what did the turtle type while crawling across the keyboard?

maybe it was a secret turtle message

This is so good.

1990s TNG had a good heart.

Thank you!

Yeah? I’ll do this if I’m forced to use Outlook for work again.

Other than the paltry poverty-wages they pay employees, almost every dollar that locals spend in a big box store leaves town and travels straight into some billionaire pocket.

I’m interested in knowing this too as I’d like to migrate everything I do to a non-invasive platform.

Also making giant rebar craps all over

I’d love to see a user-friendly, easily-implemented FOSS alternative to the entire Android system.

The options that exist now often can’t get past all the defenses that Android and phone manufacturers put into systems to secure their own data collection/revenue. I have an older Motorola phone that I literally can’t install another operating system on.

We desperately need a stable, user-friendly, and hardware-adaptive replacement for Android. I don’t want that shit on my phones any longer.

Shit, I remember degaussing monitors. I also remember picking up a power supply I was working on before lunch, not remembering that I had powered it on earlier to test it, and the shock throwing me against the wall.

Ah, the good old days.

I don’t think things like greed are endemic to our species, and particularly not like the greed that is so all-consuming that you take necessary things for life from less powerful people.

I do think, however, that without a massive change in mindset, that this capitalist viewpoint, the viewpoint that says I can take whatever I want from whomever I want, will persist. We might not be hardwired for greed, but we are hardwired for hierarchy.

And, if that hierarchy is one that valorizes this poisonous type of greed, that the lower primates will mimic it to rise in the hierarchy.

But, we have so many other available hierarchies. The capitalist one is dominant now, but we can change that.

I hope so.

Yes. But, we are conscious beings and we can choose our spoonness.

Are you trying to accomplish something? Some work you need to do? Be like spoon. You have one purpose—to accomplish that objective.

Choose to be like spoon, and have a blessed day.

Now I’m imagining this too.

Anything that gets you to target people with less power than you is a psy-op.

There is only one group of people to oppose. It’s a small group of extremely wealthy people. All their mouthpieces on the internet are irrelevant (and likely bots) and are best ignored/blocked.

There is one small, powerful group who are the only justifiable targets. Everything else is a distraction and likely a divide-and-weaken tactic.

One small group of powerful, wealthy people. That is the enemy. No one with less power than you is worth focusing on.

This game is so good. I hope Larian builds something even better for their next go.

Right there with you.

Fuck Android.

I hope a consistent, user-friendly alternative that works on all Android phones arrives soon. I’ve tried so many with an old phone and they’re always a pain to install and then don’t work quite right. I also don’t want to spend $500USD for a phone designed specifically to sidestep Android.

It would help if Android/Google didn’t consistently try to block every single thing that would allow you to get rid of Android, but they’re never going to allow that.

I hope that something user-friendly and consistent arrives soon. I will ditch Android in a second when that happens.

If no one’s enforcing court orders, then those court orders are irrelevant.

How far is this fucking fascist going to have to go before someone does something to stop him? The fascists don’t give a shit about the law, and from all current readings, no one with the power of the law cares to challenge the orange cunt on this.

Yeah, I have an older Motorola phone that I’ve used to try and get Android alternatives, and none of those three systems will work on my phone. It doesn’t look like any of them will work on my new phone either, but that might just mean I have to try it.

Google/Android also seems to make it as difficult as possible to install any alternative system. The easiest I saw was /e/OS because it was all automated, but after about 10 minutes it informed me that my Motorola phone just wasn’t supported.

There’s such a long ways to go with this sort of thing, but I think it’s pretty clear that the world desperately needs a user-friendly, non-corporate alternative to Android/iOS.

It’s really a bummer that we’re all carrying around powerful little computers with us but the corporate operating systems for them use much of that processing power for their own data collection/profits/purposes and tries to prevent us, those of us who own the phones, from using that power for our own purposes.

There’s a lot of good stuff on F-Droid, and it’s nice to see a university doing a project like this.

I’m still waiting on a solid, consistent alternative to Android. It seems we might be getting there with tiny steps.