Right? This is confusing.

Go for it. Buy a portable DVD player with a portable screen and head phones to watch movies. Buy a clock, a dumb phone, a little portable game device. Buy a magazine with nudie pictures. Buy a camera and take it to a photo place so get physical copies of your dick pics. Mail them to your friends. Buy a megaphone so you can yell racist things to your neighbors.

All of this is still possible right now. No smart phone needed.

Thinkpads running Linux for the staff.

We use open-source. Our own on-prem servers running Linux. A lot of our software is also open source. Our git, our office suite, our video and chat… All open source.

We just got rid of our Google Cloud connections a few months ago, but we’re still reliant on aws, cloudflare, etc.

Not if there are dogs, or bees. Or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark, they shoot bees at you.

Yeah I would have been fine with this a decade ago but now this guy is listening to Joe Rogan and asking me questions like, “Hey so what’s up with that vaccine thing?”

Ladies are not sharing state secrets with this fella unless he has max charisma and max wisdom.

At a Indian restaurant, the waiter said, “We have regular and spicy… And Indian spicy.” Then he goes, “I usually don’t offer Indian spicy to everybody”. I’m brown, and I was given special treatment. But honestly I think I broke his heart when I asked for regular because he thought I could hang.

Sorry man! 😭

I think the root issue is still real, regardless of how much koolaid this person drank.

1. Person buys a gift card from a brick-and-mortar store
2. Apple says its fraud
3. Locks account and refuses to elaborate

but I’m learning that a LOT of people are either / or with phones and computers;

My knee jerk reaction was to say something smart ass like “well they should get a computer” but you’re absolutely right.

The customer service woman I talked to was surprised I could talk to her and browse the internet (on a laptop). She told me most people use their phone for everything. I met college kids who were typing their papers on their phones. My mom never owned a computer until I gave her one, and she leaves it in the corner “for emergencies”.

I have no answer. People will continue uploading their lives into Google photos, Facebook galleries, whatever - with no backup, and hope those companies store their data. I think the average person is fucked.

The Terraria dev who had his Google account locked out because of whatever bullshit.

Don’t ever put anything secure/critical in places that aren’t yours.

I’m getting into meshtastic and learned how those esp32 devices are everywhere! They seem pretty neat

I stay away from all the micro tech drama and I feel like two years ago, that community was bitching that raspberry pi sold out and everyone should switch to arduino.

I don’t have a side. I just pick whatever is easiest to make a emulation station.

I couldn’t stand Ready Player One. Yeah I said it.

One party is rounding up immigrants without due process and you want me to feel sympathy for their racist voters for getting their face eaten?

“… And that is how I used React as a database language.”

~me presenting at a conference in 2026

Apparently Lemmy too

My company didn’t push idiot toys that speak gibberish on us, unless you count PMs.

I read it twice and it felt like word salad.

I try not to let considerations get in the way of doing great work.

“Why, I didn’t think the Nazis would round me up, the people who helped them!”

Same. I don’t mind it if it was done by a group of writers who can finetune it or people who just hate that shit. But but Google’s job is to get more clicks and get more eyeballs. So I don’t trust them to game their own systems.