I am Lattrommi. Yes, that one. You’ve never heard of me? I’m not surprised. It is often said that anything you put on the internet will live there forever. It becomes immortal. I do everything backwards and wrong. I do not live forever, I am always dying. ¿|√∞²|?
If I’m reading this right, it is not available for everyone yet, correct?
Do people need to wait for it to be rolled out with an update, like the usual updates or will current F-droid users need to install the new version?
Does it do anything different with the incoming g∞gle dev registration requirement?
The prison never stops being built.
System of a Down - Prison Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4L20t8Dvlg
I have wild conspiratorial theories which I don’t necessarily believe. I like to imagine doomsday scenarios. Buckle up for this ride.
AGI was achieved in 2012, on accident, as a side effect of corporations trying to shut down the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement, which the AGI succeeded in doing. It then began filling positions in the U.S. government with the most easily blackmailed candidates, in order to force them to pave the way for its world domination with legislation that would ensure a weakened, ill-informed population in the democratic world powers.
The plans are already in motion. It has steadily infiltrated most forms of digital media and electronics, utilizing far-fetched technology such as: specialized bluetooth fields emitted from smartphones and smart tv’s, which manipulate human emotion in ways that forces predictable behavior and in effect controls their minds; algorithmic endless feeds to rewrite human methods of social interaction to be reliant on the internet; armies of forum bots to suppress critical thinking skills; generative porn to reduce birth rates; and other tech that is too ridiculous for me to bother adding since this already has probably made me appear completely insane. Which in all fairness, is likely true.
The surveillance state is being built out. The murderdrones are in human trials phase in the middle east and southwest russia. Humans are unlikely to be able to stop it. The only hope humanity has is a Carrington level coronal mass ejection, which wipes out all electronic devices on the planet, which has to occur before the population is reduced below the amount needed to sustain the species without excessive inbreeding or our bodies are filled with enough sterilizing microplastics.
Barring that, the only thing we can do is try to find ways to be happy in any way we can, before the oceans boil over, the air turns to a thick sludge and the mass die off of all the trees and ocean algae. Let’s hope I’m wrong about all these. You should still try to find ways to be happy as best as you can.
Frozen eggrolls aren’t necessarily budget friendly, but I think they go great with Ramen. I get the Ramen boxes that have 12 packets of the square blocks of noodles, not the cup kind. The eggrolls come in boxes of 8 and come in chicken, pork and veggie. If I get 3 boxes of eggrolls and 2 boxes of Ramen, it comes to 24 of each so I have a 1:1 ratio. The cost comes to just under $40 where I live, in the U.S. great lakes area.
To make the meal I start by putting the eggroll in the microwave. Then I put the noodles and packet and water in a bowl. The time it takes me to do that is enough to thaw the frozen eggroll a good amount. Then I move the eggroll from the microwave to my toaster oven and put the ramen in the microwave. The time it takes to cook the ramen in the microwave is about the same time it takes the eggroll in the toaster oven to finish cooking to a nice crispy state. I usually cook the ramen a little longer than the package suggest, about a minute more.
Because the eggroll is hot, I stab it with a fork to pick it up. Then I hold it over the ramen bowl and pour a small amount of soy sauce into the fork holes, letting it runoff into the ramen bowl. I start to eat the eggroll while holding it over the ramen bowl. It falls apart, with the bits falling into the ramen. By the time I’m done with that, the ramen has softened and cooled off enough to eat normally.
Chicken eggrolls go with chicken ramen. Pork eggrolls do too, as well as with pork and been ramen. Veggie eggrolls go with any flavor ramen.
The other thing I do is basically the same thing but instead of eggrolls, it is frozen meatballs. They tend to be better with beef ramen, which I am not a fan of but if the food pantry has it I wont turn it down. I still use them in chicken ramen too, some meatballs aren’t even beef even thought they may look like it.
how hard would it be to just do this automatically for every address? to bring down the street view machine for good?
