I struggle to find Tsingtao anywhere locally outside of aaian restaurant. It’s tied for my favorite beer with Singha which I also struggle to find…

The finish on these cybertrucks are so bad. Looks worse than the paint on a 20yo Civic that spent it’s life in Arizona…

F-Droid or Obtainium for applications. Decouple and log out from the Play Store, if you need a proprietary app there’s proxying through the Aurora Store.

For PS2 emulation, theres the NetherSX2/GrindrSX2 community that picked up where the AetherSX2 left off. For streaming it’ll depend on what service you’re using. F-Droid has alot of Youtube Frontends.

Same, and besides the crap that Windows comes with (that thankfully my work’s group policies disable most of it) they took away my top taskbar. A feature in Windows for as long as I can remember and IMO looked clean and was more functional was taken away by Win 11.

Thankfully at home I can take solace in my Linux and MacOS enviroments. Wish my job would let me just run Debian or Fedora/Red Hat for work. Everything is a web application anyways.

God I hate gambling and casinos with a passion. And since I live and work near casinos I have to deal with coworkers either bragging about how much they pissed away that weekend or getting invited to go piss away money at these predatory businesses.

To be honest, if I didn’t live in Amerikkka and instead somewhere where Ladas were common I’d do it. Aesthetic, simple, cheap, and no built in capitalist spyware.

“Who pays for the guns? The ammo? Pennington says guardians can use the stipend to buy firearms.”

What are they going to be using? Hi Point or some cheap .22 hunting rifle? $500 ain’t alot for firearms. I mean, it’s an horrible idea that either places dangerous armed facists in schools or provides more cranking pressure on schools.

In some places in America they still count if they were ‘unexcused’ (ie no doctors note, even if your kid was sick) and parents taken to truancy court. I remember some friends growing up that had to fight that because they didn’t have the money to see the doctor over every sick day.

Kind of forgot TekSyndicate still existed after Qain and Wendell left years ago.

But yeah, Windows seems to always get worse. Even 11 has gotten worse as it’s been out. I hate dealing with it when I help my partner out with her pc.

I used them during covid, not specifically to avoid the virus (because I know it just passes the risk along), but because I was in the beginning of my transition in an unfriendly state so did not want to undo all of my work to boymode and at the time I was more financially stable so I could afford it. Always tipped well too.

For the average situation it doesn’t make alot of sense.

Also Capitalism trying to shoehorn AI into every product possible. Why does my work software need an AI built in? It won’t help us employees or the company, what would help is to fuck off with the ‘do more with less’ and pay us more. But no, someone somewhere got paid to add a worthless implementation of AI to our software.

Gin, if you can’t handle straight gin then a gin and tonic. I feel like it’d be the right headspace drink for flying. Clean and proper.

Transmission has been my goto torrenting program since uTorrent went to shit years and years ago.

It’s dead simple, no extra frills, runs on pretty much anything, and has a web server interface that you can bind to so whenever I click a magnet link it’ll start downloading to my home server.

I’d imagine because when a helicopter is going down is absolutely not the time to jump. Depending on how it goes down, you’re at risk of both rotors or just getting hit by the helicopter itself.

I have the same issue, like even ramens that aren’t meat flavored still shove some beef extract or bonito flakes in.

When I can find it, Ramen Express brand noodles are certified vegan and vegetarian (on the packaging it only says vegetarian), and when I’ve gone to my small local asian market I’ve found some good noodles without animal products.

Cringy theming and allegedly less system use (but it’s Chromium so kind of a losing battle). God I hate gamer shit.

Normally an old soviet Ракета watch (that often sticks) or a shitty Casio with a cloth band. Have a couple of broken Штурманские watches as well that I need to fix.

My homescreen is just black with Lemmy, Signal, my homelab, Discord, web browser, music, texting, and my smart lighting.

I’ve tried to simplify down my mobile device as I have an addictive personality and have struggled in the past with social media on my phone. Half the time my phone is in greyscale as well.

Unless running a hardened and privacy focused OS like GrapheneOS or CalyxOS I wouldn’t consider really any android to be private. Between Google’s own apps and 3rd party manufacturers like Samsung having their own spyware, standard Android is just as diseased as Apple products.

And unfortunately nowadays there’s only a few phones that can even securely unlock their bootloader, install a safer OS, and relocking it to precent tampering.

I’d use a burner phone, not for travel to the PRC or because of CSAM, but for travel among western states. Every accusation is projection for them.

The last thing I need is some customs agent cloning my phone and arresting me over something like being a marxist, pirating, or just having made comments about their politicians.