Some phone apps do display the link url below the post body. I use voyager and it looks like this

Are these things tiny or is there just a weirdly large bowl for display to make them look like cereal for… reasons…?

Sure, if there’s one available that can function as a daily driver and is user-repairable when I need a new phone. Or if more devices get support for alternate privacy-focused OS options, a used phone could be a real possibility.

But I might not bother with a smartphone at all if there aren’t better choices than now. I have a host of other things I can use to browse the internet and do most stuff I presently do on this tiny screen, and I’ve cut way way back from how much I even use this. Only issue would be GPS, but old devices work for that just as well as newer ones, as long as you download the maps.

Cool. Idk why you are ranting at me about it tho. Like I don’t even like my phone outside of a few neat or well-done things it can do.

Does that include the 8 up by “moves” in the preceding paragraph?

I assume the bolded superscript numbers are verse numbers, I know at least that much of biblical format, but then there’s that 8.

So there’s like 3+ types of annotations and… that’s confusing…

Ok. I mean sure. But since it’s there, I like the workaround. It makes useful space that’s seamlessly integrated and thus doesn’t feel like wasted space. I don’t feel like there’s a camera cluster there wasting my screen space. Because that part of my notification bar has always been empty (I genuinely hate notification clutter, so on android my top bar was always basically empty just like this is)

I’m willing to make sacrifices as long as they are done well, and compared to every phone I’d had before this one, it’s nice to see it used. It compares favorably to my past experiences.

I’m not an apple person, this is the only Apple device I’ve ever had, other than a first(?) generation 2gb iPod way back in the day, and I don’t plan to get another walled garden device. So not fanboying or anything, and I have far more complaints than praises for this pos, but it’s a good way to wrestle back a bit of space without having to make any major design changes. I’m ok with that.

What’s with the weird italics and random faint superscript letters? I’m not well versed on that sort of thing, but linguistically it makes no sense that I can see…? I assume some sort of index or something for the superscript but it also has numerical superscript…?

I gotta say I do love the little Dynamic Island thing, it’s a genuinely good and novel use of what would otherwise be dead space, and it works like absolute magic. I’ve never had an iPhone before this one, and I certainly won’t have another one after it, but that’s one of the few features I genuinely enjoy.

That said, now that I know about this, the moment something tries to send notifications through it not related to what’s actively happening on my device, whatever app will be immediately uninstalled. I haven’t come across that yet since I try to avoid most apps, and almost all of them have notifications disabled, but I absolutely wouldn’t keep something that uses that space for something unimportant. Or even worse, ads.

My pihole used to thoroughly block stuff on IMDB, but I had to rebuild it when my sd card failed, and since then it’s been much less reliable. I’m not really sure what’s going on with it, but meh, I’ll get around to messing with it eventually. Adblocking is ime pretty hit or miss on iOS browsers, so that was basically the only thing I used, so pretty frustrating experience now.

I’m just gunna go ahead and take this opportunity to encourage everyone out there who needs to register for mail-in voting to go ahead and do that. Do it right now. And remember to send it back early or drop it off in person.

If you (reader, not necessarily OP) are in Wisconsin, you can go to myvote.wi.gov and request absentee ballots for every election of the year, no reason required, but this must be done every single year. If you aren’t already registered to vote, you can also do that online at the same link.

Technically Plex is a paid service (that I wouldn’t recommend) but I have had a lifetime pass for over a decade so… if that doesn’t count, zero.

I’ve started full-on blocking domains on my pihole for websites that have started to host their own intrusive/tracking ads, break due to other ad domains being blocked, have non-bypassable adblock blocker, or whatever other anti-choice nonsense. Like IMDb won’t load content with the ad elements blocked, so IMDb is just blocked as a whole. Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

Hasn’t been a substantial degradation in experience, if I’m being honest. Barely even notice it outside of one-off searches and stuff, and having to find a new source of info about what I’m watching (if anyone has recommendations, I’d love them!!)

Is it too much to hope this dog has a microchip and they can arrest the owner for animal abuse or something?

