The best phone I ever owned was a Xiaomi Mi9 that I got in 2020, right before the US government banned Xiaomi products. Got it new at Target for about $90

I had a T-Mobile prepaid plan on a drugstore Android phone from 2010-2012. The data usage app they preloaded on it was almost a day or two behind, so if it showed that you were close to hitting your cap, chances are you probably already hit it if you had been using your phone a lot in the past 24-48 hours. I caught on when the app told me that I had almost two gigabytes left (back when you could stretch a gig out quite a bit if you stayed away from video apps or downloading big files), then I got a text from them an hour later saying that I hit my cap.

Granted I was on a plan that had “unlimited” data that throttled my phone to like 128 kilobits per second when I hit the cap, but it was still deceitful as fuck for people who were on plans that charged extra if they went past their cap.

It’s crazy that phone companies are still pulling this shit.

I was gonna say the text for the “ad” looks way too clean and straight, and doesn’t match the artifacting of the rest of the image.

I have Batocera (Linux-based emulator platform) on a 2011 Mac Mini.

The only caveat is its weak integrated graphics chip that struggles to emulate fifth generation (PSX, N64, etc) and newer consoles, but since I pretty much only play 16 bit and older it’s been a solid machine.

I remember when Apple first switched to using Intel processors, people talked about being able to install Linux and other operating systems easily. I guess Apple didn’t like that.

I went to Lowes two weeks ago to buy a wall switch and I browsed the Halloween section near where you first walk in. Most of it was already clearanced to half price or more in order to make room for Xmas stuff.

Shit’s expensive too, even with the clearance prices. I always wanted to deck out my house for Halloween, but I’d be spending a paycheck or two to keep up with my neighbors, and I’m terrible when it comes to crafting and DIY.

Trump: I will use the military to crush the left. Immigrants are criminals.

MSM: 🤷‍♂️

Biden: MAGA supporters are garbage.

MSM: 😱

26 (80°F for the Americabrained) today here in Ohio. The trees outside my window always took up brilliant yellows and reds these past few years, but this year they too went straight from green to brown and/or gone.

We’ve been in a D1 “moderate” drought since August, so between that and the abnormally hot temps (it should be around 7 to 10 degrees by now), the trees are just flat out dying this year.

Usually around this time of year we would have had our first snow, but we haven’t even had our first frost yet. It’s been like this for over a decade now.

I know climate change has much, much worse consequences, but the fact that people are ignoring these very obvious signs happening right in their own cities worries me a bit.

Ohio repealed Sodomy laws and decriminalized same-sex relations 30 years before a very large part of the rest of the country did. It’s sad how the chuds took over since then.

Regulations like “workers must work in marginally safe conditions and be paid a minimal amount of money” make it impossible to be innovative.

I wish I was joking. I’ve argued with business owners who unironically believe OSHA and minimum wage are the biggest reasons they aren’t billionaires.

Ants are fuckin cool. I wish the egg layers weren’t referred to as “queens” because it gives the wrong implication that ant nests are a monarchy and that the queen somehow rules them.

In reality no decision-making comes from the queens since ants will continue to dig nests, find food, and care for each other even without a queen. The nest just doesn’t have eggs to replace them.

Ants are really closer to being socialist collectives than anything. Food is divided evenly (although queens do get fed more, but only for the biomass needed to produce eggs) even the tiniest bit that is found is shared among as many as possible.

There are still cars that come with incandescent bulbs. I own a 3 year old base model Civic and it still has regular light bulbs in the headlights and tail lights.

“You will become more conservative when you get a job.”

Me after being steadily employed for 22 years:

“You will become more conservative when you own a house.”

Me after owning a house for 5 years:

Unless by “conservative” they mean conserving against liberal and chud mindset.

The only ASMR I can stand is the sound of food cooking/sizzling, only because it triggers an appetite for me.

Shit like whispering, fingernails clacking on hard surfaces, or plastic bags being crinkled… no thanks.

My city has a rail station right in front of the stadium and barely anyone uses it, not even during big games/events.

Oh shit I completely misread your comment lmao. I thought you meant in general and not directed at Taylor.

But he did bring up the pet thing on a nationally televised debate though. “They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats!”