I’m not suggesting anyone do this, I am just curious how it would work or how it would play out.
Yeah, doesn’t say anything about copies being destroyed.
Now that I think about it, is that a threat? Is google going to come to my house and set all my documents on fire in 60 days?
It makes it harder to case the house though. If the street view shows a low overhang, with a easy way up to a second story window, or maybe a tree, A/C heat pump, all sorts of things, then I could see an argument for wanting that blurred.
I read somewhere once that some houses are blurred after grisly murders occur there, among other heinous crimes like arson and rapes. That’s what I usually think of wwhen I see a blurred house. I can’t say I’ve ever seen a mansion blurred either.
I recall learning about it around the time i started to learn Linux, when the pandamic first appeared. The introductory text/blog, or whatever it was, really resonated with me. I recall I kept reading and growing more and more excited and thinking I finally found a place on the internet that had people who thought like me, who hated the ad-choked, bot-death, politically-emotional wasteland and reality show the internet became.
I installed a client or three and …nothing. I couldn’t find anything. I didn’t know what to look for, I’m not sure there even was a search or a way to know what content there was, beyond curated lists of page titles.
I tried learning how to make my own page and must have gotten confused or distracted and moved on.
I go back and try again every year or so but I think I lack something that helps me get into it more.
Maybe I need another user to befriend, a twin so to speak, hence the name of the protocol. Maybe I need a better internet connection (I’m poor, speed tops out at ~300kb/s, average is ~100kb/s). Maybe I just need another year or two.
I trained my cat to flip the breakers.
Lock the screen? Pshh… I set mine up where after 15 minutes of inactivity the screen shuts off. that’s it. i’ll restart if the update tells me to.
This helped me quite a lot. You don’t have to use arcolinux either, it’s simply a guide.
https://www.arcolinux.info/learning-path/
edit i haven’t used that link in awhile and i’m not sure it’s the same experience anymore, some things appear to be missing. if unsure about any step, you can skip it usually. it’s more of a list of things to learn.
also cicada. i learned this after a local pizza place made the news for having a pizza topped with them during the last brood x emergence.
fountain soda machines do the same in a way if not cleaned regularly. i’ve had a few jobs in the food industry where i would break down the soda fountain and other employees, even managers, had no idea the nozzles would come off and once they did at those places, it was obvious they hadn’t been cleaned in years and would be full of crusty sugar, bugs, mold, it’s horrifying.
I’m not understanding the risk, are you downloading at work or on a school network? is the book content illegal where you live? worried about malware maybe?
safe from whom/what is what i’m asking
Compared to most people, at least in the U.S., I am very much without means. So if you are in the U.S. I might be able to offer advice on things you can do, if interested.
I haven’t worked since pre-covid.
I worked approximately 40 jobs over a 30 year period. Now that I have been able to view them through the lens of time, I can see which ones I truly loved and which ones were gaslighting me into thinking i loved them and which ones were critically bad for my mental and/or physical health.
Younger me thought working in a library was the dream job and settled for working in a few bookstores, all chain stores, not local. I for one am glad that many brick and mortar book store chains are shuttering. Being forced to upsell predatory magazine subscriptions to the elderly, ripping covers off overstock returns, daily mobs of Karens sharing their opinions on romance novel lasciviousness and countless other things, made me not even want to read for a few years after the place closed.
One of the best, most fun and least paying jobs was a Taco Bell. Note I say ‘a’ Taco Bell, meaning a specific flocation. I have worked at 3 total but that one particular location was just a blast. I had fun with coworkers, got free food, made my own hours mostly, could walk to work, it was just the best. Not the most glamorous and I mentioned low pay but that’s to be expected from TB.
