just hoping my current phone survives ling ebough that my next one can be a linux phone

1920x1080@60hz is good enough. 120hz is nice, but not that important. What’s important is a good art direction. Not graphics, art. And as we know, the people making decisions at big companies hate art.

Warframe, so both awesome and fucked.

Some do, some don’t. Implementation is inconsistent. I’ve seen one that autolocks after a few minutes of inactivity and requires a code to unlock (default 1234).

The breakroom at my job has gone through a lot of microwaves in the past year because my coworkers can’t figure out how to open the microwave and just rip the handle off.

You can’t do this with new microwaves. Child lock, you have to clear the time before you can open it. Yes, you have to clear it even if the time runs completely out.

At least this one makes sense.

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Mutuals?

Not likely, that would be actually useful functionality

Honestly, my own, but it would depend heavily on exactly where.

In the city of Dragonwatch on New Earth, humans, chimera, and xenos live together in something resembling the modern world but cooler. There’s public transit and healthcare that actually work. Augmetics are common, but not required. Nobody uses the terms ‘cis’ or ‘trans’ because changing your gender just isn’t a big deal. And because I’m writing smut, there’s plenty of opportunities for vigorous entertainment.

Also, no cell service. I’m bringing back phone booths. If you want a network connection outside your house, you go to a terminal and plug your slate into the network. None of this instant communication that’s ruining fiction these days.

I haven’t actually written much, and I’m committed to do the actual writing part without ai, and it’s going very slowly (was really proud of doing 15k words in two weeks and since then I’ve done 100 words in six months). I do use ai for compiling my notes and exploring ideas, and for other uses outside this project. That’s going to be an automatic no from some people and I respect that. If it helps, 99% of the major character and locations and other important details I had established before generative ai was a thing. I’ve been dicking around with this setting since 2001, and have only started using ai a couple years ago.

Anyway, external validation helps the creative process, if my setting sounds interesting I’d love suggestions for communities where I can post chapters when I eventually have something worth sharing.

same way musk made a shitton of money with hyperloop: by getting other people to pay for it and then not actually do it.

utterly unstoppable.

that’s fair

I look at my ai use the same way I look at streaming services: cheap entertainment of middling quality and if it stops existing then nothing of value will be lost. Worst case scenario I have to actually write coherent notes, but I’m trying to drink less so that’s already part of the plan anyway.

I’m sure that’s a significant part of it too

My analogy isn’t perfect, but I think it holds up well enough to make my point.

Woman: “I’d like to not be sexually harassed when I go out in public.”

Man: “I feel personally attacked by this statement.”

Black person: “I’d like to not be killed by a cop today.”

White person: “I feel personally attacked by this statement.”

I can’t believe I’m about to defend grail, but i this thread they’re objectively correct and you’re not. Worse still, you’re being a douch about it. Stop it.

On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, most men do not understand that to be a woman means constantly being in danger.

“But not all men are-” I know. Everyone knows. There’s good people of every gender, that’s not in question. The problem is that people keep saying “Not all men” in direct response to women expressing that they don’t feel safe. Same energy as telling a black person “All lives matter”.

There’s the men this meme is about, and there’s the men this meme is for, and the venn diagram is two separate circles. The assholes with the podcasts aren’t going to understand, because they’re the problem. They think that by being nice they’re entitled to sex, and then get vindictive when no sex. Most everyone else doesn’t understand because the thought of being such a douch doesn’t occur to them.

now this is good shit

Linux is getting better at the same rate windows is getting worse. For many use cases, linux is already better than windows, most people just don’t know it yet.

by the same logic, neither is gimp.