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thebardingreen

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  • Technology Consultant.
  • Software Developer.
  • Musician.
  • Burner.
  • Game Master.
  • Non-theistic Pagan.
  • Cishet White Male Feminist.
  • Father.
  • Fountain Maker.
  • Aquarium Builder.
  • Hamster Daddy.
  • Resident of Colorado.
  • Anti-Capitalist.
  • Hackerspace Regular.
  • Traveler of the American West.

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This is essentially the premise of Walk Away by Cory Doctorow.

You DO need that thing that’s going to “satisfy the same basic need that capitalism does.”

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  • My Android phone that I’ve had for several years just died forever and I am currently without a phone (other than Google Voice on my computer).
  • I’m in the US. Carrier is T Mobile. I understand I’d have to place my order through a third party.
  • Things I care about: All of the above, as long as I can do my work.
  • I have the budget.

Things I do regularly:

  • Make phone calls.
  • Check my email.
  • Text messages.
  • Signal
  • Podcasts and Audiobooks (I’m currently going nuts trying to do chores without my normal audio stimulation). I need Audible and I need some app that will let me keep all my subscriptions and Patreon benefits.
  • Magic Arena.
  • Lemmy (I currently just use it in a browser, last time I tried Jerboa it was super buggy)
  • ChatGPT app.

I also “Hey Google” all the time. I’m not sure what the state of deGoogled voice assistants is. If I could “Hey ChatGPT” it would be orders of magnitude more useful than “Hey Google.” Losing voice assistance isn’t a deal breaker, but it’s something I do use frequently.

Probably 40% of my phone use is Magic Arena and 40% is podcasts and audiobooks. Then probably 5% is “Hey Google, set an alarm for 5 minutes / OK Google, set an alarm for 6:00 AM.”

Google Services I need for work… but I’m willing to hack my way around to get them, as long as it’s possible.

  • Google Voice (non negotiable, sadly).
  • My work email is through Google.
  • My work video conferences are through Google Meet.
  • My work calendar is through Google and my phone gives me 10 minute notifications before a meeting.

I would like to degoogle as much as possible, but these are work requirements, and my ADHD brain can’t handle having two phones (one will get left uncharged / lost / never turned on and the odds are that will be the work one).

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iOS is a hard no for me. It’s like a mechanic buying a car that says “No user serviceable parts” on the sales contract.

thebardingreen,
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<3 Peanut Hamper.

thebardingreen,
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The author did not age well…

thebardingreen,
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Gorny McGornface.

thebardingreen,
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And if you attempt to erase your own memory, you will only succeed in opening a portal to the void, from a which a physical manifestation of your own fear and loathing will emerge. This might seem terrifying, but in reality your fear and loathing will be gentle, friendly and intensely attractive, will help you overcome your own self imposed limitations and then will consentually pound you in the butt in a surprisingly wholesome way and with an overall message of love and positivity.

Love is real buckaroos!

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Unfortunately, no one can be told who Chuck Tingle is. You have to see it for yourself (NSFW Subjects).

My Dungeon Master Is A T-Rex Rules Lawyer But Fortunately I Rolled A Crit On The Pound My Butt Check

Lesbian Megalodon Shark Lifeguard Summer Butt Hunt

This Pumpkin Spice Latte Gets Me Off In A Fun And Sincere Way Because It’s Okay For People To Enjoy Popular Things Without Being Shamed For The Perceived “Basicness” Of Their Beverage Choices

I Went On A Hunt For The Easter Bigfoot And Now He’s Eating My Ass

Pounded In The Butt By My Handsome Sentient Library Card Who Seems Otherworldly But In Reality Is Just A Natural Part Of The Priceless Resources Our Library System Provides

Sentient Lesbian Food Gets Me Off

Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt

Pounded In The Butt By My Book “Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt”

And, if this Tingles you, he has an Official Role Playing Game with multiple source books out.

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Be me.

Red alert sounding. Catastrophic power overload is immanent.

Be bent over in Jefferies tube, remodulating the power coupling on the primary phase transducer.

Feel a warmth behind me.

It’s Shrek.

He whispers into ear “This is my swamp.”

He grabs me with his powerful ogre hands and spreads my ass cheeks.

He penetrates my butthole.

I can feel my butt tearing as my eyes start to water.

It hurts so much, but I keep working on the phase transducer as the computer voice is counting down to a critical overload.

And for some reason, I want to please Shrek.

He roars a mighty roar as he fills my butt with his love.

At the same moment, I finish the remodulation procedure. The countdown stops.

Captain Sisko walks in.

“What is the meaning of this Mr. O’Brien!”

Shrek meets his eyes and says “It’s all ogre now.”

Shrek is beamed away.

Shrek is love. Shrek is life.

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My cousin did this with her wife and they are very decent.

The thing was a floating money pit though and was usually broken down and was sometimes uninhabitable because of various issues.

Then the hull got damaged in a storm when waves banged it against the dock over and over again.

Now they own a nice little house.

thebardingreen,
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My theory: The Soong family have been illegally cloning themselves since 2023.

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Pretty sure you’re getting downvoted because people hate Brave and you seem to have put it at the top of your list. People hate the company and founder (with good reason) and the scammy crypto aspect. However, the browser consistently gets top tier ratings on it’s privacy implementation (from a technical perspective). I personally have mixed feelings about it. If you MUST use a chromium based browser (and sometimes I must) Brave is an obvious choice (again, from a technical perspective).

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Needs more time travel shenanigans.

https://lemmy.starlightkel.xyz/pictrs/image/b94838db-7fcc-4758-8130-305dfe880585.png

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That’s Montgomery Scott, and he runs the transporters on the Enterprise.

thebardingreen,
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You’re not wrong…

thebardingreen,
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No, I’m pretty sure it’s Malcolm Reynolds and Wash.

thebardingreen,
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Doesn’t matter, had sex.

thebardingreen,
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I would never have known if you hadn’t told me. XD

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Just watch the last season of Picard. Forget the other two seasons and pretend they don’t exist. You don’t need them, the final seasons stands on it’s own.

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The real treasure was the friends Peanut Hamper made along the way…

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Because of the nature of Trek, it was easy to retcon into an alternate universe. The world building in Star Wars didn’t leave much room for that.

Maybe they can keep ignoring it for another decade, then write it off as a vision from the Dark Side.

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“Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.” -Mercedes Lackey or… maybe Larry Dixon. Unclear.

I'm being harassed by mosquitoes, how do i kill them all?

To my knowledge there’s no stagnant water on my property, I’ve run water through all my ptraps, and I’m careful to not leave doors open. Yet at any given time there’s at least 3 in my house. I can’t sleep, i can’t sit on the couch, i can’t exist in the fear of being sucked dry....

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This. I knew an engineer once who built a long electrified copper pipe that would leak CO2. He would drink beer on his back porch and watch them die.

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