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I fucking hate it here

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!

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

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Also just going to leave this here.

Continuing the legacy of Vanced.

💊 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.

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studying the hades game artstyle like my life depends on it + timelapse

and some incoherent thoughts on what I've learnt (warning: long and most definitely contains mistakes)

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kitty su by rielle oase

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Question for someone who literally grew up on the old internet: how were you supposed to find websites before the general search engine?

(With reference to this post here.)

In the very early days, the public-facing Internet was small enough that you could just, like, remember where everything was. Contrary to the modern Internet's rapid content churn and walled-garden siloing, early websites tended to have deep, statically preserved content archives and dense cross-site linking, so it wasn't uncommon to set about finding previously visited sites simply by retracing one's path from memory. Even simple bookmarking was sometimes derided as a crutch for people who were too lazy to learn how to navigate the Internet "properly"; indeed, once web browsers added built-in support for bookmark lists, some people refused to use them as a matter of principle!

Once the Internet grew to the point where this approach was no longer feasible, there was a period of a few years where various parties tried to construct human-curated, hierarchical directories of the entire Internet. This was, of course, doomed to fail, as the Internet was growing faster than it could be manually catalogued, but they gave it the old college try. Some popular search engines such as Yahoo actually started out as directories of this type, and only later added search functionality. Meanwhile, communities of interest adopted a more targeted approach, with dedicated "links" pages containing curated recommendations for other, similar sites becoming ubiquitous on personal websites, while users who lacked the time or expertise to offer curated links could participate in webrings and other volunteer-operated directory services.

(The idea of cataloguing the whole Internet according to a topical hierarchy led to some fascinating taxonomic decisions. At one point, Yahoo's directory had a subcategory specifically for sexually explicit Dungeons & Dragons resources, or "netbooks", as they were called at the time.)

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Speaking of human-curated directories, I still have the family copy of The Whole Internet:

The bulk of the page count is concerned with how to use the internet, both on a concrete level (e.g. "here is a list of file transfer tools, how to use them, and a discussion of their tradeoffs") and a conceptual level (e.g. "what is the internet actually useful for", or "how do you figure out answers to questions about it this book didn't think to ask"). However, there is also a catalogue of sites -- some WWW, but many other protocols are also represented -- sorted by topic.

Here's the start of the directory of directories, listing sites that are, themselves, directories of sites:

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As a very small child I was an early adopter of the internet, as I was allowed to use it at the library! The Netscape Navigator landing page was itself a front door to the Internet. It looked like a grey magazine.

You were aware of websites through word-of-mouth and things like “carefully enunciated URLS on television.”

A presenter would announce over the text, “to learn more, go to H-t-t-p colon slash slash, kratts creatures dot com” - or whatever, and it would linger for a moment so you could write it down if you wanted.

In those days you went “on the internet” to do specific things. That definitely included wasting time and poking around, but the expectation was that if you wanted a website you were told about it and the website was a place with additional information rather than a first port of call. Librarians knew websites and could suggest them. Museums and attractions distributed paper bookmarks, business cards or flyers with the website url written on them.

Early search engines were AltaVista, which used Boolean operators, and Ask Jeeves, where you could ask “natural” questions.

Actually, I think online shopping and secure payment was as much of a thing for “normal people” as search engines. It’s my impression that “Normal people” felt like they had ways of getting information normally, and in daily life had all the information they wanted. Being able to buy actual stuff, that was a tremendous pain to find otherwise, like airplane tickets (previously purchased irritatingly through travel agents) or used books (half.com, Amazon), or specific used items (eBay) was genuinely useful.

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Some artists have been doing a cute trend where they showcase their personal picks for colour of the year based on their art, here's my take on it 🎨

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Square by Zp Zhang

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by Sergey Garifullin

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Chanel x homme girls x Jen brill x jennyshoe fantasyyyyyyy🫦🫦🫦🫦🫦🫦🫦🫦🫦🫦 What a lovely day we had. Shoutout everyone and thank you for having me @hommegirls @chanelofficial Photographer @annemarie.kuus Stylist @jenny.shoo.pumps Interview @madelinecash Makeup @emilychengmakeup Hair @bobbyeliot Set Design @bailey.rose.brown Production @shayjohnsonstudio Editor in Chief @mrthakoon Creative Director @jenbrillbrill Features Director @alixbrowne.edit Design Direction @rosfok @realmavisbeacon Art Director @rainetrain Fashion Director @stella_greenspan Market Director @czzzalopany Senior Managing Editor @siyabahal Digital Editor @oliviaghantous Contributing Editor @user_016795

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Things are getting literally steamy in the janitor' closet ❤️‍🔥 (so sorry waterboy!)

I haven't even played the game and yet these two have me on a chokehold asdksldjekd 💕💕

(don't make me add warnings when nothing is happening tumblr!!!)

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me as a writer: Oh no I can’t write that, somebody else already has

me as a reader: hell yes give me all the fics about this one scenario. The more the merrier

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This one is so hard to accept. Reblogging to knock that into my brain.

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Me as a writer: I feel like I’m repeating myself, I’ve already used that theme, I’ve already written that kink, that other character uses that speech pattern so this one in another fandom can’t, I feel like I’m writing predictable things, is this different enough from that other thing I wrote, are people filling out bingo cards by my work? :sobbing:

Me as a reader: oh hell yeah this hit the spot exactly, I hope this writer has written 20 more just like it

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As one friend said when I felt I was reusing a theme too much, nobody ever says, Did Agatha Christie write about murder again?

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I actually laughed out loud at the last one. A very good point.

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“I love this, I hope there isn’t anything else out there like it!” Said no one ever

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Sometimes you just really need other people to point out the obvious to you! Thanks, guys.

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I remember being in a tiny fandom and reading every story a particular writer had written in that fandom, and then every other story they had written for good measure. Probably around 30-35 stories in all.

In every single story they wrote, one of the main characters either had, acquired, or considered adopting or buying a Bedlington Terrier. Always that one type of dog.

I never got tired of it. By about story 7 I was reading along thinking ‘when is the little lamb dog going to show up?’ and it didn’t even blip my weirdness radar.

Do your thing over and over again, friend.

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Art by Maldha Mohamed

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Trying to take it slow and relax a little for once 🙃🙃🙃 🌻pls don’t delete my caption🌻

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What people think why i became a bookbinder: Oh she wants to explore her artistic horizon with those pretty leather bound books of hers. She even gives them out as gifts to her friends. It most likely helps her with anxiety or maybe she just wanted a more special costume made notebook.

Why I actually became a bookbinder: I just illegally downloaded and printed out several of my favourite fanfics and books and started binding them into books cuz I love reading them but looking at screens for too long gives me headaches.