Linux-fueled Thoughts Unhinged

MKBHD made a video on green vs. blue bubbles on iOS.

Here are some of my thoughts.

The single take away from Nate in SR72 is the following:

The government and the police try to ban E2EE, but those same people also use the same E2EE implementations.

Such hypocrisy.

There's nothing more to say.

I basically stopped watching Linux YouTube videos.

I am dissatisfied with the quality of YouTube videos, especially on Linux.

The developer of MAT2 has a blog with quotes.

Ok, I'll take a different approach to this post: I'll go as fast but steady as I can — just like in sketching.

In this post, I'll travel internationally from Voice of America in Washington D.C. and return to the Greater Boston Region. (Let's face it — there isn't enough land in Boston proper to conduct proper conspiracy practices like there is in NYC. Thanks, Mr. Robot.)

Usually I reserve “Weird Encounters on the Internet” for people or entities that I don't like, but I guess I never defined this small thematic series like that. Also, I guess I could use a little more positivity.

What!? Restoring stock Android on GrapheneOS? BlASphEmY!!!1!!1!1!!

But in all seriousness, a legitimate reason for restoring stock Android on GrapheneOS is that you may have to return or exchange a Google Pixel device with a hardware defect. (Exercise your consumer right to do so!)

I've had some thoughts on my own mental health and well-being.

Note

Before I put in Write Freely's cutoff HTML comment, I'd like to add a warning about mental health and suicide — not because I am a Kaczynskian socialized leftist, but because these are genuinely difficult topics to consider, bringing up issues that have no clear cut solutions, both on high and low levels.

If you don't have the capacity to hear about these topics regarding other people, I advise skipping this post entirely.

Some fairly obvious takes on COVID-19, in light of the Omicron variant.

It feels like ages ago that Lil Tay was all over tabloid-tier news.