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  • I had the root canal done without an anesthesia, because I did not want a needle sticking into my gum.

    It was tolerable, I did not cry or anything like. The nerve was mostly dead anyway.

    The dentist took his sweet time removing the nerve piece by piece with a probe, instead of just drilling the whole tooth through. It did not matter at the end anyway, because he filled the canal afterwards. And the molar has three roots, so he repeated that two more times.

    I guess it depends on your pain tolerance.












  • This needs some simple hardware trigger, that can be queried by bootloader, but specific wnough so it won’t trigger in your pocket. If buttons are unavailable, I can propose several idead:

    • Cover the proximity sensor 10 times per second. Requires good motor skills.
    • Shine separated red, green, and blue lasers into three of the phone cameras. You’ll need a box with three different-colored LEDs to cover cameras module.
    • There is a low-speed data channel in wireless chargers. Just add the button to the charger instead of the phone.
    • Put your phone at exactly 2.5G of acceleration. Accelerometer is easy to use even from the bootloader, however you will need to put your phone in a centrifuge and reboot it while it’s rotating.
    • An option ‘Reboot into recovery’ in system settings, duh. Won’t help if your ROM fails to boot.



  • pelya@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml33 years ago...
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    I’m pretty sure Apple and Google already rewritten all important GNU parts into something with Apache or BSD license, to throw everything GPL licensed out of their embedded systems. The biggest and most important part was obviously GCC, replaced by Clang.

    How many GPL-licensed system libraries and tools are in Android right now, except for the kernel? I’m pretty sure the answer is zero.