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Average millennial living life on the edge (of the Midwest)
You ever publish something in the middle of the night when it’s nowhere close to ready?
Yeah, haha me neither 🥴
The amount of claims labeled satire that snopes.com even has to publish really puts the state of big social media into perspective
iOS 18.2 will let everyone set new default phone and messaging apps
…a note on Apple’s developer website states that all users worldwide can set new default apps for calling and messaging in iOS 18.2
But the big stuff, like support for alternative app stores and browser engines, has mostly been confined to the EU.
I wish they’d support other browser engines in the US already. The only thing I miss about Android was that you could actually use Firefox. Like actual Firefox, with extensions. Imagine if Google limited everyone to re-skinned versions of Chrome on every Android device.
We need each other
People, I mean.
I’ve always considered myself a bit of a loner. Definitely an introvert; I love hanging out with friends but I love coming home and decompressing while watching some TV or spinning a few records even more. My nights of staying at the bar until 2am and passing out at a buddy’s house are long behind me.
Recurring Strangers
Starting out on Micro.blog after using regular social media for years is like going through digital detox. At first it’s quiet and feels pointless because you aren’t getting internet points, then next thing you know you’re annoyed that you can’t turn all of that stuff off everywhere else.
I know LLMs hallucinate but Google’s AI is straight up Hallucination as a Service 😆
Mini rant about Meta, staying in touch
It’s annoying that Facebook is the only way for anyone to get in touch with extended family or old friends. Idk of any other platform where literally everyone has an account.
I log into the mobile web version every few weeks and it notifies me of new messages but then it makes me install Messenger to even see who it was. Then I catch up, uninstall it and reinstall it in another month or so.
I wish there was a less shitty platform for staying in touch. Or at least some kind of open protocol that can talk to stuff like Messenger but isn’t tied to any single huge mega corporation.
‘Jersey Shore’ Airs as ‘Macaroni Rascals’ in Japan? | Snopes.com
The Japanese translation of “Jersey Shore” is more nuanced than the meme suggests, but the core of the claim holds up. When the Japanese title, “マカロニ野郎のニュージャージーライフ,” is translated to English using Google Translate, it can be read as, “Macaroni Guy’s New Jersey Life.”
However, when that same title is translated using the Cambridge Dictionary Translator, it reads “Macaroni Bastards' New Jersey Life.”
I love Japan 😆
Conservatives tried to start a boycott of LGBTQ+ friendly businesses. Their efforts backfired.
Several small business owners in Lancaster, Ohio, say they saw an increase in new customers after a local anti-LGBTQ+ group tried to start a boycott campaign against them.
I work in Lancaster every once in a while and it’s a pretty backwards, back woods kinda town. I always feel a little uncomfortable there because of all the jacked up trucks with Trump flags, LETS GO BRANDON stickers and even my customers who come in wearing NRA shirts and MAGA hats.
Here’s what a County Conservatives member and director of the local Family Forum has to say:
“None of us have called for anyone to boycott these businesses; we were just trying to figure out who was supporting [the events],” Burgoon said. “Our downtown has suffered greatly, and it has come back now. We don’t want to lose that again, so we haven’t called for anybody to boycott anyone.”
Yeah okay.
But the owners of businesses on the list aren’t buying it. Brandon Love, owner of gift shop Bewilderment argues that the list was always meant to discourage people from patronizing the businesses on it.
“We’ve probably had at least 200 people who have never been to Lancaster that have come to town to support the boycotted businesses,” Love said. “People from, not just Columbus, but out of state have been visiting us on the daily now, and so it’s definitely something I didn’t expect.”
It’s nice to see the LGBTQ+ community standing their ground to all the hate coming from the shit head conservatives who want to run them out, or at the very least force them back into the closet. Even more heartwarming to know people are flocking to this forgotten little town to show their support. I’ll never understand why some people are so hellbent on dehumanizing other people who are a little different than them.
