The Nomad + a car charger made long car trips a breeze. That was a damn good investment on my parents’ part.

Some of those retro emulator handhelds run Linux, to boot. I did a playthrough of Stardew Valley on my Anbernic SP.

“y’know, they call 'em fingers, but I never see them ‘fing.’ Oh, wait, there they go.”

I want to believe you’re right, but in a world where AI can fully replace human labor, that will likely also apply to the areas of mass surveillance and military suppression.

Imo, one of the scariest and most frustrating developments in robotics in the past 50 years is the ability to process billions of text and voice conversations, all at once, 24/7. Things really take a different tone when all of a sudden the US Government can find it feasible to listen to all of us, every time.

I swear to God, I feel like the global rise in far-right parties has less to do with any kind of global cabal, and more to do with the fact that Boomers everywhere are powered by nostalgia. Seems like Boomers everywhere will stop at nothing to bring back the world of their parents that they never experienced.

Just look at how much of Russia’s foreign policy is basically “damn, remember when we were the USSR?”

“Well, wants to send me and people like me to a concentration camp, but I do hate gay people sooooooooooooooooooo”