lmao, yeah, they held elections a year early in preparation for COVID…

3-5 mg of “mammalian feces” per dry pound.

KDE. It’s customizable without adding lots of weirdness. It’s got a solid set of included tools like Dolphin and Konsole. It’s generally very stable and visually attractive.

No shade to other DEs. I’ve tried lots of them, I even have a couple of alternative DEs I’ll log into when they are useful (i3 is great if I am doing something repetitive). But KDE is just the most comfortable for me for daily use.

The non-Gnome COSMIC DE that System76 has been developing is looking really promising though. I have the alpha on a spare laptop and find it very functional.

On Android apps connected with a Google account, “Can read, send, and delete emails” scares the shit out of me.

You misunderstand. The bullet would get to the finger and stop.

If I was a hungry sea turtle, I would simply eat the jellyfish instead of the plastic.

This is a very Lemmy-specific observation that isn’t strictly true of other ActivityPub federated services.

You should also get off of ML if you don’t like being affected by terrible admin decisions.

Once had a lucid dream about a big dream convention full of people collectively dreaming. Hung out with some cool people who told me that the “convention” is always going on, but it’s hard to get to unless you know how to dream about it.

This group of “dreamers” told me to look closely around the building we were in, and to think about the interior of the building when I’m falling asleep to bring myself back. They also warned me that it was impossible to share personal details with each other because we’ll never remember those parts when we wake up.

After a while I was warned that if I didn’t wake up soon, I might not remember this dream and I might not be able to try to come back. They gave me a drink that I was told would wake me up immediately, which it did.

I remember everything vividly, except for anything identifiable about anyone I met.

I have never been back, not for lack of trying. It was a pretty standard hotel convention center environment. I think about it before bed now and then and hope I find myself back there. Maybe I go all the time and dream-me never thinks to get that super-helpful drink that woke me up last time…

I’m not siding with the 4000 year old earth argument, but that is a weak counterargument.

Lead was created by dying stars that long predate the Earth.

No violence

No dishonesty

No malice

What in the name of all that is holy, in the vast cosmos of incomprehensible decisions, could have possibly possessed you to smear the vile, unspeakable horror that is dookie and peepee all over your once-pristine teeth? Have you, in an unprecedented act of lunacy, chosen to abandon every shred of reason and logic left in this universe? And to solve this grotesque catastrophe, of all the myriad possible solutions, you chose—nay, boldly dared—to consume the wretched pink soap, the very embodiment of cleansing torment? Truly, this is a masterstroke of madness!

They’re still available on the big ass hard drive I downloaded them all to.

What the hell? Why is it supposed to look like that?

It’s actually a Brussels sprout.

I know this is said a lot, but it clearly needs to be said again. The “Free” in FOSS means “Freedom” not “Gratis”. You can sell FOSS. You can make money off of FOSS. People do it all the time.

How about we downvote posts we have already seen in the last vew (sp?) months?

You do you. This hasn’t been posted here in the past few months, in fact I can’t find any record of this being posted here ever, so maybe people are seeing this for the first time?

Wouldn’t affect cool memes from years ago.

Is 4 years not enough?

What’s wrong with quantum computing?

Yeah, I love drowning in a sea of Nazis, Pedophiles, and Crypto bros with no redeemable content.

You could try starting those niche communities here instead of giving free content for Spez to monetize.

You don’t have to know how to write your own software to install another App Store on Android.

Amazon has their own competing app store, with boomer-friendly instructions for installing it:

And Amazon’s phones and tablets use their own “FireOS” remix of Android without Google Play Store available.

I prefer the OS being open to third-party installers over any legal mandate that app stores not being allowed to curate their own store’s offerings. Closing off Google’s app store to competing app stores only makes sense if other app stores have no reasonable access to customers, which is clearly not the case.

Complete bullshit that they’re throwing this ruling at Android when iOS doesn’t even let you download and install a third-party app without either jailbreaking, or hooking up your iPhone in developer mode to a computer running xcode. Apple treats Cydia like it’s malware. Google perfectly tolerates Amazon and F-Droid running their own operations.