Zero22xx

Wondering if I'm even looking forward to TNA at all now. Not to signal that I have virtues or anything but this Tessa business has left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.

If they had done this a year or two ago, I wouldn't have liked it but I would've been more inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt that they knew what they're doing and it's a genuine redemption arc. But the timing of this makes it look more like they're doing this because they just don't have to pretend to care anymore.

Plus, maybe I'm making false connections but with all of the wrestlers, including TNA diehards, that have just left without a word, it really does seem like something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Thinking I might take a break for a couple of weeks and reset, look for something else. Just not sure what yet.

Oh yeah that's for sure. I think the first Sonic movie especially took us all by surprise because we were all expecting something truly awful and it turned out to be pretty fun. And these movies are what got me revisiting Sonic in the first place. And I'm just gonna say, because the '90s kid in me can't help comparing the two, they're better movies than Super Mario at least, which was also fun but kinda like an extended Nintendo advert.

It's just that watching Sonic 3 now after I've spent the last 6 months to a year consuming other Sonic content, I've realised that these movies aren't actually such great adaptations.

Someone needs to start keeping a central list of all corporations and organisations that have been rolling over like they've been waiting for this moment all their lives. Just to keep around as reminders, any time they decide to do a little rainbow capitalism or black history month marketing.

If the world, and especially the USA regains its senses, please all I ask is that everyone remembers exactly who these people are when they're begging for your money and support again.

LineageOS 20 on the Nokia 4.2. The only option for this phone besides LineageOS 19 and it's one of these cases where the dev just stopped updating anything and deleted their XDA profile. Might go back to vanilla but the problem is that's a downgrade in Android version too.

This whole phone is a regret. My previous phone had just died unexpectedly and it was a spur of the moment purchase with a low budget, based on nostalgia for a 'Nokia' that doesn't actually exist anymore. Should've just gone for a cheap Samsung and I probably would've at least had more choice in custom firmwares.

All depends on which app / UI you're using I guess but it should look pretty much like Reddit almost everywhere. The only difference here is that there's no grand total at the top of your profile like a high score. But when I was signed up on world, in the app I'm using you could see separate up and down vote counts for everything.

They're really not meaningless though. For one thing, they allow moderators and admins to more easily detect trolls and bad faith actors. And on platforms or with add-ons that allow better tracking of vote history, it allows the user to more efficiently moderate their own experience, should they so choose.

Also, I think you've got to be kind of an asshole to not recognise that a little bit of validation from communities that you participate in is a nice thing to have and that downvotes can hurt to an extent, even if it's not the same as getting physically slapped. And to be clear, I'm not pointing at you or anyone, I'm just riffing here. I haven't even seen downvotes for a while now.

So yeah, I'd say they're meaningless in a video game sense. You're not going to win any prizes with them. But there's a reason they exist, plus no one is immune to the effects of positive or negative reinforcement.

movies are meant for general audiences

I definitely hear your point but also, maybe always trying to take this middle of the road, lowest common denominator, please all the pearl clutchers approach and turning everything into a bland , soulless gruel isn't that great? This also makes me think of the Crow. Not even counter culture shit is safe from the bean counters or sacred anymore.

All I'm saying is that I think it's about time punk rock made a comeback but it's never going to happen as long as all of our entertainment providers just give us this weak shit to maximize their profits.

I've been making my way through the games, haven't got close to present day with them yet though. As far as I can tell though, he's still more or less the same freedom loving free spirit that stands up to injustices.

About bloody time. Containers are fine for on the fly use - for checking what pages look like logged out, or visiting a link that you don't want affecting algorithms etc. but for separating personal and work and whatever else, profiles are the way to go. It's actually already pretty easy to add 'about:profiles' to the toolbar but the more accessible they make it, the better.

I look forward to profiles also making it to the Android app 5 to 10 years from now.

Yup, especially when we're all being bombarded by the same propaganda in the places that we meet online and spend a considerable amount of time in, we're all in this together. I've seen the discourse about the USA and the culture wars over the last decade in my own country. And from what I've gathered through my years of lurking is that shit is darkening the skies and affecting everyone from the UK to Sweden to Australia.

And as far as I can tell, all of our governments have been mostly happy to sit back and watch everything slide into enshittification and misinformation and ruin. Like they all thought the fight was won and the job was done and they could just spend the rest of their lives collecting bloated paychecks and sleeping in parliament. Even Australia's recent effort to curb social media for children is too little too late I fear.

That escalated quickly.

Going to be a bit negative but this is something that's kinda annoyed me about Android in the last few years. BREAKING: new shortcut available! And then there's the articles and breaking news for them doing shit like changing the design of the clock slightly every now and then.

What annoys me about all of this is that the very first Android phone that I had, the S4 Mini, that started out on Android 4.3, had custom firmwares around that allowed you to customise every shortcut with anything and choose from multiple styles of clock. Amongst other things.

Which tells me that the folks working on Android could easily make things more customisable but they choose not to so that we can get these articles going on about how awesome a new shortcut is and they get to look like they're always working on these new 'innovations'.

They're running out of ways to add extra cameras, so now they're acting like adding a new shortcut to a button that should've been more configurable in the first place is some sort of technological breakthrough.

For me personally, it's something that I'm always activating in my pocket and have disabled now.