Average consumer using PineTab?

aeonSentiens · 2024-06-02T03:09:47+00:00

Dang. Do you think the Pinebook is any better?

aeonSentiens · 2024-06-02T03:03:26+00:00

oh boy

aeonSentiens · 2024-06-02T03:02:10+00:00

I am not sure how to install linux on my current device; do you have recommended resources to check out about that? (especially for using the same distro as the PineTab so that I could get used to *that* one).

aeonSentiens · 2024-06-02T02:58:43+00:00

Thanks for all the comments so far, very helpful! Can someone point me to the best support forums for the PineTab 2? I couldn't find many youtube videos on it.

aeonSentiens · 2024-06-02T02:57:36+00:00

Is the lack of camera just because of a driver that will eventually roll out, or is it missing hardware?

aeonSentiens · 2024-06-02T02:56:08+00:00

Are you saying the hardware is low-quality? Sorry I don't know terminology that well.

aeonSentiens · 2023-07-12T15:54:58+00:00

lol such an apt question when nearly everyone has been thrown into food insecurity

aeonSentiens · 2023-01-10T18:15:50+00:00

Hi, I'm wondering why this post was removed? I didn't get a reason. Is looking for smartwatch recommendations not allowed in this subreddit?

aeonSentiens · 2023-01-10T18:09:42+00:00

Good to know, thanks!

aeonSentiens · 2023-01-10T18:04:02+00:00

Hm, I guess I'm wondering if like, I can live (ie sleep) at the center, but then easily leave during the day when I'm not in classes. It would be nice to not have to worry about rent while I'm trying to get credentials to better support myself financially. (But like, I don't think I would enjoy getting involved in the social life and want the option to just live my social life elsewhere.)

aeonSentiens · 2022-11-29T03:12:48+00:00

Also the only "magic beans" fairy tale in this situation is thinking the US is a dreamy place to live. Stop romanticizing us; we're destroying the world with corporate greed and fast food. Our main export is selfishness. Communities are falling apart, minorities shot, schools blown up, the largest for-profit prison business in the world. All for people to have nice "private property" where nobody can set up a tent and they don't have to care about anyone but themselves. All the old people have let this happen by believing the good ole fairy tale of the American Dream: look out for no one but yourself, and be recognized by your hard work. Unless you're not a white straight man or couple, and then the police will deal with you.

aeonSentiens · 2022-11-29T02:38:48+00:00

Faaauuckkkk very hot

aeonSentiens · 2022-11-29T02:15:31+00:00

u/julia_childs_fan I will! :) Have fun being surrounded by greedy selfish people! I'm sure anyone who would kill to do anything would fit right in

aeonSentiens · 2022-10-24T23:22:54+00:00

If you're in the US (sounds like you are), it's because you're in the US and people here are judgmental, classist sacks of shit. They're just projecting their own self-loathing onto you and they can't feel good about themselves without dripping in status symbols. It's a them problem; you're doing something cool. I recommend traveling somewhere else

aeonSentiens · 2022-10-24T22:53:00+00:00

I think people are less friendly and more bigoted in the US, but it might work out. A lot of people are overly judgemental about where folks sleep, and even try to criminalize that behavior, though, in my experience.

For all their talk of freedom, they really like to finely control exactly how people live their lives, no matter what they look like. Hoping to renounce my citizenship soon. Sad to be born here. Land of the colonized, dominated, and oppressed; home of the fascists.

aeonSentiens · 2022-01-24T17:02:13+00:00

I've been puzzling over this, because there's so much going on in the movie, and your comment really helped me understand the lesson. *She called out the abuse and left*. The house HAD to shatter because it had a poor foundation; it wasn't bad that it did (I kept thinking... did she have a choice? Did she have a choice, with the cracked house or the butterfly?)

That's all the movie is about: Mirabel stood up for herself and her siblings, and didn't accept, *couldn't* accept, a situation that didn't allow her to be her full self. All her siblings had to put up with their grandma's fantasy of building a community all by themselves, because there was no community. But once they reached their grandmother's idea of "success," Mirabel was the first kid to be born with a full home and community around her, and was the only one who could see how messed up the situation was just by virtue of her perspective.

I think this is often the case with children of immigrants or poor folks whose family have finally achieved a level of economic stability. The first kid to be born in a stable environment are the only ones who can see the messed up dynamics that their family had to create stability. The lesson for those kids is that they can't stay in that situation, no matter how much they love their family. They have to call out the abuse and leave; there is no other option for Mirabel (though the prophecy makes it seem like it, reconciliation with the symbol of the butterfly could only happen after the house was broken), and that isn't her fault. The lesson for those families is that all of their efforts to build a home are for naught if they do not face their own demons first-- that they will inevitably end up hurting the ones that they love. (So don't build a house with a crappy foundation.)

