Don’t be sad, there’s still a chance it hits Earth and ends human civilization!

There will be the concept of an election.

It’s so dark watching this happen around you, civilization sleepwalking into a dystopian pit of despair. At this point I’m feeling like nothing can stop this bar total societal collapse, and that will not be particularly pleasant either…

Democracy ain’t a thing in the US no more. Genuinely, that concept is dead, rule of law is gone, elections don’t matter, it’s done, it’s over. It’s fucking bleak, but I don’t think there is any coming back from this, and frankly, it ruins my whole day.

You make it sound as if every system is perfectly equal, and that all humans are the same, and that nothing we choose or decide matters at all and that the only form of existence is the one we are seeing right now.

Jesus christ if this was a film you’d happily be hooked up to a bunch of tubes in a goo pod pretending you’re free.

The Russians are literally involved in an imperial war for conquest and is bombing civilians. They commit politically motivated murders in countries all over Europe, are implicated in democratically destabilizing efforts all over Europe and financing extreme right wing organizations and separatist movements, and actively undermining and meddling with democratic elections of European nations for over two decades. This is a known fact.

What the actual fuck are you talking about “red scare”? GTFO, nazi collaborator bot.

Piedofiles.

“Ok guys, here it comes! Just like we practiced, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, NOOOW! EVERYBODY STAY PERFECTLY STILL!”

He threatened to sue that guy.

Here’s one of the Elon jet trackers on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ElonJetTracker/

I liked being able to accidentally brush up against my headphones or putting them down for a moment without them turning off my music.

This is the route I went years ago. Not only do i not feel like lugging around an obnoxiously long buttonless 1kg remote control, within two months the display will be shattered because I sneezed, and I will have to buy a new one because replacing the screen costs as much as a new phone.

I know they do that shit by design. Why would the back side of the phone need to be made of fucking glass? It’s literally the only reason I ever buy new phones, the screen is the only thing that ever breaks, and they never survive long enough to be “too old” to use.

None of those have worked for me on Android since a couple of months.

Firefox with uBlock Origin is the last bastion, and don’t think that’s not on their radar.

My suspicion is that the main purpose of Googles decision is to stop F-Droid and Aurora Store from working.

“No” is what I would prefer to say but for some reason “that is extremely unlikely” hits the point home harder.

You can research a phone you like and check if it has an unlockable bootloader, root it, and install something like LineageOS on it. It’s fairly straight-forward, not super technically demanding, but it does require some tinkering and time setting up.

xdaforums.com is where the rooting kids hang out, post guides for specific models, upload images et c, you can probably do it in an afternoon with GPT.

The issue is that some apps, notably banking and official type apps, usually don’t work as they rely on google services for operation. I solve it by having a cheap secondary phone that I only use for that stuff.

Oh, I almost forgot: FUCK YOU GOOGLE

I did not realize I remembered an XP key until you wrote that one. Holy shit. You just nostalgia’d me! Thank you!

We updated the roads, your old car won’t work on these.

My wall keeps crashing and I don’t know why.

Developer, smacking wall: “This bad boy ain’t going nowhere”

User base, rolling up their trebuchets:

And keep both walls for redundancy.

I like being able to give instructions without having to poke a damn screen.