Personal philosophy

Other variants per request, glad we’re all on the same page

shout out to all the loveless aros out there! :D

just because you don’t feel love doesn't mean you don't care about your qpp (or anyone else for that matter)

i love aromantic love. i love qprs. i love close friends. i love caring about everyone the same amount. i love having no hierarchy in relationships. i love being affectionate with your friends. i love appreciating your friends. i love all of it. aromantic love—partnering or not—is fucking beautiful

gay yearning but being alloaro so like i want some form of a deep intimate connection with sex and shit but also idk what sort of relationship i yearn for 😭😭

help

I LOVE BLORBO FROM MY SOMEONE ELSE'S OC

Every household appliance should follow the same philosophy as GNU software: one thing well.

A toaster should toast things, without breaking down due to thermal cycling.

It should not make a table of what was toasted and when.

A refrigerator should maintain a low temperature, without burning out its motor.

It should not build an inventory and communicate it to a corporation.

An oven should maintain a user-specified high temperature, without starting a fire.

It should not measure the weight of its contents and give dietary advice.

But most of all, none of these things should connect to the internet [of things]. They should be as dumb and robust as possible. They should be future proof by virtue of having no compatibility requirements beyond

1. energy source and
2. physical dimensions.

There's a sewing machine in front of me that was built in the mid fifties. Its only compatibility requirements are the physical dimensions of needle and bobbin, and a 230VAC power supply. It is perfectly reliable after more than sixty years and should still be in another sixty. It's solid metal and might well be operable for centuries with very little maintenance. I doubt that the same could be said of modern machines full of plastic and microprocessors.

tl;dr I'm a tech person and I endorse OP's message.

boomer opinion time: (actually roughly xillennial, but whatever)

if your graphic user interface requires long press and double tap of three fingers and shit like that you have taken too many buttons away from the device put some buttons back on the fucking device 

My phone looks like this:

Those 3 options on the bottom, below the search bar, are always there if the phone is unlocked. They are so fucking tricky to deal with because touch screen "buttons" are always fiddly about correctly registering touch, making every use of them a chose. My question, Konka, is this -- if you've got three buttons on your touch screen that are always in the exact same place on the touch screen, WHY ARE THEY PART OF THE TOUCH SCREEN. WOULD IT REALLY BE THAT MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO JUST MAKE THEM BUTTONS. THAT I CAN PUSH. AND HAVE THEM WORK EVERY TIME.

physical buttons are better for accessibility in basically every way: you can feel where they are instead of having to identify them visually, you can identify that there IS a button before having to commit to PRESSING the button, and you can still manipulate them even if you're wearing gloves, or holding something, or have sweaty fingers, or shaky fingers, or a million other problems. "high tech" that doesn't actually solve any problems is worse than useless.

Reddit • YouTube

Do your part - use literally anything other than Google Chrome

Reminder that switching to Firefox is incredibly easy and takes just a few minutes, you WILL be able to copy over all your cookies, browsing history, logins etc, as well as change the look/layout so it feels like what you’re used to.