Andrzej3K [none/use name]

I still use Gboard but I feel like it’s got a lot worse in recent years

So glad I ignored the hype and stuck with usenet

In anglo-Christian culture ghosts were explained away as souls in purgatory, and this led to a Catholic/Protestant split wrt whether they existed or not, because Prots denied the existence of purgatory. They are still religiously problematic really — think about how often the ‘ghosts’ in American media turn out to be demons in order to keep things in line with scripture.

I personally believe there’s something much more terrifying implied in the English folk-tradition though: a spirit bound to the last physical vestiges of their time on earth, going through the motions as what little is left of their mind after the trauma of death unravels completely. They’re dead — it’s over. They can still do the things they did in life, but it doesn’t mean anything anymore.

Obviously there are very powerful resonances here for anyone who has witnessed a person sicken and die.

Bluesky is more like Twitter, and Twitter users prefer Twitter to Mastodon

What a strange question

Hit yourself in the testicles with a cartoon mallet, then rethink your priorities

Orly? I might have to look into that

I’m currently daily driving a 2011 MacBook Pro running Arch, and it does surprisingly well. I mean, the screen is a weird resolution, the battery life sucks, and it gets very hot, but other than that …

I got into Linux by building HTPCs and then media servers, so it’s been a while since I watched anything hunched over a computer monitor tbh

It’s not just a generational thing — most of the millennials who were torrenting 15 years ago (which was a lot of them!) have completely forgotten by now ime. Now I’m longing for the days when ‘VLC is the best media player’ was common knowledge and not arcana

Yeah man that and the cheese are just unforgivable

Hmm not sure about this (sans context)

EDIT: is this guy? Because a cursory look at his bibliography does not fill me with confidence

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Blond

I have lost track of the times that a liberal/conservative acquaintance has completely gone off on one at me, completely oblivious to the fact that I’m biting my lip for the sake of politeness. The irony is that it’s always “you can’t say anything these days” etc etc I KNOW MATE, I CAN’T

Something that Westerners would do well to remember is that the revolution may not happen where you are, but it doesn’t have to

That is one robot chicken looking Stalin

Anything to do with dns

That’s not how monopoly ends in my house

Also to force privatisations on the member states who don’t have the clout to just ignore the rules

You have to pay it forward to two people or gulag

I want to live in this timeline