Warm take on federated social media
The stuff you’ve already heard a million times
Mastodon is a decentralized social network, meaning anyone can download it and run their own instance. Each instance can federate with each other, so it still feels like one massive social network. The benefit is that there’s no single point of failure, but that’s only relative to the entire Fediverse. People recommend joining the smallest instances or running your own because it’s better for decentralization - and it is. If you’re on a server with 15 other people and it gets wiped off the face of the internet for whatever reason, only you and 14 other people are affected. If Twitter goes down, everyone with an account is affected.
The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds
I was reading a post by Toxicka Shock about this disturbing homebrew Gameboy ROM this morning:
One of the great unsung stories of video gaming in the 2010s was the explosion of high quality homebrew releases. The success of games like Undertale and Cave Story are proof that you don’t need millions of dollars and humongous staff to create an unforgettable title, but where thing get really interesting is when it comes to retro console releases.
It hit me right in the face with a blast of nostalgia and reminded me of my console modding days.
Back in the day, I had a soft-modded original Xbox loaded with emulators and ROMs from all the big 90s consoles. It was my first and, frankly, my best experience with emulators as well as community built, homebrew games and ROM hacks. The 2000s and 2010s were definitely a golden age for unofficial ROMs.
My absolute favorite to this day is still The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds;
The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds is a fan overhaul of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past using new graphics, new music, a new overworld and underworld, and a new storyline. It is for the SNES. As of 2008, the game has been in production for 4-5 years and has had a demo release, a 1.0 release and a 1.1 patch to fix many bugs as well as minor changes in dialogue. A 2.0 release is planned and has been officially announced. This overhaul is infamous for its high level of difficulty
When you picture a homebrew game you probably picture something with lots of bugs, and sprites made in MS Paint. Or maybe the old NES Zelda hack where they make everyone look like South Park characters.
This is definitely not that though. It feels like an authentic Nintendo title. It truly feels like an insanely difficult official sequel to A Link to the Past.
It’s over 20 years old, but it’s still worth playing if you’re a die hard Zelda fan. Especially if, like me, A Link to the Past is your all time favorite in the series.
Autopsy of 78-year-old man reveals he had three penises
Interestingly, it appears the urethra first grew within the secondary penis but failed to entirely develop there, forcing it to change its route and grow through what became the primary penis.
Because of this internal arrangement, medical researchers explained in their paper that it’s possible the man spent his entire life unaware of his situation.
Imagine having not one but two extras and not even knowing it lol
I’m not a programmer but I think our diy monolithic point of sales/literally everything to do with the company software that stores everything in excel spreadsheets and gets beamed out to a bunch of Windows 7 thin clients is probably not the greatest or most secure way to do business
Putting yourself out there: on self doubt, persistence
I’ve been using the new Reeder for a while now. Started back when it was TestFlight only and then bought the one year subscription when it was out of beta. It’s really polished and well done but I think I prefer having seperete apps for my feeds and social media. It’s too much having it all in one
Man blames bellyache on street food — but no, it’s a live cockroach
Cockroaches are known as hearty insects that can survive just about anything: sewers, decapitation, radiation after a nuclear war. And to prove the point, one cockroach was just spotted alive and well while wreaking havoc inside the stomach of a 23-year-old man.
Dude wuuut 😳
BlueSky knocked offline after mass exodus from Elon Musk’s site
Elon Musk, X’s owner, announced that the site would be changing how its “block” button works. That option previously allowed users to hide their profile from certain accounts – but will no longer do so.
“One of the biggest functions of blocking is giving women the ability to stop weird men from constantly making them uncomfortable and scared,” one user wrote. “So of course Elon had to change that.”
Always heartwarming to see more people leaving Elon’s Hellsite
My favorite things about omg.lol so far have definitely been the community itself and the little statuslog thing you can embed. I scrapped the idea of starting another blog over there just for the sake of starting another blog. Although I do like how it’s all set up. But Micro.blog already does everything I need it to do. Just the wrong timing on my part, I think. At $20 a year, it’s worth it just for the statuslog and mastodon server imo