I am using Public Mobile and my Poco F3 is not in their whitelist but I can "bypass the carrier check" and have VoLTE, it works fine. A lot of carrier can be bypassed.
But some like Rogers or Fido will block your IMEI or charge you 75$/month if your phone is not in their list, this is unacceptable.
In Québec this is our first phone-free school year too, I know some parents and children want to basically strike and protest, because helicopter parents will not be tethered anymore...
Working from home, as a contractor, so always connected to client via VPN. A contract could be done with a 1MB link because there is about no comm needed, another contract for a broadcasting company required downloading/uploading gigs and gigs of video per day and the gigabit link makes a big difference here.
When I saw the poster for the new Fantastic Four movie, I thought it was generated by AI or by a fan in his basement. Then I saw the trailer... oh boy... this looks horrible... About all Marvel movies have bad CGI, bad acting, and dull and shallow scenario.
I guess they didn't know AWS right and for them it was easier to make it public than to write a small JSON in the Permissions/Bucket Policy to allow access by giving the ARN IAM role etc.
I have to agree, I'm old and played pong, old coleco/atari etc and 8bit games before consoles and all, and I must say Doom was a turning point in gaming.
I agree that in case of catastrophic event, an AM radio working on battery, at home, could be useful. I guess they want it in cars because if there is no power, at least people would be able to hear news.