I would but my Pixel 6’s USB connection is entirely useless. It hasn’t successfully connected to a cable in over a year.

I was considering it for my next one, though, whenever that is. Don’t really feel the need for an upgrade atm.

Aria’s the best one, anyway

Suddenly surrounded by spears, pitchforks and one torch

I mean uh, um,… “What is a man!?”

spears lower

Politics is the one thing we all have in common.

The good old days where everyone watched the same five TV shows and discussed them are over.

I like how almost everything we do now is in response to things going to shit.

Lemmy - Reddit went to shit

Linux (Desktop, anyway) - Windows went to shit

Piracy - Distribution and pricing went to shit

Jellyfin - Plex went to shit

Emulation - Nintendo, mostly…

Matrix - Just in case Signal tries anything… switchblade

Total proprietary capitalist hellscape

Foss: "lol, we don’t need you, we have lin-

ENTER: new global Ai standards that depend on proprietary blobs that only work on nvidia hardware and Windows.

Foss: “w-we don’t need Ai.”

PLEASE UPDATE YOUR BROWSER TO USE-

Foss: “STOP IT!”

UNSUPPORTED

WE SEE YOUR PHONE

Foss: “you wouldn’t…”

UNSUPPORTED

It was $40 secondhand and has a DSlite battery inside it.

I call it my Shitboy. It’s the device I take to work because I don’t care about it that much, but he’s a dependable little guy.

and MM+ is generally a great device. My battery just died… everything else works.

normal people can’t just… grab a single board PC and… install Linux on it! What are they supposed to do!?

I dunno, suffer, I guess. Pass the keyboard. I’m feeling Friends.

edit: my cousin and his wife came over about four months ago and saw we used a keyboard and the TV was just a computer and he went “why the fuck haven’t we just done that?”. He doesn’t know know Linux, but he has a Steam Deck and got by alright.

Sometimes, they just need the idea, a little push.

We have a foundation dedicated to the development of an entire kernel, but a web browser is a stretch.

(It indeed may be a stretch)

I lived with them long enough that the shadow of a doubt has its own lamp. I’ve heard racist and misogynist shit from people I’ve known for a decade or more who never had a sign of it before.

Yep, I’m set with it. Fuck em. Worth it.

I’ll be goddamn. I’ve seen family members ousted from a dinner table, in my own fucking family.

Maybe in your pampered version of the South.

In mine, they leave and never come back or speak to you again and all the old folks wonder why, while forgetting the last 60 family get togethers’ arguments.

Zero loyalties.

If Firefox did something similar, they’d be off my drive before I finished the article.

They will celebrate when things collapse, not cry.

Weird, we’ll finally be on common ground.

I’m a southerner. Take what I’m about to tell you as close to the grain of the problem as possible, because it is.

Here’s the thing. 9 times out of 10, a Southern man is going to meet a lone trans or gay person, have a pleasant experience talking to them and go about their day, they even make friends with the person, spend years talking to them, send gifts, become family members, etc.

But you know what?

Behind closed doors, it’s “fuck those trannies”, “not in my schools”, etc. My mom does it, her sister does it, my dad did it. It’s hypocrisy at an extreme level while also ignoring it at an extreme level.

“Well I have gay friends… I’m not homowhatzit”

THEY’RE TEACHING WHAT!?

“Double Standard” might as well be the tagline for the entire South. They’ll protect their religion and the expectations put on them by their parents and social norms on a general level across the board, while still shaking hands and eating cake with their lgbtq+ buddies.

Just remember any southerner is one thought from God away from stabbing you in the back at all times, because no matter how close you get to them, even as a family member, that book and the expectations behind it means more, was beat into them more, every day since they were born until you met them.

uh, yeah, machine’s broke, no ice cream today, sorry.

Did you try the one up town!?

Goon on, legend.

Some say he’s still coming to this very day.

The world spins on a thin disc made of corrupted stability.

And the thing is, it’s almost universal across everything humans touch and it isn’t just terrible, shady shit like a company tossing 50k computers in working order just because it ended up being a cheaper option over finding a buyer, I mean shit like this.

Like only an idiot takes everything at face value and follows the system to a T and everyone knows it, everyone abides by it, everyone suggests by it, and law enforcement ignores it.

There’s a parallel world where no one pirates anything, books are $30 each and cops chase actual problems. There’s one bathroom with an asterisk next to it, the old don’t have to work because they’re easily paid for, people retire before 55, people drive on the right side of the road and pass on the left(in America), all because literally everyone does what they’re supposed to do.

…but like, nah. That’s sooooo hard, apparently.

Ah, I figured they were as common here as anywhere else they were, but now that I remember it, Honda makes their American cars in Ohio, they aren’t imports. That stacks.

Why bother using the car? There’s a phone in your pocket telling them where you are 24/7.

9th Gen Civic

1.8 or 2.4L, no turbo, tons of manual transmissions out there, cheap to fix, easy to find and source with tons of motors still in crates brand new.