Who am I kidding, anyone willing to do something like that wouldn’t be responsible enough to chip unless it’s required… (edit: article also says no chip :( )

Same here, it takes a fair bit of thinking, but can be done. Some people think it’s funny/sad that it needs processing time, but I never practice the skill, because I really never need to, so who cares? It’s never been something that has made intuitive sense to me, and has always been a struggle, but there have been digital alternatives nearly my entire life which are now far more common, so why bother getting better?

I keep my heat set to 60f/15.55c and use heated mattress pads on my bed and couch to make it tolerable. It has been between -7f/-21.7c and 24f/-4.4c this week, and it gets colder, usually mid January.

The cost to increase my heat from those temps to a somewhat more comfortable temp is literally hundreds of us dollars per month in gas (in addition to just getting to those temps from the outside temp), where the heated pads running 24/7 increase my electric bill by only a dollar or two a month (hydroelectric in my case, so hands down better, price difference aside).

The difference in operating costs is insane between heating an airspace and heating a body.

Heated blankets are a bit of a different thing; iirc they get warmer because they are meant to be above you, but could work the same way with that properly taken into consideration. You don’t get the sudden warm most of the time when using them under you, but it does help keep your core temp up. So lovely!

Wouldn’t the pp edition of Pokémon white be Pokémon yellow?

Fortunately Wisconsin has had the UP for weed for quite a while, and the market up there is so heavily saturated that it’s cheap as hell even with the road trip factored in. Half of Wisconsin has billboards saying shit like “legal weed is how close??” And then the distance to the dispensary being advertised. Southern Wisconsin is doing better now that states around those borders are legal, though, so yay!

It’s so absurd that it’s not legal here, when it’s illegal on paper only due to widespread availability close to the borders. We very quickly lost our chance to be major players in the industry regionally. Like there’s no massive tax money to be had from legalizing here now because they would still be competing with states that have a mature market and thus significantly lower prices. So dumb and shortsighted.

I take it you don’t live in the sort of place where winter means it’s dry as hell for months such that using a dryer box (basically a trap filled with water to catch lint, but exhausting the damp air into the living space) is desirable?

A wall mounted dryer like this would actually be great in my space. We don’t have them here afaik, but it would allow me to put my dryer box in line with the units rather than taking up extra space off to the side like the stacked configuration needs.

Haha I’ve always kinda wanted to live somewhere that random animals in the bowl is a thing that happens. Not because it sounds fun, it doesn’t, but because it sounds interesting and unique. I’m sure that would wear off quick the first time I was desperate to use the toilet and found something that didn’t belong, but still :p

I’ve always been a lid fully closed person because of animals. The water here is bad enough that the toilet tank needs water treatment pucks, and those chemicals shouldn’t be consumed by pets.

It has been such a fucking struggle with the men who visit or live with me. And it makes absolutely no sense other than just being lazy and inconsiderate.

Whenever I go to someone else’s place, I leave the lid the same way I found it, or if I can’t remember how I found it, fully closed is safest (hardly anyone gets upset by that). That’s the polite thing to do. But that’s apparently just too much for lots of dudes. They come into the home of a woman who lives alone and leave the bathroom the way they want it with zero regard for who actually lives there.

They get one talking to about it, then I start slamming the lid down behind them every time they use it, very passive aggressively. These are all adults, they shouldn’t need more than one request to put the seat back how they found it. It doesn’t take them super long to figure it out, but WAY LONGER THAN IT SHOULD! If they can’t figure it out within a couple days/visits, they don’t get to be there anymore. I can’t afford emergency vet appointments for something that shouldn’t even be a problem.

I had one ex, in his 30s, mind, who was so inconsiderate about it for such a long time that I drew Reddit up and downvotes on the tank and lid (he was always on Reddit, so downvote on the lid, upvote on the tank), to indicate displeasure with the lid being left up. That worked, believe it or not… in a really disgustingly childish sort of way. Depressing to have to resort to such nonsense just for a safe environment for everyone who actually lives there (he did not, just extended visits)… that dude is also why I have no patience for this shit anymore, and simply disallow people who can’t respect my home. I shouldn’t have to do that.