Been putting this off for too long, but tbh Google has completely wrecked the Android experience. I'll be switching to linux for my desktop this year to avoid win 11, and I guess I'll be using custom roms for mobile.

I'm torn on this. I believe nuclear is an import part of clean energy and should be used. At the same time, I know in the US energy companies are generally private companies, meaning they care about profits more than anything else. Nuclear power plants can be run safely, but I have no faith the an American company WILL run them safely. When the choice is saving some money or raising risk by 1%, most companies will take the small amount of risk to save the money. With a nuclear plant, that should never happen.

It is because while they hate Jews, they love Israel. The biggest reason is the evangelicals think Israel has to take back all the land before the rapture can happen. So they are big Israel supporters. Mind you when the rapture happens, all the jews die and go to hell, and they are 100% OK with that.

This is what it has come to? We will scan for antisemitic activity, but nothing else? So if you post about supporting killing all Muslims, that is not a red flag they are looking for? I can understand wanting to look for anti-american sentiment (not agree with it, but at least understand it). But looking for anti-Israel sentiment and nothing else just says that Israel is running things for the US. How about any type of violence related activity toward anyone?

I use Notes with my Dovecot IMAP server. It works, but sync is oftentimes VERY slow. You can speed it up by going to the calendar app and refreshing the calendars (which is odd, because my calendars are on a totally separate CALDAV server).

It's been like this for many years. I realize I'm in the minority of notes users but reporting the bug doesn't seem to help much either.

This is absolutely reminiscent of when Wheatley got control of Aperture Science in Portal 2. Good job, AI companies, you're cracked the moron problem.

This is peak enshittification- ads for most people are annoying at best, absolutely jarring at worst, especially for people who are neurodivergent and just want to listen to an ambient soundscape or the same song on loop for 20 minutes. Hopefully adblocking tech keeps up, as otherwise, it's just unusable. (Or other video sharing platforms will start cropping up. Or, you know, we all go back to bittorrent for our media.)

That article is 12 years old. Today, the IRS is a shell of itself since they cut everything Biden did to expand it. Sure, if you get audited you might get busted, but the chance of getting busted is incredibly slim at this point.

This was always so scammy and it messed up any apples to apples comparisons. "oh just $60 a night sounds like a good deal...$1500 cleaning fee".

I mean at the end of the day, 'nothing personal' still feels bloody personal when it's a fundamentally exclusionary practice, and in alignment with this administration's massively anti-autism bent. When RFK goes out and says that autistic people will never have jobs, it emboldens businesses to stop accommodating autistic employees' needs. IT is one of the few lucrative careers neurodivergent people actually tend to do really well at, and blocking them out of it is just a step in the wrong direction. When I worked in IT, I made six figures. Now that I'm out, only place I could find that'd actually accommodate me was a nonprofit, and the wages there are a pittance. My mental health's great, but I'm poor.

I'm an autistic adult who's done both the office thing and the wfh thing, and honestly, the best is WFH for a lot of reasons. First off, there's no stupid, pointless conversations that just serve to completely derail me. (I remember there was a secretary who would pop by my desk several times a day just to make chit chat, drove my insane as I'd be neck deep in complex work and it takes a long time for me to retrace my thoughts) While Zoom meetings can be exhausting, I'd take them any day over in person meetings where I feel there's this constant need to make eye contact and be 'normal' even as my skin feels like it's crawling. I have a lot more control over my sensory environment at home, so I can actually focus. I don't have to go play peacemaker between neurotypical employees who are playing BS politics, or deal with petty drama. Working from home, I go at my own pace, which usually looks like 2-3 hours of really concentrated, hyperfocused work, then a few hours of relaxing, then back to 2-3 hours of hyperfocus- often getting the same amount of work done that my non-autistic employees would do in the office (or hell, sometimes outpacing them and getting all my tasks done by Tuesday.) I think there's going to be a big push to show that autism is a deficit, and that autistic people fail in work, and removing the ability to WFH is a guaranteed way to show that's true. We can get the work done great, but working in the office drives us insane.

What bumps us off may not be an active gene but the consequence of NOT running the same genes when we are younger. This is why Yamacka factors reverse aging in laboratory cells and make this author a crackpot who disagrees with nobel prize winning science.

Just because there isn't a culture of punch down humor like on X, doesn't mean there's no comedy. Although I will say the feel is that of a digital refugee camp- A lot of people there are folks who are pissed off at what's happening to the country, so there's less humorous content, and more news discussion. Will say the engagement on Bluesky feels a lot more like old Twitter- fewer bots, lot faster follower count (I'm about to hit 7k), and more people actually wanting to talk instead of just spewing content or self promotion.

They are on a binary, but it is "Trump good, democrats bad". There isn't much thought beyond that. Trump said these cuts were good, so they must be good. Other people, who must be democrats because they oppose Trump, say the cuts are not good, so those people are bad. At now point does looking at the cuts and seeing what they actually are ever come into it.

Messages "delete" always says it will delete from all devices but never does. It can take HOURS for a device that was dead/off/disconnected to "catch up" with the global state of an iMessage count. Search is *horribly* broken (Chatology used to be a great third party tool for that but was discontinued). If you're scrolling back looking for a message and you receive a new one from the same person the UI jumps to the new message. They removed the two-finger slide left to reveal message time, instead opting for a two finger tap "show times" that disappears after you send another message.

There are so many dumb little bugs in the OS and they persist for years. Sadly, they're still (IMO) the best compared to the alternatives.