Just a guy shilling for gun ownership, tech privacy, and trans rights.

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Cake day: December 21st, 2023

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  • I’m a week into using GrapheneOS and its been great. It is a little restrictive in that I seem to have to explicitly allow apps to run and apps like my Bank app or Spotify don’t work.

    However, most apps are just Web Apps at this point and I’ve noticed very little difference in the use of the app versus the pinned browser version.

    I’m also trying to curb a phone addiction so Graphene + Lemmy + Mastodon + Jellyfin is all I’m using on this thing.

    I assume google headphones would cease to work if I degoogle the device

    I’m using my Pixel Buds. They work just as well. Remember, its just a Bluetooth device just without all the QOL stuff like voice control.

    I recommend trying it. Graphene OS install also has instruction ions to revert if you change your mind. And it’s pretty easy. Maybe a touch harder than installing Linux generally, but if your dailying Debian, you’re fine.


  • I got my Vasectomy at 26. I wanted it sooner, but insurance sucks.

    I believe firmly that regret is something you make yourself feel or are made to feel. So your family members don’t regret having kids because they haven’t been made to regret that decision.

    I haven’t told my family about my snip because I think they would have tried to make me regret it.

    That makes sense to me because they want that constant reassurance that their decision was correct. So someone NOT making that decision means it may not have been correct.

    If you wanna talk about it more, I’d happily chat with you and be the support you’re not getting.





  • I am personally a huge fan of taking advantage of wealthy people.

    You don’t really have iPhone 16 pro Max and Air pods money to throw away like this without having a one sided relationship with labor, in my opinion.

    But that’s my cynical leftist view.

    I imagine the biggest reason to not keep it is fear of your son getting spoiled or demanding gifts from you that are this same caliber.

    However, he is 16. Certainly not the most rational age for many people, but he can understand the difference in financial statuses between you and his friend.

    I think it would be distressing for you to take away this expensive thing on the grounds of “we’re too poor to have nice things” especially since it was a gift from his best friend. But having that discussion of “hey don’t let that get to your head. I still love you I just could not afford such an expensive gift. Here’s a vague breakdown of our expenses”

    My dad had a similar discussion with me when I was getting ready to go to college the first time and he flat out told me how much he and mom made and broke down where the money goes. It really helped me understand our economic position instead of just assuming my parents made a good amount of money (they didn’t)















  • I’m a fan generally of LLMs for work, but only if you’re already an expert or well versed at all in whatever you’re doing with the model because it isn’t trust worthy.

    If you’re using a model to code you better already know how that language works and how to debug it because the AI will just lie.

    If you need it to make an SOP then you better already have an idea for what that operation looks like because it will just lie.

    It speeds up the work process by instantly doing the tedious parts of jobs, but it’s worthless if you can’t verify the accuracy. And I’m worried people don’t care about the accuracy.