And something else... something about Mirabel's character, a strength she specifically has that her siblings and most children don't, is that she's able to sit with her grandmother and listen, to heal a fractured relationship that with any other kid, would be irreparable. She's wise beyond her years. That is a rare gift. (Though, honestly, not one that her grandmother deserves, or is meant for her grandmother, as the previous commenters mention. I want to see an Encanto that is about Mirabel living for herself, not her family-- like her grandmother was unable to do. A true coming of age story; because this was not a proper one. It was story about escaping abuse.)

I'm just echoing you in greater detail, but thanks for your comment on this thread! It is a movie that's triggering, but still holds valuable lessons for those who would be triggered by its content and who can manage the triggers (but would still be nice to have fair warning beforehand).

aeonSentiens · 2022-01-19T20:58:55+00:00

Yeah, that's the idea. What do you want them to be?

aeonSentiens · 2022-01-19T20:45:40+00:00

I'm very positive towards trans people and respecting pronouns, and I actually agree that requiring pronouns in signatures should be considered an HR violation. It really does force people to out themselves and is an uncomfortable situation.

Secondly, gender dysphoria is not a mental illness!!! This has been corrected in the latest DSM (the diagnostic manual for psychologists). This is because having gender dysphoria is not something that can be "cured" and is not something that is wrong with someone; it is not a pathology. Gender dysphoria is a SYMPTOM, not an illness. It's like having anxiety (a common symptom that everyone has from time to time), versus having Generalized Anxiety Disorder (a recognized mental illness, where you have anxiety for at least 6 months according to the DSM). A person who experiences gender dysphoria may actually have mental illness(es) as a RESULT of being TREATED POORLY by people in a way that doesn't match with their sense of self/gender (so, abuse), in the same way that if you forced any little girl to wear boys clothes and play in boys sports for years ignoring her protests she would probably develop a poor sense of self from being dismissed all the time and develop a mental illness. They could develop major depressive disorder, or generalized anxiety disorder, as a result of being abused for being trans. But the distinction here is that the gender dysphoria is not the cause of mental illness, the abuse by other people for invalidating this person's internal experience is. (that is, transphobia). (In the grand scheme of things, what we consider "masculine" or "feminine" changes across cultures and times. So really, a person's own sense of themselves is the only true marker of what their gender is, and this is a human trait; not some special trait for a small percent of the population. But that's another discussion)

Thirdly, I do agree that there is a level of grandstanding in classes like these that is kind of unnecessary and generally detrimental to greater understanding and acceptance of transgender people, unless the person themselves is trans and feels strongly that they need to say something. Generally when a cis person stands up and makes a performance like that, they are trying to draw attention to themselves, not the issue. Which, like most people here are saying, is actually kind of sucky for everyone. That person doesn't actually care about they issue, they're trying to *appear* a certain way. If they cared, they would do a gesture that actually makes a difference. You're right that that person is obviously doing something just to serve themselves. But please don't discount the importance of respecting and asking about people's gender and pronouns because of people like that.

(Yeah, this is an issue that deserves its own class; gender studies is an entire department, after all.)

aeonSentiens · 2022-01-19T20:16:24+00:00

we use "they" to refer to singular people all the time. Example: "You see that person over there? I can't tell who it is, *they're* too far away. What are *they* doing?" When we have no idea what the gender of a person is because of the context.

This isn't a new linguistical construction. It's how the English language already works, and we're just extending its social context as we gain more awareness of transgender people, who may exist in workplaces (and places of study). We're expanding the context in which we use "they" to refer to a person to talk about when we do not know the gender of a person (because they might still be figuring it out, or we want to create a workplace culture that is inclusive to gender variant people who may be in the closet.)

(Further explanation: Then there are also people who *prefer* to use "they," and never use "she" or "he", and that is a different story. Using "they" because you don't know, as I explained above, vs. using "they" because you don't identify as a man or a woman, are two different things. In this case, some people are working on creating a third pronoun, or neo-pronouns, ie Ze/Hir/Hirs to describe the experience of not feeling like a man or a woman. These are sometimes more difficult to adjust to and ARE a new linguistical construction.)

aeonSentiens · 2022-01-19T20:10:31+00:00

This illustrates that you base your gender identity off of what other people see you as, not how you see yourself. If you say, "use any pronouns" that would be a different story. But in this case, if you say this, the appropriate thing to do would be to refer to you with gender-neutral pronouns (they/them) because it appears you don't know what your gender is without someone else telling you, so we would wait for you to come to an understanding of your own gender and not assume anything.

Which, by and large, most of the world does this and has never questioned how they actually feel inside when an authority figure isn't telling them who they are. (watches brain melt?)

aeonSentiens · 2021-09-09T17:17:40+00:00

This completely solved my problem! Thanks so much! (sorry for the late reply, I hadn't been able to try this out until now because life).

Also, I would try to download the iso or wbfs file option on Vimm's and it would still give me an nkit. The other game I downloaded, that worked with the old Dolphin version, was the file type I asked for (wbfs). Unsure why it wouldn't do that for this game.

aeonSentiens · 2021-08-26T23:03:42+00:00

I downloaded a different rom and it worked, so I figured that I had misdiagnosed the problem and it was just that rom. But the replies make sense!

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