The mere thought that my life is going to end at some point makes me freeze up emotionally and physically. It exacerbates my depression to a point where I sometimes simply call in sick.
It's sad. There is so much beauty in this world, in our existence, in our universe and one day my body will give up because of old age or because of sickness, depriving me of it all.
There is so much that I haven't experienced, and it's not relativistic. I don't buy the BS that some people try to console me with when they say that the only reason that I value life and all it's beauty is because it's finite. F*ck you all. I genuinely weep at the sunrise, at the beauty in people, at the undiscovered knowledge of the universe regardless. I wish my life would never end.
For those of you that know the Japanese animated series Naruto, I feel so much compassion for Orochimaru, even though his human experiments were vile and evil.
My depression sometimes makes me want to stop existing to stop suffering from it, but that's a sickness and an internal struggle and it doesn't represent my true feelings. I don't want to die.
The general attitude is that you are required to be digitally literate and that you have the "required" equipment. Just like many businesses nowadays take it for granted that you have a card to pay with.
Yeah, I've had my eyes on a Pixel for a few months now. Maybe I could even keep my Samsung an compartmentalize shit: pixel for private use, Samsung for google shit
Getting rid of gapps on my phone will take some more tinkering, since certain apps that required to get by in my society rely on Play Services. But I'm getting there!
In my country, that's a hard bargain, as we need certain apps that rely on gapps to identify ourselves in formal dealings with nation, county and city actors. But yeah, Graphene's sandboxed Google Play Services would be a good start for me.
Nice! Especially the Liberux, as it seems like it's going to have "jailed" Android for apps that need that environment. Maybe that's similar to what Graphene does with their sandboxed Google Play Services?
If my Samsung is shot (and shut) down during this year, I'm leaning toward a Liberux, Jolla or a Fairphone with Ubuntu Touch, in that order.
I agree, I tried to shove two themes into one. Samsung's decision to disable bootloader unlocking from OneUI 8 just kind of puts more weight on Google's decision on disallowing unauthenticated apks. For Samsung users, that is.
Penguins are birds too 🥹