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I refuse to go running with a phone - too heavy, and too distracting, running outside is one of the few places I _escape_ the phone for a bit. So I made sure to get a fitness track…

My cats rarely chew, either dry or wet food, even treats they inhale and swallow without chewing. If I want them to chew, I have to give them meat trimmings or something large enou…

And I just bought a Garmin Forerunner 55, too. I'm still within the return period, will have to consider this...

I got Robert Fitzgerald, wish it would tell me which passages were by which authors after I finished though ah, it does, to an extent at least - about 2/3rds down the front page, c…

This is a nice idea but I think practically the shift will come not from instituting gender-affirming nomenclature but rather redefining male biases. The idea of being involved in …

My thoughts were along this line too. Being laid off is unfortunate, but being laid off after making $500k/yr for a mid-level managerial position is a karmic self-correction. The o…

For me, the hard-and-fast ruleset is implemented from an ideological perspective rather than a technical one. Stipulated, UE5 games can be fun and certain genres suffer less from u…

For me this falls apart on the consumer side of things. UE5 games are manifestly lower quality than games built on custom engines. Optimization is especially worse. UE5's performan…

There was probably a case to be made for this stance when systemd was very new and getting shoehorned everywhere but increasingly I don't see the point I think the issue people too…

I do still enjoy the odd >30 day uptime on my PC. Usually only reboot when a new kernel version is cut. I used to reboot into every kernel patch but often I leave .0 running for a …

Here's RuneScape 2 in a browser: https://2004.lostcity.rs/client?world=2&detail=high&method=0

I respect what Valve is doing here and I loved the Steam Deck but a prebuilt desktop PC with 16 GB system memory and 512 GB storage for $1,000+ is insulting. Those are specs that b…

From the two pictures I hadn't inferred that it was specifically a preponderance, hence naïveté of my original conclusion

Ah, is that why... I noticed this too but assumed it was due to some communist ideal of gender equality leading to more women tradespeople, wishful thinking I guess

It seems that way, marketing page claims broad support incl. VoLTE which bodes well for US compatibility, however I noticed this in the FAQ: Q: What network bands are supported? A:…

> we ordered a Commodore-branded Sailfish-OS phone from an ODM Is this true? I did some research on flip phones the other week and I didn't turn up anything running Sailfish. Optio…

This occurs for me on desktop as well (Firefox, Linux)

I'd be concerned a kid would lose this. Sure it's got Find My but that only tells you where it's at, doesn't guarantee retrieveability. Also do you need an iPhone to manage the kid…

I'll never, ever forgive Google for killing the "Basic HTML View" client mode for Gmail.

Ah, for some reason I figured this was a minor bug that'd be fixed eventually. Wayland windows are never allowed to spawn always-on-top? Sort of lame. If the logic is that it's the…

Still painfully sloppified and hard to read. They must have let it terraform the entire text without setting any expectations. Em-dashes for emphasis and punchy short sentences abo…

I bought two LCD models before the OLED came out and have constantly bounced between buyer's remorse (I only use one of them) and feeling okay about this decision. Currently, I'm f…

> as a longtime frequenter of r/unixporn, it was immediately apparent to me that omarchy is not a linux distribution in any traditional sense I'm not sure why "I browse reddit" is …

Closed-source/proprietary and downstream of Chrom* so contributes to browser monoculture. Thanks but no thanks, I'm sticking with Firefox.