VinesNFluff

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[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I understand.

I even respect the general idea.

.... But I will literally never willingly pay for an appliance-like piece of technology. I even sold off the one I got for free.

Android at least lets me sideload stuff and/or install it from F-Droid.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

I don't even think it's good for gooning -- It's much heavier than a phone, so you can't hold it in one hand (unless you have unnaturally strong and dextrous fingers?)

Like sure, that screen is big and pretty, but without something to hold the device up it's not a comfy experience.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 10 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Man it wasn't even anything crazy. It's just.

All my android devices have a syncthing service that... Syncs. Things. Between them and my PC/Homeserver.

Now, the only app for Syncthing I could find on the Apple App store was a paid app, but I was actually fine with that: It seems Apple stuff is made for rich people, and I had accepted that everything would be paid for.

Except.

When you use Syncthing on Android it just. Drops things into folders. Like a normal program on a normal computer. And other applications can just access that.

But nope, not here. Everything is in its own cage, and the user has exactly ZERO control over this (unlike, say, the likes of Flatpak on Linux, where it's just a matter of granting permission manually)

My comic book folder? I had to go through a cumbersome process to manually import all the cbr files into the comic reader app. Same for my video files.

Plus like. Just the lack of options in general. It felt like I was in an airport -- Stuck in an, admittedly nice, environment and only having access to whatever overpriced products existed inside that environment.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 18 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Probably the iPad

Got it for free from a relative who had bought a newer model (he always has the latest iShit)

Played around with it for a week

Sure. It's smooth. That screen was drop dead gorgeous.

.... And yet everything I tried to do on the thing felt like I was fighting against it. Everything was restrained and needlessly clunky. It made me think "golly gee, windows cooperates more"

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 7 points 5 months ago

That looks like Mario Land

Which is actually pretty okay

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 8 points 5 months ago

Reminds me of this tumblr heritage post

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 4 points 5 months ago

Large emotion

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 9 points 5 months ago

I wash. With water. At least when home

Toilet paper destroys my arse

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 20 points 5 months ago

Marx also quite enjoyed Madonna

Madonna: "We are living in a material world, and I am a material girl."

Marx: writing down his theories on historical-dialetical materialism

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 4 points 5 months ago

Both a thing to think about...

.... And the entire plot of Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW Comics, 2017) summarised in a single sentence.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 9 points 5 months ago

Because the people who care already know, and the people who don't know don't care, being somewhere between 'apathetic about the US descent into fascism' (they might be foreigners, or Americans who are alienated), and 'actively supportive of this descent into fascism'.

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