They aren’t it’s just many programmers are nonbinary because that tends to go with intelligence. Not that being intelligent makes you nonbinary just that being intelligent makes it hard to be stupid and pretend like you are something other than yourself. Before the desert monoreligions took over nonbinary and queer identities were very prevalent in society. People were always gay and genderweird, but religion and authoritarianism and slave ethics made people think we are the weird ones when really they are the weird ones living a lie. They accuse us of “gender ideology” even though we barely even believe in gender and they are obsessed with it and gender roles. They accuse us of “gay ideology” even though we mostly keep it to ourselves and they build their entire identity on being “normal”, and constantly badmouth us, which ironically they aren’t even. They are repressed and confused and virtually lobotomized. They are motivated primarily by fear and acceptance. They are jealous and envious that someone else can be brave and be themselves when they are miserable little assholes who can never even stand up for themselves or even know a single true thing about themselves outside of the dark corner of their mind they reserve for masturbation.

They can never allow us fairness because if they did we would just completely dominate them and their entire culture. Most of us are not only intelligent but strong and honest. We are survivors. We are brave. We are principled. That’s how we ended up becoming human in this ridiculous world of exploitation and gaslighting. We are beautiful because we actually care and take an interest in ourselves. We have good character because anyone will use any excuse, no matter how small to try to exclude us or get rid of us. They can’t compete with us so they have to lie and other us as much as possible.

Yet if there is one thing that’s going well in this world, people are at least learning to be and know themselves. People are quickly embracing their queerness and natural genders instead of this stupid nonsense from the past in the religious world. Modern humans are starting to become like the greeks and Romans and Persians and Egyptian again. Finally starting to be happy, and progress as a species, and we are finally starting to get back to that level of civilization after a near 2000 year dark age.

Flatpaks are okay for stuff that doesn’t need deep access but they don’t work for many things.

I have them but I use Debian mostly.

It’s just reality and it is too much for most people. It’s like that old saying. You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth! It’s easier to believe in the fairytale. The government and God loves you. Good always wins. Honestly and hard work pay off. People are good. The state will protect you. Just go back to sleep, but make sure you show up to work on time because we are too rich to clean those floors like you common people do, and although you will never have a retirement that is both safe from the stock market manipulation, and inflation, we have boats and nice cars to buy.

Lol you better support the police state so the rich don’t nuke the whole world! They have you by the balls. Why do you think they talked about nukes for like 50 years? If not to convince everyone that they need this giant security state and massive armies and trillions in military spending.

They run a mini Linux distro and you can ssh or tyy into them if you have a serial port. They have access to much of the hardware but usually over something like a serial interface but still can inject code and stuff. They are a completely secret self-contained computer and I don’t even think they get updated for security. They could easily be hacked by anyone probably mostly government regimes. There is only a few companies that make them and they are ultra secretive and protective over them. This is the main reason it’s nearly impossible to get an open source phone. Arm is proprietary, modems are proprietary. They run blobs. I have probably the one phone in existence that can run an open source modem firmware, and interestingly I have figured out that there is basically no security whatsoever on the cell networks. (Monopolies gonna monopoly) So that might be one reason they are so secretive about it, another reason is because they don’t want citizens being able to just have open source radios that they can’t easily hack or sell to drug cartels or something.

It does have complete access to your mic and Bluetooth and other stuff since they share buses, it has access to all your data being sent. It can record phone calls. It can triangulate your position. It can even imitate other modems to pick up people’s messages and calls, which means not only can it spy on you but also it can spy on other people around you. I don’t think it’s really possible to disable these things completely outside of physically cutting power. They boot up with the phone and can probably run even when the phone is powered off since it’s a self contained system, often with a direct connection to the battery.

Between Bluetooth, and cellular modems, they have basically complete access to many bands around you, as well as sensor data and sound and video, and with satellites recording the entire planet, they can trace anyone who doesn’t have a device back in time anyways. Cell towers can triangulate you as well and do. It’s part of location services in all phones now. The modems can connect to almost any towers at least for “emergency purposes”.

Basically the only place that’s safe now is inside your own head but even that’s becoming unsafe because of AI that can read your facial expressions and infer your mental state.

The ways they get around the legalities is originally with the eyes programs, where countries would spy on their allies citizens to escape domestic laws like those pesky constitutions, but nowadays they just literally sell everyone’s personal data to the highest bidder, international or domestic. The CCP can buy this I do just as easily as Black Rock can, not that Black Rock is or every was an American company. These are international corporations that exist outside of the idea of a state.

