I’m not in a tech field now, but I used to be. I jumped ship when everything started moving to ‘cloud based’ because I don’t trust anything I can’t kick when it breaks.

Debian is … fine. It’s the Toyota Corolla of distros. It’s reliable, it’ll likely do what you need it to do. It’s not fun or exciting or packed with the latest tech, it just does its job with minimum fuss.

Sites like Gnoosic and Music Map. Browsing Soulseek/Nicotine shares. Wikipedia to see who artists have collaborated with or any side projects they’re on.

Seems silly to limit it to one month of the year.

When I lived within walking distance of my work, I used to try to take a slightly different route every day. Not by a lot, just a different side street here or there. You might see some cool street art or a nice flower or get to meet a friendly dog or cat.

On a regular basis, probably classic DooM / DooM 2.

Even the new network and battery icons gross me out. They’re so unnecessarily big and balloony.

That ghoddamn unlocking blip. I know it isn’t a GrapheneOS design choice but holy fuck I hate it.

I have been known to say it to my cat though, which is kinda deserving of a little ridicule.

“behind”

Most interesting part of this article is the mention of VegaOS, which I hadn’t heard of. Not because I approve of anything Amazon does, ever, but depending on how much of a Linux it actually is, the jailbreaking / homebrew potential is intriguing.

Yep

If you use any diet tracking app, they’ll have that data. Any supermarket loyalty program can infer a good amount. Some can be inferred from location data (eg amount of time spent at a restaurant). Menulog, ubereats etc will track it as a matter of course. that’s just off the top of my head.

EDIT: I misread the question.

If you go up a level from the obvious interaction of marketing on food choices, there’s still a hell of a lot of corporate influence on the food environment. Your job, your rent and utilities determine your food budget, which limits your choices. Your job and commute also determines the amount of free time you have to cook. Your commute is controlled in part by car and fossil fuel industry. If you don’t drive, you’re limited to what you can reach and carry via public transport or bicycle infrastructure (both also gutted by car lobby). Supermarket corps determine where the stores are, what they stock, and how much it is. So you’ll find your choices limited by travel time, availabilit, and budget again. You can go up another level again and manufacturers and producers will have influence over (for example) the FDA, which determines safety standards of what you eat. So even if you consider yourself unpropagandised, corporations still control pretty much the entire food system and what you eat. Unless you’re living off-grid and growing everything yourself, pretty much every food decision you make is touched by a corporation. Even then, you’ll have to buy your seeds from somewhere.

Silent these days. For a while I used the “black headcrab nearby” sound from HL2 as a text tone tho. Was fun watching people’s reactions to it.

A lot, to be honest. Spend enough time around non-native English speakers and you realise how little sense English makes. Their ‘mistakes’ have their own internal consistency and in a lot of cases make more sense than English does.

A ferrite core memory module, circa 1956 at a guess.

Apparently it’s coming

Fun thought exercise but functionally irrelevant. It still feels like I’m making decisions, so that’s close enough.

This is covered in another thread on this post if you actually want to know. I suspect you don’t, and just want to post gotcha arguments in bad faith.

Just lurk there for a while. IMO, biggest misconception is that they’re omnicidal lunatics. They have a lot of in-jokes and bits that seem incomprehensible and border on unhinged to an outsider, and sometimes they kinda lean in to the perception. But if you spend enough time there you realise they’re very intelligent and deeply empathetic people. The “unlimited genocide on the first world” rhetoric is an expression of frustration rather than actual intent.