On the note of “keeping your phone in airplane mode”:

No Bluetooth enabled devices is a good point too.

Those devices broadcast identifiable data whenever Bluetooth is enabled, and that data can be logged very easily. If an app has Bluetooth permissions it has the capability of logging that info. Or a simple device that logs nearby Bluetooth devices. About 2 years ago I placed a device in my apartment next to a road and within a week I had the habits of my neighbors logged with accurate timestamps. I took that device apart after that, it’s a macropad now.

So for the sake of privacy, no Bluetooth headphones, watches, etc near your “Go bag” phone when it has a battery in it. IMO avoid such devices in general.

“1v1 me on Rust bro”

Ah those were the days

Does COD still have that map? The last time I played it was in MW2 on the Xbox 360.

What makes you think it’s AI generated?

Thank you for your service 🫡

I too do what I can for my friends with memes and lending an ear/shoulder

Bros don’t let their bros cry alone

You mean I get to love on the Discworld on the backs of 4 giant elephants on the back of a cosmic turtle?

HELL YEAH!

I’m shocked!

Shocked I tell you!

Only 60%‽

Blows my mind that it’s so low.

What a terrible day to know how to read

I’m going to go do something pleasant now… Away from this post.

God the fear of accidentally sleeping through the alarm would probably keep me from sleeping at all

“When you hear the beeping you need to swap out the battery because if you don’t you’ll die. Goodnight.”

It feels more human over here (if that makes sense lol)

And yeah after my initial break from Reddit it definitely feels more insufferable over there.

This is also one of my alts, I’ve a few but none are used as much as this one by a long shot.

I think since coming over here I’ve done like 2 dozen comments and a handful of posts (on Reddit), but considering I used to post and comment as much as I do here but over there I’d say that’s a lot of progress.

I’ve done over 3k comments and over 3 hundred posts here since joining in June of 2023.

In terms of sorting the “tankie triad” least bad to worst though it’s definitely: ML, Grad, then HexBear. At least I sometimes have decent interactions with people from ML, can’t say the same about the other 2 though.

Edit: Actually put this as a reply to the correct comment this time. :/

I deleted the other one as I replied to the wrong comment.

I’ll still check sometimes on Reddit when I’m at my desk if I feel like it and I’ve got time, so like barely anymore.

When 3rd party apps died I moved here.

After them saying that if you upvote enough banned content you’ll get banned, I’m just waiting to catch ban over there.

Like maybe cut those executive salaries down a significant amount to start Mozilla because holy shit does Mozilla pay it’s executives a lot vs how much the company makes.

And Into the Spiderverse for some stuff

For TVs it’s usually really simple, like internal fuses or blown caps. And a few with bad backlights or mainboards that are dead.

For 2 of them it’s been shorts in the LCD itself which meant I had to block the clock pin from the TCON board for the specific part of the screen with the short. Basically killing a line of pixels to get the TV working again. In general if the TV is 4k and smaller than like 45 inches you’ll never see it unless you look for it.

That’s a super involved fix (involving A LOT of trial and error to find the right pin) but it keeps it out of a landfill.

In general fixing a TV is always cost effective unless the actual LCD has physical damage.

In the last few years I’ve fixed about a dozen TVs, they can definitely suck to fix at times (especially the really new ones) but in general the fixes have been simple. And all of them were snagged out of the dumpster at my apartment complex.

And that’s just the TVs I’ve fixed. I like to fix things.

In terms of phones they’re a nightmare though. I’m keeping an eye on HMD phones and Fairphone though as both of them are a LOT easier to fix than other brands.

In the event of my current phone breaking I’d love to get either one of those brands.

I still recommend it with a little asterisk:

Disable a bunch of shit in it or download a privacy focused fork of it (like Librewolf)

Also a quick cliff notes on what each is would be greatly appreciated

I only recognize the Chromium icon…

Getting my friends to shift over is a pain in the ass for sure

Whenever I download a new version of Blender I typically throw them $10 - $15.

Just like with other open source software I use, I give it a shot and if I like it I’ll throw them $10 - $15 each time I update.

Edit: It’s not much but it’s not nothing. No raindrop feels reasonable for the flood and all that.