Yeah, and the thing is I’d be a lot more receptive to that argument if they were willing to support funding the sort of road and transit infrastructure that actually make cars less dangerous.

I’ve always thought an electric 94 Ranger would be pretty dope.

Bingo. I’m 40. This dissolving social life issue is exactly what I went through after I turned 30.

It’s two things. One, from this point on your social life needs to be actively managed and maintained. When you’re younger, life’s circumstances do that for you. From here on out, it’s all has to be the result of your own effort.

And two, to do that you will need to work on yourself. The rails your life is on when you’re younger often mask and excaccerbate personal issues which, absent those rails, come out to others as toxicity you may be blind to. I say this without irony, find a good therapist and dig into your problems. Learn more about yourself and your past. Find a physical activity you enjoy and exercise daily. Improve your diet. If you have the means, go to all your medical appointments regularly.

It’s scary because it all has to be actively managed from here on out. But once you get a hold of it again (After getting ahold of yourself) it’s that much more actualizing as it’s an intentional social life of your own creation. Perhaps a smaller sphere than before, but just as meaningful if not more. It will take time, maybe a year or two. But you’ve got an upward trajectory in front of you.

Well that’s a funny coincidence, I’ve removed Google URLs and services from all my devices and browsers.

All technology has the potential to be both liberatory and oppressive, all that ever matters is who wields it and to what end.

Lewis Herber (Murray Bookchin) - Towards a Liberatory Technology

So you mean android-compatible devices with a supported method for unlocking? Because you can also jailbreak most locked bootloaders through unsupported means.

I wasn’t actually aware that OnePlus have a supported route and that they were the only other brand who do. I jailbroke my own OnePlus :P

Do you mean android-compatible? Because there are a lot of android-compatible device manufacturers with unlockable bootloaders outside of Google themselves. Like the OnePlus I’m currently using.

Depends where you live but often your municipal, county, or state Department of Transit website will have an online form / email address / phone number where you can request or identify a road for repave. Usually the DOT already has a repave schedule for their roads, but sometimes they do take into account requests or send out someone to confirm the issue, and may then expedite the schedule. But road repaving can be very expensive, a single report probably won’t move the needle. See if you can get anyone else to join in, if you’re the only voice.

Many of these people literally, honestly believe they’re building Roko’s basilisk.

Reminds me of when people say “product” instead of “shampoo” or “conditioner” or whatever it is they’re actually putting in their hair. Capitalism-coded language.

Same here (USA). I haven’t updated my newpipe in a month at least, so it simply never broke. Not a big fan of these unverified headlines.

I have all the known Israeli IP ranges banned.

What OS did you put on it and what issues have you run into? I’ve been considering the Pinephone Pro because it seemed both more flexible and cheaper than a Librem.

How about we abandon proprietary locked-down launcher sandboxes on our phones and just run regular old Linux on them like we do on the desktop?

Isn’t that what PostmarketOS is? Is there some bullshit firmware issue in the way of that? What exactly is stopping us?

To this day nearly a third of my Jellyfin library is stuff I downloaded through ourTunes over the dorm LAN in 2004/2005.

You and I both know that these precedents get concocted to be selectively applied. There’s no concern for the actual letter of the law here, it’s just a means to an end.

This wasn’t on my vegan bingo sheet.

Maybe she doesn’t know it, but how she reacts to this situation is my main test of her suitability as my partner. Nothing is more attractive to me than a woman who can just chill for 15 minutes without complaint while I exportfs -a and restart nfsd.

Sorry, I thought you were the kind of person who could handle a little casual disagreement. I don’t mind that you think security was the primary purpose of phone OS app land, and I definitely wouldn’t presume you arrived at that assessment from ignorance as you’re a stranger who I don’t know and that would be both foolish and needlessly insulting. But everything I’ve watched phone companies do over the past 20 years demonstrates to me that a desire for control was the main intent. You don’t have to agree, in fact I think it’s silly to spend all day debating it because it really is a subjective matter.

The app store and permission model hasn’t stopped malicious code from making it onto users devices. So if security was the concern, I’d say that’s a failure. But I think the primary concern was control. Control by manufacturers (And eventually, thereby states) of what people see and do on their phone. Make sure they have to pay for access to features. Easily surveil what they do.

Security is very often the excuse for control.