That makes a lot of sense; thanks so much!

Not really related to the bulk of your comment but I’m curious (if you don’t mind sharing) what features you like from BlueSky, in comparison to Mastodon?

https://youtu.be/vwh9ETdhrf4

This was the video essay that won me over to that film.

Also this video (much shorter) is just funny: https://youtu.be/WC0YAJR6xQQ

Nooo…I would’ve sworn that was a burger.

That was the most appalling part, for me: I thought they’d just slapped a whole raw patty on top everything.

Haitian and German

I guess only tangentially related but, if you like cheesecake and wine (especially fortified wines), a cheesecake with sherry is positively divine.

Not a car

To be fair, I did somewhat presuppose that.

Ahh, yes; one man named Cornpop has distilled the status quo. I think it’s pretty clear from him calling others “gun nuts” that he’s not into gun culture.

Anyone who regularly uses guns here would have the same advice for Cornpop. Presuming that any firearm is already loaded is basic gun safety and even the most conservative NRA member would tell you the same. This isn’t remotely reflective of anyone who regularly owns guns in the U. S.

Yeah; that’s totally fair. Mostly, I just want to get it more known; whenever Mobile Linux come up, people namedrop Purism, the Pinephone, maybe UBPorts and the general conclusion is that the spec.s, alone, of what’s available are pretty much a non-starter.

There’s definitely aspects of this phone that some people wouldn’t go for but I’d rather sales be limited by not-the-right-choice than just no one knew it existed; especially when any progress can get sent upstream and improve future projects, as well.

I’m probably going to spam this around a bit, since most people don’t seem to know about it, but a reminder that FuriLabs has a (GNU+)Linux phone with decent spec.s and the ability to run Android app.s (from what I’ve heard) pretty decently: https://furilabs.com/

Biggest drawback is it’s based on Halium. Usual growing pains of a new product/company apply but apparently the company is pretty responsive and their dev.s have worked with customers to get things like calling working with the carrier and bands of their country where it hasn’t worked before so improvements move pretty quickly.

Collection of different experiences I’ve variously seen online over the last year or so:

• https://clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2025/07-20-flx1-actually-usable-linux-phone.gmi
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41839326
• https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1fa1ljn/furilabs_flx1/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1j46f2w/flx1_linux_phone_display_out/
• https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/furiphone_flx1/

I don’t own one, myself, so I can’t give any personal experience but I’ve seen it around for a few years now but most people don’t seem to even know about it. Maybe there’s a reason for that? But none I’ve ever seen anyone say.

guix upgrade

Well, they’re both Germanic languages so not terribly surprising, I’d assume?

Margarita; friends bought it for me on my 21st birthday.

Huh; never heard that use, before. Sounds incredibly wrong to be, as well.

Heh, it might; granted, I’d just done a cursory glance since I was at work, at the time, but, taking a further look, it seems that 40 WpM is average with 50s and 60s being above average.

Granted, that include people who aren’t touch typists so that might bring the numbers down.

I also tried retaking a typing test again as, the first time, I’d done one that was only a minute (again, being at work); I did another random one and got 66 WpM and another one that was 5 minutes and got 61 WpM. So I also seemed to undersell myself in that first comment, it looks like.

I can; but, while we had Mario Teaches Typing in school, I absolutely hated the cognitive effort and preferred to Hunt and Peck.

I love computers, though, so my brain eventually memorized the keyboard just from constant use; now I generally type without looking (with a pretty average 44 WpM) but primarily just use my index fingers to do so.

The first one, in terms of cinematic story telling, is actually incredibly good (I don’t know how much that contributed to things); if you’re interesting, this video essay points out a bunch of stuff I hadn’t noticed, the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhdBNVY55oM.

Also, entirely agreed about the first two.

Treasure Planet is a well-written

Ehhh…; don’t get me wrong: I still absolutely love it. But I absolutely get why it flopped, too.