The problem is, large parts of each country are supporting their government in what they’re doing.

Again, I’m not saying it’s a good thing. But the original person said they paid Google for getting GrapheneOS on their Pixel and thus they should get GrapheneOS, all of which I’m saying is that they did not pay Google for that and thus this specific argument is invalid.

But that’s the thing, this only affects GrapheneOS, GrapheneOS was never even implied to be supported. The Pixel default OS still works perfectly well and is getting updates and everything.

The person said

paying money for something should get you the thing you paid for

what exactly did you pay for when you bought your phone is my question. The Pixel keeps working doesn’t it? Did the purchase contract state that you get perpetual open source access to any further updates of the Android operating system?

I’m not saying that Google is doing anything good here. I’m just saying that the argument of “get the thing you paid for” is not applicable here. You paid for a phone, you got the phone. You can still put any software you want on it. You just don’t get the newest development in an open source form, which was always just based on Google’s goodwill and never part of any purchasing agreement.

Um, does the Pixel not work anymore? Did you pay for open source access of the device code?

Lol, as if a stock iPhone was any better than a stock Pixel?

Now you can look at actually better alternatives (privacy/whatever wise)

Relying on Google was always ridiculous. People thought they could have their cake (a device with cutting-edge hardware) and eat it too (not be spied on for ads to support this). It was always clear that Google will eventually fight against custom OS on their phones.

Also I don’t think it’s worth the effort to teach my parents yet another messaging app, like signal.

My friend, just set up Signal on their phones, put it in place of the Telegram app and watch them not even notice anything changed.

This is what the whole video is about though? It’s literally trying to explain this trend and has no other purpose

Why do you have to reducr it to one? Isn’t it simply all at the same time to varying degrees?

Even with the external mind it’d be irrelevant. As long as we have no way of knowing the future or being able to predict it, having or not having free will is observed in exactly the same way.

Kerbal Space Program with mods
Cities:Skylines with mods
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Dota 2 (I would be playing against and programming my own bots for it)
Trackmania with all current maps

If you use it in the web version, I have LULs, a script which makes all Lemmy links that point to a different instance which you encounter while browsing, to point to your instance.

True. What happens if you don’t do the other thing you’re avoiding right now?

You could also look at it like, you were conditioned to think that procrastinating/being unproductive is a bad thing. In the end, it could be that the things you do while procrastinating are the things you actually want, and the other stuff is just stuff that you think you’re supposed to do.

Of course, you know yourself best. But for me, once I started seeing the procrastination activities as the actual activities I want to do, I really just stopped doing most of the other stuff, and now I’m entirely unproductive, not doing anything much, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.

In the context of cold random approaches, women almost never do that. They don’t need to, because so many men are approaching them that they simply don’t have to do the work. Why would you risk rejection when you can just chill and be approached and thus get guaranteed interest? They just mostly pick out of the approaches they get. Gender roles might be theoretically dead, but practically, they’re very much alive.

One of the indirect ways is simply looking at you and looking friendly. That is them indirectly approaching you by showing you that you can approach them. How to make sure that is their intention is almost impossible because different people have different mannerisms and you don’t know what the person you’re looking at’s mannerisms are. They might just generally look at people and look friendly. For someone else, they might look but look bored and that’s their face for them wanting you to approach them. Or someone looking at you but quickly looking away when you look may be wanting you to approach (they were just embarrassed for staring), but they might also just think you look weird and that’s why they stared.

Approaching someone is not wrong, but it’s almost impossible to know if someone wants to be approached unless you approach them. It’s a paradox without a proper solution.

If you don’t initiate, you rely on others to give you what you want. If you approach yourself, you’re making what you want happen.

There is no “role that never needs to initiate”. Women have always been initiating, just less than men and maybe in a more indirect way. If women want something, they also make sure to try and get it.

In the end, the only thing you’re doing is not taking responsibility about your own happiness.

I see, that’s probably something only Americans would generally understand :D

What do the numbers mean?

Definitely not just you. But I was wondering why its boner was poking through its pants, even though it doesn’t have pants.