I like the aim and ethos, but not so much the design (other than interesting modularity) and certain things rub me the wrong way. And the pricing is just very out of line.

In the end, I’ll just continue to do what I have been and keep old laptops running as long as possible. Have been using old IT-recycled housings or eBay purchases of “just the right thing” and swapped parts around, rebuilt the OS, etc. That’s where much of the fun is anyway, heh.

I do wish the Fairphone were easier to come by in the US, tho.

Only 99%?

Has interesting possibilities, to be sure. But a whole lot of the harder sci-fi stuff seem to really fall off a cliff before the end. XD

Daughter weeping over mama’s “two week reset” doesn’t land quite right for me, tho. I can understand a bit of confusion, but her trade-off is between “dead mama” and “minorly reset mama.” And they knew what they were getting into by making the backup to begin with.

Needed a much bigger discrepancy/timeframe involved to sell it. Like, if the backup happened a year+ prior, not merely a couple weeks.

I am not sure what other alternatives there are? I’m receptive to anything good. Right now this looks like it has promise, so I’ll go for the ride.

The only thing I can really suggest is to start culling some of the worst, and introduce some counter-influences like debunkers, in hopes of her feed organically at least introducing some of that to her over time.

I am not sure if she would watch, but there is at least the possibility. Even if you kill her account in some fashion, if she just rejoins and starts looking for the same stuff again…

Reddit basically lost any semblance of respect the community should have for it. You know, the people who give them all their content and do all their moderation for free.

Fuck 'em high.