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  • Pull a trigger in the air without a gun, and see how many you kill.

    The gun is an extension of the user - without the gun, you cannot shoot, just as without a person the gun won’t shoot.

    Same is the case for words. They didn’t come out of the aether into existence, and when spoken carry the will of the speaker inherently.

    It’s not “just words”, it can be malice or hate given form - that is, after all, the point of communication; to give form of what you desire or think to others.





  • Now I’m wondering if I should switch or wait to see if he’s ousted.

    On the one hand, and least it’s a Swiss non-profit organization now that’s open sourced on the code.

    On the other hand, the CEO support JD Fucking Vance and now none of the data feels secure despite what they say about their tech.

    The most charitable interpretation is that he’s pulling an “enemy of my enemy is my friend” move, but considering Proton AG is located in Switzerland, and not the USA, that would be a profoundly stupid move since Big Tech doesn’t have the same influence in Switzerland as it does in the USA.

    The crypto shit was already making me wary in the first place too, though knowing Proton’s previous financial difficulties I kinda understood why they might make a paranoid decision to have a crypto back up.

    At this rate, I’m really gonna have to host my own server, aren’t I?

    I think instead I’ll wait and see if they sack him as CEO. I’ll give them 3 months to respond and decide while I start backing everything up for migration.



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    11 days ago

    Currently I’m working on a Plasma Bigscreen build that still gives some privacy and 1080p Netflix/Disney+/Crunchyroll etc by using extensions/WebApps and getting S-Tube and other android apps (including tv web browser) via Waydroid + Flauncher, all controllable through a simple IR controller.

    If you pm me I’ll set it as a reminder for when I finish to share the package. It’s designed for an Odroid C4.

    As for dumb tvs or more privacy friendly tvs, you can find them if you know where to look. Here’s some options from LG:

    https://www.lg.com/us/business/digital-signage

    They had a dumb 65" 4k OLED too but it’s currently out of stock.




  • There should just be another category so that people who are not on this spectrum can more easily understand (and therefore, hopefully, empathize), AND these categories should be used more often.

    Asexual kinda denotes ONLY having no sexual desires, lust, urges, etc. and therefore will just confuse people. Both Ace of Spades and Ace of Hearts fit this.

    But if you actually are lusting after people… Then it would be better there be something different to help understand that, such as Sex Repulsed / Forced Urged (You have lust but absolutely no desire to do anything, like feeling hungry but don’t want to eat nasty food) or even just Low Libido (very rarely feel anything related to lust).

    There is for example Demisexuals, which is for people who only can feel sexual desires with someone they form an intimate bond with (which I agree is a spectrum of asexuality as there’s absolutely no lust until there is) But there isn’t anything for people who do lust but either very little or are repulsed by it, as far as I know. There’s not an absence of lust in those cases at any point, just a lack of want or amount.