At this point I'd import a Linux phone but I can't even guarantee it'd work in my country because of carriers doing IMEI black / whitelisting.
I dunno if it'd help but FuriLabs tries to list out which carriers they work with: https://furilabs.com/FAQ/#faq-189. Seems like a decent variety of countries.
Doesn't work as well if you're making beans to eat separately but a lot of Haitian recipes for rice with beans (diri ak pwa, if you want to pick up some Creole) reuse the bean water for cooking the rice (thereby coloring the rice, for some additional fun).
then when I see people talk about biracial people, they're out there saying shit like, "Biracial people look different from Black people. They are racially ambiguous, have light skin, and have curly hair instead of coily hair. They can never truly understand the monoracial Black experience."
Because this is bullshit that any reasonably aware black person who's spent time in community with other black people would shoot down immediately as nonsense (it also isn't even accurate; while I have wavy hair, my brother's is coily such that he grew out both an afro and dreads just fine).
This part's also only my experience (and may differ from yours) but I find that kind of discourse only really happens online, where there's no social pressure to slap such inanity down.
There's so much art about the biracial experience and how you won't get treated as anything other than just black most of the time by society that such discourse feels like a psyop; I wouldn't put much of any real stock in it, honestly.
Void, fucking Durbin; just keeps voting for (and sponsoring…) the most rancid of bills on his way out.
I can't wait to finally be rid of him, after the midterms.
Wouldn't Stranger Things also qualify (I have not watched it, I'm afraid; just heard a lot of 80s nostalgia)?
This is art.
Is your mom possibly Bloody Mary? And I think the problem was less the noise than that it was directly on the floor.
Are you using suspend, rather than hibernate? Proper hibernation shouldn't be using battery, at all (as the entire machine is shut off).
Simple conversion app. for mobile Linux and an ID3 tags writer and reader written in Emacs LISP.
I have a theory. When I was interning with a volunteer group, there was this lovely older lady I was working with; like many groups we used computers for a lot of our tasks and (I think) Windows 7 had just come out. This lady was very much not the type to make her problems everyone else's but I remember her excitedly telling about how she was learning the new process of things on 7, in contrast to Vista. She showed me the step-by-step notes she'd taken to open particular app.s, detailing opening the start menu and where to clickbto find them. Having recently discovered Linux (and desperate to share the good news), I thought she might find my setup somewhat similar and wanted to get her opinion. I figured it'd be pretty similar (open menu; I figured simply searching for the app.'s name would be easier for her than the many steps she was taking) but, right as I typed the first character of the app.'s name, she exclaimed, "Nope! This is too much!" She said it jovially, clearly as in, "Thanks for trying but I'm overwhelmed, already," but I was struck by how much she was clearly going about this as concrete, manual steps rather than putting together a sense of a general UI.
And, for whatever reason, reading through this thread made me think of appliances.
They're always different. Even similar devices, like a microwave, can have a differing UI that can provide unexpected results with little explanation because, well, lack of available physical space (as an example, quick microwaving; that threw me for a loop the first time I used one and pressing 2 immediately kicked off microwaving for 2 minutes). If I was using someone else's microwave, no one would begrudge me asking how it works.
Of course, many of these devices come with manuals. I'm not certain how my husband's coffee maker works but I could figure it out, if need be. I'm definitely not saying that the reactions of some older people aren't beyond the pale.
But I think, for some, they're thinking of it like another person's microwave (this more applies to those who generally don't use smart phones, etc. themselves); except a phone or computer is much more complicated so they never quite fully learn it. And, despite their attempts to avoid it, they're becoming exceedingly more integral to our ways of operating because of how easy they make doing things. No one would bat an eye at someone who reheats everything on the stove because they don't like microwaves (or no one gives me a side eye because I prefer to cook rice in a pot on the stove, like my mother taught me to do it, rather than use a rice cooker).
But we're all extremely cognizant when Ethel doesn't want to E-mail the forms because she likes writing by hand.
I dunno; I definitely think there's a lot of malicious learned ignorance that a lot of people here have clearly encountered but I suspect that the reason "this is the way it's been for 3 decades, now" isn't effective is they're still thinking it's yet another someone's microwave; and every appliance has a different UI (they think even though that's very much less true with smart phones and computers); they don't want to learn it for the (supposedly) only 5 minutes they need to use it. And the frustration that it's not more intuitive builds (unlike with a particular microwave) because (for some bizarre reason~) they keep running into scenarios where they're expected to use it.
For whatever reason, my brain read "Youngstown" where you put "Lost in the Flood" and I spent a good 2 minutes thinking, "What in the world is cringe in Youngstown?"
This is pretty much entirely my position, too: its existence, regardless anything else, is a net good, in the end. And hopefully juices the inclination of others to join in. Momentum is built on encouragement.
Thanks for this; I can't say that I wasn't just particularly exhausted last night but I put this on and conked out pretty quickly.
I used to be able to listen to just about any music, when falling asleep, but my anxiety's reached a point that even playing the sound of waves is too much commotion and ramps up my adrenaline.
This was calm and unobtrusive enough that it really was just background noise and my brain didn't keep getting its attention yanked away from drifting off.
God, this is beautiful…
Looks like it doesn't affect my Nord N20 but, between this and Google's crap and OnePlus possibly shutting down, yet another reason I'm glad to've finally jumped to a (GNU/)Linux phone for my daily driver…
Ahh, I think that might be my bad; the URL – as written – doesn't work for me, either. I must've somehow triggered autocorrect or something that capitalized that "FAQ" part.
Ah, that's a shame. Heh, maybe but a basic Google search out of curiosity ended up listing the three very countries first listed in the FuriLabs link so you might be safe (at least for the fairly lazy amongst us).
Heh, I couldn't possibly ever see how…~