Did anyone else who grew up in a house with carpeted floors like to rub their hands across the carpet very fast and feel how simultaneously smooth and tingly they felt afterwards?

Or was that just me?

I had to go unsubscribe from one of the streaming services—Glorp, I think, or maybe Jarbo—because I had used a free trial to watch the first two #Mariners games of the #ALCS.

First, I went to my TV's settings, but couldn't find an unsubscribe option, so I logged into my Treepy account on my desktop. But the unsubscribe option wasn't there, so I was redirected back to Roku, where I finally found the option to "turn off auto-renew". Not "cancel", though. "Turn off auto-renew."

And, it seems straightforward enough, and perhaps it is, but trying to navigate corporate websites in 2025 feels a bit like negotiating with a powerful and tricky genie. I'm staring down these subscription pages, trying to ensure I've done the right things so that I'm not going to get charged ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND NINETY-NINE CENTS in 24 hours.

Even when companies aren't using dark patterns, the general proliferation of dark patterns just leaves me jumpy and suspicious. So glad it's the future.

So, I was eyeing the Murena Fairphone 6 for my next smartphone, in an effort to #degoogle.

However, Google's latest fuckery with developer verification, and the apparent death knell it represents for F-Droid, makes me uncertain. I don't have the technical understanding of how the pieces fit together with alternative versions of Android.

Can someone more knowledgeable than me weigh in here? How is Google's developer verification for Android likely to affect alternative Android versions like /e/OS?

#Android #degoogling #fairphone

Murena Fairphone (Gen. 6)

THE MURENA FAIRPHONE (GEN. 6) WILL BE SHIPPED IN SEPTEMBER ! Brand new deGoogled Murena Fairphone (Gen. 6) ! The Murena Fairphone (Gen.

^{Murena - deGoogled phones and services}

The opening paragraph of this essay is so sharp it makes me jealous. Just trying to corral the words to describe what I like about it feels like I'm chasing a gaggle of runaway toddlers on trikes, while Burneko launches his motorcycle off a ramp, winks, and flips me off.

The first sentence is just such a clean, economical expression of contempt, and it sets the tone for the whole piece. Confident, clever writing like that always makes me think of Douglas Adams. If I have any writing goals, it's to write like that.

Only Kevin Roose's Editors Despise Him More Than I Do | Defector

Grave editorial failure only seldom can be located in something as precise as a single word choice. The following block-quoted sentence, from a Thursday article by New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose, contains one, and it feels like journa…

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