Adderbox76

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

rear fingerprint reader was peak and I don't know why it went away.

with a rear reader I could grab my phone and it would be unlocked with an index finger before I've even lifted it to my face. it was all one smooth motion.

Now, I have to pull it out of my pocket, orient it correctly so my thumb can hit the correct part of the screen, half the time shake the phone or swipe up to wake up the screen to make the reader work consistently, then hold down my thumb for at least a second longer than I would have to with my rear reader.

dumbest so called "advancement" in years.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That's being an alarmist to the point of absurdity.

Trump can say a lot of things. He can say he'll leave NATO. He can say he'll stop sending aid to Ukraine.

He can say whatever he wants, and I have no doubt the idiot actually believes it. After all, he said he was going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. He Said he was going to deport all DACA child. Hell, if I remember correctly, he said during the last campaign that he was going to leave NATO as well unless they fucking paid him, like it's some sort of protection racket.

Despite the recent SC ruling, and despite four years of failing to actually do anything he said he could do, he still believes he's a god-king. But with the exception of a presidential decree, which can be blocked by congress; nothing he's fucking babbling about can just "be done" on his word. It has to pass Congress and the Senate, which will, despite the eventual winner of the presidency, remain close enough in seats for cooler heads to stop his bullshit. There are enough republicans, even in a Trump administration, that would never dream of fucking up that much.

The point is, Trump is a fucking idiot. And while the supreme court has made him effectively immune to criminal prosecution, his ability to do almost anything without eventually bumping up against the actual adults in the room is still pretty limited.

If he actually had the power to do what he says he can, he would have done it in his first term. But even in a party of of racists and MAGA, there are enough adults to keep him distracted with colouring books.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I had switched to HeliBoard in order to de-Google as much as possible. I'm not militant about it, but if there's an alternative I'll take it.

Decided to try out FUTO because I felt like I was missing swipe typing. And it's good. But for me it's just too much. It turns out I didn't really miss swipe typing, and (possibly just a me issue) that extra feature was making FUTO much less responsive than Heliboard. So back I went.

I guess for me, simple and fast is more important than replicating my old Gboard experience. But each person is different.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the upside, it sounds like Starmer is saying he'll be dead soon.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Sure, we can laugh.

But let's see who's laughing when your dryer vent rips on a national holiday when all the hardware stores are closed...

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

This thread took a strange direction...

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

We need a better educated populated

Conservative politics don't poll well with educated people. An educated population is the very last thing Shmoe needs

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People always seem to think I'm kidding when I say I've lost any and all hope for humanity's future. But then I point them to shit like this.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Even rabbits got their hipsters...

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like I should clarify that I know what K-runner is and I've used it for years.

I just didn't know it could automatically do conversions without having to specifically "ask" it to do a conversion.

I just need to clarify that I'm not, in fact, a buffoon (in this one thing at least...the rest of my life...too soon to judge)...

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Serious question;

Am I over-thinking it to be skeeved out by the phrase "blacks" for Trump?

It's basically saying that their main defining characteristic as a group is their colour rather than anything about who they are culturally.

It would be like a politician here in Canada courting the indigenous vote by holding a rally called "Reds for Pollieve" or something.

I don't see that really being talked about or mentioned and wonder am I just over-thinking it? Or is it just that it's just one more fucked up thing that gets buried under a dozen other fucked up things...

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Sadly, for many people, "factual" means "does it agree with what I already think?".

Those people are lost causes.

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