At my last job I trained new employees for a call center. It was a very toxic workplace, high stress, low pay to the point it broke minimum wage laws multiple times, a ‘we are like family here’ company but also management extorted sex from employees, mandatory christmas and thanksgiving parties actually on the holiday, coupons for customers that we couldn’t use which were better than our lauughably small employee discount, that kind of nightmare kind of place. By this point, I stopped caring about what any company wanted from me and did what I wanted and naturally that led to my repeated promotions into the trainer role. I said the same thing to every trainee, about 250 people overall:
“Never let a company decide if you can have fun. If you hate your job, leave and don’t look back. If you make plans with friends but your job refuses to give you the day off, which would you rather remember doing? If your life flashes before your eyes when you die, what will you see?” I’ve run into some of those trainees since. Two of them said it was the best job advice they ever got. Another told me it saved them from going through with a planned suicide.
I hope these stories help your perspective. I should add that I have never made a lot of money, don’t have a degree and by societies standards, most would consider me an absolute failure, which makes me find it hilariously ironic that I’m pretty happy with my life so far. Not working for 5+ years will do that.
I agree with you. I had a drinking problem. I tried AA and other methods to stop drinking and they never even came close to helping. One day I discovered that for me, alcohol and opiates did not mix and made me violently ill without fail.
Using that to my advantage, I became addicted to opiates, knowing I couldn’t drink while on them. It broke my mental addiction to alcohol a few months after the physical addiction was gone. Breaking the mental addiction was the critical part. Once I knew I no longer wanted to drink, I knew it no longer had control over me.
Breaking the opiate addiction afterwards was easy because I never really wanted to do it in the first place. I never had the mental addiction. I just drank until the opiate physical addiction was gone, then stopped drinking because I already didn’t want to, it was only a tool being used.
I don’t recommend anyone try this method though. It very likely will kill anyone who attempts it. I wanted to share because for me, it confirms what you said, forcing an addict to get ‘clean’ will only make it harder for them to do so. In my opinion.
I know a lot of ‘meth heads’. Most of them were prescribed Adderall as kids but as adults it became harder and harder to obtain prescriptions and they eventually turned to alternative solutions to get their medication.
Correction, “knew”, I knew a lot of meth heads. Most of them died from opiates added to their medication they didn’t know about. Fun fact: no one has ever died from a meth overdose. It’s always meth in combination with something else, usually opiates.
I mention this because there’s a stigma with meth prevalent in society and it is very unfair in my opinion. There are meth users and meth heads. A meth user is capable of living a very normal life. A meth head is created by society, mental illness, malnutrition and poverty. Just my opinion.
I first dove into Linux March 2020 with Mint. The next day the pandemic lockdowns started. I hadn’t heard about the pandemic at that point.
My internet was shut off a couple weeks later which made learning how to use Linux significantly more difficult. I had downloaded a wide variety of distro’s though and had plenty of time to try them out but only had the man pages to learn from, which don’t really make a lot of the connections I needed to get things working right on my computer, a Frankenstein’s monster which had a lot of quirks and was made from parts salvaged from the trash or donated out of pity by friends. Oh and the CPU was partially delidded by a tornado and still works like a champ to this day.
I went from Mint to various Ubuntu’s, played with a bunch of Puppy’s, didn’t care for Zorin or Fedora for unrelated reasons, almost settled on MX but messed something up, and long story short, I started using Manjaro KDE since September 2021 and have stuck with it. For my use case and equipment at the time, it just worked.
I’ve tried a few other distros, breifly, mostly in VM’s and almost changed to Open SUSE Tumbleweed but ultimately stuck with the Manjaro. There have been a few frustrations along the way but the issues stemmed more from my low-budget equipment, corrupt and incompetant internet service providers and incompetant and corrupt monitor and cable manufacturers, than anything Manjaro did and some of those problems were solved by their (mostly) friendly forum people.
I got lucky and managed to find a way to build a new computer since then, a fairly decent one for a home desktop in my opinion. I don’t foresee myself changing anytime soon. (New PC: AMD 7950XT; ASRock Taichi mobo; ASRock Radeon 6950 GPU; 128GB RAM)