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Dear Budapest police. Be consistent. You detained the man I married for carrying a device he had flown TO Hungary with via Munich with nary a problem.
It was a flashlight.
Yeah, ok, it was also a taser, a salient detail the silly man forgot about.
And he heard about this from me.
There is something about the Hungarian language that sounds very menacing to me. Whether it was my father telling me I was in big trouble, or airport police doing paperwork, both sound like doom.
The bicentennial of Bolivia is much more than a simple historical celebration; it is the recognition of self-determination and sovereignty as fundamental
In episode 688: The Ultimate Assassin, Nathan Reynolds returns for another eye-opening conversation. This time, he dives deep into the power of weapons, both...
It's fine, he provided me an opportunity for manly adventure (Slaying bandits in a cave to retrieve his belongings) RT: mugicha.club/objects/5cad1395-…
In a scorching new development under the Trump-backed ICE reign, Acting Director Todd Lyons confidently announced that “we have almost 78,000 applicants since we opened up,” referring to the agency’s massive recruitment surge launched just …
I miss having an ebook reader that's lighter than my iPad and has fewer distractions. What're you guys using? Obviously Kindle is out of the running these days.
I have the Boox 6 Go (BOOX Go 6 | A 6" Monochrome ePaper Reader – The Official BOOX Store share.google/QmWKhu5F4eOKenARf). Koreader loaded for my ebooks. Pure Android OS. Great screen and battery. Also use for my recipes app-Paprika and pizza dough app-Pizza Dough Calculator.
Brainwashing & propaganda has been going on in the US public schools, private schools, colleges, & universities since the 1970's.
From "A Nation At Risk" released in 1983 under President Reagan:
"...If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. ..."
I've already sung my praises for Fresh Blood Christens the Udonge, however there's another track tied to Reisen in Hero of Ice Fairy. The Tale of the Bunnia.
It's a track that plays before the fight and introduces why Reisen is acting how she is, and it sets the mood very well. At all moments the track sounds like it's putting in effort to keep in line. Like there's something driving it to fall apart. Does especially well paired up with her fight track, as the fight track (and fight itself) gives the feeling she's given in to her instincts and let any pretenses or rules drop.
Dear Munich airport. You suck. En route to Hungary, you stuffed us into a bus, then made us get out in POURING rain to board a plane for which you had no covered tramway. On the way back, you made your passengers lug their carry-on baggage up 5 flights of stairs, & for those of us who had shifted extra weight from checked baggage to those bags, it was brutal. And it was still raining.
Pyongyang, Aug 4 (Prensa Latina) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) warned about the dangers of deploying domestically produced long-range missiles in Japan.
Once politician becomes a profession, it becomes unseemly. That happened. Many years ago. This festering cesspool cannot be cleaned quickly and without great upheaval. It will take a very bold hand. I cannot name a second to Donald Trump. Ego combined with IDGAF about what toes I step on and who I piss off. Name another. I’ll wait…
Let the Middle East sort itself out. Let them decide. Stand back. It is not ours to decide. Let go of the lies you have been told. Don’t presume yourself. It must happen to the satisfaction of the region. There are friends to be made. Better friends. Open your minds.
Do not think world leaders don’t notice how openly Trump speaks about them. They are used to shelter. They must speak to him appropriately. They know they speak to the world. A fine spot to find oneself in. So hard to float the lie. Eyes on. We watch with great interest.
Russian troops capture a Ukrainian village and raise their flag. But it’s a trap.Ukrainian forces strike back with tanks, FPV drones, assault teams, and reco...
I want the Cheerios at the bottom of the box. I'm not stuck. I want to be like this. I'm very comfortable. Everything's fine. . . . #chocolatebailey #cheerios #dogsofpixelfed #dogs #pets
Pre-existing conditions denied care? Can't believe that's back. But, then again, you are not being pessimistic expecting the worse these days. It is that bad. When was the last time you heard good news? RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2otnx…
Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor, delivers the news report. This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada's livestream on day 664 of the Gaza genocid...
