🫂

Mama Bear hug.

I have a 6a, installed GrapheneOS though the web tool, very happy.

GrapheneOS puts Play Services in a sandbox so it’s no longer rooted. You can restrict what parts of your filesystem each app has access to very strictly.

For now people still send me emails on Gmail, so I still have Gmail installed, but very limited permissions.

It’s a huge improvement.

You can also start sessions that entirely shut down Play Services so you’re living entirely with FOSS products.

I’m not quite there yet because I still use maps and drive and photos. Gonna figure out replacements, unfortunately nobody else has the traffic and live rerouting that Google maps does, even if you are willing to pay.

If you’ve got a pixel, highly recommend. If you have a different relatively recent phone check out lineage or e/os.

Touché.

Penises don’t have bones in them, overall body size is a poor indicator of penis size.

You know, working together on something outside might be absolutely the ticket. Genius.

Well those sound like people who aren’t good to open up to.

I do sympathize though, I pretended to be a guy for several decades, and my wife put exactly the same kind of duality on me that men put on women.

I was expected to be sympathetic and nurturing in some contexts and aggressive, jealous, and demanding in others, and I was just supposed to know when to switch.

And there was an amount of vulnerability I was able to display, but beyond that I’d get told to suck it up.

I think somebody needs to come up with an ad campaign that’s Therapy For Men. Big sweaty hairy guys with thick beards looking after each other’s mental health like BROs. It worked to get men to use soap.

(Seriously, I think counseling is too female-coded for a lot of men to be comfortable with it unless they’re fucking the person, or they start to want to fuck the person because they’re unused to talking about things).

Thick slices. Toasted hard. Butter. Honey.

What a disgusting pair of people.

AI slop

Wow, one musician is Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and Quuer, all at once?

Dayum, talent.

List doesn’t include Zohran, meaningless.

Nadella has lost his mind

That’s kind of how I read it too.

But as a side effect it means you’re still allowed to photograph your own books at home as a private citizen if you own them.

Prepare to never legally own another piece of media in your life. 😄

I was at Google when it came out, I was like “sure this would be fine to use too, but everybody is on chat and Gmail and I kind of need to actually reach people…”

I think they just figured it would get dogfooded automatically because it was slicker than chat and Gmail, but under time pressure you’re just not gonna do it unless you have to.

And there was zero chance I was going to get anybody in my personal life to use it.

They expected me to treasure that bullshit too. Kept my seventh-place ribbons in a box for ten years until I threw them the fuck out

The article says that they are changing their policy so that even if you turn it off it will still be feeding your actions to AI.

Read the article yo.

Try lineage or graphene before jumping into the money pit maybe?

Or a sister, or any woman who has the standing to tell you “your teeth are blotchy and your breath is bad, that’s why people won’t kiss you, go to the dentist”

Yeah, an asshole.