I’m hoping it’ll be like with the desktop ecosystem – as the mainstream mobile OSes enshittify, more people (and developers) will be driven to use (and contribute to) the linux alt.

Sure, but someone will without a doubt add the functionality. They always do. Seems to be the case with anything linux.

literally burned an entire morning because I have a shift that starts at 13h 🙈

Without a doubt. That’s pretty minor, considering I don’t think I’ve ever adjusted call volume in my life.

Like desktop level. Password protected. Encryption would be nice. As for reliability, I’m willing to put up with slowdown, waiting up to a minute to open apps, and maybe 2 hard crashes a day, if it means I get a fully free phone, or at least as close to it as we get now.

I like Graphene, but I’m at the point where I would put up with less security for more freedom – I just wouldn’t put anything actually sensitive on my phone.

It’s kind of silly that my phone should be an everything-device.

Or really, I just do my banking on the laptop.

Can’t you use a browser for banking? That’s what I do.

Right they hate these straw people. I mean, I;m not going to say my own cognitive projection of “conservative” is 100% accurate, but at least my nightmare scenarios are about actual bad things happening, and not like conservative nightmares of genetically inferior people getting to enjoy the gifts of civilization.

So… huh, so what’s the alternative then? I guess some other flavour of linux?

What?? I was not. I thought it was compatible, or like a fork idk… Guess I’ve got some reading to do.

I’m checking out Graphene OS next week and pretty pumped about it. This Google ratfucking has been just the push I need to get off Android.

And obviously I haven’t stopped telling people around me haha

I’m a recovering indoor shoe wearer, so socks are like my harm reduction. But I’m trying to wear them (and shoes) less in the house, because I believe it’s better in the long term for your feet and back muscles. At least it feels like more work to me, and so it’s probably good for me.

Floppy socks are to me a clearer sign of degeneracy than if I caught someone mixing poop with alcohol to make the poop last longer.

I got pretty confused with the shifts schedule. It was just a printed sheet on the wall and changed frequently. Really the main reason is someone else shared my same initials, and I just consistently showed up to the wrong shifts. Probably would have figured out a system eventually, but got canned before that happened.

Me when I got a job working counter at train station (I got fired because I cannot figure out fulltime shifts)

I’m sure there are all kinds of different cases, but let me just say that I didn’t have to hustle nearly this hard just to get by in w 2005. It was fine that I was “absent minded” but now it’s like everyone’s got to be full-on all the time.

Like wtf happened?? Things used to be chill, now we’re fighting over the meagrest scraps.

Oh yeah, that was a really interesting choice. You had to actually sacrifice something tangible to you as a player to get the “good ending” i really had to think over that one for a while

This comes up a lot, and the comments for these posts always get mired in the complexities of for whom and forwhence and forwhicontext this is good advice.

Basically, there are people for whom this is really fire advice (like people who are unnecessarily repressing quirky aspects of their otherwise lovely personalities), and people for whom this is really bad advice (like people who need to stay hidden for safety, or jerks).

Broad, overlapping categories with many dimensions. Not really something you can wrap up in a prescriptive axiom.

That all said, the thesis of the OP holds up. It may be really hard for some people to find someone who likes them for who they are, and there are people who really should change, but it’s still true that you won’t find many people who like you for you if you don’t actually show them who you are.

Sounds like the perfect way to meet with yourself though