Lie about all of it.

My wife and I have a friend that’s an introvert like we are. Sometimes he’ll come over and we might play a bunch of Mario Party and Mario Kart, but other times we will all play separately on our handhelds or laptops and chill while something plays on YouTube. Sublime. Don’t need to constantly have a conversation going and there’s no drinking involved.

Wow, this has a ton of features.

Yard work alone is my most productive time. Time to start a solo lawn company I guess.

Dating back to the first Android phone, the G1. I was installing custom ROMs on that first, and then when I eventually got a Nexus 5, I started to de-Google.

I’m on an iPhone now because I had a string of bad luck with how shit most Android phones are, but I’m still privacy and security-minded:

• I have no social media accounts - no one can actually find me except through my personal website or LinkedIn (but they obviously have to know my name first for either). If/when people complain about it, I shrug at them. I’m not signing up for TikTok so you can send me some vapid video
• I use a VPN 24/7
• Proton as my mail provider
• My wife and I don’t use any streaming services - Stremio for everything (through Real Debrid so no torrents can be tracked)
• I use a virtual card service so that absolutely nothing has our actual credit and debit card numbers (some with limits set so a service can’t arbitrarily raise rates on us, or go rogue and accidentally charge too much)
• Windows is not allowed to touch a single computer I own. It’s either macOS for work stuff, or Linux for everything else

Seriously! I hate that the choices are bar or restaurant. Like, I wanna eat and all, but the US has failed miserably when it comes to congregation spaces. I’m not even a social person and I see the value in spaces like the ones you see in Spain and other countries. They value community and connection, while the US values consumption and consumerism.

I use Mullvad daily. Never turn it off.

Which is not even remotely true. One is a garbage word used to insult an entire race that was enslaved for decades. The other is for corporate AI that has no humanity and was created on the backs of the working class, in order to undermine and in some cases, replace the worker. It takes like 2 seconds to look beyond the surface to see that this is not the same. I’m just gonna assume this is satire because it’s such a stupid take.

I would never use the n-word because I’m not a racist piece of shit.

Explain to me how “clanker” and the n-word are on the same level here. I’m okay exchanging “clanker” for “corporate dogshit,” but then that would ruin your opportunity to manufacture outrage.

Edit: legit hope this is satire because it’s such a dumb take if real.

Orphan Crushing Hugging Machine

I use the ElfHosted extension as a fallback when Torrentio has a rough day. I don’t like the way it displays data like seeders, file size, etc, but it works well for getting results in a pinch.

Yep. When federating with so many instances, nothing is truly deleted unless every single instance honors its removal. That’s just the reality. The nice thing is that as an instance owner, I can see the mod log of everything from the places I federate with. So admins at least have a point of reference to work together. I also have the ability to restore comments and things that were deleted. I’ve never used it because I prefer to stay in sync with everyone else, but I’m 1 person. There are many instances and mine is microscopic.

I got it from this company iirc, but I think it was a limited release. If you wanted something similarly cool though, Creep-O-Rama has this one!

It’s funny logging into Lemmy, this being the first post I see, while wearing this shirt.

I have a bucket setup with my web host and then I use the Dropshare app to upload them. If I come across a meme or video I like, I fling it on there and it copies the URL to my clipboard. Now I have a place to store them that doesn’t require maintaining a local collection.

Yep! sinking.yachts was taken.

Fuck their illegitimate laws. Arm yourself regardless.

A few years ago I was a titled member of a local activist group that was considered “militant” by local police. It was a Black-lead group (I’m white myself) that spoke out and fought against police corruption, had a low-frequency radio station, and some other cool socialist shit. Anyway, I learned in a roundabout way that the local police would come by my house weekly to keep tabs on when I was home and when I wasn’t. I’m pretty sure they did this with every member. I’ll admit it was kind of flattering, seeing as I don’t consider myself even remotely important, but also fun because it wasted some cops’ time.

I don’t think people fully realize that the tons of funding these pig farms get is enough to allow them to arbitrarily put surveillance on everyday folks without even breaking a sweat. Some of the FOIA requests I’ve heard about from people in my local activist circles are wild. FBI vans, country-wide surveillance tracking using ATM cameras, wild shit!

The tl;dr - yes, even you can be under some sort of surveillance. Even if it’s just that the cops have seen your face more than once at various marches.

If this is the eye-scanning orb bullshit, stay far, far away.