Something I wish I understood a lot sooner in life.

As I get older, “it depends” is so often the answer to so many questions.

Beautiful images!

Definitely feeling this one these days. Thanks for sharing

In other news, water is wet.

Quite frankly, fuck Branch. I use the DDG app on my phone to block app tracking, and Branch is regularly at the top of the list. If they made a search engine it would likely be tracking as much or more than Google is.

DESCRIPTION Lavender is an AI system that produces lists of Palestinians to be targeted for assassination by the Israeli military “with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties”, according to +972 Magazine.

Big yikes.

I have a free account and can’t turn off the mobile signature, which has two blank lines before it. I wonder if turning that setting off just deletes that string, but not the lines.

I heard video killed the radio star.

So, I see this comment a lot, but am always a little confused. Are other phone manufacturers not doing those same things? Is there solid evidence that Google, Samsung, or the 1,000s of random Chinese offerings are better in that regard? Why call out iPhones when all smartphones use essentially the same materials and will inevitably be e-waste in less than a decade?

You’re using Linux. It took me about an hour to create a script that will upgrade all packages, Snaps, and flatpaks, complete with flavor text. The fact that I could do that, with total control over how and when to run those updates, is still a killer feature to me.