Sent this to a friend. Xe laughed and said, “If they have an issue with it, they can come find me and tell me. Good luck, BTW, we make up less than 1% of the population. If people that rare are pissing you off, find a fucking hobby.”

Things I’ve wondered about for years, but was afraid to ask. Thank you, random stranger. May your anonymity continue to enlighten others.

Trying to get PulseAudio to behave, and trying to figure out how to roll back Bluez and Blueman.

Piratebay.

I mean, you’re not alone. I got so fed up with ads because it was always junk I needed but couldn’t afford, or shit I already knew existed and had otherwise already acquired with satisfactory results. Not to mention ads following me around. I hated being haunted by a pair of sneakers across four websites.

It’s not paranoia if you’re right, dammit.

Eh. In my experience, DeWalt tends to have more power and punch, and the batteries last longer. Makita’s impact drivers (at least the ones my company got) really just never had the torque to tighten bolts down to the right NM or ft/lb. I needed. They’ll do, I’d rather use an impact driver than nothing. But if I get to pick, I’ll pick a DeWalt.

I am neither transfemme, nor am I in a position to receive surgery for my own dysphoria. But I’ll tell you this. As someone who has had a few good relationships with some incredible, sensitive, confident, and emotionally intelligent trans women who have had insecurities about being ‘woman enough’, I want you to know this.

No two women have the same body either. Tell you a secret, skin down there has a lot in common because, hormonally, they respond to the same triggers.

Trust your endocrinologist. Trust your surgeon. And trust your own heart. I know that is hard, for reasons that I promise you, I struggle with similarly.

You are woman enough for yourself. That is all you have to be. Only an abuser would expect you to be perfect, so don’t abuse yourself when you’ve done so much to love who you are.

Racecars, lasers, aeroplanes

Hey, you know, maybe he got the good ending. It was pretty strongly implied he was adopted by the firefighter reincarnation of King Agamemnon/Sean Connery.

I don’t.

Money can’t buy morals or ethics. If I hate the company, guarantee you I won’t be there in six months, let alone five years.

Maybe other people can. I can’t. Inevitably, I get into some kind of spat with a boss or a manager over morals, ethics, or how we’re being treated. Or how I’m being treated. And they make up a reason to fire me, or I get so mad that I quit.

Oh! Decentraleyes isn’t maintained regularly, the last Github commit was almost a year ago. Give LocalCDN a try.

My god, the rare moments when 4Chan is relatable. 💀💀💀 People wonder why I’m so meticulous about my blockers and my VPN. And then I show them something on my computer, just casually, and they do a double take when they notice just how CLEAN my space is.

I dunno, you called the other guy Eric, so I thought ‘Well, alright, if we’re doing the naming-strangers-on-the-internet bit, I guess I’ll call you Shaun.’ No harm or offense meant, friend. There were places I lived where the bus infrastructure was legitimately that bad. I remember the 3 hour rides to work too. -_-; Those were awful. I spent months camped out at the city planner’s office begging for extra service on my route after I quit that job and got one closer. No dice, sadly.

Well, Shaun, lemme tell ya; I didn’t mind the 4 to 5 hours a week I spent on the train or the bus. Partly, because sometimes I got to meet genuinely lovely and hilarious strangers, and even make friends with people I never would have met otherwise. Or help people that needed help, being in the right place at the right time. I kinda miss that, having chances at being a kind stranger.

And you know, there is the savings to consider. Not having to spend the extra 30 hours at a job I hate to pay for an $800 expense I don’t need was worth the extra commute time, in my opinion. All that extra free time that I wasn’t driving or working to afford driving, I could use to read books. Or write books.

Beyond that, it was nice to have the cheapest and most freeing exercise I’d get. That’s more money I didn’t spend on a gym membership, owning a bicycle and taking it to visit my friends or getting groceries. And when the weather got bad and I needed a car, I’d just call a taxi. Or set up a carpool with a coworker, offer to pay for gas. It was still cheaper than owning a car. It was nice to have a chance to make friends with my coworkers too.

How much effort did it take to plan my entire life around the logistics of taking my bike/the bus/the train? About as much effort as it did planning my life around owning a car.

The only time I ever needed a car, Shaun, was when I lived in the middle of nowhere and there was no public transit. Because the local government designed the infrastructure that way.

I beg to differ. It was a lifechanging game for me. I can trace a half a dozen major life decisions and events to the people I met through the Undertale fandom. It has some deep personal sentimental value, too.

I’m sorry that happened to you, dude. Fuck tankies, fr.

Insert funny porn joke.

But in all seriousness? A fully immersive, 100% realistic Dungeons and Dragons game with my friends. Exactly the same as we would run it at our table. We’d hop down to the replicators and holo-disguise generators and make ourselves up like our characters, and I’d just follow them around in a spooky mysterious robe and narrate the story.

That’s it. I would run the best D&D game ever, the game of a lifetime, for my best friends.

Absolutely not.

Back when DivestOS was operational, they maintained a database of bugs, flaws, and security holes that the E Foundation and Murena refused to patch.

• MicroG isn’t a secure front-end, it still phones home to Google.
• Their native IP scrambler is just an old fork of TOR
• Their webview (the core of every phone’s ability to run a web application from Lemmy to Fruit Ninja) doesn’t have hardened measures to prevent interference.
• The bootloader stays unlocked. This means that the most essential feature for your safety, the metaphorical lock on the front door of your house, is left broken and loose.

Hell no, do not use /e/os. Use Lineage. Use Grapheme. Use Linux Mobile. Use literally anything else.

A one-state solution with a robust diplomatic and internal affairs structure to support claims of hostility and bigotry, run by a nonpartisan and multiethnic Arab-Israeli human rights coalition. Dismantle the Gaza wall and blockade, and integrate Hamas as a political party (if the Likud are fine, then the Knesset has no god damn excuse.) Maintain a UN-managed board of human rights as counsel and a referee in matters concerning integration. Review the arrest of every political prisoner in Israel, and release nonviolent offenders. Extend a formal apology to conscientious objectors. Revoke the mandatory IDF draft policy and switch to volunteer primacy. Take every step and every measure to ensure that Palestinians ARE, IN EVERY WAY, equal in a state that is no longer an ethnocracy. REBUILD GAZA, with Gazans in charge, starting with homes and hospitals.

Furthermore, extend right of return to Palestinians, irrevocably and in perpetuity.

Because they fucking stole it from me! I’ll be damned if I let a machine–intelligent or not–force me into changing the way I, an individual, choose to express myself in my own language!