Yes. Some do. I was raised by a fundamentalist; they read the Bible constantly. Like, book clubs, a couple, three times a week, reading and discussing different parts of the Bible.

By the time I left that home (went to live with mom at 14), I’d read the thing myself four times all the way through, and various sections of it far more often. When dad visits, I hear audio book versions of it playing in the night as they’re getting ready for bed. Self-indoctrination.

IME, they’re not all that unusual in their church.

This is “no stupid questions,” but asking rational questions about religion is a waste of time. In most religions, the answer ultimately “you are too stupid to understand the great plan of god.”

You can debate interpretation of religious texts, or how best to follow the laws religions set down; but questioning articles of faith is fruitless.

Christianity is especially full of self-contradictions and paradoxes: can God create a rock so big he can’t lift it? You can spend a lifetime poking holes in The Bible, and you will never get a rational, satisfactory answer that isn’t based on a version of “you are too stupid/not meant to know.”

Many religions are less paradoxical, but the monotheistic ones are mostly just an unbelievable shit-show, unless you’re especially susceptible to self-delusion.

No apologies to Christians: your religion is a fucking mess. You have to be particularly dumb to read the old and new testaments and come away thinking those are the same God. That the loving, caring one who sacrificed his son for people is the same one who allowed Satan to torture his most faithful worshipper on a bet.

Buddhism and most pagan religions make more sense. Buddhism in particular lacks most of the dependency on mysticism and unprovable articles of faith, and is almost more a philosophy than a religion. Buddhists, I can respect. But Christianity is all sorts of dumb.

Actually, taken by itself, the new testament is mostly OK; if you follow only Christ’s teachings, and ignore the peyote trips of post-crucifixion books, like, Revelations, it’s a solid basis for a society of decent people. But Christ was a liberal socialist, which is why most organized Christianity leans so heavily on the old testament and ignores Christ’s teachings of acceptance, communism, and forgiveness.

Handsome dog! Whippet?

Legislation is so far behind these issues, I expect AP to be replaced by whatever comes next before legal considerations have any impact. And what’s Joe Smallserver going to do? Sue Google?

I agree with your theory, but while in theory, theory is the same as practice, in practice, it doesn’t.

Your Mastodon and Lemmy (and all other ActivityPub-talkin’ platforms) posts certainly are. I’m not sure it’s even technically possible to have federation without being open to AI ETLs. A centralized platform, maybe, but I expect this is the price we pay for decentralization.

Unsolicited advice: there’s wide, double-sided tape on Amazon that’s inexpensive. It comes off without taking the couch fabric with it, and if you put it where she scratches, she won’t. Giving her something else to scratch is a great idea, and it will help her change her habits if you also discourage her old scratching places.

Something like this - I’m not vouching for this brand, it was just the first result.

This is a market opportunity. Screen real estate is solved; we just need a clever mobile keyboard/mouse solution. Maybe some sort of haptic feedback gloves.

I can’t imagine playing Factorio on a Steam Deck, so I haven’t gotten one, but it’d be nice to be able to being my factory with me on the airplane. I figure some AR glasses would make for a nice display, but the controls need most of the keyboard, the mouse, and as many mouse buttons as you can afford, and I haven’t worked that part out yet.

And that breaks the processor and you have to reboot your listener and it’s such a paaaaaiin.

Until January. Then that will all stop.

I haven’t tried it yet, and I haven’t had a reason to look into it. My experience with Fi was that you pay $10 per Gb - it didn’t come out of your normal bank - and per-minute charges. When I was traveling, I used my company phone, or if on vacation, purely data with heavy up front-caching as much as I could at the hotel. I really don’t like surprise bill sizes.

But to be honest, I haven’t tried Mint internationally, so I can’t say.

Not so bad. I use gmail as a backup for some accounts in case something happens to my VPS or domain, and my Amazon account is still linked to it out of laziness, but otherwise I never use it.

Oh. Except that I have an Android phone, and that’s linked to my gmail, although I don’t use any Google apps or services beyond Play. So I suppose my phone would stop working. Everything’s backed up, though, so maybe it’d be a good thing; maybe it’d motivate me to pull the trigger on a Light Phone. I kinda want a Minimal Phone because my F&F uses Jami, but that’d still be an Android phone, so it wouldn’t work either.

Fi isn’t that great. We were on Fi for years; I switched to Mint, my wife stayed on Fi until I was sure it was going to work. So far, I pay less for more, no gotchas.

It was amazing when it first came out; now it has a lot of competition that beats it.

I never stopped calling it Twitter. X is a window manager, a letter of the alphabet, or the most algebraic variable name. It’s not a name for a company.

To maximize the number of people who show up at your funeral.

Who do I write?

ntfy is in the app store, so you don’t have you side load it. I don’t know how many iOS apps use ntfy, but many Android OSS apps will ask you over which notification system you want to work.

I was just clarifying that this isn’t one of the XKCD proliferation cases. Apple and Google’s push notifications are proprietary and give them full access to your notifications. Unified Push is the OSS alternative, and this KDE enhancement doesn’t createa another one: it uses the defacto standard OSS push notification specification.

The fact that ntfy is in the Apple app store makes me suspect there must be some number of iOS apps that can be configured to use Unified Push.

I meant the server can deliver notifications via ntfy:

https://docs.ntfy.sh/examples/#home-assistant

Yeah, I don’t think the mobile app communicates with the server over anything but the web API.

It turns out, in this case it isn’t. This is about a KDE library (service?) that uses Unified Push, which is a standard implemented by servers like ntfy, Nextpush, and Gotify. If you use any f-droid apps, you’re probably already using Unified Push. Home Assistant uses it for mobile notifications, too.

It is, probably, the third biggest notification protocol after Google’s and Apple’s, only it doesn’t route through their servers or provide them with more of your data to harvest and sell.

Unified Push is a good thing. It looks like KDE just makes it accessible to KDE application developers through the KDE libraries.

I think if you put it into a long-term deferred-tax savings instrument, that you e.g. can’t easily cash out, it might not show as an asset for purposes of a grant. Like an IRA, or CD, or gov bond, or something.

Talk to a financial planner. Fidelity will be happy to have a conversation with you in hopes that you’ll set you account up with them. They may not be able to answer your question, but then, they might.

And fuck people who try to guilt you about trying for grants when you have a retirement account. $250k is a great start if you’re 18, and will turn into a decent retirement fund if you leave it alone; but it’s peanuts in the big picture and certainly doesn’t make you “rich.” And if you spend it on education, you won’t have it for retirement.