You realize your solutions are much more cumbersome and different than saying “hey phone, remind me that my football game starts tomorrow at 1pm”, right?

It’s all moot because I’ve disabled gemini on my phone because it is bad at the tasks I used Google Assistant for. So in the end, I just don’t have an assistant app anymore.

Why’d they make that one Muppet out of leather?

Isn’t The Matrix just an allegory about being transgender?

I get it, man. Urban/suburban life is not for me. Cities are fun to visit.

I also don’t think I could do island life beyond visiting. Loved my visit to the Hawaiian islands, but I’d lose my mind living there.

There’s an ethical consideration in that those youtubers didn’t consent to their work being on peertube.

But other than that – like technically and in terms of Peertube rules – you might want to ask someone else. I don’t know the answer. Sorry.

I’ve used peertube. Not a lot of good stuff on there. And I guess that’s the problem with trying to vie against YouTube – you’ll always start at zero.

I’d contribute, but I don’t make internet videos.

I’m surprised they havent created some sort of software that changes your machine-id every 12 hours or something.

I’m equally happy with 13 or 14.

Windows 11 kept putting up “helpful hints” and kept asking me to set up a OneDrive, and would randomly reboot itself when not in use (which is a pain in the ass for a server system), so after about 6 months of enduring, I nuked it and put Lubuntu on it. Now it works almost perfectly.

My gaming pc is still windows 11, and I’m afraid to put Linux on it because I bricked my previous laptop doing that, and my gaming pc was expensive and is nice. Someday I’ll get really fed up with having to specify “no, windows – I don’t want to save this to your cloud. I want to save it to my hard drive” but for now, I’m dealing with it.

Thank you for the grace.

I dont care for 2fa. Not interested in having my phone connected to my computer, and i dont like having an extra step when logging into stuff – especially an extra step that needs me to use a second device. Id honestly rather risk getting hacked over ever having to use 2fa again.

I think people forget that nobody is racing you. If someone merges into traffic in front of you, theyre not winning and youre not losing. It’s all OK. You dont have to be upset.

“Venomous Lumpsucker” by Ned Beauman was good. The writing style reminded me of Weir a bit.

“The Reformatory” by Tananarive Due was also pretty good.

Very different books from each other. Neither are completely without flaw, but both books were a solid B+.

Ive never read a bad Agatha Christie book.

My favorite book is “A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole, and his novella “Neon Bible” was also very good.

“The Dog Stars” by Peter Heller was good.

“Godshot” by Chelsea Bieker was very good.

2016 was great. Unpopular opinion, but true.

Yeah, i dunno. We have a mating pair that hatch goslings in the creek behind our house (like 15 yards away) every spring. The geese dont get aggressive with us, but we don’t bother them. I tend to give them some distance too if im out in the yard. We also dont try to chase them off. Maybe they “know” us and realize we’re not a threat?

I mean, you’re not entirely wrong, but TK killed 3 and injured less than 30. Harry Truman killed vastly more people than TK and he’s essentially lauded, as most ex presidents are.