I grew up in the shittiest state and even we took Spanish. Middle school though. I’d say if we ever get through this racist fest, the basics of French, Spanish, and Chinese would be nice in elementary. Maybe with more advanced options for Spanish in later years since that’s our best chance for cultural immersion if they leave our Latina/Latino brothers and sisters alone for 5 seconds.
Wow, those are good ideas I’ve never heard before. Thanks for sharing!
One way we could tone adjust is to use Pro Tools or a freeware music DAW and use an octaver plugin or something. We could fiddle around and make our own tracks. Guess I forgot that I don’t have my Windows installation so will need to find a Linux DAW now. In any case, there are probably frequency generator apps on Fdroid that could be used, so we might try playing with those.
That idea with the crickets is funny. If I start getting stressed again, I’ll probably go get some. ;)
Edit: Also I heard psychedelic mushrooms help with tinnitus. I feel like I’m too old for all that, but somebody else might ask a doctor somewhere.
Edit: Saving this comment in case it comes back. These are really good ideas.
I have that. It tinnitus. I also heard crickets. It took me living to a mountain and realizing that crickets couldn’t possibly be in the snow for me to realize it wasn’t real. If you crinkle paper in your ears and it goes away, it’s tinnitus. I had low humming, swooshing, ping sounds and crickets. All stress induced.
HP support sucks. They wanted me to buy a support package to get a link to a driver. Like, fuck off.
I don’t think that works these days.
It’s more likely that one of the toddlers gets their fee fees hurt and pushes the big red button.
I also am happy. My battery has never died. It can go days and days it seems.
Maybe start with Trac if it’s still available. Freeware.
American here. Can someone start a go fund me for Iran, on the condition that participants are allowed to attend an exclusive event for the live tar and feathering of Zuck the Cuck and Peter Theil? We could probably raise more money than the tech bros have.
The S22 busted, I got it fixed and still use it ocassionally for transactions. The S25 just stopped working after falling out of my pocket on the carpet, and it took hundreds of dollars to get the screen fixed. Even with a case and glass protector, it fell off a coffee table 3 days later and broke. Broke twice in about a week or two. I only bought it 6 months earlier because of tariffs in preparation for the S22 screen going out.
At this point I can fix the S25 and sell it, but have not done so yet. Now I have tools to fix phones and can try to make money from it when the economy gets worse, meaning that I’ll help repair so that people can decrease how often they buy. It’s a net good depending on what happens.
When I can see the boogers piling up.
I went to Europe in 2007 or something and a pair of Levis were stupid expensive. They just make that shit up and create value out of bullshit. Levis have been $30 when they last raised minimum wage in The 90s. These prices make no sense.
It wasn’t a hardware preference, it was a privacy and control preference. Samsung is a data miner. I absolutely hate being locked out of my own shit. It doesn’t belong to you, but you’re renting their device and paying with data. I can see the calls home on my monitoring software, and now they have that MS linking SW that you can’t remove. I hate Samsung. Also, my S25 Ultra broke twice and I only got about 2 weeks use out of it total. Once, fell out of my pocket on carpet. Last, off coffee table and into floor. Those things are expensive and extremely fragile now.
Fairphone is honestly not a bad switch. It’s smaller than a flagship Samsung screen, but as ethically sourced as possible, modular so repairs are easy, open source software, privacy focused, has an ecosystem curated with care, and you can sideload all you want. I think I pay like $25 or $45 a month for unlimited everything with hotspot through the provider that supports it in the US. Also, there is no bloatware. It’s the absolute minimum needed for them to be a marketable solution in my opinion. My battery has never died in 4 months. Sometimes it uses less than 10% a day. Samsung was a nightmare constantly draining. I could go on and on.
Edit: Had S22 Ultra for 3 years before trying the dog shit S25. It took a beating, didn’t have MS link SW, but that is the device I used while developing better habits like deleting Facebook and beginning degoogling efforts. I never saw Samsung show fragility before 2025. Had several Samsungs before then too.
I have had this for 4 months and love it. Previously had Samsung 25 Ultra. Hated it.
Anyone know if the coming Android restrictions will impact support?
How do you become comfortable with the amount of permissions the launchers need? I’m struggling with that. The default is not bad though.
It comes with MicroG and the app lounge. Most all apps in App lounge have privacy grades and a link to the analysis that supports the grade. Just kill whatever setting sends the one call home to Google. It’s something to do with the cloud. You can see the traffic by installing NextDNS and setting your DNS server to theirs. People complain about it, but some people need a phone that makes transactions and to be marketable they have to provide that option. Not sure why they don’t disable the call home by default though. I’m also not sure what happens if you turn it off. I hacked MicroG out of mine entirely and just do banking at home. Banks track the fuck out of you anyways.
They have a “fair labor” agreement with China so that it is as ethically sourced as possible. People can’t just get anything somewhere else. They are at least trying.
The tech to link anonymous profiles to real identities end masse might not be ubiquitous, but I saw an article recently that says it exists using AIs. However, most AI is ridiculous so I’m not sure.
Please FromSoftware goes to PC primarily!
I tried to go to a bot user recently so I could block the bot and my client got stuck trying to load the profile page. I don’t mind so much as long as the posts generate discussion. In some cases the bots are diluting the feeds with posts too much. It seemed like the offending “community” was a bot post community. If you hate it, just block it. Simple.