Yeah, it is a bit more fatiguing on your ears but not inherently more dangerous to them, what is important is to listen to your body and don’t push it too long for too loud. Your ears need breaks! It is weird but true. Damage doesn’t come from headphones, it comes from not paying attention to your body and not giving your ears the breaks they need.

What I would say is if you are turning up music on your headphones to drown out something else that is loud, that is when you are much more likely to hurt your ears without realizing. Try to get noise cancelling headphones if you find yourself doing that.

Fuck Google

:( Yeah well I don’t know anything about the developer but I imagine Google announcing they were going to fully enshittify Android by locking down probably took a lot of wind out of their sails even if the decision is being walked back, it shows the longterm intent of the people managing Android and it is actively hostile to developers who make things like Syncthing that threaten Google’s control.

It has been glorious watching Microsoft do this, they deserve this dead end and much worse honestly.

I mean… I don’t know I guess it gives me hope how incompetent the people at the top of Microsoft truly seem to be?

Me too!

Love cool ideas not companies and the CEOs that figurehead them!

no

Find the answer on reddit, post here in another form. Rinse repeat.

What are the ideologies of the people that own Reddit, X, etc… and who are they willing to hurt for it?

That is really the heart of the question here.

Throw the cameras in jail!

I wonder if this is a “Star Trek is a conservative show” sort of thing. Like he’s genuinely not smart enough to actually understand what is right in front of him.

That is exactly what this is, conservatives pride themselves on having a toddler’s sense of media literacy, especially the men.

It is a reoccuring pattern enough that I have seen multiple video essays on the general topic that try to unpack the different reasons because it is so confounding from the perspective of being a normal well adjusted adult.

I think it is a part of the same core thing as conservative humor being embarassingly bad, formulaic, weirdly cruel to specific groups and just plain not funny almost as a rule.

Agreed, so much is stacked against us, these numbers show we are serious about making alternative communities.

On F-Droid Phocid is good

https://sunsetware.org/phocid/en

https://obfusk.gitlab.io/jekyll-fdroid/en/packages/org.sunsetware.phocid/

The extra layer of ugliness is we already know, Israel in conjunction with Microsoft Azure did this, with the intent of assisting the mechanical process of selecting targets for ethnic cleansing and rationalizing it within a beaucracy of terror and vast human rights abuses.

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/microsoft-gaza-workers/tnamp/

I only use the past tense to be very specific with my words, the genocide of Palestinians and complicity with it are ongoing and multivariate.

What Palantir sees as the past, present and future of bullshit and surveillance.

Saved you the waste of time of bothering with reading something from the NYT.

Something that pisses me off to no end is the commonly accepted idea that confidence is a momentary emotion you can conjure in yourself like a joyful laugh at a memory. Sure, for people who have had a life that structurally empowered them and rewarded them for having the brain they did maybe it is…

For someone with ADHD who has been told they aren’t enough and are also too much their whole life and never had the diagnosis? You can’t just make that go away with telling them they have ADHD and giving them a hug. Lasting damage has been done to that child and they may never recover their confidence in adulthood the way other people do.

I wish we would stop treating confidence like it is child’s play, it isn’t. If you undermine a child’s confidence you have hurt that child at a more permanent level than almost any other way you can non-physically hurt them.

Especially for someone who is very sensitive about what other people think of them, which a lot of ADHD people tend to be (a lot of us rely on it to motivate us to get things done!), you can’t just think better about yourself. Your confidence is like an instinct that has been learned through the summation and culmination of your experiences. If those experiences are people shitting on you for things you can’t help, you won’t be a confident person, period. That is how that works and I wish people would stop pretending it is all just wishy washy perspective taking that can be undone by simply thinking harder. Maybe for a very narrow range of people in a much larger subset this is possible, but beyond that? No

Yes, this is the extra cherry on top that makes San Francisco look like a parody of itself here lol

I mean ok we can keep cats indoor, what about making techbros indoor only too though? They kill a lot of innocent people with the tools they make.

Not an excuse.