You can contribute that way. (Or with money, for instance.) And good on you if you do. (If you contribute in a way that’s actually beneficial, at least. I don’t mean to accuse you or anyone in particular, but of course there are low-effort PRs and such.) But it would be pretty antithetical to the spirit of FOSS to deny you the use of the software or access to the source code if you don’t. Which is part of the beauty.

You think they give even one single fuck how much customer satisfaction you have?

Remember how folks used to say “if you’re not paying, you’re the product”? (That, of course, was never actually true. There’s tons of, for instance, FOSS software out there that legitimately has no ulterior motives or strings attached, potentially aside from copyleft obligations that you don’t try to turn FOSS into proprietary software. But it was true to a certain point.)

Well now that’s true even if you are paying. To them you’re just a revenue source to be milked. They don’t care if you’re happy. Switching to a competitor probably won’t help any, because all their competitors probably have similar problems. You might get lucky and find a provider whose issues aren’t as much of an issue for you specifically. But the headache of switching is stressful enough that shopping around may well not be worth it.

#enshittification #latestagecapitalism

As someone who downvoted, yes, what @surewhynotlem said is exactly why I downvoted.

And given that OP is unwilling to elaborate any, this whole thread seems like just a frustrating waste of time.

$5 says Trump poisoned him.

🤔

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🤔 🤔 🤔

Nope. Still doesn’t make sense.

Wikipedia page “Vertibrate” section “Evolutionary History”.

34 felony convictions and still votes.

The only way I can imagine “preparing” for nuclear war:

I’m really happy with my Pixel 3a. (And I think the Pixel 3a XL is just as well supported by FLOSS ROMs but with a bigger screen.) It mostly checks all the boxes you had in your list, and I think it’s probably the only real option you’re going to find in that price range.

I ran Lineage for a good while, but I’ve switched to Ubuntu Touch more recently. It’s incredibly well supported by both operating systems and just from what I’ve seen, most FLOSS ROMs tend to support it. (One exception I know of is PostmarketOS, which last I heard didn’t support the 3a very well at all.) Being honest, Ubuntu Touch’s app availability is pretty abysmal. Writing apps for Ubuntu Touch seems more accessible than for Android, though (especially now with the bullshit that they’ve pulled with sideloading restrictions.)

One caveat: If you’re looking for 100% FLOSS, probably the 3a isn’t what you want. Even Ubuntu Touch uses a bunch of proprietary driver blobs. But again, the options for fully FLOSS-compatible phones seem pretty pricey.

Oh. Jesus. Yeah, you’re right. -.-

I really hope Democrats are smart enough not to count their chickens before they hatch. Everyone remembers going to bed on election night 2020 2016 expecting to wake up to news that the U.S. would soon have its first female president, right?

“Deserving”, “credit”, “blame”, “justice”, and related concepts are all collective hallucinations. We’re all observers riding around powerless in robotic meat chassis and the part of us that experiences every bad and good thing we’ll ever experience is completely disconnected from the part of us that makes any decisions. There’s no “justice” in making sure someone who committed some atrocity experiences negative consequences. The “justice” system should be focused solely on rehabilitation and protecting people – innocent or otherwise. Governments trying to be in the business of “punishing” people is misguided at best.

Are you familiar with “analogue horror”? It’s a genre of (mostly) video horror that uses video and audio filters that make it look as if it’s shot on a 1980s or 1990s video camera (or even a 1980s/1990s home camcorder.) That sort of style evokes a lot of nostalgia in 80s/90s kids.

It obviously doesn’t add fidelity to the image to use such filters that blur, add white noise, and add video artifacts like you might see from a malfunctioning VHS player. It removes fidelity.

But it adds a “quaint” and sometimes surreal feeling to the media, particularly for folks who have been exposed to a fair amount of that medium of video. Or even folks who have only been exposed to retro recreations of elements of that medium.

I’m sure something similar is already happening to the brains of the younger generation. They’re forming connections to AI slop. And some day, I have to imagine elements of AI-generated video content will be used – on purpose – in new media to evoke a sense of quaintness, nostalgia, and otherwise “mid-2020’s-ness”.

I don’t think they’ll exclusively use “GenAI” technologies (stable diffusion, Dall-E, etc) to give media that feeling either. It’s weird to think about now, but they’ll probably be make ways to add AI-slop elements in novel ways that the actual GenAI technologies aren’t capable of. (Again, making a connection with VHS-looking filters, I don’t imagine most people making things like analogue horror content today are using actual VHSs and vintage camcorders.)

So, I can agree with your premise, OP, but only with the slight addendum of “for now”.

I hate that this is what the mid-2020s is going to be remembered for, but I guess every decade has something to be embarrassed about. NFTs/blockchain/cryptocurrencies, Beanie Babies, The Macarena, gestures broadly at the 80s, etc. But great things have come out of all of those decades as well.

I was at a farmer’s market with my mother, and there was a butcher there called “Raised Right”. We’d never bought from there before, but we looked at the menu and my mother got really excited when she saw they had tongue available. And I’ve got a pretty adventuresome palate, so I was down. We bought the tongue and cooked it up. Ate it with home-made tzatziki and stuff.

Pretty good stuff. A touch bland, maybe, but you’ll never find a more tender meat. And it’s really cheap. I guess just because people are squeamish.

We got tongue from that butcher several more times. It became a pretty regular thing.

Time passed, we got too lazy to get up early to go to the farmer’s market. We got a hankering for tongue again and found one at Walmart of all places.

It was disgusting. Mushy and stringy. Not at all the same as the farmer’s market butcher. We never did a Walmart tongue again.

Probably to be expected. Walmart’s not exactly the place where you would expect to get quality… well anything, really.

You’re not supposed to eat the skin of the tongue either.

• Be me.
• Apply for job listing that requires Python experience.
• /home/tootsweet/python_projects/python_genius.py
• Called and invited to team interview.
• Arrive dressed like perfect corporate cog, leather binder in hand.
• “Do you know C#?”
• Listing never mentioned C#.
• Me: “No.”
• “We’re switching from Python to C#.”
• Didn’t get the job.

Later worked with former employees of $aforementioned_employer. They have a terrible habit of hiring in droves, only to lay off half their workforce every few years.

'Scuse me while I go pirate 1,000,000 copies of “The Return” by Seb McKinnon.

Jesus. I guess we’re going to have to start figuring out how to reverse engineer our keyboards so we can install QMK on random built-in laptop keyboards and cheap Logitech membrane keyboards to repair the damage Microsoft has done to them.

Tacos, anyone?

Not sure I see the point of impeaching Noem when Trump is right there.