Fun fact: in America most common brands of both honey AND maple syrup are just flavored high fructose corn syrup. It’s not like we don’t have the real stuff on the same shelf, but you have to pay attention to the labels or you might get some bullshit.

Not that I saw and that’s my biggest problem with it, email isn’t going anywhere. I can not use it to talk to my friends and family, sure, but I can’t get away from using it in conjunction with like, websites or some government things, etc.

Furthermore as far as chat apps go, there’s not really a perfect one either:

Signal’s phone number requirement (and maybe they fixed this part, but back when it had sms if someone deleted the app without deleting their profile first, my messages would still get sent to signal and since they don’t have the app installed anymore I lose contact with them, and there was no way to force it to use sms, happened with like 4 contacts). I think a couple other issues I can’t recall while shitting at work right now too.

Matrix was started at Amdocs which is sketchy as fuck and associated with mossad, all the apps suck, and it’s too hard for normals to use (I know, “get gud,” they won’t.) Leaks metadata like a seive, too.

Jabber is cool, but also not perfect, there’s issues with OMEMO implementations, and Conversations eats too much battery without play services. Still metadata too.

Delta Chat is what I’m trying now, but it’s PGP based. Absolutely love it other than that though. At least they’re attempting to reduce metadata but there’s still some by nature of needing to know sender/recipient.

If anyone has a better suggestion for chat apps, I’m all ears, but that still doesn’t solve the problem of email’s ubiquity, either. If this blogger proposed a solution, I missed it, but until there is one and it gets adopted this is just what it is.

Walmart “we’re noticing a large increase in theft of the products we’re trying to gouge people on, strange.”

Didn’t the US just kidnap Modretro?

Tbf I carry the pepper spray for the dogs, that’s where its effectiveness really shines, they can’t really fight through it like people can. Also for use against people without weapons if deescalation fails, and hope they’ve never been to prison or the military (they’ll be used to it).

The gun is for the people with weapons.

Lucky you!

I have. Luckily I didn’t have to pull it though, I just put my hand on it and the guy holding the knife at me decided “I’ll catch the next one” and walked away.

It’s actually the opposite, TBirdMobile is a fork of K9 (and it’s basically just reskinned blue for now lol), they currently have feature parity but at some point (supposedly already, but I guess they delayed it because K9 got an update a couple months ago) K9 is set to stop receiving updates as they fully switch over to TBird.

I also love K9, been using it since ~2012.

At least for now, it is just blue K9, but so help me if Mozilla hurts my sweet app I’m gonna throw a fit lol.

Another bump for antennapod, haven’t found a better podcast app yet and I have tried a few just to see.

Also Delta Chat, I have recently been trying it out through the Arcane Chat app (same dev, Arcane seems to be his feature testing grounds) and I love it so far. It’s easy enough to use I was able to get my mom on it, can’t say that for XMPP or Matrix! I’m sure it’s got its own problems, no forward secrecy, metadata (which to my knowledge every messaging app has by virtue of how “messages” work, even snail mail, it has to know who to go to), but then again Delta wasn’t started as an Amdocs (mossad associated company that infiltrated US telcom) product like the Matrix Foundation, so I trust it more for now. And Delta/Arcane uses so much less battery than Conversations does when running GrapheneOS, like by a LOT. I just checked, Conversations has eaten 20% of my charge since full, Arcane Chat has used less than 1% despite having the same screen/background times and same number of messages sent/received on both.

LOL tbh I can see it, they look similar in those pics.

They’ve famously been seen in the same room together though, so there goes that theory.

Remember to bring clean period correct cash.

Yes! I haven’t seen those in a good long while but I loved those so much. I think they still exist though. (Sour candy coated chewy disks, of course, for those unfamiliar.)

I think you may be triple confusing SweetTarts™ (chalky semi-tart disks) with Smarties™ (chalky sweet but oddly flavorless disks) and Spree™ (not as chalky, candy coated disks) which these days are more often encountered as Chewy Spree™ (Chewy candy coated disks.)

And we haven’t even mentioned Necco Wafers™ (big ol’ chalky disks) nor Giant SweetTarts™ (big ol’ semi-tart chewy disks)!

Soap dispensers that only dispense for white hands.

IR was fine why the fuck do we have AI soap dispensers?! (Please for “Bob’s” sake tell me you made it up.)

Do they rate limit as hard as searx/startpage? I can search like 10 things a day on those and that just doesn’t cut it with the level of ADHD I’ve been saddled with.

Glad the location reroll worked. Idk if it’s related to the VPN (mullvad) but fwiw I can barely use startpage nor searx because they rate limit me hard enough that it gets in the way of my daily curiosity, without rerolling at least 2x daily that is. Oh well DDG for me I guess.

I’d try and get my work to switch, but apparently Zebra thermal printers (of which we have so many) don’t work well with CUPS, you may be able to do some weird shit to make them work but iirc it wasn’t too viable for a large scale operation.

I’d wager a lot of companies do use things that just don’t work too well on linux yet, not that they couldn’t work it’s just that none of the people smarter than me who make linux happen have worked on it yet, and until they do it’s just what it is. Before we want to capture the enterprise market we need good easy to use thermal printing software, CNC software, laser etching software, stuff like that. It can be done too for at least most things I’m sure.

I used plenty of open source software before I switched, sometimes, VLC is just the best program in it’s class. Also makes the jump easier when you already mostly use FOSS, and makes the windows user want to switch more. Baby steps can be good for sure.

I think it’s a cheap way to heighten the scary, to give you the feeling that you have no clue what you’re fucking doing but scary shit keeps happening.

Yeah I’m sure I would do the full build, but also I’m definitely a weirdo and there’s no way any of the shit I use comes stock lol so it has been mainly the “additional software” and dependencies bit, and to be honest I had no clue how you guys did it but this post helped a lot, thanks!

I’m still kind of a linux noob is also the thing, I started my journey years ago, but only by booting into tails every so often, then eventually ~4y ago I installed Fedora, eventually got tired of gnome and when the framework 16s dropped I grabbed one and switched to FedoraKDE, and that’s it, I haven’t made the jump to a big boy distro that “isn’t recommended for beginners” but Slackware will be the one I try, because I was a SubGenius before I even installed linux.

Thanks! The “having to figure out dependency management” thing has been the largest roadblock in me trying out Slackware so far, but I really do want to try it.