in my first three years of college i spoke to maybe ten students, pretty much all of them because we were assigned a team project together. only one guy talked to me because we were sitting next to each other at the same class and i started a few short-lived conversations with whoever was next to me before exams if the teacher was taking too long to come.

besides that, many people (almost everyone it seems) came into the college as friend groups from high school. they spoke to each other, but you're not within that friend group and it feels awkward to butt in a conversation where everyone's already highschool friends and you're a stranger.

as a right ctrl user, fuck you microsoft. a while back i had to get a new laptop since the last one was falling apart and having to decide based on which models don't have a slopilot key so that i can use my system normally is so annoying. and unlike other specs you can't filter by this, only hope that it's mentioned in the product description somewhere.

my entire /usr directory is just a bit above 4 gigabytes. you can put a fully featured modern operating system into that size, or you can have google's slop machine that no one asked for

quite likely, but it's not as effective as arch

i don't think we had anything like clubs. there was no campus as they have in america, just a college and a student dorm that was shared with other faculties.

there were some club-like activities like tabletop game evenings every now and then but i always had classes during those and couldn't try them out.

i read about black holes in an encyclopedia and how nothing can escape from them when getting too close and thought that they're a real threat to me in daily life. i'd look around when i was outside making sure that i'm not getting close to any so that i don't get sucked in. i must have been very good at avoiding them since i never saw one.

the same encyclopedia had a part about human reproduction and showed an illustration of sexual penetration. i thought it looked uncomfortable and wondered why anyone would want to do any of that, and seeing how many people have kids i came to a conclusion that people do it because it's mandatory and you are required to do it. i was very much not looking forward to the day it's my turn to have sex, until i realized that you simply just don't have to.

in kindergarten my mom was talking with the caretaker about a "life-booster" that "wakes her right up". i interpreted it as it making her wake up because she's terrified by it. for a week i was living in dread, thinking that this "life-booster" was some kind of malevolent entity that wants to kill me, who might be nearby and watching me. i imagined it as some kind of evil goblin and i checked my room thoroughly every evening to make sure he's not hiding anywhere so that i'll survive the night. after a week i realized that they were talking about coffee and that's the thing that people drink to be more awake and that it makes no sense that there'd be a monster out there that's looking specifically for me.

funner fact: anubis itself is slop

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/AGENTS.md

seems like i took the bait, nice one. but considering that i've met people who argued that "a linux computer can't be secure without flatpak" i'd put nothing past flatpak fans at this point.

on the other hand, my image viewer doesn't need a 300 megabyte runtime and i can launch it by its name and not by "flatpak run org.whatever.softwarename". and as a bonus it's dynamically linked too.

makes using it much more convenient

…did that ever happen to you with healthy maintained software? i'd be quite curious to know, because it did not happen to me.

ublock origin lite sadly does only a fraction of what the normal ublock origin does. no javascript blocking, no remote fonts blocking, no large media element blocking, no granular dynamic filtering in that popup panel. i guess it's still decent to block ads though, but so very crippled compared to the real deal

the backup wouldn't be encrypted but you can use luks to encrypt the backup drive too, the same way as you'd do with a drive in your computer.

i use rsync to send off my /home to an encrypted backup drive and restoring it you just reverse the source and destination and copy the stuff back.

your clock is off because you have resistfingerprinting turned on, so it puts you into utc+0 to prevent tracking.

and you have to explicitly allow to save cookies for specific domains to not get logged out (check out the padlock icon in the status bar, there's an option to keep data for the domain you're on)

iOS has their own attestation/anti-tamper api similar to google's integrity api so that's going to be used instead. the only difference is that on iOS you'll need to download extra software specifically for this.

graphene devs said you can do it with their sandboxed version of gms but as far as i know that still involves having an account and handing over all your personal info to google.

when all the videos get put behind login walls and drm, perhaps someone will.

some investors think it sounds cool so you get a short-term profit before the whole idea falls apart. or something like that.

installing wine with pacman doesn't allow any special access. if you run it, then it gets access to whatever the user who ran it has access to. whether you installed it with pacman or a gui wrapper doesn't matter.