yeah, and it's crazy how conditioned you can get by consumerism. I bought the Fairphone 4 soon after its release, and the moment I got it, I pretty much stopped following any smartphone news (before that, I used to be a frequent /r/Android poster and commenter a few years ago, and I've always been up to date on the latest releases and features), as I was perfectly content with what I got, and knew that with the extended warranty I was set for the next 5 years.

but the very moment the 5 was announced and the 4 wasn't the Latest Bestest Thing, I started being tempted to upgrade. no particular reason to it, as the biggest change would be an OLED screen and that just isn't that big deal for me, except for the promise of a bigger newer number. I never upgraded and over three and a half years later, the 4 is still good enough for me, but something's telling me the announcement of the 6 will be tempting me again, haha. I'll probably try and wait for the 7, though.

she a baddie, she know she a ten

proud of you :)

it's an announcement saying that Interstellar now works with Piefed: https://interstellar.jwr.one/

the team's been doing a great job with the instance and I appreciate the hell out of them for that. it's sad to see it shut down, but I also respect that they recognise that admin job isn't doing them any good and leave before it causes more harm and burnout; there's so many people out there who don't seem to be capable of such insight.

my Piefed adventure was supposed to be temporary just to see what's what, but I guess I'm stuck here for good now, heh

edit: also, only a few of the many communities I'm subscribed to are on .ee, almost all of them are hosted somewhere else, so I can just continue posting my bland takes from another account as usual. Fediverse working as intended!

congratulations on hacking your gender!

yup! that did the job for me.

FYI, if you use code format instead of the quote, the entire text in the box is displayed in one line, so people reading it have to scroll the tiny box horizontally - and in my case when I'm trying to do that on desktop, the scroll bar obscures most of the text:

with quote formatting the text wraps lines when necessary:

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

can we please go back to "too close to call" now

that website screams the 2000’s 😂.

no third party scripts, no ads, isn't trying to sign me up for a newsletter, loads almost instantly.

a/s/l?

LOUDER