I totally respect anyone that chooses to limit their perspective scope.

For me, everything in life is a messy statistical abstraction. I would not go out of my way to make decisions or inconvenience myself in instances where I see vectors of negativity and small errors in ethical disposition. These are simply elements I passively note, and when faced with a choice, such past occurrences will weigh into my decisions.

For me, I struggle to recall specifics like memorized trivia, instances of certain behaviors, or even people’s names in conversational real time. I can recall most of this information if I try, but I must focus on it to do so. I instantly have access to my abstracted thoughts and oversimplifications that exist on something like a three dimensional roadmap. When I note these types of behaviors, it is like I am painting a picture of what driving down a familiar street feels like, and I remember that picture and place well, only that imagery is the actions of the person. It takes me a while to think about all the features that make up that place, but I know where I am and what that means just by visiting. The person is not any feature but an ambiance that exists in my mind. It is their identity to me. I may not recall the name feature well, but this is not who they are to me; they are an abstraction like everything else; a likely set of probabilities, but one where I’m always curious how they evolve or add new features. No one is static after all, unless they are dead. Still I weigh negative vectors into those statistics objectively and make predictions based upon them.

The way root is managed and the security of OTA updates along with the demonstrated knowledge of how Android users groups and SELinux effectively work are far superior to anything else I have seen in any ROM that I have run previously. Most others were little more than novel demonstrations of CVE vulnerability exploits and setups intended for oddball extra use cases and not a primary device in their implementation. Graphene is a legitimate ongoing secured solution well worth supporting. The TPM chip is a huge deal here.

It depends on how you abstract. I believe that small patterns are strongly indicative of larger patterns. My life experiences have largely reflected this pattern. All of my worst business encounters were with people that cheated on their partners in their personal life. They ultimately showed the same types of behavior in business. The best people I have worked for were exactly the opposite. This includes both while running my own business for years and many people I have worked for as an employee.

The concept is also an extension of my realization that anyone that likes to talk about everyone else negatively at work when one on one, is doing the exact same thing with every other individual when I am not around and is saying the same negative stuff about me. Such a person appears to be everyone’s friend on a personal level, but is actually stabbing everyone in the back equally to elevate themselves and increase their own awareness of weaknesses they might highlight or play against others. The act of talking negatively about everyone else is a strike or vector that will later manifest if given the opportunity or under pressure.

I am metaphorically applying Newton’s premise that an object in motion tends to stay in motion, to the probability of future human behavior. If the person indicates a certain vector of thought that causes damage, they tilt the scales of future interaction and are therefore some degree more likely than not to produce a suboptimal future compared to others with a more positive track record, character, and ethics.

Is this dumbass trying to load a jetski in the waves or something?

I have operated heavy equipment, mostly front end loaders. Beach sand below the water line is scary as fuck to me. Like no one needs to tell me that one, not even a little bit. That shit is instinctive. I’d get a little closer with an excavator if I had a few points of hard rock to push and pull with the bucket. A wheeled vehicle that creates vibrations of any kind… that is insane. Not to mention the effects of seawater and electrolysis will wreck that thing. These vehicles really do seem to attract some of the dumbest people in addition to the terrible ethics and politics of a Tesla. Like if Elon was on the moral high ground Left, cyberfruck would still be an idiot’s billboard of a wheeled boat.

It is not about that. The pixel has a TPM chip (Trusted Protection Module). This is similar to how secure boot works in desktop computers. It is a special external chip that has a secret internal cryptographic key that can never be accessed by anyone. This chip can be used to create secured communications between devices. This is how it is possible to do over the air updates securely and how the device’s security can be checked with a special app and an external device like an old Graphene phone. All files on the device can be hashed with the secret key to determine of they have been changed. Other phones do not include a TPM chip and this is the primary reason they cannot be supported directly by Graphene.

Get off the train. A Pixel setup with Graphene OS never has such nonsense features. I even fully control my own notifications. A 2 year old device still has 2 days of battery life with lots of use, and I have no bloatware at all. It isn’t like some difficult techie thing either. Updates are secure, automatic, and over the air.

Last time I was in a cafe was ~2012 playing MW3, CS, and 2142. Seems like that was a good time to exit. Maybe one day games will exist again. I’d love to get back into some, but without clear and tangible ownership rights to what I purchase with no strings attached, I am not at all interested in any game. I expect all features and complete autonomy or I simply opt out completely and hope all the corporate pirates burn. I can only fix me, and talk about it to say this shit is not normal. It only exists because you allow and vote for it with your money. Things could be better.

