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Next smartphone I buy, which one do you recommend?

Things that make me angry about my current smartphone Samsung Galaxy S21Ultra on a Verizon plan is the mandatory software updates in which they install WITHOUT MY PERMISSION stupid apps like Netflix and addictive gambling games and stacking block games and Candy crush. God knows what else they install without my permission. I...

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They are good products, even if they don’t have the nerdy cool factor. Each day I’m working on old C/C++ code in Linux, so having my phone be a reliable appliance instead of yet another computer to fuck around with is totally fine for me. I liked my past Android phones too though.

No carrier bloatware and very long software support.

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Yep, there were times when I was having a good time rooting and even overclocking my Android phone. Automating stuff with good old Tasker too.

But like I said, the “app launching appliance” life is all food for me now.

Plus I have an Apple Watch and like it, and my entire family uses iPhones. So whatever ecosystem inertia/lock-in could be there, is there.

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He did the melty math

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I finally tried out Linux Mint this year at work (we use Fedora for some of our different tasks). It arms like such a nice experience out of the box, and I’d put it on a family computer in a second.

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It was supposed to be a commentary on the social acceptance of some drugs but not others.

I can see it must read in a much more bitchy way than intended.

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Nah I don’t really drink. Let me go hit my vape pen or pop an edible real quick. It brings me physical comfort and mental happiness.

Drunks after they finish their fist fight: “Eww get out of here, druggie!”

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Of course, and it’s an old image too, but it still amused me thinking of the contrast between the message and the current audience.

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My hyper focus makes me a good programmer. Unfortunately I only activate it every couple days. With their powers combined… I’m worth keeping employed. 👍🏻

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I still like having a console strictly for games, but not for media stuff. Plus since it’s an Xbox, you can subscribe to Game Pass and treat every game as a rental.

That doesn’t do anything to help game preservation though, which sucks. But between the sheer volume of games and the “every game is a rental” attitude, I treat new games as a one-time experience that I probably won’t care about returning to.

Fortunately though, the games I care most about having access to forever are easily backed up and can be played with an emulator if necessary.

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My guess is yes. Many consider it the best Star Trek. I think I agree and I’m not even to the best parts yet.

The general look & feel of it is closest to TNG, if you’ve seen much of that. It’s not as campy as the original, but you get a few moments of “look at that actor on that obvious sound stage set pretending to be an alien, lol” moments. But DS9 has more long plot arcs. I am loving the cast of characters more than I remember too.

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I almost had to come back and reply to myself "and now she’s throwing herself at him, of course.”

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Some of the meme gods of !risa will grace other communities with their fire hose of content.

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This is me. Am white dad on vacation this week. It’s not that cold, like 70F, but there has been chilling rain all week. I’m the guy not only soaked in my shorts and t-shirt among a sea of ponchos, but still sticking my head into the fountains and stuff.

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Won’t somebody think of the financial institutions?!?

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It was your contribution to the comment count that did me in.

… oops and I’ve made it worse.

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It stinks to think that the mainstreaming of this platform that definitely should go mainstream would probably diminish its value for me specifically.

But I guess that’s what communities and even themed instances are for.

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That’s pretty much the process I went through ~20 years ago. The individual has to care about actual evidence and truth rather than the “truth = agree with me” crap that is common.

I think a big, big part of it is realizing that the people on your side are not necessarily arguing in good faith just because they’re on the “correct” team.

And that’s a pretty big deal when “just ignore that, it’s not real” is a deep core practice of your team.

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Whatever your grew up with will always seem more intuitive for most people. But given that I grew up with Fahrenheit, the whole “0 is cold as fuck, 100 is hot as fuck” thing works for me.

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Yeah, pretty much. I figured it was probably implied that I’m in the states. :)

I mean, SI units are objectively the best, and align with metric in most cases, but my brain is conditioned to accept Fahrenheit and miles per hour natively. Celsius and km/h have to go through an interpreter to convert them.

I have to say though, km/h has that “0 to 100” thing going for it that Fahrenheit does. 100 isn’t the fastest you’ll go, but it’s a typical highway speed.

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God’s weed

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This is me realizing I forgot my break time medicine at home, but staring at the wall instead of you.

But it’s fine. We’ll be reunited tonight.

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I was just continuing my risa-inspired rewatch of DS9 last night, and it made me think of you all here.

I think its been a really long time since my last watch through, and the upside is that a lot of it feels fresh again, even though I know the characters and the general trajectory of the plot. I think I like this show even more already.

I’m in season 2 and just a few episodes back was “Cardassians,” wherein a Cardassian orphan living on the planet as a Bajoran sets the scene for Garak to flex all over the fucking place.

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Probably.

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So we’re like smart Klingons to them? Sweet.

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This image also just called a bunch of random cats to my location.

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