I am so frequently reminded that not everyone got an amazing parent like I had, and even my less amazing, drug using parent, was never the type I hear about so often. I’m so sorry the world is an unkind as it is, especially to kids. Y’all deserve and deserved better <3

How is he now?

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I may be about to move to a town near the border, and I fully plan on visiting Mexico as frequently as I can. It’s one of the things I’m most excited about about moving there.

I will 100% be getting a second cheap phone, and only taking that when I cross the border.

I’m willing to have my mind changed here. But in my view, the Democrats come to the table with their negotiation, and then negotiate down until they get absolutely fuck all, a la the ACA

I fundamentally disagree that it is impractical not to put it on the price tag. Every store prints their own price tags and puts them either directly on the item, or on the shelf. It wouldn’t be hard to just make that price different to reflect the tax. We already do it with gasoline.

Ask y’all’s mom!

I’m sorry. I’ll see myself out.

Honestly, I have been stunned by how well this little machine does with only 8gb of ram. It’s at least as snappy and smooth as my yoga with 16 GB of ram running Fedora was before it broke. I do miss daily driving Fedora, and I’ve been keeping a list of things that irritate about macos vs Gnome/fedora just to see how the transition goes over the next year or so. But honestly, for my workflow it’s been amazing. That said, I am primarily a browser based user and not a very techy person in general.

Oh, also, having an actual desktop top to sync proton drive has been *amazing *

“if I read a headline” that’s how I started my comment. “If I read A headline”

I did not say anything about this one. I just expressed empathy at the users misunderstanding of the original post.

I mean, in fairness, if I read a headline that was like “in silent apple update, MacBooks with Asahi Linux installed will self destruct the lithium ion battery once it detects the user is asleep and unable to stop the explosion” I’d have been like “yeah. That tracks. Sucks that their hardware is so fucking good.”

Just bought my first ever apple device (M1 MacBook Air), because I needed either windows or Mac for school, and I got tired of jumping through hoops with virtual machines and low end hardware on used windows machines I’d put Linux on. I miss Linux as my daily driver terribly, but I do know now that my next windows/Mac machine will be mac. And when that day comes, I look forward to putting Asahi on this little MacBook Air. It’s great hardware, and I’m hoping Asahi will have matured a lot by then and be a great experience.

I just want to apologize for being the person who asks questions and then doesn’t respond to the comments. I get overwhelmed D: but I’d never delete my post, what’s the purpose in that?

To be fair, I think this is a Lemmy issues moreso than the broader internet. I could be totally off base there, though. It just seems in my experience that Lemmy is particularly anti AI, while the rest of the Internet seems to be fairly neutral towards the technology as a whole, and potentially upset about the environmental impact and increasing prices for computer components.

Again, I may be off base, though, as Lemmy is the only social media I use, so I’m not tapped into that side of things.

I will say, if I notice people use the word “quietly” (as in “it will quietly revolutionize X” or “this has quietly changed my habits”) I do immediate assume it’s Chatgpt. Lol. And for what it’s worth, I’m not against AI in general, I think it’s great as a brain storming tool, a useful way to collect your thoughts, to bounce ideas off of, and to use when stuck on a project. But it’s uses are so limited compared to what it’s billed as that it is in no way this magical gift from on high like some think, but nor is it a completely and totally useless thing. The problem is that it’s being shoved down the throat of every website, device, and user of the Internet at such incredible rates that we’re choking on it. And the fact that it can “talk” like a person means people are anthropomorphizing it and that is very, very dangerous long term to the mental health of humans as a whole.

My $0.02, anyway

From my somewhat limited research so far, it looks like a lot of FOSS stuff is available on macos, but much less on iPhone given how locked down it is.

It kinda looks like a dude bent over from behind, hangy balls flappin’ in the breeze

Two stories:

My mom was in a religious school for a few years, and her craziest story was sex Ed, which was mandated in the state at the time. The entire class was “take this shoebox home.” Literally no other instructions. The shoebox contained a mirror and nothing else. It was 20 years later before she realized what the mirror was for, because she wasn’t informed it was a sex Ed class.

ETA: the school was mixed gender, the classes were not. Girls had separate classes from boys. The mirror was for standing over and seeing that you do, indeed, have a vagina, and then gaining absolutely other information

I was homeschooled, but not in a religious way. My mom ordered the books the state told her to order. When we got them they were fine, until we got to the science module and it told us how ancient humans and dinosaurs lived side by side. … My mom immediately ordered different books.

I want to continue the joke, but honestly, that was the best reply possible and there is no way to top it

He’s such a good boy. He was my mom’s favorite child, she was his human. I’m the spare. Haha. When she passed last year, I didn’t think he’d make it, but honestly, he’s gotten me through this last year.

I’m not joking when I say this little boy is getting a quinceañero. He’s gonna have a frickin’ party

Fellow member of the Church of the Holy Weiner, I see! Salutations and glory to the Almighty Long Ones!

Lmao. That’s exactly what working customer service is like. Except you are the trash can lol