taizou @lion@computerfairi.es
Joined Jun 2017
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a thing i have found younger researchers of the late 90s internet don't really appreciate is the number of ephemeral websites made by literal children. i was 12/13/14 making websites on freehosts for fun and i knew easily a dozen other people my age doing the same. the person who hosted the forum i was part of in high school started it at 15 on a server under his bed. there was no concept of age verification. if you had an internet connection and lax parental supervision you were good to go.
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the easier parental digital surveillance gets, the more i worry about queer and trans kids
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i really do dislike the society-wide assumption that the best way to keep children safe is to grant parents more and more power over their lives, which is one that totally disregards the utter commonality of abusive treatment of children by parents, guardians, and other authority figures
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Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf
There are 2 launchers preinstalled, IUX and Pegasus, IUX is the custom one for this device & I like it in some ways it but does have issues. Honestly if I was doing this from scratch I wouldn't bother with a launcher & just use emu apps standalone but might as well tinker with what's here
hell it was hard to find last year as well. I had to get it from Taobao & accordingly everything was in Chinese. Most apps were switchable but all the games on the bundled SD card are named in Chinese & have Chinese metadata for the included launchers so I'm figuring out what to do about that
for context this is a ZPG A1 Unicorn. very nice Android based handheld with a 1:1 screen and a Sega-style d-pad. Unfortunately it didn't make much impact as they had production & distribution issues & ended up being beaten to market by Anbernic's spite-driven knockoff the RG Cube. Hard to find now
I bought this a full year ago and have only just got around to setting it up
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happy pride month to the gays and the lions
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je sais pas vous mais moi je ferais bien un poutou à charly moustache du restaurant charly moustache à douarnenez
my flat retains heat so much so even when it starts to cool down outside it's still like an oven in my front room
i've been completely ruined by the heat this week i have barely been able to do anything. even by my usual low standards of doing things
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Wanted to repost this, so I tracked down the original and took a fresh screenshot, because it's important to share.
I still have this if anyone's looking for a cheap gaming handheld right now!!
btw I realised that it's the fork Aurknix that supports it not mainline Rocknix. sorry for spreading misinformation on the internet
Joined Jun 2017
