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Moe/loli are also taboo for some reason, even though they’re not harming anyone,

Are you seriously asking why “loli” is taboo? Isn’t that the sexual attraction to child characters in anime? It should be fairly obvious why that is rightfully taboo. Also why lump in LGBT people in that, using the same reasoning? LGBT has nothing to do with that.

Serious spinal issues are probably one of the only things that could be worse.

They also kill performance if you’re still using a hard drive as your system drive. I know we should all be using SSDs, it’s 2023, but sometimes it’s not always possible

Yeah that’s why so many people have birthdays in September

Settings > connections > more connection settings > private DNS

I’m using private DNS on mobile data right now. It’s system wide and not dependent on WiFi

I find using a DNS server that blocks ads gets rid of them. You just put the name of the server (like “dns.adguard.com”) in the private DNS field in settings and turn it on.

I find the setting on my phone in Settings > connections > more connection settings > private DNS

Third party apps for Spotify is definitely the way to go if you don’t have premium.

Listen to lots of music, the amount of sad love songs in my playlist keeps increasing lol. Work out at home with calisthenics as well, and try bulk when I find the time to do meal prep. Unfortunately most of my real life friends and the person I’m dating live on the other side of the city and I can’t afford a car, so lots of loneliness

A bunch of raspberry Pis to do cool stuff with. Like putting pihole/adguard home on one to set up a custom DNS server to block all ads, another one with some cool sensors, etc.

the Russia-Ukraine war has destroyed natural gas supply lines to Europe.

Didn’t the US bomb them, tried to blame Russia at first, and are now trying to blame Ukraine? With friends like that, who needs enemies?

The big problem with nuclear is scalability and infrastructure. The power plants take long to construct and require huge investment. Even if that’s solved and the whole world goes nuclear tomorrow, there’s huge doubts about there even being enough easily minable Uranium. Honestly solar and wind should be the way to go, but then there’s the intermittency issue. Which is an issue fossil fuels don’t have. At this point degrowth is desperately needed to avert the worst effects of global warming.

It’s a cheap, non intermittent, easily scalable, and highly available source of energy compatible with existing infrastructure. When the choice becomes rolling electricity blackouts/shutting down factories, or coal powered electricity due to extremely poor planning for the future, coal will win every time. I wish we just started getting renewables running decades ago. Most of the limited electricity in South Africa is produced from coal power plants or diesel generators.

I’m typing this during a rolling electricity blackout. Really not looking forward to my cold shower in the next few minutes

Reddit has quality content?

Aside from sports subreddits, the content quality on the website has been trash for as long as I can remember. After the latest fiasco, you get a mixture of years old memes and incel nonsense like subreddits rating the attractiveness of random woman appearing on r/all and r/popular. The boosting of that last example, which I can only guess is an indirect consequence of the subreddit blackout, is honestly just gross.

Internet Explorer is still the best at messing up style definitions and CSS. Never seen anything like it.

Opera browser is the worst of the chromium based browsers in that regard I find.

Yeah I agree. Can’t be federating with Instagram: comments section™, owned by Facebook®.

It’s Internet Explorer time all over again.

Isn’t modern Edge chromium based? I’d understand using Edge back when it was using it’s own technology, as much as I hate Microsoft internet browsers, it allowed for optimisations such as better battery life on laptops. But using chromium based Edge, I don’t understand it at all. Who wants to use Microsoft flavoured chrome? Yuck.

The same way you install revanced, you basically have to reinstall it with an updated APK and patches. At least that’s how I did it.

I use YouTube revanced, and after a quick update a few weeks ago it’s working fine again

Yeah, here in South Africa most cars are manuals so you need to know how to drive them to get a full drivers licence. If you do your driving test in an automatic car, your licence only allows you to drive automatics. I’m in my mid 20s.

The cover screen seems like an awkward form factor for typing though. There’s a reason Samsung and Motorola have the cover screen take up the full width of the phone, it allows the keyboard to be of a similar size as the one on the inside folding display. Motorola went even further by matching the pixel density of the cover and inner displays for a more consistent experience. Which makes sense when you can use all kinds of apps on the cover screen, which both Samsung and Motorola allow, and Oppo will allow with the Find 3.

On the other side of it, the aspect ratio of the cover display on the Oppo closely matches the aspect ratio of the inner display, whereas the Samsung and Motorola cover screens are more square.

Three cameras seems cool, but is it worth the sacrifice in cover screen size to the average user?