Someone, somewhere, is running Xubuntu on that thing

I don’t mind paying for the beer so long as the speech is free.

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To be fair, I think this is a Lemmy issues moreso than the broader internet. I could be totally off base there, though. It just seems in my experience that Lemmy is particularly anti AI, while the rest of the Internet seems to be fairly neutral towards the technology as a whole, and potentially upset about the environmental impact and increasing prices for computer components.

Again, I may be off base, though, as Lemmy is the only social media I use, so I’m not tapped into that side of things.

I will say, if I notice people use the word “quietly” (as in “it will quietly revolutionize X” or “this has quietly changed my habits”) I do immediate assume it’s Chatgpt. Lol. And for what it’s worth, I’m not against AI in general, I think it’s great as a brain storming tool, a useful way to collect your thoughts, to bounce ideas off of, and to use when stuck on a project. But it’s uses are so limited compared to what it’s billed as that it is in no way this magical gift from on high like some think, but nor is it a completely and totally useless thing. The problem is that it’s being shoved down the throat of every website, device, and user of the Internet at such incredible rates that we’re choking on it. And the fact that it can “talk” like a person means people are anthropomorphizing it and that is very, very dangerous long term to the mental health of humans as a whole.

My $0.02, anyway

From my somewhat limited research so far, it looks like a lot of FOSS stuff is available on macos, but much less on iPhone given how locked down it is.

I’m willing to give uo convenience, I just have to make sure I can still earn enough money to survive lol I’ll start looking around for alternatives

… My only vehicle is from 2012, and there is less than a zero percent chance I can get anything else. I’m so fucked, aren’t I?

Realistically at that point, would it be better to be on iOS than android, then? I know iOS is wayyyyyy locked down, but apple is slightly more privacy respecting than android from what I understand, because Apple’s incentive is to sell you services and hardware, while Google’s is to sell you as a product to advertisers?

I have no strong opinion here, looking to be educated. I’ve never wanted an iPhone, but I’m already looking at a used m1 air, and if google is going to rape me and now they’re taking the lube away, would I (a person who is not techy enough to really understand how to fight back against this) be better off on an iPhone? Most of my income right now comes from doordashing. I’m fairly certain I won’t be able to do that without play services or whatever iPhone uses

Can you use the desktop site through the phone browser on a Linux phone or grapheneos?

This is one of those pieces of info I try to slip in whenever possible. I’m a firm believer that celibacy is bad for the mind, body, and soul when it’s forced on people. Priests may go into it willingly, but years and years of it with no reprieve does bad things to people’s minds. If the church could make one reform that I genuinely believe would be best, it is the celibacy of clergy. Tons of reforms needed, but that one is the one I think needs to happen soonest.

Eastern Catholic priests can marry, actually. There are married Catholic priests out there right now, and not because they converted in from Anglicanism after they married (though those exist, too), but fully cradle Catholics who were married before their vocation. Somehow this has not exploded the church or whatever. It is inconsistent and ridiculous.

Two stories:

My mom was in a religious school for a few years, and her craziest story was sex Ed, which was mandated in the state at the time. The entire class was “take this shoebox home.” Literally no other instructions. The shoebox contained a mirror and nothing else. It was 20 years later before she realized what the mirror was for, because she wasn’t informed it was a sex Ed class.

ETA: the school was mixed gender, the classes were not. Girls had separate classes from boys. The mirror was for standing over and seeing that you do, indeed, have a vagina, and then gaining absolutely other information

I was homeschooled, but not in a religious way. My mom ordered the books the state told her to order. When we got them they were fine, until we got to the science module and it told us how ancient humans and dinosaurs lived side by side. … My mom immediately ordered different books.

Honestly, I can’t imagine winter without something to break the monotony of it. But where I live winters can be pretty harsh. They’re fairly mild is Australia, right? Or is that just the image I have of it in my head because it’s supposed to be so damn hot there? Lol

Same thing I thought. Is there a winter holiday that’s popular in Oz?

Can I participate if I use a box mod? I prefer a very open airflow

I would imagine that could be possible, but it would require our political parties to want a referendum process, which is pretty antithetical to the way they operate in general. I cannot imagine that ever, ever, ever happening in the US without first having gone through a major change in our system, vis a vis the the two current parties. If, somehow, we managed to get the very progressive/green/soft socialist types in power within the democratic party the way the ultra far right have taken over the Republican party then I could see it happening, but if that were to occur then I think it’s pretty likely to have followed some truly spectacular (potentially violent**) political upheaval in the country that would make the addition of referendum to our lives a footnote in the rest of what would be happening.

And that’s assuming we could even get those kinds of people into power in the US, which I sincerely, genuinely doubt. But that’s just my opinion.

**Pointing it out, not advocating for it

It is a whole process to amend the constitution. It requires the Congress and Senate to agree to add an amendment (there’s a certain percentage of agreement required, but I can’t remember the exact amount.) alternatively, 2/3rds of the states can petition for a constitutional change.

Iirc, the way it works is that it Congress to decides to add an amendment it is really only allowed to do that one thing and it’s done. But, if 2/3rds of the states do it, then it is a constitutional convention, and the document itself is up for editing. As in, should we get to that point, anything about the constitution could theoretically be changed, removed, or added.

But honestly, Google to confirm, I haven’t researched that in many many moons

Because the US does not have referendum. Some states do, but there is no national referendum in the US. If there were the country would likely be quite different. There are issues that “both sides” agree with that neither side push for because it’s not profitable. If we had a referendum we might be able get certain things passed.

Of course, you’d have to depend on those in power to do the referendum to give us a chance to vote on it anyway…

It’s almost as if representative democracy isn’t actually all that democratic most of the time

I knew about the Appalachian and Scottish highland connection, but I did not realize the chain extends all the way into Greenland and Scandinavia! Per my quick Google search, it says there are remnants of the same mountain chain in 9 countries!

If only immigration thought the same. I lost my health insurance this month. I’d kill for Canadian citizenship