SanctimoniousApe

@SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
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The Princess Bride.

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It'll never count if you don't even give it a chance. There have been a good number of examples where winners were determined by just a few hundred votes out of millions. There's no harm in trying to support the future you want, so even if you don't think it'll matter go vote anyway - you never know...

If it helps, this Gen Xer (i.e. "me") is offsetting their remaining parent's vote. We were told growing up how decent we should be, yet when we actually took that to heart and did that our parents went off the reservation and lost their minds. There are a LOT of fractured families thanks to Trump & Faux Snuz, and I hope we can make the future worth all the trouble they've caused.

Highlight the entire headline, and perform a search on it. Even if you can't discern the true source, there ought to be plenty of better sites to link to.

Forgot to mention the panicked brain freeze when you found out you miscounted.

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I don't care what they say, a single space after a period at the end of a sentence is NOT enough. Now get offa my lawn!

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I'd normally let this go, but since the whole post is about being pedantic imma make an exception:

Here here

I'm afraid that's actually "hear, hear.'

You can change your situation all you like, but it's not going to change who you are (especially as this big brother world enabled by technology makes it virtually impossible to escape your past). If you've reached a point where you have virtually nothing left to motivate you to move forward (especially if it has been that way for a long time), then the significant effort it would take to try to save you is unlikely to be worth it (never mind finding anyone who would actually care enough to devote themselves to such a task) - particularly with an outcome that is FAR from certain to be a positive one.

Some people just reach a point of being basically devoid of hope, and therefore pretty much dead inside.

Don't ask me how I know.

They said "proper".

I call it the "trying too hard" put-off. The harder you try to sell me on something, the more I'm sure I don't want or need it.

There's a completely free app (no ads, either) that prevents auto-rotate from actually happening unless you want it to. It pops up an icon when your phone wants to rotate, and it you don't tap it within the timeout (adjustable up to 3 seconds) then the icon goes away and the rotation never happens. It's highly customizable, and I just can't live without it since I found it.

Nah, that'd be the version of that without symbols, just straight digits.

I'm aware of that, but I'm fairly certain the period's kerning is the same whether the period is at the end of a sentence, or as part of an abbreviation. Therefore I think typeface designers tend to use a shorter spacing to be safe due to the differing use cases. I actually think roughly 1.5 spaces after a sentence is ideal length, but, yeah - we were taught to use double-spaces on typewriters since they're monospaced.

Plenty of those for free on F-Droid & IzzyOnDroid.

Official "support" just means the biggest size they tested. The current SDXC standard has supported up to 2TB since the standard was released. Any device supporting SDXC should work just fine with a 2TB card even if they don't specify it as officially supported (assuming they didn't deliberately nerf their driver for some unfathomable reason).

I clearly see Hobbes, but I had no idea he had a twin brother...?

As a backup option, you can give Google Assistant or a Google Home the following commands: "at 10PM, sleep {lightname}" to dim, or "at 6AM, wake {lightname}" to brighten - both work over the space of a half-hour, and for some odd reason that's not customizable.

Yeah, I'm with you on that. I tend to install a ton of interesting apps when I see them, and categorize them into groups (many apps fit multiple groups) so when I'm looking to do something in particular the apps that might fill the need are together to try it with. If those search launchers allowed for adding multiple tags to each app for categorizing and searching, then they'd probably work well enough for me to try.

Kiwi Browser is Android Chrome with desktop extension compatibility.

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I'm referring to Android versions. No extensions allowed on Android Chrome, but Kiwi does. Android Firefox allows some small number of extensions, but IceRaven allows many more.

I tend to doubt it, but either way it's irrelevant - the signal-to-noise ratio on conspiracy theories has gotten absurdly bad, and it's hurting too many people who have nothing to do with it.