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure after being defunded by Congress — marking the end of a nearly six-decade era in which it fueled the production of renowned educational programming, c…
The first crew slated to fly in NASA’s Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission around the Moon early next year entered their spacecraft for a multi-day training at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Crew donned their spacesuits July 31 and boarded Orion to train and experience some of the conditions they can […]
Nebraska Public Media News is producing and airing a live, statewide television broadcast of “Congressman Flood Town Hall” on Monday, Aug. 4, at 5pm CT on Ne...
when I was in college there was a fad of "fanny pack" pistol carrying bags/packs. They were a big joke because everyone who saw a guy with one knew they were carrying.
I've been surprised how few people know about 5.11. I used a 5.11 bag with an inner carry compartment for pistol to two corporate jobs and neither security ever picked up it was a 5.11 bag even though I didn't cut off the insignia.
@radix023 Bob Odden, the head of the MNLP for a hot minute, was notorious for the fanny pack carry. And also being gayer than a stack of strawberry pancakes.
I'm not into any sort of bag carry because thieves can just cut them off of you. I don't carry bags anyways. Cumbersome and inconvenient.
I spend more time administrating my systems than I do actually using them these days. And I'm okay with that. Three quarters of my day spent fixing what's broken, and the other quarter spent looking for new things to break~
@Vaporeon :vaporeon: Yup. Or because I insist on having such a weird and unwieldy setup just to see if it works but also I will not take "it doesn't work" as an answer.
An op-ed in the New York Times is calling for a “new definition of death” so that we can increase the number of available donor organs. I’m not exaggerating, it’s right ther…
Battlefield 6 is taking advantage of EA's Javelin anti-cheat system, which enforced Secure Boot and is classified as a kernel-level AC, potentially killing...
As the Israel faces increased domestic and international pressure, ceasefire negotiations are centering around famine. The Israeli army is now urging the Israeli government to “decide” between occupying Gaza and reaching a ceasefire.
Laith Marouf and Hadi Hotait receive exclusive access to the Port of Beirut explosion site, on the 5th year anniversary. The two tour the site, and discuss t...
I wish I had another IP to proxy with. But I guess if the feds ever wanted me for whatever reason, even if Cloudflare did let me proxy more than just port 80 and 443 and whatever I can manage with Tunnels, it's not like they wouldn't hand me over instantly.
My IP being up on the internet isn't a huge deal either; if one of you poopheads who aren't feds wanna look me up and know what city I'm in or portscan the hell outta me, like, bring it on I guess? It'll help me hone my hardening skills anyway.
And now I can finally have a Coturn server. But yes, another IP that I own and can stick an Nginx proxy on would be nice.
Mistodon: big stretch! This #asciiart feline, yogically celebrating our Mistigris computer arts collective, was drawn by Mozz and included in the new cat-themed MIST0725 artpack collection.
Cooking tidbit. I made this Italian recipe of milk braised pork yesterday. Haven't made it in years, but it tenderizes the meat like nothing else. Even on the 2nd day, it was juicy, tender. You can't mess it up. It looks weird bc the milk curdles, but it's good. Beat it, strain it or leave it. Recommendations were lowered for pork, too, and pink doesn't mean it makes you sick.
@Lori Everybody was surprised. Pork is the one meat that ends up overcooked. The dog likes it, lol. I don't like giving him too much cooked meat. I usually end up turning it into barbecued pulled pork for sammiches, as @Phil would say. 😁
My name is Soliman — a young man and student from Gaza, carrying a burden far heavier than my age. Between my studies and the hardships of life, I try to be the backbone of my family in the most difficult of times.
We once had a small farm — olive and citrus trees, and a greenhouse where we planted not just crops, but dreams.
That farm was our only source of income, and more than that, it was a place full of memories, of hope, and of the laughter that once made life a little easier.
