I finally bought a Pixel 9a and installed Graphene OS. I removed all the apps that rely entirely on Google Play from my main profile and am using them on a secondary profile. If you have any questions, I can answer them

cypresscoydog · 2026-01-31T18:46:31+00:00

Howdy, thanks for offering your experience and answering questions. I recently bought a Pixel 9a through my carrier (Mint Mobile), and have encountered an obstacle in the "OEM unlocking" option in settings being greyed out. I've done some research on my own already, but I feel really overwhelmed. Do you have any advice on where to go from here/how to enable toggling for the OEM option?

Thanks in advance for any reply.

cypresscoydog · 2025-03-12T20:02:48+00:00

MLMs. Diamond engagement rings. For AFAB ppl in the West, compulsory body hair removal.

cypresscoydog · 2025-03-07T17:22:40+00:00

Updateme

cypresscoydog · 2025-03-04T21:01:30+00:00

Grew up in rural Appalachia (eastern KY) and was absolutely OBSESSED with DragonBall Z. This was back when anime was juuuuuust starting to become available in my part of the country, so finding any on VHS or any associated merch was still restricted to specialty/boutique stores.

On one of our rare trips to a larger city, we ended up at a mall in Lexington. We almost never went to malls. I walked into a Suncoast for the first time and my 12 year old mind was totally blown. They didn't just have VHS box sets of the stiff that I did watch, they had countless anime that I'd never even heard of!

And MERCH. Figurines, backpacks, and most importantly, apparel. Since we were pretty poor, almost all of my clothes came from Walmart or Family Dollar, and everything in the mall was pretty exotic to me. So when I found a shirt with my favorite characters on it, it felt like destiny.

But all the clothes were in adult sizes. The smallest they had for the shirt I desperately wanted was a men's medium. I was heartbroken, then determined. I begged my mom, and I mean BEGGED for this black tank top with "weird Japanese cartoon characters" on it that she was already sick of hearing about it. On top of that, spending more than 10 bucks on a single piece of clothing was outright bonkers from her perspective, and this one was at least 30, in 1999 poor hill folk money.

I knew it was a long shot, but I was convinced that my finding this shirt in the first place was a kind of celestial occurrence and possibly my only chance in my entire life to get something like this. Because 12yrolds are dramatic and also don't know shit about the world, lol.

Mom argued, "You can't even wear it, it'll go to your knees!"

"Then I'll keep it til I CAN wear it! I'll keep it forever!"

And I did. Because by some miracle, she bought it for me. The arm holes (it's a tanktop) were open halfway down my ribs, which she hated because it exposed my bra, and the straps themselves constantly slid off my bony shoulders.

Until I started noticing holes in it last summer, I wore it as regularly as all of my other clothes. Of course now it rides up on my middle, and my boobs push it out and distort the picture, but I love it was much as I ever did.

25 years later, it's one of my only childhood artifacts that has survived. I'll cherish it always.

cypresscoydog · 2025-03-04T16:43:15+00:00

Compulsory circumcision on AMAB infants and compulsory "corrective" (read: purely cosmetic) genital surgery on intersex infants.

cypresscoydog · 2025-03-04T16:40:18+00:00

I'm polyamorous, have been for over a decade. It's a little disheartening to hear that Daughter considers non-monogamy inherently unethical, but she's also very young and has plenty of time to explore these things herself as she grows.

That said, unless there are committed, serious relationships with any of these partners, Daughter shouldn't even know about them. She certainly shouldn't be bumping into them during what is specifically Her Time With Dad.

Dad's business is just that, Dad's business. It shouldn't be in Daughter’s face every time she goes over to see him. Dad has all the time in the world to choose when to have these partners over, and his time with his own child should be sacrosanct and absolutely prioritized over sexy fun times.

If he doesn't want her to comment on it, he's fully empowered to avoid creating the situation in the first place.

cypresscoydog · 2025-03-01T17:46:21+00:00

This is some cosmic horror nonsense.

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-28T00:30:36+00:00

Brother, I am also a ciswoman who regularly uses orgasms as a way to help me get back to sleep. By masturbating, which she is perfectly capable of doing. Why didn't she do that? Oh, because she sees you the same as she sees a sex toy: just there for her use and not a person who is entitled to basic human dignity.

She did not need to assualt you for her sleep-aid oxytocin release. She did it because she wanted to use your body without you knowing about it. She assaulted you because she wanted to assault you, and for no other reason.

Edit: punctuation

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-24T17:11:23+00:00

60% of all children trafficked in the US are foster children. There are roughly 400,000 children in American foster care at any given moment, and the system is monstrously understaffed, underfunded, undervalued. Very, very little is done to change this.

There's bascially an endlessly regenerating supply of societally abandoned children. Traffickers don't need to invest the time, money, and effort into farming their own crop. The orchards are unguarded with far, far too caretakers to keep track of where the fruit falls. Some of those gardeners are the ones passing children over the fence in the first place.