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If I need to know who my kid’s teacher forks when they go home at night, I think I should go take a dive off a cliff to free up some oxygen for better use

This is like the whole point in Lemmy for me. There are some advanced Linux people here that are knowledgeable, but most stuff I’m really interested in gets little to no interesting engagement and often results in negative toxic nonsense. This ain’t tech support. Those that act like it are kids regardless of age. I expect everyone to act like they would with any stranger in public; just be cordial and nice to people. Look at this place like a grocery store checkout or DMV line in place where people casually talk and engage with each other. No sane person would start some smalltalk about the weather to have a person say, “hold up while I check the app for you.” Same deal here, don’t be a psycho because of digital anonymity. It is not harmless. Some people like me are disabled where this is all of my outside human contact and stupidity can have a real effect on me. It has a real effect on everyone, and always has. Children are just too stupid and have too shallow of a scope of self awareness to see and acknowledge their path of destruction. Real ethics come with age, and a person with real ethics is completely unchanged by anonymous interchange with anyone.

I’ve been hit by 7 cars in 6 crashes. Three caused only a few scratches and bruises, one made a wheel taco, one left the bike frame in two pieces, and the last cost me 8.5 of 9 lives to fight and total two SUVs. I can’t say that I recommend any, but I will say definitely don’t fight two at once

16 year old me did a clutch three times before fully understanding the mechanism. Particularly, I had a bad pilot bearing that was causing the failures. It is one aspect that was not in the Haynes manual, and not a part included in the “complete clutch kit”. The second time I even faced the flywheel to do a proper job at the advice of a pro mechanic. I learned the pilot bearing on my own.

The fetish jokes were just fun with friends that hung out or helped while I worked on the car and figured it out as I went. Teasing macho friends lying in intimate tight spaces is fun, especially when they have underlying prejudices about LGBTQ+ stuff. I’ve always been an asshole like that when anyone is prejudice. Over the decades I’ve learned every detail about how engines and drivetrains work. The transmission is full of parts to joke about, but I can make anything metaphorical to surfeit abstraction.

or anyone with a manual when they find out they are forking with a long trans mission stick, pumping a tight annular spring via their thrust bearing with the primary trans shaft buried deep in the back of their crankshaft through the self lubricating pilot bearing to buffer all the rough asynchronous screwing

synchro gigiddy mesh gettin your bottom shaft up to speed to fork with fineness without double pounding the annular

Fentanyl is great though. It is the most peaceful way to cope with the USA’s disgusting lack of disability support and far better than the standard treatment of dying homeless on a cold rainy night in a gutter somewhere. Compared to those very real ethics endorsed by every american that does nothing for the homeless directly, fentanyl is relief from a culture that is more cowardly than Nazis that still fed and housed people in camps before gassing them to death quickly instead of using nature and a policy of feral primate abandonment, repression, and torture. Attacks on homeless camps are the theft of these people’s last belongings, and any hope of employment, documentation, or future. There is no fentanyl problem. There is a culture with no moral backbone and absolutely no trace of ethics that drives the fringes to escape tyranny through a peaceful end to the misery, exploitation, and abuse.

Semantics, but did 47 do the techbros or did the techbros do 47

N64 Boat is so fn ugly like a DeLorean and a Pontiac Aztek had a baby

I’ve been going through involuntary social isolation from physical disability for over 11 years. I can throw myself in to my interests and curiosities to largely replace any real world social needs. Lemmy is my only external contact with other humans in general. It would be harder if my mother and father were not around. I rarely ever talk with them but coexistence and the opportunity to do things for them is of some benefit to me.

There are people in far worse situations due to worse disability. There are people that live in rural isolation. People have survived on remote islands, and people have survived for long stretches of solitary confinement and emerged without life altering problems. Look at someone like Professor Hawkings and living with ALS as an example. The things and places one can visit and explore within the human conscious experience are enormous. It only takes curiosity and the will to go find them. I believe this to be the primary mental health solution needed to survive any situation.

I had to totally reinvent myself after a broken neck and back. I’m naturally introverted and driven by curiosity. I threw myself into new desktop hobbies that were far less physically demanding. After the first 10 years I am now degraded to the point where I am forced to reinvent myself to accommodate more strictly bed based interests on a computer. I don’t worry about things that are outside of my capacity to change. I cannot shape people into a tenable social situation where I can be myself, so I don’t worry about it at all. People that normalize negativity towards strangers here on Lemmy are particularly toxic to me, but that is the only really troubling toxic social engagement I encounter. That is less than when I had a lot of casual and close friends. That’s just my $0.02