But in a single moment, everything was gone.
A fire reduced our years of effort to ashes.
We lost our source of living, our stability — and with it, a part of our souls.
Now, despite the pain, I’m trying to start over. I’m doing everything I can to keep my family standing, to find even the smallest light of hope that might restore our strength, dignity, and sense of humanity.
On top of all this, I’m also struggling with serious health issues.
I suffer from a urinary tract infection caused by the lack of access to clean drinking water.
Here in Gaza, we’re forced to drink water mixed with sand and other contaminants — there’s simply no other choice.
It’s affecting my health badly, and I need treatment I can’t afford in these conditions.
I’m sharing my story with honesty and hope, praying it reaches a kind heart — someone who can help, or even just share it with others who might be able to.
If you’re able to support us in any way, here’s my GoFundMe link:
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00:00 Intro 00:29 Sponsor: Save 10% on your website or domain name with Squarespace 01:49 Hardware: too many bad choices 04:41 Why NOT Samsung Phones? 06:30 Why NOT Google Pixels? 08:14 Software Issues: nothing fits 11:18 Alternative ROMS? 13:35 What to use, then? 15:27 Parting Thoughts 15:55 Sponsor: Get a device that runs Linux perfectly 16:49 Support the channel
My preferences are: relatively small phone, very close to 6 inches, a high refresh rate display, 90hz or more, a capable camera array, preferably with a video portrait mode, and, the hardest one, I don't want a phone sold by a chinese company.
Let's start with the size. Current phones are just way too big. If I can't reach the top left corner with my thumb without shifting my grip, it's too big. Period.
As per the provenance of the phone, Chinese manufacturers are a red flag for me. It's not paranoia, but every chinese company is legally required to hand over all information about their users to the chinese government: techradar.com/news/dell-wants-…
I used Samsung phones for a long while. I started on the Galaxy S8, then I had an S9+, an S10e, then an S21. I ran the default Samsung ROM on some of these, and I find Samsung phones great. I even miss the curved edges screen.
My problem with Samsung is more in terms of reliability. All phones I owned from them had the exact same issue: after about a year, they stop recognizing my SIM card. This happened to EVERY Samsung phone I ever owned, so I'm done with them.
So that leaves Google, the Pixels are highly rated by people who use them.
But first, and it's subjective, I find them horrendous to look at. Plus, they're very unreliable. The first gen had severe performance degradation, the second one had a bad OLED screen that burned in way too quickly, and an easy to break USB C connector. The third pixels were plagued by software issues. The fourth pixels had a bad screen again, and a very insecure face unlock mechanism.
The fifth pixels seemed to have huge manufacturing issues with the screen separating from the main body, and almost right after launch as well.
The 6th one has issues with the fingerprint sensor not working well, the assistant could ghost dial random contacts, there was a screen flicker issue, so basically no quality control on that phone.
And as per the pixel 7, it looks like the camera glass is spontaneously cracking.
I'm sure I could look hard and long enough and find something that I'd enjoy, but Android is just messy. Samsung's brand of Android, called oneUI was pretty good, with a great design flair, easy to use with one hand, with major controls at the bottom of the screen, good gesture navigation, and looks wise, it was pretty good.
BUT it's riddled with ads in a lot of the default applications, and it's a mess of applications you can't remove. It's bloatware central.
If you go with Vanilla Android from Google, then you get something that is way more trimmed down, with only Google apps and services, but the design is horrible, in my opinion.
Which leads us to alternate ROMS. Graphene OS works on Pixels, and as I explained, no way I'm buying one, not with that track record.
Then there's Lineage, or /e/, my favorite one, which goes even further than Lineage in terms of removing Google crap, and has a very nice simple aesthetic that I find super pleasing.
/e/ is what I would use, if I could find a phone I like to use it on. My Galaxy S21 is in a drawer, and I'd love to use that with /e/. But I can't, because they don't support it.
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