It’s also not the CIA or NSA spying on you, but private companies. Even the people in the CIA and NSA aren’t allowed to know about the extent of the true intelligence apparatus which is completely secret, outside the law, and contained entirely in international corporations. The entire Internet has been saturated with bots since 2001 or something probably. The internet is just a massive psyop and propaganda program. The average person in the 90s would be horrified at the opinions of common people today. Nukes are also probably not real. Just a way to scare people into believing Russia and America and China are actually enemies while they partial up and nationalist culture that doesn’t want to give all its resources up to the international secret world management and finance corporation. Fiat currency too is a giant scam to make sure the working person never acquires wealth, and has to work forever, and corporations and wealthy humans who’s names will never be spoken publicly, can own anything and have unlimited leverage and I finite money without ever having to work or produce anything of value. The text books in nearly every school in America are made by a company in Israel who was co-founded by glisten Maxwell’s father. The left in U.S politics is fake, and the whole social justice warrior movement was a clever psyop to push all the countries further right wing run by internationalist corporations btw. 25% of Americans are addicted to legal amphetamines, more on other drugs like weed which reduces people’s ability to understand what’s real, Md nearly half of working age people in America cannot or won’t find work. Wages have been dropping for decades and now IQs are dropping. Most of human genetics have been completely ruined, as we as humanity has destroyed nearly every honest, principled and empathetic human on the planet for profit.

ATM machine. When people ask what that is being a smart ass, I say it’s their mom.

User older flash tech can be useful here. You might not always need the highest density storage if you want to maintain files for a long time. Getting stuff built in a much larger process node makes for a much more stable form of storage.

A good way to see what the future of places like the U.S are is to look at places like North Korea, where they do exactly this, move files around on flash media to avoid the state censors.

I tried to stop using slurs, particularly the identity based ones.

I hope it gets good mod support

I mean that’s fine if you care for that, but you can still try to avoid most of it since they are complicit in trying to hurt and defraud and surveil the common people.

Stay away from mainstream media. I stopped watching TV 20 years ago for this very reason. I refuse to support propagandists and liars.

Jennifer’s body, American horror story, true blood, shooter, the Martian, demolition man, blade, first blood, commando, oldboyz, war games, Terminator 2, xeon: girl of the 21st century, the devil wears Prada, the witch, new dracula movie, gone in 60 seconds, underworld, ghost dog, lone wolf and cub, wensday, the sandman, maybe some others, if I have time later to think of them.

I recommend a movie night.

The world has been deteriorating a lot in recently years and inflation is high.

This is a common misconception of modern people. The Romans didn’t value masculinity. They valued refinement. They were people who worked on farms, and did everything by hand, and fought in the legion. People like that don’t idealize masculinity. They saw themselves as being superior to other people not because of their masculinity but because of their culture and way of life.

People idealizing masculinity are mostly modern affluent males who never really struggled or worked for anything. They work in offices all day, so they pretend to care about sports or hunting to appear more masculine. They are anything but. They idealize masculinity because they lack it in so many ways.

The Romans also didn’t think there was anything weird if wrong with being homosexual. They had no concept of it being taboo, and just thought it was a normal thing that nearly half of humans were by nature. The Jewish worldview and their dislike of homosexuality and sexuality in general, hadnt came along until long after. Israel was just a backwater at the edge of their empire. It wasn’t until Christianity and Islam took over much of the world that people started to associate homosexuality with gender and masculinity and stuff.

The Bible old and New testament is trans affirming although it has some passages against homosexuality. In fact the old testament says that eunuchs are allowed and even favored in heaven, but aren’t allowed in temples. Jesus says that some people are made that way, some born that way, and some choose to be that way to serve God, but doesn’t create a strong requirement to be kind to them, rather saying, those who can understand this should understand it. So both God and Jesus are trans affirming and says so in the Bible, but a man should not lay with another man and also there is a verse about a man should t wear the clothes of a woman, but I don’t think that would apply to eunarchs which are not considered men or women or to have a gender.

This is actually a pretty cool loophole for gay people. If you are a bottom you could just become trans if you have to live in a religiously oppressive society. It gives at least one pathway to happiness and love, but I know there are many gay people who prefer to be masculine while also homosexual.

As a trans person I don’t believe in religion myself but I do pray to God. Maybe an old habit. My idea of God isn’t a skypervert, and authoritarian but more like a friendly spirit who helps people who have good hearts and teaches wisdom to those who have dark hearts, but still stay aligned with the ineffable platonic good.

Even as a child it always seemed really silly to me that a god would care about who you love or what you wore. That never made any sense to me. I always assumed God was more intelligent than your average human. People who believe those things are not really believers in my opinion. All their assumptions are obviously coming from a place of, not actually believing in God, but wanting to use it as a tool to hurt people they don’t like. I see a totally different perspective. To me those people seem miserable and suffering in their own confusion and I always considered that to be justice for their own shittiness and their audacity to badmouth God out of their cynicism. God usually doesn’t punish much, he will sometimes destroy, but when people abuse his name and know him not, then it’s kind of fair game. They are in his debt and owe him for the trouble they cause him.

Not many good options out there but will likely change as Google destroys android and creates a market space for these types of devices.

A slow Linux phone is still better than a pedospyphone.