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  • I actually downgraded from whatever the latest Note was at the time for a second hand 6a. No complaints. And a fraction of the cost, and I’m not paying Verizon monthly installments for a “free” phone.

    Related, I used to armor my phone because I get up to things that could result in damaging the phone up to and including dropping it in several feet of water. If it happens to my Pixel I’ll just go get another used one. Less stress FTW!



  • Fuck OneDrive with a rusty hook.

    Ok, so not OneDrive generally but specifically the unholy merging of OD and Win11. JFC when I navigate to a folder and save a file there THAT FILE HAD BETTER FUCKING BE THERE and not in some shadow folder you default mapped to OneDrive because FUCK ME, RIGHT?

    This irritates me so much. Get off my lawn.



  • Thanks for sharing this. Started hosting a local copy of several wiki sources last weekend once this news broke.

    Another commenter said downloading is missing out on the best part of Wikipedia, the ongoing editing. Which, while true, is also going to be a weak point.

    How many of those amazing editors are going to stick around when their full time job becomes combatting obvious right wing bullshit, when they have to submit gov ID to have an account on the site, and when common sense and fairness becomes a crime?

    Wikipedia was a high point for humanity. Whatever comes next I’d like to preserve a little piece of it.



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    Attended a high school graduation where the valedictorian gave the traditional speech. I felt so bad for her… So much sacrificed for a title that will haunt her the rest of her life.

    I think her GPA was like a 4.8 or something crazy. Maybe it was worth it for the scholarship? Seemed way more like a burden than an opportunity, and something that set the tone and expectation for her academic and likely professional career.




  • I know this isn’t an Obama thread, but I recall when he won the election I was so hopeful. We were going to see real change and improvement. He could have leveraged the power of the people to get anything done. Just point us in a direction.

    That was the last time I was hopeful about our prospects in America. Immediately, they said something to the effect of, “Thank you very much for the votes! We’re going to go behind closed doors and start the real work. God bless America.”

    I knew in that moment we were fucked.



  • Serious question: Has anyone ever been convinced to change their MAGA allegiance after some blatant hypocrisy was identified?

    Because if it has and does occasionally happen then I’ll shut my mouth and be glad for small progresses.

    If not, why the fuck do we (humans, citizens) even fucking bother? Truth stopped mattering a decade ago. Likely longer, but I’ll say a decade.




  • Sitting in a airport the other day. Three upper twenty-somethings nearby debating some bullshit about some YouTuber drama like it affected them personally. I’m biting my tongue thinking, “Bitch, the world is falling apart and this is what’s on your mind?” I knew in that moment that I was one of the all too few who were not being actively distracted. Never felt so helpless.




  • This. So fucking much this. I’ve seen Jira used to plan waterfall schedules, to track meeting actions, and as a relational database. And all of them claiming to be “agile”.

    When used for the right thing in the right way, Jira is a great tool. It is people who make it shitty, and specifically the type of PM who doesn’t understand the complexities, people or technical, of their work.