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Even taking into account that we're talking about the rural South, a rightfully elected Black man being denied the ability to serve due to the color of his skin, in a town that is overwhelmingly Black (85%) is absolutely mind-boggling.

Most of the friends I’m still in touch with are on Instagram, though relatively few post frequently anymore. Just a place to send random memes back and forth.

Yep. Much as I hate to say it, GBoard just feels good in a way that none of the other major swipe keyboards have for me.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach is a favorite shorter read of mine.

Thank you!

Seems like that outfit was strictly running on Stockton Rush's hubris, so it's not surprising the company is effectively folding.

A dizzying number of notable people and people in my personal life have hopped onto Threads, day 1. The “fuck Elon / Twitter” sentiment and generally good vibes to this point mirror the experience I had here when I hopped onto Beehaw and we also had similar optimism and a “fuck u/spez” sentiment. But the major difference I see is this — for the sake of sticking it to Elon these folks are getting themselves even further entangled in Zuck’s world, and we’ve already seen the monsters that emerge from that muck.

Any social network that builds up a massive, general userbase inevitably enshittifies as the marketers / advertisers / influencers and otherwise self-promoters get their content boosted. With its extremely close ties to Instagram, those sorts of users will be ramped up on Threads in no time, and this period of positivity with fade in turn as that content starts getting vomited out and funneled to everyone.

The independent Fediverse is not without its faults, but I’m much more comfortable building community within this coalition of a space than in any of Meta’s creations.

I’ve noticed more people being perfectly content walking around with chunky headphones in public (the over-the-head earmuff type) so maybe we’re closer to viability than we think.

I haven’t in recent years outside of a VM here and there just to tinker with and see the evolution of Linux. Lack of time with work and school basically, and I needed to be on either Windows or Mac for them. The last time I used Linux as my daily driver was sometime around 2019, Kubuntu.

I use one that allows me to use Siri to ask Google stuff instead. Could surely be used with other search engines as well.

I can…but it becomes clear a couple of days into it that I won’t be able to download it all in the 1-week time frame.

Crying because I’m sitting on 30k+ photos and videos on Google Photos and staring down the monumental task of backing them up piecemeal.