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yay!!!! i love bureaucracy!!!!!!
bruh they are asking for my home address now?
I fuckin' signed in to YouTube with my existing account damn it
I'm so jealous.
This is truly a shit post.
Does anyone know how to unlock the bootloader of an LG G4? Would love load up a custom rom on the old guy.
God damn it. People on the Turkey subreddit were running a campaign to move from X to Bluesky because X was honoring the requests of the Turkish Government to take down footage of police brutality and shit.
I and many others have told people to NOT go to Bluesky because it was "owned" by Jack Dorsey and could get bad as Twitter did.
Of course, absolutely nobody listened. Some celebrities also even moved to Bluesky (including the comedian and actor Cem Yılmaz, one of the most known amongst the people. Basically the Jim Carrey of Turkey.) And now THIS happens. Bravo.
I remember seeing some telling others to use OperaGX because a Turkish PARODY ACCOUNT of the official X account posted a meme that supports the protests. I said it's stupid to support OperaGX because of who is behind it and one of them had the balls to say "Bruh like a browser changes anything your info is everywhere"
So mind boggling.
Glad I made you happy!
I personally think that's the point. It just mocks the Linux Fanboys.
Hell yeah! My local news sites always go on and on about stupid stuff before getting to the point. Which is almost always "we don't know".
mark give me the zucc
"You will use tab groups and you will be happy."
The Great Browser Conspiracy. Yeah sure dude.
Don't? It's a gift. Why tip? If they expect you to then that's hypocrisy on their part.
Pandora's Box is already open. Might as well make use of it.
Why do some people not enjoy living?
Ten minutes ago, I was watching the moon while listening to music. Specifically, "My Castle Town" by Toby Fox. And I just started crying. Tears of joy. I realized just how much I enjoy living. The pretty view of The Moon, the beautiful melody...
I never had any bad things happen to me. I love my parents because they are loving and kind, no trauma whatsoever, had depression once but I sent it away shortly. Lots of hospital visits though. But nothing serious. No girlfriends, no love pains etc.
I have basically nothing in my hands right now. But I'm always able craft new hobbies when I run out of them. By the mere power of imagination. In fact, I'm looking to learn French now because English was easy as fuck.
But while I enjoy life very much, I realize that I begin to distance myself from those that do not think the same. For instance, one of my friends never takes any joy from anything that he does. Say; complains about not having a girlfriend, being ugly etc. etc. He's the most hands
Say something about the Big C and you get hit with a message from admins.
There's only one answer. What's the point of this question? The only people that would want total wipe out are the ones that say stuff like "Humanity is a cancer on the world I shall go and do a clean-up!".
When the jokes aren't landin'
Don't turn here into r/AskReddit please.
"wOmEn oF rEdddddIttt!!! wHaT'S THE SEXIEST SEX YOU'VE EVER HAD?????!!!!"
That's an even better idea! A steady income is much better than donations that may or may not arrive. Thanks for the idea, appreciate it!
I use this a lot and love it a lot! The ROMs it emulates are very powerful calculators.
Also, there is a new project that brings Qalculate! to Android. You can find it somewhere here. It's also a powerful calculator and is more integrated to the system because it's not emulation.
Wouldn't it be a better idea to donate a big amount of money to a single project rather than small amounts to many projects?
Don't get me wrong, I do support donating to projects but 5 bucks are nothing. Might as well not donate. Donating 50 dollars to one project is much better.
A chiptune lullaby-ish track I made. Feedback appreciated.
Commander's Theme (Demo 5)
I'm really proud of this one and think it's near completion.
How to use radio/radio modems to communicate with random people?
You know how sometimes in a show or a movie there is a character that has a "radio friend" that they talk to? Yeah that's what I want to do.
But I do not know how to so I came to ask you! Cheap, preferably.
Out of curiosity, I found this app on IzzyOnDroid, (which gave me the idea in the first place) Codec2Talkie that seems to be what I'm looking for but I'm unsure due to my ignorance.
A radio modem seems to be required as the app description dictates. I can find one somewhere no issue. But is this the correct approach? Is there a better way that I don't know of?
A little piano track that I made. Sorry for the faults and low quality I'm a beginner in music.
What are the best (free) math resources out there?
EDIT: Thanks everybody for the suggestions! You've been great help to me.
I'm getting prepared for my computer science degree in college but pretty behind in the related classes. What are the best resources out there? Preferably in English as my native language resources are shit at explaining the basics.
I'm currently studying in Khan Academy but was wondering if there are somethings I'm missing out.
NOTE: I am NOT in college yet. I'm trying to get in college now. So the stuff I'm looking for is high school stuff.
Feature idea: Cookie sharing/relaying
EDIT: Yeah... bad idea. Got it.
