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They do look extremely cute though.

Health is a spectrum. Perfect health and being free from illness/sickness are different states. At least according to this guy and some other people.

I would argue perfect health doesn’t exist, but there’s a certain point people can reach where they are perceived as healthy by others. Especially when it comes to mental health. Really comes down to the question of what “health” means and if treatment is necessary.

edit: my personal definition of unhealth is the inability of an organism to regulate itself.

Calyx is not as degoogled as it claims to be (at least it wasn’t 2 years ago, see below). I know this is a bold claim, but the only ROM comparable with Graphene was DivestOS, which was a one human project and was dicontinued last year. And even Divest had the problem where updates were delayed by a few days or weeks.

Obligatory eylenburg link, and there’s this blogpost I like to link to. It’s written in German, but I’m sure it’s a good read if you put it through a translator.

Take this with a grain of salt since it’s been two years since this blogpost was published.

Here I deleted a whole paragraph in which I sounded like a Graphene elitist haha. I would say using CalyxOS is a lot better than stock Android or Lineage. Please don’t choose your OS based on vibes. If you need any of the features Graphene offers that others don’t, please use it (edit: like the protester mentioned in the article). If you don’t, don’t.

I agree, Graphene is not for everyone, and what you wrote is a perfectly fine opinion when it comes to privacy- and security-focused daily driver OS’s for smartphones. If you’re a protester or a journalist though, it’s all or nothing. There are no alternatives, no compromises that can be made. If you use a smartphone you are at risk, even if it’s a Pixel with GrapheneOS.

Graphene has decided to instead frame everything that isn’t a Pixel running Graphene as universally bad.

They did say on several occasions that they would support other phones if they weren’t locked down (Samsung) and commended the security of upcoming Mediatek and Qualcomm chips.

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A seam ripper from my ex’s mother, if that counts. I’ve kept it in my little sewing box for a little over 10 years now.

Loving the jpeg artifacts in this. They add a lot to the experience.

There’s this 15 minute video on the topic. It’s been a while since I watched it, but I think it was good.

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I just don’t like the premise of a market where one has to sell their artistic labor in order to survive, or thrive. I’m on board with noncommercial licenses and everything because the reality looks different, but that was not my point. And neither was it the point of the original comment you replied to.

The problem with copyright/data ownership is that it’s useless if you’re unable to enforce it. Data is replicable, doesn’t matter if you call it “work” or “ideas”. Do you think you own the text you just wrote? Let me show you something.

There. I just stole your text. I stole it. I own it now. It’s mine now. What are you gonna do about it?

Instead there is no stealing when it comes to information, there’s only replication, there’s only copying.

I agree with you, corpos shouldn’t have this amount of power. But you won’t get there by trying to protect the work of artists writers etc with the exact same scheme corpos pulled to protect their power and interests. Like, it didn’t work, did it? No copyright for me, thanks

If it’s really just pictures and contacts, do it manually. Contacts app should have an export function. Pictures you can just copy via USB.

Messages are usually cloud-stored nowadays right? Do you have more than idk 5 different messaging apps? If you don’t, and one or some of them for some reason don’t store messages on some server, find out if you can do it manually, most apps should have export/import functionality (not just messaging apps btw). For standard SMS though, no idea.

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I don’t feel bad either, but I kinda understand why people do stupid shit like that, from a personal point of view plus I have some hypothesis about extreme (EG carnivorous) diets in men. I believe it’s an eating disorder in a lot of cases, manifesting in a way that’s more difficult to grasp than “simple” bulimia, anorexia or orthorexia. For the outsider it’s a seemingly arbitrary dietary restriction, from the inside it’s most likely something a lot more complex. Dunno if there are any studies on this.

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Stellaris suffers from a lot of simplification. The ethicsand civics lack nuance, and megacorps are just reskinned oligarchies etc etc I bet other people could come up with tons of other examples.

But that’s the goal. Stellaris is not a space civilization simulation game, it’s one half 4x one half roleplaying with a distinct style and flavour and kinda rigid mechanics.

Every time I touch Stellaris I realize that I’m severely disappointment with it.

A question I have in general to people on this post: how to do it “better”? Like how do you represent societal evolution on alien worlds? whatever “better” means

(On a side note, off topic too, I really dislike the species classes. They would work much better with a tag system. For a more realistic, less carbon chauvinist and maybe kinda cool approach, you could differentiate species by their biochemistry. But this is outside of Stellaris’ scope and I think I would enjoy a more esoteric and creative approach like in Endless Space 2

edit: Spore was worse lol)