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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

So with a new tax on unrealized gains, there must be a tax credit for unrealized losses?

It's a built-in feature to stop charging at 85%, but I don't think it's a feature to schedule it. That's what I'm using Tasker for, to activate the feature during the times that I would expect the phone to be sitting on a charger for an extended period.

I had to replace my phone battery recently, so I got an idea. I set up tasker (remember tasker?) to switch my phone to protect the battery from shortly after I'm typically asleep until shortly before I typically wake up. Thereby, every night my phone will stay at 85% for most of the night, only charging up when I'm about to wake up, which my understanding is it should help keep the battery running a lot longer with no real impact on my day-to-day usage.

Bbbbaby you ain't seen nothin yet

"but if doctors found evidence they'd be so excited to publish it!" Oh yeah?

Trying to be an inoffensive brown sludge and succeeding means nobody will hate you, but nobody will love you either. Who's favorite food is plain porrige?

For the most part, yeah.

Like, for people who don't use linux they hear people discussing how to get certain drivers to work and assume that's the world of linux, but reality is on most hardware you stick the USB stick in, press install and move on with your day.

Ah, sorry for ruining the joke.

Devuan specifically does not use systemd as I recall. I'm using devuan sid on my arm chromebook.

Sovereign immunity is probably first year law school...

Yeah, the whole "platform Y is dead because people I don't like are using it" is dumb particularly when you're talking about a w3c standard. Literally everyone is using tcp/ip, and http and https, and html, and emcascript. You can't use the internet if your line is "if someone I don't like uses the thing then it's dead to me" because the same internet is used by pretty much everyone, and people just have to coexist for the most part.

Tbf, 2006 is right before the world ended, and it wasn't such a bad time. No good music had been released for about 5 years but we didn't notice yet. Right after the gfc is when things started to go downhill. By 2010 it was obvious that things were changing, and by 2015 the coffin was well and truly in the ground...

I'm always surprised these people left big tech since it's already the closest thing to the echo chamber they want.

All in preparation for the German instrumentality project

Pretty bad that Plato predicted it 2500 years ago.

I was watching a video about phonics with my son, and in the credits I saw "also sprach zarathustra" pop by which caught me off guard.

It turns out that there's an orchestral piece called "also sprach zarathustra" that is the opening theme to The 2001 A space odessey movie. And one of the letters was playing a muzak version of that.

For those who are wondering, it was not U for ubermensch, but I for invention.

The politicians are calling greedflation, but what they're not telling you is that it's their greed, not the private sector's.

Stagflation? Literally no one on earth could have possibly foreseen this! If only there'd been some sort of method we could have used to predict that the actions taken in 2020 would have massive negative repercussions! (I was on minds rather than the fediverse in June 2020)

Imo the toughest part will be bootstrapping. It's relatively easy once you've got all the infrastructure in place, but we gave up all the infrastructure in the West.

And get your hands on the tools to do such things while you still can. Considering that a lot of this stuff is made in china, all it takes is One world war and you won't be able to get a tool kit for Love or money.

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