Huh. TIL that there are three common types of tidal cycles and which one you get depends on geography, location, ocean currents. https://beltoforion.de/en/tides/tidal_cycles.php

And yeah, dinural is apparently the most rare of the three. Wild.

I have all the known Israeli IP ranges banned.

Oh I stand corrected. I still respect Canada, but now respect the British even less than I did previously.

I did not purchase this ticket!!

Yeah, Canada is literally the only country that has ever razed our capitol. They literally burned down the white house. I mean technically they were British at the time but they were the great great grandparents of today’s Canadians. As an American it feels really intensely stupid saber rattling at them when they’re friends by default.

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.

A change made through court cases in the mid-century. Basically the result of a neoliberal ideological campaign that first normalized the feduciary duty concept in the business world before forcing it on board rooms through the justice system. Before that, boards of companies could make decisions on ethical grounds and not just fiscal grounds. Today, that precedent has transformed boardrooms into terrifying financial automatons.

Kids these days don’t know about the Microsoft anti-monopoly suit sagas, or how the world felt about Bill Gates before he spent several decades and millions of dollars scrubbing his PR. They’ve always been awful and generally reviled, from the start.

He’s your average justice-minded libertarian small business owner. Misses the mark sometimes and maybe not always in the fight for exactly the right reasons, inflated sense of manic self-righteousness that probably corrodes his personal life, but a world built by people like him would still probably be a lot nicer than what we have now.

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.

I remember canceling my Crunch membership in NYC by telling them I was going to Ecuador for a year. They asked if I spoke Spanish. I said no not a word just to fuck with them, even though I do speak survivable Spanish.

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.

Literally inferior to New Jersey. Essentials should never be taxed at all. Maybe your tax code is relatively progressive compared to other places but that one part is a big fail.

No sales tax right next door in Oregon, either. We tax real estate, income, and corporate profits.

🌠 Craigslist 🌈

Actually for real, at least for the kind of aftermarket stuff I buy I usually do check CL first. I don’t use FB market because I don’t have an account and it’s a bummer how they’re a near-monopoly for local used stuff.

Ebay is a great place to be a buyer. Absolutely fucked place to be a seller. Be nice to your sellers folks, they don’t have it that great.

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 look 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 foolish to spend all day debating it because it really is a subjective matter.