Just great. I guess I’ll consider that my payment for all the free gba games I’ll be playing on that thing

Remember men, you’re not straight until you beg for other men on the internet to approve of how straight you are. Also, imagine people having relationships that don’t revolve around what a random Alpha Male™ thinks

Bro looks like a corpse

I ordered a Powkiddy RGB30, although I’m not really sure how the tariffs will impact this since it’s coming from China (I bought it before the 104%)

Where’s that meme of Obama being given a medal by none other than… Obama?

Assert your dominance, put the wig on while maintaining eye contact with the owner

Easy, just put a wig on and keep eating.

I have hugee nostalgia for fire red, but that’s the only one I played as a kid. I have genuinely tried getting into emerald, sapphire and platinum later in life to no success. I hate how hard it is for me to get into “new” games these days

Yet another reason not to use that awful app.

I have 2 ugly tattoos that I got done on the same day, by the owner of the shop nonetheless. One of them looks like a drawing made by a 6 year old. The meaning behind the tattoos are basically gone, yes, but I don’t regret that at all…. just the poor quality. Even if I got tattooed an alien sharting itself in graphic detail, I’d have zero regrets if it was done well.

I blame myself to be honest, I wasn’t ready for tattoos and had the wrong mindset about it all. But the experience taught me valuable lessons:

Don’t lower your standards. Don’t feel like your appointment seals your fate — if they aren’t getting the design right, cancel and find a better suited artist. It’s permanent and it’s your body. Also, there’s no “saving money” with a tattoo you’ll end up paying to get removed later. A professionally-done tattoo is well worth the money and travel. Find well-known artists in your community, and talk with them before you even consider letting them tattoo you. Online reviews of shops aren’t good for vetting individual artists.

Soldier of Fortune: Payback. Obviously the best game ever made.

Day 11 of wondering why people don’t just use cases and screen protectors on their phones

Mars is an uninhabitable hellscape that I sincerely hope Musk and his billionaire friends colonize so that they all become one with Martian soil

It’s for surprise genital examinations to ensure you’re not trans /s

Stock ios is more private than stock android. I just have accepted that I prefer convenience over maximizing privacy because I’m lazy. And yes, there’s access to decentralized apps. If I was less lazy I could also figure out how to install third party apps too but it seems I’m not the only one who struggles with that

I’d definitely jump for a Linux phone once they get their formula down. I was hyped for the Pinephone but realized they still need a bit of work.

No phone is truly private these days, but Graphene is the best we have. If we’re talking stock os, ios is slightly better. But I use it keeping in mind my data is still up for grabs.

I did have issues with notifications in the past when using graphene, but my experience may have not been universal. But I was far from the only one experiencing this. Maybe they’ve improved it since my last time using it on a main device. It does seem that things have improved based on what you say though, so thats good.

Banking apps do require some level of google services. With work profiles, you’re putting faith in your apps being isolated in the hands of a third party, which is okay if you can trust it. But you also can’t control when apps in a work profile stop running, thus google services may still be running in the background of the work profile. Doing the really inconvenient method where you have separate user profiles seems more reliable for privacy.

This video speaks well about the privacy differences between user and work profiles: https://youtu.be/20C0FD7mGDY

Edit: typos

GrapheneOS is great for privacy. But the need for banking apps, working notifications, etc get in the way of me using it for a main device. Plus, there’s the dilemma that in order to fully avoid being tracked by Google, you need to setup a separate user profile on your device for anything that uses Google services (ie if you want to use the playstore even with fake google services). I just switched to using an iphone and use decentralized apps for the most part. But my secondary device has graphene

“I don’t hate women and minorities but I don’t see anything wrong with an economy built off of their exploitation.”