I wholeheartedly agree tbh

lich king was decent but it felt like the start of the downward spiral

as disabled people, we couldn't possibly figure out voting, let alone have questions around policy. eyeroll

not gonna lie, getting pretty tired of being looked at weird for this. at this point if someone makes me take it off I'm just gonna launch into a coughing fit in their face.

and when you need a real, non-VoIP, number for something, wifi helps out how..?

there's a couple places it's the only feasible option, especially if you have other limitations such as needing an esim etc

never forget that even the tor project had a relationship with Team Cymru that everyone likes to pretend was just a normal thing for them to do.. Team Cymru is kiinda creepy

partly it's not about what it can do that a smartphone can't, but exactly the opposite. there are lots, and lots, and lots of things smartphones can do that PDAs can't. and i neither want to do any of them, nor have constant notifications and advertisements trying to get me to do them.

but the big thing for me is that they were designed local-first. my data lives on the device. i sync it to my other devices. i can't accidentally lose access, get suspended, have my account closed due to a change in ToS, get my account locked out because i accidentally visited from a VPN or used a VoIP number -- all of which, now, are at best massive inconveniences and at worst result in major data loss for no reason. it didn't need connectivity to do it's job.

when i can refuse to connect my smartphone to an IP network and still have it do everything i need it to do, i will back off :p

i have an android phone here that i've slowly been trying to make behave more and more that way, looking to tools like SyncThing and DECSync and anything that's designed similar. it's close, but it still causes enough annoyances that i'd rather just have a PDA.

washington, here come the transes >:)

(edit: accidental formatting)

i actually just finished another re-read of For The Win, and yeah, that's gotta be more relevant now than ever before ._.

i'll admit to almost spitting out my energy drink snorting

so that's why it's always clogged

my bad! on T u e s d a ys i'm actually totally free so