This sounds like a great idea. I would suggest doing also other things that simulate the brain in other ways, like listening to music (or even playing an instrument), visual stimuli (art, nature), physical motion and coordination activities (dance, sports). You may well already do these things, I just felt I should mention it since our culture is so prone to associating brain with mental logic specifically and forgeting how much these other things involve the brain.

Learning a language is another thing with really strong evidence for brain development /preservation.

There was no conspiracy theorizing here. Enshittafication driven by money is simply how our world works now.

I will bet a lot of the listings you are looking at really are OEM unlocked, they are just not clear about it. I bought a refurbished pixel 7 pro on Amazon in 2023 for $234. The listing just says “service provider: unlocked”. I installed graphene on it.

That said, I see a subsequent review on this listing commissioning that the received phone was not carrier unlocked, so I guess you have to be prepared for some trial and error and returns.

I would broaden your eBay search to just “unlocked” and then maybe message sellers to verify the kind of unlocked state.

Possibly something here is useful: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/13146-any-way-to-tell-if-a-sealed-in-box-pixel-is-oem-unlockable

It blows Breezy away.

I really hate to accept that exposing assy words and behavior just makes it worst, but it’s hard to argue with that example.

The way the internet enables awful outliers to find each other and organize really makes one question whether it was ever a good idea.

When a person’s words makes then look like an ass, I’m not sure that giving them more exposure is “promoting” them.

The question is what does OP mean by 'heavy’and what benefit do they hope to get from a ‘lighter’ shell. Memory or performance seems inconsequential in this case, but how about attack surface? Is there some benefit from a security standpoint of running a simpler shell?

I switched over a decade ago. It was great. Since then Windows has only gotten worse and Linux and its desktops have only gotten better. It’s wild to me people still need to ask this.

It’s not you, the web has forgotten how to be searched.

Do you have any possibility to log in as a different user or even create a new user to log in as? I wonder of some plasma config file could be corrupted.

Sounds more like privacy minus.

I wish people would stop talking about “AI browsers” like everyone even knows what that actually means.

Perhaps you could build some sort of large Fresnel lens to place in front of it that would correct for it.

Sorry, my bad. Desktop Firefox and spinoffs has this but not Android.

I think they probably all do. But by default they go right to a default profile without prompting you to choose. There is usually a way to create a new profile if your look in the menus.

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I have no idea about Navidrome, but I completely agree with the gist of this article. Actively choose the music you listen to. When the music you’ve chosen has run out, if you’re not motivated to make another choice, let the music stop and enjoy quiet for a while.

On the one hand them refusing to share this data is very problematic, on the other hand what the most viewed posts are is determined by their algorithm, and so a distortion of what is “popular”. Sharing and giving users control over those algorithms is the more important issue that should be receiving focus.

I want to predict that they end up to acquiescing to the demand for “most viewed” data so they can pretend to be all responsible. Seems like a distraction.

I am totally ignorant about this kind of software, but it seems like the ultimate solution is to extract your data from it. Has anybody done any work around cracking their data format? Or what about Adobe’s? Could their be a path like having Abode import your data from Capture and then use some Abode export crack to get it into some more open format?

I always wonder why I don’t see XMPP mentioned more in conversations like this.