Year of the linux 14yrs ago? Dude, linux is taking off for sure. Thanks to steam though. Of my 20 machines at home, only 2 are windows (server2025) and just vms.
And there are actual linux-phones. With linux on it. They might not be at their peak yet, but if it gets the basics done, I'm fine. The moment my pixel finally dies, I'll get one. Screw android (well, screw google, android was fine), and screw apple even more. Closed up walled gardens aren't my thing. I want to OWN a device not rent it and pay 1500 moneyz to be allowed to use it, and then even pay rent with my data.
As for phones doing things i dont like: no. If an appliance does things i don't like, i don't use it or sandbox it or firewall it off. I surveilled graphene for a while now and it really does not send more than it says it does. As for installed apps, that's my responsibility.
Have to have a "clean" fucking unrooted android-phone for banking- and depot-apps though and one for android-auto. Three phones. So shitty it has become. three expensive stupid phones to do what one should be able to do.
Hehe, yeah. i have that as a reflex. ducking whenever i go through a door. because i bumped my cute lil bald head way too often and learned the hard way :)
But given the choice, I'd rather be shorter. like 1,6m or so. That'd be optimal.
There's a third and fourth camp though. People just don't care. GrapheneOS and the other degoogled androids, or Linux phones.
And another store managing your elsewhere installed apps does benefit them. Data, pure lovely nice data. For free. From people who pay to do so.
Having one company fuck my privacy sideways is already enough, but companies competing against each other in the very same hardware is way too much for my liking.
Oh yes...in some buildings, where the ceiling is very close to my head, I feel very cramped and hate it.
Had to move through cellars where I had to basically crouch. Ugh.
I could also kill you with a pencil. But comparing LLM to a gun just because 0.00000001% of all "AI"-talks lead to suicide? While probably a very large percentage of guns lead to death, because that's basically their primary use-case.
An LLM is not sentient nor intelligent. It tells you what you want to hear and makes tons of mistakes. It's a tool that certainly has more useful applications than guns have.
We actually have videogames censored because one dude killed someone after playing doom.
So computers kinda did. And obviously it isn't the fault of the computer. Same with the suicide-pushing. No healthy person would do what a stupid machine says.
As usual, people using things of which they know nothing about and were never educated.
Totally tired. And they're Mostly exactly into the very same thing, they so despise publicly. "The hub"...bet this douche uses it more than the Lil hero here.
Oh yes...if I'm alone noone ever talks to me (resting bitch-face-syndrome), but when I'm shopping with wifey, I get asked at least once per trip to fetch shit off a shelf.
But also yes, exclusively women or handicapped men. A "normal" guy would probably rather die than ask another guy for help.
Wifey rarely asks though, she actually prefers a step-stool or whatever before asking for help.
But seriously...beside the silly "men shall be tall" (why even? To protect others from lions?) There aren't many benefits to being taller than average.
And my largest downside: I'd love a woman that's taller than me. But there aren't many...
I actually did not know nor ever noticed in TNG. Now I will eagle-eye that the next run 😁
Though, if I were bound to a screen to do the things and the whole ship is steady in flight, touch would be fine. But in a car, where I need to focus on everything around me EXCEPT the touchscreen, well...
Ugh, boring. Bye.