also as a piece of advice, i would avoid laying in the bare sun on the beach like this. sure, there’s suncream to make it less painful but i still think that it’s better to be under the shade of a tree or sth.

this is spot-on. it couldn’t be more accurate.

we have these hiking trail markers in austria too

that being said, such integration events have happened in nature many times. the hardest-working parts of our cells (mitochondria) are literally foreign beings integrated really tightly into our own cells …

this is the most accurate description of tech-dependence that i’ve seen so far. it’s 100% clear that all this integrate-the-newest-tech-into-your-life is only there to make us dependent on it and then rug-pull to increase the prices.

nope not mine at least (i think). stock android

we need hardware that allows to unlock and relock the bootloader after installing alternative operating systems. then you can use grapheneOS and others on your devices. i think motorola is already making steps towards this. i remember reading articles about it.

doesn’t that require a google account or am i remembering that wrong?

they’re trying to make general-purpose computers into special-purpose computers. (the special purpose is to comply with google)

the normal “protests” (i assume we’re talking about violent riots here because that’s what’s typically meant in communities such as this one) and boycotts don’t give you cheap college though. they do give you cheap housing if you consider prison a form of housing. i’m not sure about healthcare. (/s)

yeah mastodon leans in on hashtags heavily too

how does a datacenter even contaminate water?

today i learned that loops video is still around, and it actually has some good content.

let me guess: the devices live 2x as long but cost 3x as much?

nah it wouldn’t

1. if it would, you’d be hired top manager by now. you aren’t because things are not that easy

2. you’re running into the fallacy of the invisible self right here. you do not see the cost that you bring into the world simply by existing, because people typically have a blind-spot on themselves. they do not see the errors that they make themselves.

i mean, this mostly applies to american mindset. “work hard” is a function of progress; in the absence of progress, it stops making sense. and people who only knew how to work hard their entire life suddenly see that way of life ending.

there’s a lot of americans who think that way. “work hard and you can make it”. nah

ok i’ll start with the quiz: name one civilization that lived in northern europe in the medieval age and frequently terrorized the english.