Keep in mind though you may need to deal with encoding, chunking, and other low level issues.

Not hard. I have such a thing as just a few lines of quickly put together python code, using pyserial, dockerized. Has run for an entire year w/o issue. ASCII and Unicode.

It replaced a very unreliable, problematic setup somebody else had set up in the past, which was based on an android phone.

Once I got the sim900-derived device from aliexpress, I moved the sim over and had it working in less than an hour. Polished the code and its setup during the first few days of use, and hadn't had to touch it since.

Thank you Apple for leaving all the iOS 26 capable device insecure, because they didn't want to upgrade the half-assed iOS 26.

> It is highly unusual for Apple to provide a security update to iOS 18 users who simply don't want to upgrade to iOS 26

Duh. I wish Apple also stopped harassing us to update to iOS 26. It simply sucks, maybe iOS 27 would be better, hopefully.

> adults who haven't confirmed their age.

I beg to differ, clearly you have to identify yourself before you can use those services and they likely will require verification every time.

Soon you have a continuous face scan to “verify” age during use, and that quickly becomes tracking even your emotional state.

So that’s why macOS Tahoe and iOS 26 suck so bad. Apple was working on crowd control and population suppression technologies instead.

They’re working on stuffing us on top of each other instead.

I’m an average person and my shoulders and knees are all pushing against everything.

5. There are only limited number of suppliers and they’re making a killing from all of this.

Didn’t these companies collude before? I’m sorry but I don’t believe that they’re also using this opportunity to make as much money as possible as well.

And also keeps showing a red dot on the feeds tab every time you navigate to another screen, so that they can trick you with interacting with one more ad.

Just like how Netflix makes you scroll through a bunch of shows, just to get back to what you were watching. It’s a way of forced interaction.

We’re slowly getting into the black mirror territory.

Well, a few GB here and a few GB there, soon you’re talking about real RAM issues.

The other day Safari was using over 50GB with only a few tabs open.

Maybe we should also acknowledge that some companies particularly have no compassion for users (and their desires or needs) and see them as hurdles in their way to take money from users.

Setting people up for failure and then using them as scapegoats, this simply infuriates me.

Expecting a single person to consistently keep their mental picture clear and perfect for their entire career is asinine and irresponsible.

We need systems and tools to eliminate such errors and support people, not use them as a person to blame when things inevitably go wrong.