I just got a new phone and I’m trying Kvaesitso to move away from Nova, but I just can’t get used to it.

I think I just really like the paradigm of having a ‘desktop’ where I can freely arrange my most used apps in a specific layout, and Kvaesitso - by intentional design choice - doesn’t allow it.

It’s a shame for me because I love the ethos, I love the open-source approach, and I love that it’s a wholly original launcher - rather than a fork of the stock or anything else.

For some it’s the perfectl launcher I’m sure, but to me it’s like even after I unlock the device I’m still stuck in something that feels like a lock screen to me, and I feel weirdly trapped and claustrophobic.

Not sure why it makes me feel that way, but it does!

Yet. It won’t stop them from trying.

Literally the only sane way to run Windows is fully offline

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Sadly, yes.

What it comes down to is that any product or service with a profit incentive will inevitably betray you, no matter how good or how well-intentioned it started out.

Our only saviour is open source, self hosting, and federation.

It’s why ownership rather than rental is the model we should all individually be pursuing.

Absolutely.

This just means “We pushed our crap too fast and people noticed, so we’re letting things cool off slightly to quiet down the critics, and next time we’ll boil the frog more slowly.”

Yes ❤️

Made tech support confusing.

“Okay, so open My Computer”

“Your computer?”

"No, your ‘My Computer’ "

Seriously though!

Textural variation makes food interesting for the mouth. That’s why fresh, crisp lettuce is so good in a sandwich - not because lettuce tastes of anything, but because it gives that satisfying crunch.

Texture is why we put croutons in soup, and why we sprinkle crispy onions on a hot-dog.

I’ve never eaten a toast sandwich, but if all I had left in the house was bread and butter, it might be quite fun to try.

Sandussy

Gooning is a more specific subtype of masturbation.

Masturbating is the act of physically stimulating one’s happy parts, solo. It may involve porn, or it may just depend purely on the physical sensation to lead to orgasm.

Gooning has a much closer association with visual stimulation because one would generally goon at something or to something. It also has a strong implication that it usually lasts for a long while; that the point of gooning is to stretch out the pleasure as much as possible and to push away all thoughts until you are nothing but a drooling mess of ecstacy.

So it really is quite different.

I made a helpful table

I watched a youtube a while back that posited a version of the Bourne Identity where we see the whole thing from Jason’s perspective only, learning things as he learns them, going on that journey with him. And it honestly feels like the version of the movie that should have been, but never was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdcSFsQRsnc

I’ve not read the books or seen the movies or anything, so I don’t have a clue what Edward is like.

The ‘minor’ issue is one thing (eek) but if I had the power of telepathy, I can only assume I’d be pretty fascinated by someone I couldn’t read.

Human interaction is kinda built on the supposition that you can choose what you share with others and keep private things private, and getting to know people is the process of getting comfortable in sharing more about ourselves. We feel happy around our friends because we feel we have a sense of them and know them, and that’s an earned process.

If you always knew what anyone was thinking, it would make life very bland.

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The ‘game’ is playing with your mod load order until you find a combination that doesn’t crash.

Then you add more mods and play the ‘game’ again.

Right, but the person I replied to said it was for stress relief [only] - as if to invalidate by omission the original assertion that it’s for controlling fill level.

I pointed out the article supports both positions, and I did that for the benefit of people who might not read the article to see as such, and would otherwise take the comment to mean the article is in complete contradiction to the OP rather than partially contradicting and partially agreeing.

I don’t really have any personal stake or care about who as individuals are right or wrong in this, but I would like to get to the bottom of the milk dimple mystery. On that basis I’m not sure I know the truth even after reading the article, because it seems to be one of those things with a lot of myth behind it and not a lot of definitive sources.

That very same article also does say however:

On top of that, the indentation allows the manufacturer to precisely control the volume that the jug can hold.

What happened was centralisation.

We moved from a web made up of lots of tiny websites hosted by individuals, to one of corporate-contolled mainstream social media.

And yes - those sites don’t want any objectionable content because that’s not good for revenue.

It’s censorship, but only made possible because we all collectively decided we would spend our entire Internet browsing time on the same five massive websites, and let them control what we see.

Please stop putting stuff that sounds like police or ambulance sirens in your music, thanks in advance