You never go ass to mouth.

Oh man, does that mean my sub to yt-dlp is going to go up as well?

I still can’t work this shit out.

Like, is that that a coat she bought with that written on it, or is is just a regular parka that someone daubed a slogan on? And knowing it’s almost certainly the former, why is that an item you can buy? Why would anybody pay money for it?

It’s just so confusing.

Because I am an expert in these matters.

source: am expert

Beefing is when you’re getting fucked in the arse so hard that your partner manages to get some air up there, so you fart. Like queefing, but with none of that gay vagina stuff.

Personally, I don’t really give a shit about how many users there are on the various Fediverse platforms I use.

As Mastodon is the one that gets 90% of my use, I’ll talk about that in particular.

I’ve been a regular Mastodon user since the great influx of late 2022. In those 3.5 years I’ve somehow managed to convince more people to follow me than I ever did in 15 years of using Twitter. I follow almost 700 people, so my feed always has something new to show me. Always. I don’t follow any journalists, I don’t follow any ‘celebrities’, save for one or two comedians. At no point have I ever thought that Mastodon needs more users, because - for me at least - it’s plenty busy enough, and does what I need it to do. It lets me interact with regular people talking about their regular lives and regular interests, and that’s wonderful to me.

I’m at a point where I don’t really care to understand why a platform must be the number one most popular, if what it already is is sufficient.

That said, it would be useful if more official resources had a presence on there. Local councils, government departments, etc… And companies who appear to have offloaded most of their customer service to social media, but stopped at X and Facebook.

The one thing I’ve never really understood is why that sort of thing has yet to take off. News outlets, for example, could spin up a server on their own official domain, and provide accounts to employees. So someone posting from a @news.bbc.com instance could, at a glance, be understood to be a genuine BBC reporter.

However, personally I avoid news like the plague these days, so for me that’s neither here nor there.

WAY AHEAD OF YOU MATEY

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Though in fairness, it is free.

I quite like the idea of people just not engaging with this.

Can’t play the latest AAA because I can’t afford the equipment for it? No worries, there’s literally thousands of other games out there.

More realistically though, people will end up subbing to a streaming service, which is almost certainly what the companies would prefer.

Yeah, but a handful of extremely wealthy people can’t make more money because Steam offers the people what they want, and really, something should be done about this.

Everything in the US is legal provided you’re wealthy enough, or “Christian” enough.

Trump has never knowingly paid in full for any work he’s commissioned. Anyone who takes on work he’s offering should know that in advance.

Yeah, I really enjoyed the first couple, and The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is a really beautiful little thing that ties in to Life Is Strange 2, but stands on its own nicely.

LiS2 didn’t touch me as much as the first, and :Before the Storm, but it’s still enjoyable enough. I haven’t played True Colors though.

As someone with ADHD: All of them.

the janitor isnt there

You need to watch a little further…

I’ll never forget; 2014, iOS 8 had just come along with some huge advances in Siri. I’m driving across West London to pick up my wife, who’s just text me about something. I figured I’d reply by dictating the message to Siri.

After five attempts and absolutely zero success, I just pulled over and tapped out a text.

Apart from setting the odd timer, I don’t think I ever used Siri again after that. Not on purpose, any way.

Back when I used an iPhone, I had a few automations through Shortcuts, but nothing critical. Then I got a Pixel, put Graphene on it, and started learning how Android works. At the same time I went all in on Home Assistant over Alexa.

It’s been over a year now, so I figured I’d see what I can automate between my phone and my house.

The short answer is: nothing.

There is absolutely nothing that I need my phone to do automatically. Not a single task I need it to accomplish on my behalf.

I saw a post on Reddit a few weeks ago in the Tasker sub. A guy was talking about how one of his automations was to send a randomly selected affirmation or quote from some website to each of his loved ones at 7am. I’m still not quite over that level of psychopathy. The notion that the correct way to show affection is to have an automation randomly select a message to send them every morning.

As others have said, Kobo is the goat.

I have a ClaraHD. It’s not huge, but is about the size of a paperback, and you can probably pick one up pretty cheap these days. I’ve had mine since 2020 and it’s still going strong.

As an added bonus; while it’s a bit of fiddle to set up, if you already have a server at home, you can run something like Grimmory, which will enable you add books to it and sync them wirelessly with a Kobo. These days I literally only ever plug mine in to charge it once every few weeks.

How do you propose they’ll tow this out of the environment?

Being a Veteran Of The Internet, I know to take screengrabs with a pinch of salt. I’ll do my due diligence, thank you!

And, well, I wish I hadn’t. Because now I know this is real and oh my fucking god