paranoid linux sadgirl with impostor syndrome

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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • I held onto my Sony XZ2c for months after calls stopped working on it after the US 3G shutdown. I got a flip phone for making calls.

    The worst part? The XZ2c has VoLTE calling capability, but all the US phone companies refuse to support it on their networks.

    Now I’m begrudgingly using a OnePlus 6 and praying that I don’t drop the massive thing >:[

    Basically, even if we want to use aging tech we’re held hostage by telecom companies, who obviously would prefer to rope people into new devices on credit plans. ARGH





  • i wonder how much of the Empathy for Cute Animals but Not Humans effect is due to not many people having bad experiences with cute animals but plenty of bad experiences with humans

    I, however, have the unique privilege of having had a sister who owned a deranged rabbit that she let roam the house. I once woke up from a nap to it biting me hard enough to draw blood. That thing was a furry asshole.

    What little unrepressed memories of Watership Down I have seem to corroborate that rabbits are surprisingly violent…








  • i had some good times squeezing every last package down to the bare minimum and watching my RAM and CPU utilization approach 0% via the resource monitor widget for tint2

    only to have the laptop crash from tying to get a little too creative with fractals in Synfig :]