I really should watch the Odyssey; I immediately knew what movie and scene this was from without even having seen the trailer because it lines up so well with what I imagined from reading that scene, that’s often the sign of a very good adaptation.

I wonder if Twitter just hung onto market share in India while it hemorrhaged users in the anglosphere? IIRC we’ve seen this with Facebook in a few places. Basically everyone I want to follow moved to Bluesky or at least is posting their content there too - there’s a few local governments that are stuck in 2010 technologically due to indifference or lack of budget that still only post stuff to Twitter but that’s fairly unusual, but is infuriating enough for people to post about it.

You have been banned from Tesseract

A couple years ago at pride I walked past a shirtless transmasc person and had to do a double take; they had heart shaped nipples. I’m not going to ogle someone without starting a conversation, turns out they went to the same surgeon I did and we agreed she’d probably be down to try heart shaped nipple grafts but they were normal grafts with some medical tattooing.

My dad used to own a Miata, he was unable to get on and out of it with the top up. I loved borrowing it when I would visit because I’m a foot shorter than him and never had any problems with it. There’s some perks to being short.

Hattrem also is trans pride flag colors like sylveon

Quite a few banking apps work on Graphene OS. My bank isn’t listed and it works on Graphene too (I really should contribute to that list). The big downside is probably having to buy a new phone for it but if you need to upgrade anyway it might be worth considering. The only app I’ve run into so far that didn’t just work was the Target app but it works with a bit of tinkering. I’ve only been using Graphene on my phone for two weeks now but all of the apps I used on my old phone are on here and working.

Ever lived in a small town? Drama and gossip is fun. This is the most entertaining thing that’s happened on here for a while.

Also FOSS just kinda attracts big arrogant personalities, we’re taking about people who are so confident and passionate about being to make better software than the corps that they did it for free.

2027 year of the Linux… phone???

Shout out to the local sex toy shop who runs the eviction relief fund here in Minneapolis, in response to the Gestapo rolling in. The sluts will save us!

I’m surprised Ada didn’t find this at the same time db0 did for the same reason - whole instance shadow ban, maybe she dropped it before the ban?

He also kept digging when the backlash hit. It wasn’t a great look, and the initial take was, at best, deeply naive.

That said, I’m actually considering switching to Proton over this. I think his statements are nowhere as bad as this Mullvad donation and I’m in the slow process of de-Googling and Proton’s other offerings would be a huge step towards that. It probably isn’t great to have email and calender and passwords and cloud storage and VPN all through one company, but it’s better than two with one being Google.

Definitely. It’ll run Stardew Valley and Rollercoaster Tycoon! I bet it’s even powerful enough to run Doom!

(Why is it that I spent way more than them on a gaming laptop in 2022 and I still mostly just play Stardew Valley?)

There’s a lot of “but why don’t they stop if what they’re doing is so unpopular?” comments and I’ve got one more explanation (on top of the obvious money and technofaschism points).

A bunch of these tech CEOs are part of the “Rationalist community” and possibly believe in Roko’s Basilisk which is a thought experiment that an otherwise benevolent AGI would punish anyone who didn’t actively work to bring it about. Someone want to link the BtB episodes about them? I know the Zizian episodes go into it but iirc they’ve got a dedicated series about these weirdos.

The rumor I heard around the internet is that the Motorola will have all of the security features Graphene is asking for (and Motorola gets to benefit from both the Graphene nerd sales and the improved security, Google does it in their Pixel line for some reason so there’s got to be perks for Googly Android) and an unlocked bootloader so you can install Graphene, but it won’t be shipped with it.

As a fanboy of LG phones, sadly everything they offer is now better than LG because the last phone LG released was in 2020. At least they shut down their phone division rather than enshittifying.

I saw the audio memory thing for music in the patch notes, made me glad I was immediately installing Graphene on this thing.

Works for insects.

Neat little things, I used to find them in the citrus trees my family had in the backyard as a kid.

Oh hey I just finished part 2 of the BtB episodes about them

EDIT: lol that’s part 1 you linked to, I assumed it was Strange Aeons