...wish i had known that before covid...

Dandelions are some of my favorite flowers. The sub-urban specialty of nature! Practically the whole thing is edible. The root is like a carrot, the leaves make for a bitter salad, and supposedly you can make ground flower from them, but I don't know which bit. Why, some people even ferment them into wine!

Why Peter, you've become a pirate!

Together, we can elect nobody!

have you looked on f-droid ?

i really wanted to make the switch to a dumb phone. just one problem. couldn't give up my podcast app. so I found the next best thing - an android phone with a magnetic ink display

the only company that makes one is Hisense and its not made with american phone networks in mind so im stuck on a 2G connection. thats ok with me its like the friction thing you mentioned. the magnetic ink puts a lot of friction on normal android use too. my old phone i used to have a bad habit of opening youtube when i was board. the ink can do video and it is kinda neat to see but its rough enough that its not pleasant. even just regular browsing i end up thinking "yeah i could search this on my phone but i think ill just wait till i get to my desktop where i can type properly and not have to wait for the ink and connection". its basically just a second kindle that can text and call and play mp3s -- i have been really happy with it.

big week for idaho posting on hexbear

:kitty-cri-texas: Plz, China, don't cut ties with the only non-agrarian company in the state! Without micron, all we have is the carcinogenic paper mill in the former capital!

Idaho's been top of the list in hate group membership for a while... it used to be more of a northern/rural thing, but I've been seeing more of it in urban centers. A month back, I was peeling off stickers that proclaimed the need to "Secure a future for White children"

only businesses and california transplants have that area code, it's certified a bullyable offense

you have to bully her for not having a 208 number, you must realize this

i updated debian, and gnome display manager broke. all the stack overflows I read told me how to fix it with the command line... but I don't know what my username is, so I can't log in to run the commands. yes, I tried root, debian doesn't have it. i've spent the last month doing everything on the windows partition, because I don't have the time off work to bunker down and fix it. As much as Linux was genuinely and fully better, I can't recommend it to people because I know i'd end up having to do their tech support and i don't even have time for mine

Hisense has a phone with an electric ink display like a kindle or nook, but it runs on android but but it's a Chinese company, so no google

it's clearly viable in full sunlight and the display only uses power when the screen changes. It even does video fairly well. They put a lot of thought into the UI, and i've had no trouble with it despite being a sad, detestable monoglot anglophone. It has admittedly changed how I use my phone. Less video, less browsing, more reading. It doesn't play nice with my US carrier, so I'm capped at a 2G connection, but I've accepted it as a feature, rather than a bug. Maybe it's right for you. Maybe not. Worth considering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAIHkawsEuo

"Also since one of the largest corporations on Earth literally owns every Superhero this isn't "Iron Man", it's a philosophical experiment of an alternate universe version which is molecularly identical but legally distinct."

always check the hover text

:numberwang:

yes, of course, AGENCY best describes my interaction with the modern industrialized world

I have the AGENCY to put grandma in an institutionalized care facility, so i don't have to confront mortality

I have the AGENCY to ask my doctor to prescribe a methamphetamine because it turns out nobody is suited to a manufactured biome of paved roads and cookie-cutter boxes.

I have the AGENCY to go to HR rather than have an honest conversation with my coworkers

I have the AGENCY to walk if I don't want to be dependent on a dwindling fuel that's extracted and refined so far away they have to burn a portion of that fuel just to truck a tank of it to my region

I have the AGENCY to buy a ticket to a baseball game - whoops, no i don't, there's some critical union busting that takes priority