Now THIS is the dystopia I signed up for!

Agreed. Poor woman basically had to flee to the UK and go into hiding. She’s been surprisingly resilient, all things considered.

Because the chef didn’t know how to do that? I dunno.

If it makes you feel any better, I once saw a Smashmouth concert where the lead singer guy got hit in the head by a thrown shoe mid-set and got very pissy about it. It was a total lucky shot.

Best thing I ever saw was an Italian cooking class that sent recipes as an ODT, and then 20 minutes later as a DOCX as an afterthought for the Americans.

That’s what Google wants, because people gave up on Jailbreaking iPhones because the loss of features wasn’t worth it on the other side. Google probably doesn’t love that their flagship is the best model for use with custom ROMs, plus they’re also trying to lock out Xiomi as well for what that’s worth.

While giving up is an option, someone somewhere needs to coordinate this entire OSS ecosystem to focus on singular projects. I would love to see a privacy and FOSS non-profit do exactly this.

I’m in the same exact boat.

At some point when Google kills custom ROMs, everyone working on customs ROMs won’t have anywhere else to go other than a Linux phone.

This is how I feel with just my spouse. Spotify absorbs so much ADD energy and immediate new music whiplash that I can’t help but be OK with it.

The alternative is to be up at 4:00am on Oct 13 ripping T-Swizzle MP3s from YT.

Same. Never use these things on Android.

That’s about the connection to Car Play, not GPS

When customs ROMs and most FOSS apps are killed next year on Android, we’re all going to find out very quickly how much the trap has closed around us.

Same reason I loved to Linux on desktop, something that used to be cool and open and at least work mostly has enshittified beyond repair. I’m not going to let the bastards get me if I can help it.

Well, the cat just left something in the litter box, so you get first dibs on cleaning that.

Then, uh, tea? You want tea? Or whiskey? Look, your options are: tea, whiskey, water, wine, and coffee. Pick up to 4. Same cup, that’s cool, you do you.

Then I’ll bake a tiny cake and we can watch 90’s music videos and play Nintendo until our eyes bleed.

“Look, guys, I vibecoded a wall!”

Not quite. It’s that he was flying a plane and being shot at 6 days a week, and yet still didn’t need to jump up to a new bad word. Whatever he already knew is the language he used.

So this whole list is actually

ChatGPT

How to ask ChatGPT how to:

Coding

Computer Science …

What’s interesting is, traditionally in language, once forbidden words got ran out, there were still other bad words left to enter the lexicon. “Damn” used to be a genuine curse. My grandfather survived WWII and proudly told be people of all the bombs he dropped, he never dropped the F-bomb.

What’s next? There’s no new forbidden words. Nothing left in the back of the store. Our ability to run through words outpaced our ability to make bad ones.

I grew up in a place that looks like Greece, but the rocks are red.

Same thing - amazing mesas and red rock plateaus and craggy mountains? See it every day. Meh. Crystal blue seas? I can’t stop starting and being amazed that something that color is real.

Though, I have noticed that very flat and forested places give me a sense of claustrophobia. When you’re used to being able to see 20-50 miles all the time, not being able to see anything more than 200 feet away is strange. It makes the world seem so small and trite.

That comes up in that sub occasionally and people offer it as a service. It’s 2 different universes in there - people who are like giving a child a Harry Potter toy wand that think they’re magic, and then a stage magician with 20 years of experience doing up close slight-of-hand magic that takes work to learn, telling the kid “you’re not doing what you think you’re doing here” and then the kid starts to cry and their friends come over and try to berate the stage magician and shout that he’s wrong because Hagrid said Harry’s a wizard and if you have the plastic wand that goes “bbbring!” you’re Harry Potter.

100% for real. On top of the fact that the 4th panel would read:

POOF NO MORE HUMAN RIGHTS NO MORE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH NO MORE FREEDOM OF/FROM RELIGION

Agreed! (because then I would get 3 more points on the test)