Maybe later... how about never, you fucks?
Onihikage @ Onihikage @beehaw.org Posts 0Comments 172Joined 2 yr. ago

ISEPS and CIFI, both by Octocube Games, have kept me hooked for several years now, albeit they tend to land more on the idle side of things, at least the way I play them.
Dodecadragons is more active most of the time, and IMO is absolutely fantastic. It recently reached completion, but I just found out while writing this that apparently some people bullied the dev so hard they pulled the game down earlier this week. Still, they have some other games at https://demonin.com/ so show them some support. Try Array Game!
I also played Tap Wizard RPG on mobile for a pretty long time. It's good stuff.
iOS up to at least version 16 has leaked VPN traffic for years. If you only turned on the VPN to make the purchase, that might be how Amazon still knew where you were. The only workaround (always-on VPN mode) apparently is an enterprise feature in iOS that most users don't have access to.
Alternatively, since it worked on a desktop, your VPN's mobile version or iOS support may be flawed. The ones I hear the most about from privacy advocates are Mullvad VPN, IVPN, and Proton VPN. If it's a free VPN, well, you get what you pay for. If it's one of the ones I mentioned, they might be interested to work with you to figure out how Amazon was bypassing them, if the issue can still be replicated, or they might already know.
To add on to this, after you verify your account with a prepaid sim number, you can port that number to a free VoIP service so it becomes useless for tracking you IRL but you can still use it to reset your password if needed. It's not like they keep checking after it's already verified.
FreeFileSync is FOSS and works pretty well for me. It can be set up for automated sync on a schedule or you can just manually sync files between two destinations. I haven't really tinkered with the automated stuff but if what you want is to open up a program and hit a button to sync, it can definitely do that.
Jon Stewart, Trae Crowder, and Beau of the Fifth Column are three more excellent examples of positive male role models.
If he was the kind of guy who secretly collects barbie dolls, somehow I don't think his take on WAP would have been such a self-own.
It’s literally being born to die.
They say the same thing about Jesus, actually. Word for word, some fundies actually believe that's part of the symbolism of his birth, that "swaddling clothes" were what they put on dead bodies for burial, symbolizing that baby Jesus, who was said to have been wrapped in swaddling clothes, was literally born to die. The reality of course is the Greek phrase is extremely common in ancient literature, the rest of the Bible included, and just means they wrapped the baby in strips of soft cloth as was customary for newborns, no death symbolism there at all.
A chat program owned by Roblox Corporation is not my idea of trustworthy.
A huge part of the issue is that Congress steals our social security money on a regular basis
My understanding is the raiding of SSA funds is a myth. The Old-Age and Survivor's Insurance (OASI) trust fund simply isn't keeping up with inflation (particularly the big inflation spikes, like in the 80s, and like now) and is paying out slightly more each year than it brings in, leaving it unable to pay full benefits by around 2034 or so. But it's more than just inflation leading us to this result.
Every generation since the 70s has been getting poorer as the wealthiest siphon off more and more of the available money for themselves, leaving less getting paid into the fund by newer generations to help counter inflation. People who do make decent incomes currently also tend to stay in school longer than they did 50 years ago, and pay their way with loans rather than working some simple job, so they're waiting longer to start paying into the system to begin with. All that plus average lifespans having increased since 1939 (though more recently it started dropping) means the SSA's revenue has to either be increased by raising the social security tax, raising the cap on that tax, or both; or benefits have to be cut by increasing the retirement age or just paying out less to every beneficiary. That last one will happen automatically once it no longer has enough in the trust fund to pay the full amount, and the goal should be to avoid that. However, to my knowledge only an act of congress can increase the OASI trust fund's income, absent an unforeseen economic boom.
I think most people should be willing to accept paying a little bit more in taxes so their parents or grandparents can keep getting their fixed incomes, but it often feels like a very loud portion of Americans are totally against all taxes and dig their heels in, refusing to pay one cent more to maintain something they like that in legal reality cannot be re-appropriated to something they don't like, no matter how much we whinge about it being a ponzi scheme.
Everyone knowing your identity? The drawbacks would far outweigh the benefits. However, there may be a path to the benefits of a Real ID sign-up system that mitigates the possible harms.
First of all, let's get this out of the way - this "minimal harm" approach would only be feasible if the government could either reach some level of technical competency or farm out the task to heavily restricted private corporations that do have that competence. If we presume that's the case (unlikely), the question becomes whether the people would be willing to accept it. If we presume the majority of citizens also want such a thing (a tall order to be sure, I certainly don't want it), then the question becomes what sort of system would be able to maximize privacy, and thus safety, while still requiring your real identity to be involved in creating online accounts? What would that system look like?
Even in the grandest, best-possible-case scenario I can think of, it still comes down to "Can I trust my government to not take more information than they're allowed to, and can I trust that they will not abuse the information they do obtain?" For many, I suspect the answer to both questions is no.
I've always loved the irony of the argument that if the government pays for healthcare, there will be "death panels" that decide who gets treatment and who doesn't. Because those already exist under and directly because of a system of private healthcare funding where if you don't have enough money, you're refused treatment. Meanwhile under a system of public healthcare funding, people get treatment based on who's most in need of the resources available, and that's only if the system is already over capacity.
Are you sure you haven't gotten YouTube Premium mixed up with YouTube TV? The latter is priced like traditional cable because that's basically what it is; premium is just YouTube with no ads, basic app features that shouldn't be paywalled in the first place like downloading videos, and YT music thrown in.
The YouTube premium family plan (pairs with more accounts/devices) is a little more expensive at like $23 but I didn't think that was cable tv expensive. All the full-package cable replacement services I know of are around $70-$90.