alex-esc's old account @alexesc@librem.one

#WritingPrompts:
Those medieval cat paintings with strangely human like faces, with sad and dejected expressions. The faces don't match the cats, and always seem to be at the wrong angle as if the face wasn't part of the original picture. This is because they weren't part of the original picture. Those faces belong to the people whose souls were trapped inside the paintings by an evil wizard.

society? never heard of her

@Ophillous

Sometimes I wonder at the strange paths travelled by introductory coursebooks, who get bought in order to be read once, then sold to the next crop of students who only read it once, then resold to the next-

The books themselves do not speak of these travels. They merely carry the scars

straight men have sex like they're going for the any% pb

The worst genre on YouTube are the YouTubers who just get Siri to read fake Reddit stories and then record and upload them

#software I like, just out of my mind:

- Calibre
- Zotero
- beet
- youtube-dl
- firefox (i love the screenshot feature)

what's yours?

I respect people who watch the superbowl for the commercials way, way, way less than I respect people who watch the superbowl bc they want to watch some football

Ford vs. Ferrari

@lain Purism are just trying to go too fast. Fantastic concept, but the market for more open components is hot garbage.

That said Purism have contributed a lot of software and are putting in tons of effort it seems. So even if their PR is a disaster, there's good intentions behind it.

But it's just flat out going to be too expensive and/or difficult to do both software and hardware in one go.

The Librem 5 is the more "complete solution" right now but they're doing so by brute force.

Pinephone is providing cheaper and more accessible hardware which will probably do much more good long-term.

The best strategy imo is to get a solid software base whatever sacrifices must be made, then slowly but gradually replace components revision by revision until who knows, maybe one day there's a Pinephone 10 that's actually fully open.

But trying to solve software and hardware by brute force is ridiculous, while Purism have mostly proven that it is possible, it seems far from sustainable. But who knows, I'd happily like to see them prove me wrong

@jackdaw_ruiz @flowless Thicc = mc^2

can you imagine being coerced into a career? I'm so glad that that doesn't happen in America

anyway, learn to code or you'll probably starve to death

lol

im a real life tutorial character. they never wrote me any motivations or relationships but by god will i tell you everything i know if you ask the right question

somewhere at this very moment a grad student is sitting in an ai lab somewhere teaching robots to feel shame

@whiskeysailor

Imagine trying to live out your partner's fantasy of being one of two gym bros who explore the intense sexual tension between them but then you can't get past saying 'nice dick, bro" because the specter of masculinity has haunted you your entire life

Rich Evans (character on red letter media not the real person) - lesbian