doing just fine in my corner

sometimes youll find stuff. other times you wont | she/her | under 21 yrs old

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

I fucking hate it here

[some-sort-of-ecologist]

For those of you with android devices, you can use the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) standalone app control program to get rid of all the bloatware, data mining, and AI crap - no coding needed!

[d-e-w-p]

save

[clatterbane]

There are also Android-based alternatives like GrapheneOS and LineageOS, which are pretty easy to install. These are unfortunately available for a more limited range of devices (Graphene is ironically Pixel only, while Lineage supports more), but it's very worth checking out whether one of them might work for your phone.

GrapheneOS: the private and secure mobile OS

GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

LineageOS Android Distribution

Typing this from Graphene now, in fact. But, both of those take the Android Open Source Project, without all the bloatware--and largely de-Google the whole thing. They give you much more control over privacy and what the apps you choose to install can do and access on your phone.

I know Graphene sandboxes everything, including the optionally installed Google Play Services which a lot of apps unfortunately require to run. (Lineage uses an alternative to Play Services instead.) So, you can install what would normally be unacceptably intrusive apps and just lock them away from pulling any funny shit with your data, or phoning home. Including the couple of Google things I do still keep around.

I also prefer running much more transparent, privacy-respecting open source apps where possible. Besides the transparency, I'd rather avoid the shitty tech corps entirely where I can. There are pretty good alternatives available for a lot of the usual suspects.

AlternativeTo lets you find apps and software for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android, Android Tablets, Web Apps, Online, Windows Tab

An alternative app store:

F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy

[clatterbane]

Also just going to leave this here.

ReVanced

Continuing the legacy of Vanced.

GitHub - ReVanced/revanced-manager: 💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android

💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android . Contribute to ReVanced/revanced-manager development by creating an account on GitHub.

This lets you pretty easily patch some of the worst offender corporate apps to make them behave better.

[ciboboo]

captain, engineer, scientist

partially based on @strifesolution's shiny duo save stars au but i put my own PET twist on it... I'm a big fan of everyone acknowledging how smart and capable pearl is except herself. that and the overarching theme of loneliness

i just thought of people pearl absolutely admire and would feel guilty failing over. i love PET postal but there's also this distance in this group that comes from pearl timezones preventing them from hanging out and doing stuff together, which solidifies their roles for me in this au... she would love to get to know them and save stars together but she couldn't, even though both etho and tango have high opinions of her. having friends in different timezones than you is kind of like a dead wife

[hjartasalt]

Iceland is fucking bizarre my name change made the news

[hjartasalt]

Like just @ me at this point I'm literally the only person in iceland (and very possibly the world) who has the first name Lauf

(Article title reads "Lauf and Birningur in group of new names in the name register")

[hjartasalt]

No one lives here so now two of our biggest news outlets are vagueing about me lmao

[hjartasalt]

Hmm you're right. Correction: two of our biggest media outlets are talking about me specifically because they are obsessed with me

[hjartasalt]

This morning I showed up to work and my boss was like "congratulations :))" and I was kinda confused so asked her on what and she said "your name, I heard about it on the radio"

So far I have counted two online articles and apparently the radio is also talking about my name change so I'll keep you guys updated when I'm on national tv or something

[cipheramnesia]

With a little legwork we can make more people on Tumblr see this than the entire population of Iceland.

[aimervee]

So anyways the Pokecology book is really good you guys

[luminarai]

listen, I’m not the biggest fan of kids but if a child looks at me then you bet I’m gonna smile back at them. kids deserve to experience the world as a kind and safe place to explore okay.

[scarlet00rose]

But the world is not kind or safe.

[citizen-zero]

then Fucking do your part to make it that way.

[committingarsonincrocs]

He’s teasing us I swear to God

[theminotaursmanual]

by Laerte Coutinho

[las-lus]

btw this is laerte. She is 73 now! Making art and being happy! It's never too late to transition

[iconuk01]

She's now 75 (as at 12th July 2026),

If you want to see more of her work try:

https://www.instagram.com/laerteminotaura/

[forrest13]

Do I even need to explain..?

[wormontwostrings]

[lectern-fullcauldron]

I find it so sad when people present the history of hermitcraft as "generikb left so xisuma took over as admin and leader". like noooooo you're doing such a disservice to the chaotic group project that is hermitcraft. xisuma took on responsibility for the physical server hosting, yes, but Joe Hills broke the decision stalemate (via coup) and Hypno took the website and Cleo arrived to join the council (of people who actually go to meetings and do admin) and welsknight stood up to rap battle anyone necessary and tango came on as tech support and keralis came on as hardware sugardaddy (where's beef's new mouse?) and there's more and more and more. there's no leader of hermitcraft (Joe stood down immediately after the coup) and everyone has a veto. a lone leader would have fallen by now, it's the work of every hermit that makes the server strong

[lectern-fullcauldron]

guys we need to get Joe financially stable enough to make another album with Quinn because I have an inescapable need to listen to webcam expander on demand

[quinnhills]

fun q&a yesterday with @charlixcx

[rosemaryduexx]

Happy birthday Tanjiro!🎴🎇

My lil ball of sunshine ☀️

[applestruda]

Hermitcraft's photographer

[vicprobably]

their grand entrance was truly beautiful

[lulu10008]

part 2 of background worthy screenshots from mumbo's newest hermitcraft episdoe

mumbo does such an excellent job of highlining all his fellow hermits bases and building abilities

go check out his video if you want to see what he does with these

heres part 1 that has the rest of the screenshots that arent here

i unfortunately was unable to get screenshots of Beef's base or Joe Hills' base because Mumbo did not show the un-pixelated version in his video

[lulu10008]

collection of background worthy screenshots from mumbo's newest episode of hermitcraft highlighting all of the hermit's amazing bases

mumbo does such an excellent job of highlining all his fellow hermits bases and building abilites and i am so happy he does.

go check out his video if you want to see what he does with these

bonus silly transition screens

heres part 2 with the rest of the screenshots i didnt put here