So you’re saying that tankies=communists?

On GrapheneOS I don’t see those changes, just as a data point.

The battery icon looks the same too

Edit: that could be a GrapheneOS thing though, I don’t know. Maybe they didn’t make those changes, I still haven’t read the changelog

I use TankTube because it automatically blocks anything that interferes with my agenda

I’m going to say all LG laundry stuff must not be created equal. We have two washing machines at work and they both break every month . The only tech I can think of that’s worse are HP printers.

I fix ours (not my job, but it’s a good mental break from regular work), I start a new job next month and my boss asked what he should do about them.

Wait until they break and get something else, they’re not worth fixing. It’ll be cheaper and less downtime to buy something good.

Reddit made that change where if you blocked someone they couldn’t reply to you in a thread.

That was quickly weaponized so that you could ‘win’ an argument. Someone could write something and your reply would not appear, so it looked like you realized you were wrong.

We should not care so much about ourselves and care more about the world

Jackass has a private bunker in New Zealand for when shit hits the fan

Define ‘fast enough’

Olive oil generally lasts about a year, give or take depending on heat and sunlight. Subject to high heat that time can be cut in half.

By all means do why you wish though

How so?

Heat degrades them quickly. Olive oil will go rancid and spices lose their flavor

They keep their olive oil and spices next to the stove. Pass. Maybe they could learn though.

Why is the avocado pit there? How does it feature in this dish?

The Exodus Report is really good, I would also recommend https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.muntashirakon.AppManager/ . you can install an app, then check it with App Manager, before first run, which will often find more trackers than Exodus will

Edit: and https://themarkup.org/blacklight for finding trackers in websites

Meanwhile, back at the ranch

Malware-ridden apps made it into Google’s Play Store, scored 19 million downloads

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/apps_android_malware/

Reddit search was always terrible, the best way to find a post was to open a browser and do a search, I’m sure a LLM will make it better.

Many people are already in the habit of adding “Reddit” to traditional searches in the hopes of finding relevant threads from the site

Good, this bullshit has never made a compelling argument

In its defence, Google argued that since it was not based in Uganda and had no physical presence in the country, it was not obliged to register with the PDPO, and the rules on cross-border transfers of personal data did not apply to it. However, the regulator rejected this argument, determining that Google is a local data controller since it collects data from users in Uganda and decides how that data is processed.

By 10am on Friday, data suggested an extra 66,000 internet users in the UK had begun using the dark web.

“People should be aware that children and adults who use [certain software] to bypass age checks will not benefit from the wider protections offered by our online safety rules.”

Genius

You already don’t have a good vibe from him, and life goals sound incompatible. If he made one sexual innuendo and you didn’t respond to it, then he continued doing so he doesn’t respect your boundaries.

Hard pass

The lack of documentation is a huge problem, if you opened up an old tube amp to fix it there was often a full schematic taped to the cover. Solid state amps often had component values stenciled right on the board.

The level of technical knowledge needed to repair things has increased, while general technical knowledge has decreased. People aren’t reading Popular Mechanics from the 1950’s where “build a hovercraft from an old lawnmower” the building one.

Parts are also a huge problem. Where previously a car alternator, for example, was three discrete parts, alternator-rectifier–voltage regulator, that is now a single assembly. If one of those parts goes bad you need to replace the whole thing, unless you have used parts you can pull from. For some things the assembly is NLA, no longer available.

As for why it’s cheaper that comes down to manufacturers wanting to sell you a new one, not wanting to have to spend money on repair stock sitting somewhere, and possibly not having access to it themselves since very few manufacturers actually produce a complete product on their own.

For something simple like a Bluetooth speaker, the power supply comes from one company, the Bluetooth module and amplifier from another, the driver, a display board, the housing, someone designs it and puts that all together. If any one of those chains fails you may not be able to source the part to fix something.

There are usually workarounds to this but unless you are doing it yourself it will be cost prohibitive

Example: friend rented a house with a new stove, gas top, electric oven. Two months later the oven stopped working, motherboard was NFG (no fucking good), it was also NLA. So the landlord bought a new stove. The old one could have been made to work, but the complete functionally would not have been there. If my friend owned this I would have said ‘I can make it work, but you will be missing these features’.