maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

i made an account ask me thing https://alterspring.org/@maple

social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

chunky

if you use Google Chrome by choice you're doing something wrong with your life

this rant brought to you by people with more money and computers and social status than me complaining about YouTube ads when i haven't seen one in my machine in years, because they refuse to use anything but Chode and give in to Goggles banning adblockers

yes, apparently such people exist

I can run latest Firefox ESR on a C2D with 4GB of RAM and have a decent modern browsing experience

Giggle Chrud could never.

i wish people would stop spreading FUD misinformation about Firefox being more memory intensive than competitors, Quantum was released 9 years ago, it's time to get over it

beggs enedict

"just root your phone/use a custom rom" even assuming that this wouldn't magnificently break my banking apps, i don't want to have to

the android ecosystem is proof that money and commercialisation will not fix the linux ecosystem

being a lifelong android user makes me understand why people buy iphones

it's 2026 and i have to go through a series of steps to check my alarms because the android ecosystem is just as fragmented and petty as any other Linux computer's

it's 2026 and my phone's lock screen tells me i have no alarms set because i set them with google's clock app because i prefer its design and the lock screen is by samsung instead who insists on their own separate clock app

blippo+ (2025)

let's hear it for "set it and forget it" web hosting. pages that were last modified some time in the Bush administration that are still up because the bill keeps being paid and nothing else. fuck a framework update raw HTML is forever

i can not once not cry at "dedicated to the memory of UNIVAC I" at the end of the credits for Electric Dreams (1984)

i want a vidicon tube camera

pls play/watch blippo+