Unauthorized Access Enjoyer | Microwave 'power setting' Evangelist | Cat Person
@gunguswungus I know it's not really answering your question, more asking about a workaround, but would you do it virtually with proprietary stuff, or is that a no-go for you?
Asking because I can help out if you want to emulate an ancient Mac that can run iTunes.
@sunumbral I remember hearing a radio interview with a Syrian bodega owner in Homs during their civil war, talking about how his work days were interrupted by troops and rebels battling on his street.
He would go down to the basement, wait it out, then come up and run the store.
It was that day I realized that we're all just gonna be workin' through... whatever happens.
YouTube started showing a row of 'shorts' at the top of the feed. I clicked the 'show fewer shorts' every day. A few months ago, they added a second row of shorts, so I dutifully clicked 'show fewer shorts' daily. I just opened it and there are three rows of shorts.
I hate this.
@davidaugust Padilla was one of 100 senators who voted on her nomination. There's no way Noem didn't recognize him.
It's all bullshit excuses, and the Republicans in power and on the ground are GLEEFUL about manhandling their opposition politicians. We can't shame them, this is what they were brought in to do and this is how they reward their base.
Trust me, Democratic politicians getting worked-up and saying how awful this is gives MAGA erections and soaks their panties.
For over a decade, I've been hearing people, especially in the media, talk about Iran like it's a powerful military force. My take has always been that they're clearly not much to worry about.
Now we see that Iran can't even land a single hit on their enemies, and can barely project force through proxies doing guerilla one-offs and lobbing missiles at undefended commercial targets.
Basically, they have a 'big' military, but it's so outclassed from decades of sanctions that it's unable to project force. They can't even defend their own airspace from incursion. They had their national defense knocked down to third-world status in a matter of hours without even downing an attacking plane over their own territory.
For the last fifteen years or so, Israel or the USA has been able to put planes in the sky and bombs on the ground whenever and wherever it wants in Iran, and Iran can't even get a few percent of its missiles or drones to hit their enemies.
I'm not saying this out of sympathy or trying to call one side 'good' or another 'bad', just pointing out that the media and government will gladly conspire to create strawman enemies they can use to spend untold billions on or use to manipulate us via fear.
@backupbear "until there's only one"
Then can we kill that one because he's clearly the least safe to bring back to society?
...or does that make me someone who needs to be sent to the island?
@0xabad1dea I hear you, I'm just saying that I've noticed flimsier cables on everything over the last few years, from wired headphones to AC/DC wall wart adapters. Companies literally shaving pennies from things knowing that the result will be halved or quartered product lifetimes.
@0xabad1dea Yes, they're flimsier than ever, but I think that's a trend is almost all goods, especially electronics. I don't think it's a conspiracy to force wireless on people, but a consequence of corporate greed and consumerism leading to a race-to-the-bottom.
Big update: The Internet Archive has launched a new version of GifCities, the search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. It's now easier to explore the glitter, chaos, and charm of early web animation.
Search better. Share better. Blink more.
@appassionato Iran's troops, artillery, aircraft, and 99% of missiles can't even get into Israel though. The raw numbers are one thing, but the tech level of Israel's stuff is 30-50 years more advanced, and it virtually nullifies Iran's capabilities.
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To reiterate, what I want out of a phone:
- Headphone jack
- Square corners on screen, no rounded edges
- No holes in screen
- Smol like my hands
- Ability to install and distribute my own software
- Ability to turn off anything that bugs me
- Ability, when reading ebooks, to silence visual "noise" like clocks or navbars
- I want to neither monetarily nor in platform political power support a company that sells "AI"-branded features as part of their business activities
Remember how gui icons used to come in all sorts of shapes and colors and represented their function, and you could see at a glance what something does and pick it out without having to hunt for it because it looked different from the other icons? I liked that a lot. Can we bring that one back?
@stux@mstdn.social
I think people should protest, but you may want to be careful what is on your phone. As you may recall, I work for Meta. We're currently spying on people.
We are helping the government to identify people who were in the protest. We are currently helping identify people who want to protest. We are currently helping government agents know where and when protest may happen.
If you have any Facebook apps - Facebook Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, Instagram -- Uninstall the app.
@danirabbit I have similar complaints on Android and Windows 11, where the obsession with 'flatness' makes it hard to know what the heck is going on.
I recently fired up an early OSX VM to do some ancient file recovery and was so relieved to have nice clearly-defined user interface elements. It really helped my brain navigate more easily.
@thegibson Moo-gnificent!
