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What a load of crap. My phone is 5 years old and the only security risk is me blindly installing questionable APKs off the Internet or clicking pop-up ads or something. It's not like I'm walking around with a time bomb or anything when all I do is browse a few apps and text and call.

Also the new pixel 8 supposedly is supposed to come with 7 years of updates. It's entirely possible Google abandons that plan though, given their track record.

I ended up drinking down by the river spot with some friends one sunny summer afternoon. Completely randomly, I remembered I had the number of a boy. He had long blonde hair, was skinny as a rail, and was very into heavy metal, I wasn't as much. He was also adorable, but I wasn't even thinking about that. I was unsure of my own feelings at the time of whether I was gay or not, I was only like 21 and he was 19.

I honestly have no idea why it dawned on me to text him. I just thought he was a cool guy and maybe fun to hang out with. We didn't exactly run in the same social circles, we had a few of the same friends but had actually really never interacted much irl. A few times on last.fm and tumblr.

My friends started leaving and splitting off, and before it got dark, we had drank most of the bottle of fireball he brought and we were kissing and holding each other in the weird pallet / tree house thing above the river.

What's extra crazy is he was sort of floating between living at a few places and was currently crashing at a mansion of all places, but it was like 20 miles north of the city and he didn't have a car. He just happened to be in town on that one day, at the right time, that when I texted him, he was able to walk over.

That was 10 years ago. We're planning on getting married after I finish some home renovations in the next year or so on our beautiful 1890s home (which coincidentally is by that same river).

My vice president 😍

The man is alive and in the same position. He's also said women are unreliable to give testimony in court or serve in armed forces, that gay people should be treated as "ill or disabled people", and that Palestinian attackers should be treated as animals and not human beings.

I have a semi-decent Intel NUC that got decommissioned from being a game server, so it's not really in use.

Do you have any recommendations for a Linux distro or home media OS that I could set it up in the living room to play some emulators, watch Plex off my NAS, maybe some adblocked youtube or spotify, etc?

Pick up and play would be key. A wireless keyboard would be fine but a remote would be ideal

Does an old school washer dryer that runs off timer relays / knobs / push buttons really have a CPU? I ask because that's how mine is and I haven't had to look at the controls but they seem dead simple to me. I get there's different cycles but some simple ladder logic should be able to handle that, no? Half the world runs on simple machines like that.

The title of this article makes it sound like it's being said by the my pillow guy

Water is wet

I had no problems at all as recently as this year. I think I was playing over the summer

Were you involved in making OpenMW? That's so cool

Ok what the fuck is this garbage?

Bisexual men take more risks because of... genes? And that makes more bisexual men because of... unprotected sex? What is this, Goebbels 101?

I have difficulty even wrapping my head around the notion that there's anything at all that makes someone gay or bi from birth, and I say that as a gay man. Implying that it's at all related to the sexuality of your father is extra insulting and dehumanizing.