I've been thinking about this for while. Sometimes there are situations where I have to log into one of my accounts temporarily to look at or take something and logging in is usually a pain in the ass or straight up uncomfortable.
So my idea is that this feature will allow to temporarily share/relay the cookies stored in the mobile browser that are used to remember logged in accounts (login credentials?) over a secure wireless or wired USB connection to use with the desktop browser (in a temporary container/session to not conflict with other users' data) in order to do whatever I do and then wipe out all data upon mobile device removal.
So... what do you think?
"In The Beginning Was The Command Line" An essay by Neal Stephenson that talks about proprietary operating systems and FOSS operating systems. Written in 1999.
How to deal with being bald?
Until yesterday I used to have long hair. Due to unusually high tempetures I started having problems with the skin on my head. So, to avoid problems. I shaved it clean and it will remain that way until the skin in treated.
Now that I'm bald, I now know what's it's like. It sucks. My old hair suited me perfectly. It was messy just the right amount, perfect length, made me look different than the rest and handsome as hell. Every girl would look at me where ever I went to. Compliments floating over the air, jealous looks from other men etc. etc. It made me feel powerful.
But most importantly, it suited my personality and clothing. It was perfect! But now it's gone. I hate bald me. I will never look back at this bald version of myself.
It feels weird. I don't feel that bad but still it's disheartening.
Firefox 127.0.2 (Windows 10) update fails when I try to update it via Winget. Reason? "Dependency missing"
I can't exactly make out what it says after the error code thanks to the mystery unicode characters but I will try my best.
"The package couldn't pass the updating,
<something>
or<something again>
verification."Firefox Android: Make the openning screen a web address
Recently I installed Firefox on my parents' phones (uBlock Origin too) in order to make them surf the web more securely as we've had a few cases in the past with malware. (Google Chrome, the advertisement company's browser, does not like ad blockers. Wonder why?)
All they care about it is it openning Google.com and apparently they don't like Firefox's home screen. There are only options for "the last tab", "home screen" and "home screen after few hours of inactivity" but no option to go to a specific web address. In this case, google.com.
So... how do?
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How do you see yourself in your imagination?
What's your position in your imaginary world? What do you see yourself as? As a person that you want to be or as a perfect version of your current self? Or do you not imagine yourself as yourself at all? In some other form? Not as a human but rather some sort of an idea?
Are you always on the top in your imaginations or do you imagine yourself to be not the most important person?
What was your best decision in life?
For me, it was learning English. Although I do make a few mistakes here and there, I'm mostly perfect on it.
The amount of resources you have access to dramatically increases when you know a universal language. I say dramatically because it made me realize how much my native language lacks when it comes to certain topics. The most obvious one to me was tech and computers. Everybody knows how to use Windows but there are very few resources about stuff beyond Windows. It's actually sad. [insert sad face here]
Why is it that we get nervous around our crushes?
I hope you all are having a good day. I would like to start by saying that I'm the "can't take compliments" guy who posted a while back about how he "can't take compliments". I've been thinking about something for a while. That being the situation in the title.
Now, there is a girl that I really like. Let's call her Cass. Cass and I are very similar. We both share similar interests. Reading books, discussions about philosophy etc. But we are also similar character wise. What I mean by that is that we both like to make jokes and are great at it too, etc. etc.
I am comfortable around girls. No issues with that. But I've been just really, really, shy around her. To the point where I straight up leave the room if I see her. For a person such as myself, this is a pretty odd behavior. Because I give zero crap about what other people think of me.
So instead of endlessly questioning myself, I decided to use this as an opportunity to think.
Why do we humans do this? Cass is perfectly capa
I don't enjoy it when people compliment me. Why could it be?
Not to brag but I'm a pretty confident person in my social circle. I'm funny, make people laugh etc. etc.
Basically, I am adored by everybody.
But there is something that I noticed about myself lately. Regularly people come up to me to chat and sometimes they compliment me. Now, complimenting isn't a bad thing, obviously. But I just don't feel anything when I receive them.
However I enjoy it when people talk good things about me when I'm not present. I, again, don't feel anything when people talk shit about me when I'm not present. BUT I really enjoy it when people straight up come at me and say something bad at me. My mood increases and I spend the rest of my day happier.
Is this some kind of a defense/coping mechanism that I have unintentionally developed? I don't see anything bad about this.
It's also worthy to say that I spent the majority of my life isolated up until a few years ago. No compliments at all but nobody to say bad things either. Is this why I fail to appreciate
Copilot doesn't like it when it's questioned about Microsoft's certain actions?
This might also be an automatic response to prevent discussion. Although I'm not sure since it's MS' AI.