but they tend to overcomplicate the task and often require highly trained personnel to develop and maintain the system. A simpler device, designed to operate on inputs and outputs one-at-a-time and configured to resemble a relay system, was introduced. These devices became known to the controls industry as programmable logic controllers (PLC).

See also the playlist linked in the other comment with more explanations:
1-Bit Breadboard Computer - Usagi Electric (YouTube)

For those curious about 1-bit computers, see Usagi Electric’s playlist:

• 1-Bit Breadboard Computer - Usagi Electric (YouTube)

My 2 cents: I have a similar relation with smartphones as yours.

In my case, what I fear the most is some app getting my contact list and using it to send some kind of “XXX has joined YYY service” notification to all of them. Also, I didn’t like that Google had all the data they wanted, so I ended with 2 smartphones:

• One de-googled (LineageOS without Google Apps) that I use for calls and trusted apps. This one has my contacts list.
• One default Android-Google without simcard for those apps that require oficial-Android (mainly banks apps) and any app I’m afraid could mess with the contact list.

AFAIK I’ve only had one incident because I trusted Telegram too much. There is always non-zero risk, but this works for me.

Fixed, thanks!

I dind’t saw them, thanks!

I edited the post with the english versions.

Source: Help – The Jenkins

RSS Feed: https://thejenkinscomic.wordpress.com/feed/

Source: Accountability - Work Chronicles

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!fairphone@lemmy.ml

Yep, that’s why I added the twitter source too.

Source: https://www.commitstrip.com/2015/04/27/the-eye-opener-commit/

Also on twitter:

• Twitter @CommitStrip
• Nitter link
• Nitter RSS Feed: https://nitter.cz/CommitStrip/rss

Starting from the 3rd post, most of them are full stories. But I haven’t read everything, so I’m not sure how much of it is really scifi, although he’s most known for his cyberpunk stories in the 80s and 90s.

Here you have one I posted previously: “Homo sapiens declared extinct” by Bruce Sterling (1999)

From his wikipedia page:

Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the Mirrorshades anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre.

Sterling’s first science-fiction story, Man-Made Self, was sold in 1976. He is the author of science-fiction novels, including Schismatrix (1985), Islands in the Net (1988), and Heavy Weather (1994). In 1992, he published his first non-fiction book, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier.[1]

The only one I know is Bruce Sterling’s medium:
https://bruces.medium.com/

I’ve only used on the desktop, but there is Proxigram, an alternative frontend for IG.

How long would you say it took you before getting a fundamental understanding?

I would say years, as with any complex activity.

I’m still forgetting things I learned 3 or even 4 times like how to do a for each loop.

You can forget in 2 different ways:

1. Forget how to use something, so you need to look how to do it.
2. Forget that something exists, so you cannot even look for it because you are not aware it’s a possibility.

You will forget-1 everything which you don’t use on a daily basis. That’s what internet is for. Forgetting in the 2-nd sense is much more rare and you should do something if that’s the case.

all of it feels too advanced and I get lost on how to begin

This is a bias most of us have, you overlook how easy is for you to do things that previously were impossible and focus on how hard are the things you still don’t know how to do. And computing is so complex right now that there always be “infinite” things you don’t know.

Try showing what you know to someone who doesn’t know how to code and you will get an idea of how much you have learnt :).

Anyway, I don’t really have good advice :/, just wanted to confirm that what you feel is expected. Good luck!

I think you’re confusing “arbitrarily large” with “infinitely large”. See Wikipedia Arbitrarily large vs. (…) infinitely large

Furthermore, “arbitrarily large” also does not mean “infinitely large”. For example, although prime numbers can be arbitrarily large, an infinitely large prime number does not exist—since all prime numbers (as well as all other integers) are finite.

For integers I disagree (but I’m not a mathematician). The set of integers with infinite digits is the empty set, so AFAIK, it has probability 0.

Doesn’t it depends on whether we are talking about real or integer numbers?

EDIT: I think it also works with p-adic numbers.

I also think that’s correct… if we are talking about real numbers.

People are probably thinking about integers. I’m not sure about OP.

EDIT: I think it also works with p-adic numbers.

That rings a bell