Notices by captain typ0 (inkslinger@coales.co), page 11

@keithzg @kepstin Good to know, though I've had the issue on at least one Chromium-based mobile browser, as well. Regardless, at least there is a fix for the Pinebook Pro issue.

Turns out the wiki instructions were partially incorrect. Anyway, I fixed it a couple days ago and it's all good. Learning is fun!

@velexiraptor I cannot abide this. I must uphold Marxism-Ruled-Paperism. Sorry for splitting the left.

@kepstin Good to know. I'd still rather not install it, but it's good to know the option is there if I ever change my mind.

Is there even a Linux repo for Chrome? I'm not sure I'm even *able* to add Chrome to my device, unless I put Chromium OS onto a bootable SD card, but that's a lot of trouble just to access my Google Drive.

Tried to log in to my Google Account from Chromium browser recently and got some weird "this is not an authorized browser" type message. Same thing happened with the mobile Lightning Browser (which is based on Chromium). Google trying to force me to use Chrome, specifically, rather than just Chromium-based browsers?

At least I can still log in via Firefox (for now), as needed. If they cut that off, too, I'll just have to fully abandon Google, because I'm not installing Chrome on my home PC.

@bgcarlisle HTML signatures are awful.

@benhamill I know some of these tropes come straight from Tolkien, but that doesn't make it better.

@benhamill On a different but related note, I strongly dislike when games suggest (as D&D originally did, and perhaps still does) that some "races" are inherently evil. Surely, there are some good orcs. Perhaps, from the orcish point of view, most are good and are defending their lands from human/elvish/dwarfish aggression.

Like, sure, literal demons can be inherently evil as part of their very nature, but for nearly all other creatures they're either a) animals or b) complex, sentient beings.

@keithzg @mpjgregoire I used to have some "smart" lights that worked via bluetooth, so I didn't need to have my fucking lightbulbs connected to the internet. But the functionality was necessarily more limited (basically, they could be dimmed and used in rooms that didn't already have dimmer switches).

@mpjgregoire I mostly don't really need or even want most home automation stuff (though I do have a Nest thermostat), but being able to have voice control for music and lights would be convenient. But, like you, I've lived fine without and it's honestly a fairly minor convenience that's not worth the privacy/security trade-off.

Similarly, I would never buy a baby monitor that needs to connect to the internet, as convenient as it might be to check in on my phone.

Current weather status in Alberta: "The Calgary Zoo cancelled its much-loved 'Penguin Walk' because it was too cold for the sub-Antarctic creatures."

@erinbee @Siphonay That actually makes a lot of sense. I was reading a while ago about name trends and, while traditional feminine names have ebbed and flowed in popularity, the top masculine names (at least in English) have remained relatively constant for at least 100 years, due in large part to men naming their firstborn sons after themselves. The absolutely ego of men. We're the worst.

@Siphonay I blame the English, specifically. Why is Bill short for William? Why is Dick short for Richard? Why is Harry short for Henry, especially when it's not actually shorter?!