This is really sweet :)

I have the moto g stylus 2024, and can confirm, it’s a great phone.

My uncle’s dog actually fainted the first time he came back from deployment. He was a very sweet dog. Snuggly, quiet white lab who was dignified and looked like vaguely like a polar bear.

Just out of curiosity, how?

Silksong and helldivers 2.

I wanna try MGSV, but it hasn’t gone on sale since the 70 buck remaster came out.

Finding things is such a pain in the ass nowadays. You get a problem with something, say you need a spare part. None of the stores have it. It is on Amazon…but it won’t be here for a solid two weeks. It’s infuriating.

Something that should take less than an hour to fix is now a multi week wait, because of stupid online retailers. And it will be something super common, like a tool to tighten up loose spokes on a bike wheel.

There’s a fourth borderlands game? IDGAF if it even comes to steam this time, silksong is $20.

This will not fix the monopoly problem.

Underwater welding, too. The compensation is insanely high because it is unbelievably dangerous, especially with large pressure differences (eg, working on undersea sewer outflows that can suck you in while welding them shut.)

Here’s an interesting video on Delta P, and why it’s so dangerous.

https://youtu.be/AEtbFm_CjE0

Yeah, I’ve given up on bootloaders long ago. After I broke my last phone, finding a decent mid range phone with expandable storage, a headphone jack, stylus and nice colors was pretty nice. The cameras are decent, and the processing power is fine for most stuff. The only time it slows down is if I’m cropping and editing a video or screen recording, which is a pretty seldom thing.

I got Motorola with a headphone jack, and I use it surprisingly often. All my Bluetooth stuff has fallen apart faster than my wired stuff.

Dude, this piece really vibed with me. And I agree, every time I use AI for something, I feel like my brain is atrophying. It’s postmodernism devaluing everything, and making nothing feel important anymore. Why study or learn anything when an AI can explain it? Crypto was turned from a potential tech feature into useless crap. And AI will go down a similar path, because it makes money.

This video is a lecture on modernism vs postmodernism, and why everything is kinda so…fucked up. It’s technically a car review, but the reviewer has a degree in literature, and goes off on a really interesting sidebar that I’ve never really been able to forget since it debuted around the time things started really going south for the world. Coincidentally, the guy is also a furry, just like that eevee blog post. Go figure, haha.

https://youtu.be/hoxqtnI4I4c

You might like this blog on The Rise of Whatever, which encapsulates exactly what you are talking about. It’s very good.

https://archive.ph/sKSFk

I like foldables, but I won’t be getting another one until Samsung and other OEMs dramatically overhaul their design and durability. When a ribbon connector went bad, they required repair companies to replace the two screens and hinge, a $600 repair on a phone worth $400. The ribbon connector is a 20¢ component, if that. I ended up getting a Motorola on sale for $250 that can do most of what high end flagships can do.

Are there better alternatives? I was planning on using tailscale until now. :P

This is a 2024 moto g stylus 5G.

I’m on a Motorola, I don’t think it’s flashable…

Honestly, I kinda like it. I don’t think my phone will get 16, though. I’ll probably get android 18 or whatever is out then.

I had the Samsung version shit itself. 20 cent ribbon connector blew, Samsung refused to replace it, and instead wanted to replace BOTH screens and the hinge for $600. I threw it in the landfill and bought a $250 Motorola. Idiotic, anti-R2R companies.

I’m in a similar boat for my Corsair iron claw. Next mouse is definitely gonna be full plastic, this rubber compound wears out far too fast, and doesn’t have replaceable parts. Definitely my last Corsair mouse.