Very well could be that. I never feel like I check out until I snap-to and realize I don’t remember the last 30 miles.

“Did I just teleport??”

I genuinely feel safer when I zone out. It’s like a completely different, subconscious part of my brain takes over and does a better job. Otherwise, I’m fixating on all the wrong things: what does that vanity plate say?! WTF is that billboard even trying to advertise? etc.

I’ve had to react (successfully) to things in that state enough times that I’m confident in my brains ability to quickly snap back.

I either eat nonstop or don’t eat for 2 days. There’s rarely an in-between. Friends have said I eat like a snake lol.

Appreciate the enthusiasm. Do not appreciate the 7 identical posts back-to-back.

Pick a community. If you don’t get enough responses after a respectful period of time, then repost. Otherwise, you’re just spamming.

PTB.

I think that instance was only hours old when I censured it in Fediseer and promptly de-federated from it.

Censure reason:

It’s like they turned the dumpster fire of worldnews [at] lemmy [dot] ml into an instance.

I don’t see the swear word modded. But I do see a personal attack / insult properly modded.

YDI.

I looked into it, but more for development purposes than installing it onto anything.

Seems like it would be easy to develop for, but the ecosystem seems to be pretty locked down due to the permissions model. There’s some ability to jailbreak devices, but it’s not a huge list of supported models.

For basic apps it’d be fine. But if I wanted to make custom applications for SMS, use bluetooth, make a new default dialer (e.g. to add SIP dialing), etc, it wouldn’t be possible since only OEMs can “bless” those. Even the next permission level down (Privileged) requires the apps to be signed by an authorized KaiStore.

Since my goal at the time was to make a lightweight Meshtastic client, I just gave up since I wouldn’t have the necessary permissions to make it work.

Oh, I was getting hammered with those (though I’m not in Latin America). They were all coming in via SendGrid (Twilio) and were constantly flying just under the radar in our spam filters.

Over three weeks, I sent probably close to 50 spam reports to SendGrid with full headers and everything. Not a single one of those abuse reports was acknowledged, and there was absolutely no drop in the frequency or quantity of those spam/phishing emails.

Since none of SendGrid’s listed customers were any my org would be dealing with, we finally just blocked (so far, anyway) three of their /16 subnets.

Don’t Look Up is basically reality already.

was this one good

Probably only when Wendie Malick was on screen.

At least those states have them. Cries in WV which does not.

Thanks. Added that to the blacklists of email domains I won’t accept registrations from.

Canceled after the second season.

Uh, he could have appeared in the first reboot before they canceled it. Might have even saved it. Having watched both seasons of it, I highly doubt there will be a second reboot; it just seemed to lack all of the charm, wit, and cast chemistry of the original. Not that I didn’t enjoy it, but everything felt forced and sitcom-y. But it is what it is.

Lol, or is that also what Pierce thinks and is why he’s saying it now?

Watched the latest season of Black Mirror. It was pretty good.

They can still reply, you just won’t see them or get a notification.

So there is a bit of FOMO to get over when blocking, but it’s not too bad. Kind of like realizing you have no control over what people say behind your back. I’m just like, “If I cared what they had to say, I wouldn’t have blocked them in the first place”

I can only speak for myself, but the quick settings menu has been terrible (IMO) since 12. They’ve gotten worse each release. So the “overhaul” is mostly just going back to the way it already was before they made it garbage. The exception being it’s still oversized and unwieldy.

Peak quick settings (A11):

Yeah, I saw the steps for VLC and they’re similar. I tend to prefer CLI, so that’s what I did / wrote up.

I just don’t know a good way to deal with that, TBH. I wish I did.

how to make them be honest about their motivations

It’s tough. If I get a funny feeling about an account and think they might be a concern troll (I think that’s the term that applies here; if not, someone please correct me. I think “false ally” is a sub-class of that, but I’m shooting from the hip here),

I’ll typically look back through their history, try to put things in context, and get a feel from there. The ones I blocked were pretty much all one-trick ponies, so that was easy (though tedious as it took a while “vetting” each one).

The problem there is, yes, you’ve identified that person. But everyone else needs to do the same legwork and come to the same conclusion. You can’t just put up a sign that says “Troll” lol. Depending on the community/instance, you could report them, but that often puts mods in a sticky situation because they usually don’t want to suppress anyone’s viewpoint as long as it’s not violating any rules.

or, in the case of those few who are genuinely being taken in by this garbage

That’s even tougher. First, you have to figure out if they’re the troll or the one who was trolled (troll-ee lol?) . And one, very rightfully, can’t /shouldn’t just start calling people trolls or shills. For one, they might be the troll-ee; going out of the gate with name-calling and accusations is definitely not the way to convince them to re-evaluate their views. For another, it just sets a bad tone and gives the impression that “everyone who disagrees with me is a troll”.

But sometimes they are. What do you do then?

Wish I had an answer that didn’t involve writing multiple theses on a number of topics as they try to sealion me into submission lol.

• Claiming to be leftists
• Encouraging leftists not to vote or to vote for third party candidates
• Highlighting issues with the Democratic party as being disqualifying while ignoring the objectively worse positions held by the Republican party
• Attacking anyone who promotes defending leftist political power by claiming they are centrists and that the attacker is “to the left of them”
• Using US foreign policy as a moral cudgel to disempower any attempt at legitimate engagement with the US political system
• Seemingly doing nothing to actually mount resistance against authoritarianism

Except for the one example you listed that I omitted here, you’ve just described, like, at least 1/3 of Lemmy, maybe more.

The obvious ones I blocked long ago. There were some I didn’t block, but a good chunk of those up and disappeared right after the election in November, so that was not suspicious at all.

Frankly, I’m just about done with anything “political” on social media and am just going to start employing keyword filters. I’ll just have to find some other void to shout into when I need an outlet lol.