tomenzgg
@tomenzgg@midwest.social
- Comment on grocery shopping 11 hours ago:
This; as much as I have no moral qualms about the practice, there’s massive risk that’s not always obvious to see.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
- Comment on Just an FYI 1 week ago:
- Comment on Cuddly gerbils 1 week ago:
Pair-bonded? This is just what we in the field of Gender Studies call homosocial.
Just in Case
/s
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
But we can still wish.
- Comment on wax on 1 week ago:
Almost definitely; I don’t know if there’s a degree that’s necessary to qualify as I can still look at it without breaking eye contact (though I hate it). But I have a deep desire to rip that shit up the entire time; deeply repulsive, whatever the reason. Honeycombs don’t bother me, though; I dunno.
- Comment on wax on 1 week ago:
Haha; I think the wool’s too fuzzy and not rigid enough to bother me. I’ve been trying to get more into the fiber arts in the last few years, too, so definitely not a problem that I’ve noticed.
- Comment on wax on 1 week ago:
Definitely the latter, for me; something about segmented holes just grosses the absolute Hell out of me.
- Comment on Which one and why? 2 weeks ago:
You’re also going to keep cutting the sides of your mouth with #2 (maybe not at first but if it’s the only one you can use, forever?).
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
How would you pin down something like this? If it happened to me, I expect I just wouldn’t understand what’s going on.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 weeks ago:
Sure; but we won’t close that gap immediately. Intermediate progress can be helpful for further progress.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 3 weeks ago:
Loved that video until I looked at some of the creators other videos.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 3 weeks ago:
I dunno if sufficiently so but their new model is less bulky: furilabs.com/shop/flx1s/
Loses the removable battery and headphone jack (sadly), though; but you do gain hardware switches and an extra 2GiB of RAM.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 weeks ago:
There’s generally been positive reviews for FuriLab’s FLX1 model:
- clehaxze.tw/…/07-20-flx1-actually-usable-linux-ph…
- news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41839326
- www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/…/furilabs_flx1/
- www.reddit.com/r/…/flx1_linux_phone_display_out/
- www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/furiphone_flx1/
Their new one, the FLX1s has 2GiB more RAM (for 8GiB, in total). I’ve heard battery gets 2 days without charge even with Android emulation.
- Comment on dinner 4 weeks ago:
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised but that this isn’t considered always unceremoniously reminds me how much people assumed being abled is the default.
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 5 weeks ago:
It really helps to explain all the folks who’re fans of sink peeing, when you think about it.
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 5 weeks ago:
I dunno if you’d want to know (or maybe you know, already) but it only helps some with bacteria, not viruses: everydayhealth.com/…/should-you-flush-with-the-to….
- Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse 5 weeks ago:
That makes a lot of sense; thanks so much!
- Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse 5 weeks ago:
Not really related to the bulk of your comment but I’m curious (if you don’t mind sharing) what features you like from BlueSky, in comparison to Mastodon?
- Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse 5 weeks ago:
Maybe GlitchSock (Mastodon fork)?
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 month ago:
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 month ago:
For those who enjoy in-depth write-ups, Christine Webber has looked at how decentralized BlueSky is really, before: social.coop/@cwebber/113527462572885698
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 month ago:
Technically, yes, if you squint; but, practically, no. It was designed with a prioritization of passing the information/data around to avoid any lack of missing anything (so you get a closer experience to the connectedness of Twitter than Mastodon) which means every instance hosts, basically, the entire world. Naturally, there’s only going to be a few entities that can store and afford to store the entirety of the data of the network. There’s no such thing as a small instance, in their protocol.
- Comment on It's still a crust, mom 1 month ago:
Haha; as someone who went to school in Massachusetts (twice), I can’t protest.
Honestly, – looking back – being so close to Vermont and not taking advantage of the food there more was downright criminal of my past self…
- Comment on It's still a crust, mom 1 month ago:
To be fair, that’s because it never was cheese to begin with: American (as in the type) “cheese” has always been a means of repurposing leftover cheese (and using supplementary ingredients like milk and milk protein and emulsifiers to bind things together). It legally can’t be called cheese because it’s always been a “cheese product”, not cheese. That doesn’t (inherently) mean it’s any less real food, though (which I feel is what most people hear when they hear, “It can’t legally be called cheese”).
Also, (as a cheese lover) yes: it does taste like ass and is repulsive. Entirely agreed.
- Comment on Is it? 1 month ago:
As someone who can no longer eat gluten, yes.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 1 month ago:
Mmm, I get what you mean. So often, I find myself in conversations (not ours but in general) that have certain presumptions that have been addressed by movements such as these that I feel like there’s this gap in knowledge that shouldn’t really exist but…
I think your point’s a fair argument, though; I’d certainly prefer that, at the very least.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 1 month ago:
Yeah; that’s totally fair. Mostly, I just want to get it more known; whenever Mobile Linux come up, people namedrop Purism, the Pinephone, maybe UBPorts and the general conclusion is that the spec.s, alone, of what’s available are pretty much a non-starter.
There’s definitely aspects of this phone that some people wouldn’t go for but I’d rather sales be limited by not-the-right-choice than just no one knew it existed; especially when any progress can get sent upstream and improve future projects, as well.
- Comment on Birds of peace 1 month ago:
The strength with which I was rooting for that pigeon; but I already knew, the moment I started the video.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 1 month ago:
You may have come across it already but Hardcoded may be in the realm you’re thinking? store.steampowered.com/app/2693710/HARDCODED/
It’s still in development but they’ve done a ton of work on it too, already, be pretty flashed out game and its development hasn’t slowed any over the years.
