When I was looking up CBT on Wikipedia because a friend of mine wanted to start it, I came down to the “critisisms” section and found a very interesting blog which might be worth a read.

https://melbournelacanian.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/a-critique-of-cbt-as-ideology-part-1/

I would argue most modern forms of therapy aren’t actually on the side of the individual, even if they seem like they are. They can’t address certain things that would empower you as an invidual, because it would be dangerous and also just not profitable.

And imo therapists don’t need to address or even recognize societal or economic problems, it’s out of their scope.

Anyway, take the blogposts with a grain of salt, I don’t know how accurate the critisism actually is.

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Calyx is not as degoogled as it claims to be (at least it wasn’t 2 years ago, see below). I know this is a bold claim, but the only ROM comparable with Graphene was DivestOS, which was a one human project and was dicontinued last year. And even Divest had the problem where updates were delayed by a few days or weeks.

Obligatory eylenburg link, and there’s this blogpost I like to link to. It’s written in German, but I’m sure it’s a good read if you put it through a translator.

Take this with a grain of salt since it’s been two years since this blogpost was published.

Here I deleted a whole paragraph in which I sounded like a Graphene elitist haha. I would say using CalyxOS is a lot better than stock Android or Lineage. Please don’t choose your OS based on vibes. If you need any of the features Graphene offers that others don’t, please use it (edit: like the protester mentioned in the article). If you don’t, don’t.

I agree, Graphene is not for everyone, and what you wrote is a perfectly fine opinion when it comes to privacy- and security-focused daily driver OS’s for smartphones. If you’re a protester or a journalist though, it’s all or nothing. There are no alternatives, no compromises that can be made. If you use a smartphone you are at risk, even if it’s a Pixel with GrapheneOS.

Graphene has decided to instead frame everything that isn’t a Pixel running Graphene as universally bad.

They did say on several occasions that they would support other phones if they weren’t locked down (Samsung) and commended the security of upcoming Mediatek and Qualcomm chips.

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Back in Cyanogen mod days I softbricked my phone because I was too curious. There was this huge list with services/apps and their permissions and I was like “yooo gotta try denying as much as I can”. Turns out system apps need permissions so the system can work. Oh well

If there are pages upon pages of settings, would you really go through and try what each of them does?

Don’t underestimate me!!!

A seam ripper from my ex’s mother, if that counts. I’ve kept it in my little sewing box for a little over 10 years now.

There’s something besides emotion and thought, right? Something that’s there even if you don’t think, don’t feel. Something that’s watching. The “you” that just exists, just experiences. That’s consciousness. What AI mimickes is not consciousness itself but it’s functionality. So, chill.

Another interesting thing: Wernicke’s Aphasia. The part of the brain that generates speech works independently from the area that gives speech coherence and meaning. YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oef68YabD0 Maybe a bit of an oversimplification (my own, human language model sucks lol), but just look it up if you want to know more.

If it’s really just pictures and contacts, do it manually. Contacts app should have an export function. Pictures you can just copy via USB.

Messages are usually cloud-stored nowadays right? Do you have more than idk 5 different messaging apps? If you don’t, and one or some of them for some reason don’t store messages on some server, find out if you can do it manually, most apps should have export/import functionality (not just messaging apps btw). For standard SMS though, no idea.

Please explain to someone not very deep into the whole rust, bevy and game dev game: what are the implications of this?

I don’t feel bad either, but I kinda understand why people do stupid shit like that, from a personal point of view plus I have some hypothesis about extreme (EG carnivorous) diets in men. I believe it’s an eating disorder in a lot of cases, manifesting in a way that’s more difficult to grasp than “simple” bulimia, anorexia or orthorexia. For the outsider it’s a seemingly arbitrary dietary restriction, from the inside it’s most likely something a lot more complex. Dunno if there are any studies on this.

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Stellaris suffers from a lot of simplification. The ethicsand civics lack nuance, and megacorps are just reskinned oligarchies etc etc I bet other people could come up with tons of other examples.

But that’s the goal. Stellaris is not a space civilization simulation game, it’s one half 4x one half roleplaying with a distinct style and flavour and kinda rigid mechanics.

Every time I touch Stellaris I realize that I’m severely disappointment with it.

A question I have in general to people on this post: how to do it “better”? Like how do you represent societal evolution on alien worlds? whatever “better” means

(On a side note, off topic too, I really dislike the species classes. They would work much better with a tag system. For a more realistic, less carbon chauvinist and maybe kinda cool approach, you could differentiate species by their biochemistry. But this is outside of Stellaris’ scope and I think I would enjoy a more esoteric and creative approach like in Endless Space 2

edit: Spore was worse lol)

Oh it’s been a year already?!? Time flies when you have a good time I guess. Thank you!

I edited my comment I forgot the conclusion as always lol you might wanna check it again

AI is a tool that’s used as a disinfo machine primarily, at least LLMs are in praxis, and they get better much faster at that in particular with such amounts of data. But I would argue that this kind of data (acquired without user consent) isn’t necessary for them to get better edit: at anything else.

I would be much more okay with corpos or states invading my privacy if anything actually useful would come of it, but it kinda doesn’t. I left corpo social media behind not because it was hungry for what data I could provide it, but because it used mine and others user data to make itself worse. And the desire to drop my smartphone and go full dumb tech or no tech at all grows with every passing day. But the paranoia every privacy-concious person experiences sooner or later, some more intense than others, was not something initial for me.

edit: … as was privacy-burnout. I always keep that in mind, I try ro remember, that the reason privacy bothers me is not (only) to protect myself. It’s not a futile fight for independence of anything, it’s tied to a vision I have of the world.and the future

Hope this makes sense I have the feeling what I write often doesn’t

This is really common in the west, especially with middle class people. I don’t know why they do it, I think it’s years of propaganda. My father used to complain about China in a similar way too, and I grew up with everybody regularly joking about the cheap (cheap as in low quality, not low price) plastic crap they produce and export. I mean to this day there’s YouTube videos like “I bought this thing from China, is it any good?”

On one hand, it’s anecdotes like “hey diiid you know they’re doing this ILLEGAL cloning and biotech science experiments in China?!?”, on the other hand they say “nnaah they can’t possibly come up with their own high tech” (while implying “only white westerners could”). It’s so wild and it’s pissing me off so much, not because it’s anti-China but because it’s so obviously propaganda and just plain fucking stupid

I know this was a rhetorical question you hexbear people usually know your shit haha. Just needed to idk vent get this out whatever

.world volunteers to become lemmy’s troll feeding ground lol

I mostly use them for really simple things like hovering the cursor over something to show a tooltip, or navigating menus in DRG and the inventory in Minecraft.

I realized how much I miss this hybrid approach when I had my 3 month long Genshin Impact phase. Genshin does support either Keyboard and Mouse or controller input, but not both at thw same time, and the menus suffer from mildly inconsistent UI and UX.

I think if you cut the player base roughly in half, the players that care for multiplayer titles which don’t work on Linux (yet) are also the ones not caring as much about touchpads; while the other half are a different kind of gamer who appreciates or even needs them.