I've been reading The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman. He's not saying it outright, but I'm hearing him say that we're headed for corporate power explicitly replacing nation-states, governing the areas where they operate and protecting only their needs and employees. I really don't want to live in a Cyberpunk world. It's not a good one.
@DejahEntendu@bookstodon Yeah, and the trauma was being betrayed by the girl who gave him his first "adult" experience. Not being shot in the head. So it's just weird.
Do it slowly and don’t be consistent, sometimes I select the tile with 3 pixels of the thing its supposed to contain, sometimes I leave 2 or 3 tiles that clearly contain the thing, sometimes I just select a tile that doesn’t even match. Idk, it always works, I suppose the erratic behavior is what shows them I’m human or smth
It was 3°C this morning... no summer or holiday mood, I'm afraid.
Work in the study at home in 13° max with no heating cos I'd be losing 90% of the heat to no insulation cos AUS builds like it's the 1840ies in England.
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Sorry to hear about the deficits of Australian architecture. I totally understand that it is hard to have summer feelings under these conditions.
But we have loads of evidence of #emdiplomats who complain about the rain, cold and the wheather in general. So, you are in good company. 😉
A little rant about the Android operating system @android
Everyone felt weird when I said I was using custom ROMs. Most of them haven't heard about anything beyond stock android. I wrote a blog trying to normalise it. https://text.tchncs.de/czars-blogs/custom-roms-and-my-phone
I do absolutely agree that this sucks. However, most people don’t actually need this. Yes, it’s very convenient, but I found that pretty much all banking apps, at least for people I have helped support, offer a web client anyways that’s just as good. It’s only missing things like NFC tap payment.
Of course, don’t get me wrong. A lot of solutions don’t offer web UIs, and that sucks. But we can’t force everyone to be a not shitty developer Sadly.
I also do really miss tap payments with my phone. It’s really nice just taking my phone when I go shopping and maybe $20 in cash. Not needing to worry about my car or anything else.
Flashing a custom ROM is an arcane process, most up to date documentation is hidden in chat apps and if you miss a step, you risk boot-looping your device with no chance of recovery or warranty.
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New blue and sprinkle colored donut squishmallow on green patterned cooling blanket, both of which were surprise gifts from my partner today (with cooling body pillow in the background that he bought me a couple weeks ago also a surprise gift)
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It's strange to look at some of my posts celebrating little pleasures that my high demand religion conditioned me to feel shame, or judge as 'worldly,' 'shallow,' & 'materialistic or superficial.' Those things absolutely exist. But as an #actuallyautistic person who struggles to remember to care for my body, simple physical comfort items, sensory pleasures & consciously giving myself permission to enjoy, notice & savor little things is part of my recovery. @actuallyautistic @autisticadvocacy