So you’re saying they should polish their text to make it more coherent? Huh.

I could really only see one thing when contemplating mr. Bunny’s fashion choices.

Needless to say I approve.

People somehow suddenly realized they support fascism in America. I guess that’s something people who get their info from AI could have easily missed.

I think for a lot of people the introduction of ads is part of the reason they suddenly realized this company is not working for the betterment of mankind after all.

Not to mention the re-normalization of rape culture. And to get rid of the fucking foreigners stealing all those lucrative jobs picking fruit or whatever. And to protect the god-given right of schoolchildren to blast each other’s brains out.

There’s all kinds of reasons really! We shouldn’t be so quick to judge.

You’re not going to find any other phone with better parts availability than the Fairphone, that’s for sure. You can check their store for parts yourself, for the oldest models there’s second hand. So it seems like an absurd argument. Software support is also longer than for any other manufacturer, though that doesn’t seem relevant to you.

Running windows games on Linux has gotten pretty easy with Valve’s investments. Waydroid is good, but in order for a lot of apps to work (typically banking an similar apps) one needs Google Play Services, which you wouldn’t want to install. MicroG is an open source alternative that fills some of the gap and is good enough for me, but it’s not 100%.

Another thing is map apps. There’s sadly nothing yet that can quite compete with Google maps if you just want to see the best Chinese restaurants in your area and get some pictures and user reviews to make your mind up. It’s the only Google service I haven’t managed to let completely go of.

I think Linux phones are something for enthusiasts still. If you found Graphene to have rough edges it’s not going to be much better in the world of Linux phones.

Android apps can run through a compatibility layer called Waydroid. Allegedly it works pretty well, but it’s not super convenient.

Personally I put my bets on a Fairphone 5. It’s currently running /e/OS, which is a French open source degoogle Android. Open source development for the Fairphone 5 is very active. If I were to install something closer to proper Linux on it now I would go for Ubuntu Touch (which uses the kernel from Android rather than mainline), but it seems like it’s also moving quickly towards supporting mainline Linux and PostmarketOS in a good way.

The phone should last a while as it’s repairable, and if they’re not ready for Linux phones it makes it easy to install /e/OS to get back to degoogled Android. And it has a large community of users/developers. So I think it’s a good option.

Then again, if the goal is a fully FOSS phone for casual users it’s possible waiting a little longer is not the worst idea.

Here! -> !firesidefedi@tubefree.org

Love this album and song.

A “black mariah” refers either to a police wagon or a hearse. In the case of this poor fellow he’s got a wooden coat and he’s never coming home—the narrator is seeing the hearse coming, in the form of a big black Ford.

It gets a bit confusing when the Clash sings “no need for the black mariah” in Guns of Brixton—in that case they’re saying there’s no need for a police wagon, as the protagonist of the song has already been shot dead. Presumably they’ll need a hearse though.

Nick Cave uses the slang for a police car in the Curse of Milhaven, where the protagonist is “off to the asylum in an old black mariah”.

You’re being distracted from actually doing something.

A constant stream of awful bullshit, right to your screen. The feeling of doing something by shouting into the abyss.

Trump doesn’t care if you see pictures of him raping children or learn about all his corruption unless it is transformed into actual political action. Taking to the street, organizing, running for office, supporting those who do.

Everything is a distraction from action.

I love how the moomins only dress up to go swimming or to bed, for any other activity including skiing they just go at it naked.

I don’t want to use anything Google if I can help it, so I’m using the FOTO keyboard which has its own swipe engine.

It’s… Work in progress. But the keyboard overall is pretty good.

For real. Whenever I eat (Italian) pizza normally around a bunch of freaks using knife and fork I just silently rejoice about my superior cultural capital.

And if OP is American, chances are those people don’t even know how to use a knife and fork properly.

They’ve changed it in recent years, apparently changed it back for the half time show.

I suspect a lot of things would have been said had the artists been allowed to say what they wanted. I’m impressed and disappointed by their professionalism.

Then again, within the constraints of not saying anything political, it seems both Bad Bunny and Green Day did a decent job getting their points across.

Puppet jealousy.

(Worth noting that the title of the post has since been corrected, and it is no longer false/misleading, just a bit random)

As a European, half time shows generally seem overproduced and kinda shit. Like Eurovision without the ironic distance, but with more corporate sponsors.

Bad Bunny was just genuinely great. Never listened to any of his work before, but what a show.

If hearing someone singing a language you don’t understand makes you feel insecure… Well, yeah, maybe you should be a little more exposed to other languages.

US Americans have no excuse for continuing to cling to their ignorance. It has gone far past the point where it’s obvious how dangerous it is.

Jeg er drittlei de forente stater.

It’s rape.

Men are always trying to come up with excuses. “She was leading me on”, “she shouldn’t have been wearing these clothes”, whatever. I’m sure the men who do it take this to the extremes of “at least I didn’t drug her”, “at least I drugged her so she doesn’t remember any of it”, whatever.

The moment one starts comparing one is lost. Rape is rape.

I have met some questionable American academics who enjoyed the Joe Rogan Experience, which has puzzled me for a while. The fact that it’s less popular among the college educated than Fox News, Tucker Carlson Network and Breitbart certainly helps reinforce my world view a bit.

But the evangelical Christians want the Jews to trigger the rapture by fighting the final huge war in israel, and I imagine the antisemites are also fine with the Jews all being sent away to israel for then to be sent off to fight a senseless war to their deaths.

Somehow they managed to start off from different angles and both end up wanting Jews to die.