I have a Sony Xperia 10 IV. To be honest, I only bought it for the headphone jack and microSD card slot, and struggled a lot between it and an old Fairphone. If not for gaming or taking pictures, it's good enough, I guess. At lease, it's good enough for me.
I degoogled it, striped most of its property apps, and only installed FOSS ones as replacements. It has a good battery life (at lease for me), I only have to charge it twice a week, but I'm not a heavy user. (Only basic social, web browsing, music, some video watching.)
It still receives security updates after three years, which should have stopped sometime ago. Anyway, I think I'll eventually have to get it a new OS.
Have you seen animals drown? In cats specifically, I've seen children drowning a newborn kitty. But I was just a child too, it was a raining day, no adults around. It was a horrible way for an animal to die. I still remember the sounds. Didn't stop them because I was a coward. I didn't know Australians can kill their cats in such a way casually.
I had the same experience about the mouse problem. Long ago parents caught a mouse with a trap that won't kill them. With no better idea of what to do with it, they decided to drown it. We watched it drown slowly and painfully. They never do that again.
This is eye-opening, in a post that talks about evil people. If it's for population control, isn't it usually Trap, Spay, Return? But then again, there are some parts of the world people can torture or causally kill cats and dogs with no legal consequences. Humans are disappointing.
There are people used to tell me every track by Summoning sounds the same. Many who don't listen to Classical music complained that Classical music sounds the same, be it Vivaldi or Schostakovich. Some suggested I need to change it to a more uplifting playlist (in an Art Gallery). If I played Bach it would be worse. And then some people told me everything I made looked the same. I mostly agree to all the above. It's better to admit defeat and admit that you would never be good enough.
Thank you for your thoughts. It was actually a thoughtful gift, a Monitor Calibrator. At the time, my work was art related. Maybe deep in my mind, I always wanted to put it into some use... Maybe I should dig it up and use it.
It's surely one of the first sites that I know and use, and it's still alive. I think it's from the 90s. (Looked it up again, their earliest visitor count starts at 1997)
Later we have Metal Archives, but I think Lost Souls Domain was the first website where you look for Metal music informations.
This sounds like me... Father gave me a gift that I don't need, I get irritated and said something that I shouldn't say. Spouse pointed that out to me, said it was their thought that mattered. I feel sorry and guilty ever since...
That was the case. She lost my trust since I was very young. But fortunately I have a great father, who is intelligent and caring. I often feel sorry for him to have to live with my mother. On the bright side, their relationship seems get better in the resent years. Maybe time did heal.
Sort of on the similar boat. Unstable country that can go insane at any moment. All that. But lucky to have a roof even if it's not my own. I'm sorry to everything that's happening in the US. From the experience of me, people around me, and our parents, the stress from social unrests can acompany them for the rest of their lives. Past trauma get triggered by the current one, family members uncaring. Professional help is at best expensive, at worst expensive and unhelpful. I'm looking for some self-help too. Binge watching seems like a good one.
I have a Sony Xperia 10 IV. To be honest, I only bought it for the headphone jack and microSD card slot, and struggled a lot between it and an old Fairphone. If not for gaming or taking pictures, it's good enough, I guess. At lease, it's good enough for me.
I degoogled it, striped most of its property apps, and only installed FOSS ones as replacements. It has a good battery life (at lease for me), I only have to charge it twice a week, but I'm not a heavy user. (Only basic social, web browsing, music, some video watching.)
It still receives security updates after three years, which should have stopped sometime ago. Anyway, I think I'll eventually have to get it a new OS.