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       Stardate: 20190115.23h04
       Location: Home Office
       Input Device: Gemini PDA
       Audio: Drizzle on the roof
       Visual: Messy desk
       Energy: 40%
       Mental: 45%
       Emotional: Tired.
       
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       Jirka wrote about the Punkt MP01 mobile phone in his phlog 
       recently.[1]  I ran across this device in this Wired article 
       [2] when I was searching for a new mobile dumbphone since I 
       did not want my computing mixed in with my voice and text 
       device, like how it was back in the day.  The Punkt MP01 
       seemed like an option at first...loved the design and form 
       factor, but unfortunately it was a 2G phone and could not be 
       a hotspot.  Also, my provider was getting rid of 2G and 2.5G.
       
       I ended up getting a Sonim XP5700...rugged "dumb" phone 
       with hotspot capabilities.  This was on clearance for cheap  
       since a new model was out.  It runs a minimal version of 
       android and apps can be side loaded, but I still don't trust 
       it.  I think the killer app on the device for me is the 
       dedicated flashlight button, which I probably use the most.
       
       I just checked the Interwebs and I see that there is a newer 
       version, the MP02, which supports 4G. [3]  Slick device but 
       I'm not in the market for a replacement.  Nice to see that 
       there is a new model.
       
       [1] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2019_01_14.txt
       [2] https://www.wired.com/story/need-a-digital-detox-youll-love-this-very-smart-
       [3] https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/9/18/17874428/punkt-lte-mp02-mi
       
       tfurrows wrote about the "Endless River of Knowledge and 
       stuff" [4]  I like what he was pondering about in his writing 
       regarding the ever-expanding amount of information and 
       knowledge available and how it keeps growing and he keeps 
       giving and taking.  He asked the question why.  At the end of 
       his writing, his answer was that it gives him joy.  For me, 
       this conclusion is good enough.  Period.
       
       As for the progression of the knowledge tools throughout 
       history, maybe the oral tradition did not scale to the 
       knowledge at some point, so we upgraded to written knowledge.  
       Then written was not sufficient so we upgraded to printing.  
       Then print upgraded to digital.  And then storage grew from 
       paper punch cards to magnetic media to optical media to 
       global networks to quantum storage to quantum intarwebz with
       pubnix systems running on qubit pis.  Maybe the point is not 
       to contribute and consume it all as an individual, rather to 
       share and evolve the knowledge collectively as a species and 
       further the (d)evolution of the human race.  Whatever that 
       means.
       
       [4] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7etfurrows/phlog/2019-01-14_endlessRi
       
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