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[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Not the 6T but I owned the 6 for years until AT&T decided to forcibly disable any of their SIM cards in one when they sunsetted their 3G network (still very pissed about this…).

I know the spec.s were similar, while being improved on the 6T, so not 1-to-1 but I can say the 6 was a really solid device.

When I ran Mobian on it, the extra spec.s (over, say, the PinePhone) really made things pretty nice; I'd expect you'd have a nice time with it and I think it's a solid device.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Pair it with Ferngully for a 90s-environmentalism double-feature.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 6 points 1 day ago

Is The Brave Little Toaster that unknown? I know it's no Disney film or Anastasia but I thought it was more beloved (and known) than all the others listed here.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

If I remember correctly, I think the reason is that it wasn't originally meant to be a children's movie but for adults.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago

It's astounding how many Linux users engage with tools founded in left-leaning ideas while insisting politics aren't brought into their fav.s.

I hate the conclusions Libertarian Linux users draw but at least they see the parallels.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Incident on 57th Street by Bruce Springsteen, live at the Main Point '75

It's always hard to gauge, with Bruce (obviously not an unknown but, also, lots of people who've only casually listened to him, if even that), but this one's a live performance for a track that doesn't get a lot of radio play.

Also a great example of his early storytelling work and great use of violins, to boot. The whole original album is a classic but this one's great as a one-shot.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think the weirdest thing I ever saw him do was discuss meeting with Meta when they were working on Threads, get called out for it so he made a post somehow distancing himself from it and saying something along the lines of, "C'mon, guys; I'd never cozy up to Meta," and then, when Threads started federating, posted a screenshot of being able to see a post from a Threads account from PixelFed and gushing about how incredible this was.

Dude is suspect, for real; glad to see I'm not the only one getting that.

EDIT: just read through what you linked to and wow; that's so much worse than I originally thought. That's an inane degree of unprofessionalism.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 0 points 3 days ago

By that argument, it looks like an SD card.

I'd argue that the ~~insanely satisfying stim toy~~ shutter of the floppy keeps it unique, though.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social -3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

No; I'm not. I very explicitly started my first comment with "a year is too large of a time" and the person before me noted it's suited for "casual short term planning" (which I consider things like the dates on homework assignments and the like to be; I would argue most things that people do within a given year fit this use case. You simply don't care about the year most of the year but you always care about the month regardless of if you care about the day of the month).

DD-MM-YYYY just simply isn't usefulness because a month is too short a period of time for the day to be most relevant to you. In almost every case where you need to use the day of the month, you need to know what the month is. It may not be a consistent ordering but, given the average person's interaction with dates in a society, it's the one that matches the relevance of these values to their daily lives.

As I originally said, I can admit that – if we wanted consistency – YYYY-MM-DD is probably better (MM-DD-YYYY is absolutely worse when looking over a period of years though no worse than DD-MM-YYYY) and I could accept that as a universal form but, for day-to-day (assuming we don't want to lose the year so these dates don't become useless in the future), MM-DD-YYYY works really well. Consistent/logical/etc. or not, a month is simply too short, in the context of human perception, for us to care about the day of the month without the context of said month.

DD-MM-YYYY just gives me the info. I cannot do anything with, without further context (which I probably needed more, anyway), first.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social -2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yeah; I did. And that's a short stop for that date being useless in the future, after the short-term use case. That's more wild, to me, than having the least useful part of the date just be at the end where it's easily locatable.

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