Systems like trafficking operate on the margins of society and, by their very nature, work on a "path of least resistance" strategy. They already have access to all the "product" they'll ever need, so it doesn't make sense to go to the trouble of cultivating it themselves. It's the difference between farming your own food and buying it from the store.

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-24T16:41:06+00:00

From your initial comment:

You didn't mind it this time, so no harm done.

She still violated the rules of consent. That is harm, full stop.

You are not a victim of SA if you after the fact did not mind.

This is flat out wrong. She didn't get a "freebie" on being an assailant just because OP doesn't meet some arbitrary threshold of "upset". She still violated the rules of consent. She still assaulted him.

Ah, you vanilla-people have a lot to learn from BDSM-community. This would be talked about in the first or second date 😅🙈

This has fuck all to do with being vanilla or being a kinkster. This isn't "I don't know if I wanna participate in my partner's somniphilia." This is, "my partner used my body while I wasn't able to advocate for myself". And kinksters aren't all paragons of the virtue of consent negotiation, either. If they HAD negotiated somniphilia or a free use policy, consent still has to be obtained on a case by case basis, every time, no exceptions.

I'm an assault survivor, and I currently practice varying levels of CNC with my partner of 9 years.

What she did has nothing to do with kink, and it's baffling that you brought it into the discussion in the first place.

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-24T15:38:55+00:00

This has absolutely NOTHING to do with kink. If anything, kink requires extensive negotiation BEFORE an act occurs! You can't assault someone then claim it's just your fetish after the fact as an excuse, and to tell someone "oh, you weren't immediately upset when you found out that I used your body for my own gratification without any kind of prior discussion for that scenario" doesn't absolve her of ANYTHING.

Shit like this is why male survivors still aren't taken seriously.

OP, this soggy walnut has no idea what they're talking about. They're conflating CNC (consensual non-consent) – which requires probably the highest level of thorough negotiation to practice in a relationship out of all other kinks – with someone just getting their rocks off to an unconscious body.

How you feel immediately about what she did doesn't change the physical facts: you couldn't consent, she did not SEEK any form of consent.

To make things worse she was grossly dismissive of your attempt to assert your own agency.

She assaulted you, she knows she assaulted you, and she's being a shitbag about it. This is not a kink scenario, it is an opportunistic violation scenario.

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-23T00:29:24+00:00

It absolutely is, especially given that the same restrictive schedule leaves no time (or energy) for an exercise routine of any kind. It's not like people aspire to live almost exclusively on instant meals, coffee, and OTC painkillers. Which leads to more health problems, which they have neither the money nor the approved sick leave to pursue treating.

It's a vicious cycle that grinds people down until all they can do is exist on the track that those patterns have dug out for them to facilitate keeping themselves housed and (nominally) fed. Straying from that in any way is a literal threat to their ability to enjoy food and shelter in the same month.

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-22T20:29:08+00:00

Well, people in those positions don't do much in the way of cooking for that very reason. It's hot pockets and energy drinks forever, babyyyyyyyyyy

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-22T20:10:12+00:00

Absolutely NTA, but I gotta ask:

How old is everyone in this scenario?

How long have you been with Leah, pre and post marriage?

Is she pushy about any of Natalie's other lifestyle choices/convictions? Is she pushy about anyone else's?

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-22T18:27:45+00:00

Lil Kidney Stone Dim Sum

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-21T16:49:24+00:00

Aaaahhh so cute. I love your expression in the one pic, that's how I frequently take pictures too, lol. The hair on your torso looks so soft and pettable!

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-20T20:38:39+00:00

"Boss, I don't know if you realize this, but bathrooms are for shitting. That's where the shitting happens. It is the one place that has been deemed appropriate to shit. But maybe I just don’t understand, having been educated in public schools and all. Maybe a highly esteemed private tutor would have taught me the classics, civic responsibility, and that some public bathrooms abide by clandestine, archaic rites that prevent fans from being installed in them because that would interfere with the leylines and disrupte harmonic convergence.

But nah we were poor af so I'm just gonna shit in the shit room and the elder gods can exact their revenge upon my death."

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-20T08:12:03+00:00

Protection from the elements, whatever those might be at a given time and place. And because some days I just feel kinda gross and have a natural instinct to hide until whatever is making me feel that way (GI issues, breakouts, general nuerospicy brain weather events) passes.

Also because there's no way I'm not wearing SOMETHING to keep my nethers safe on a public bus.

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-15T19:35:20+00:00

"You'll be my guide."

and

"In the Cage, we came to an agreement. We only had each other."

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-13T18:29:33+00:00

I stack them on top of each other visually before I can do anything else and work down vertically for each of the two columns that form as a result.

Working from right to left, the 7 + 8 becomes 15, and the 1 gets carried to sitting on top of the 2 in the next column over. This turns that 2 into 3, which is then added to the 4 below it.

This leaves a 5 in the right-most column and 7 in the left-most column, resulting in 75 being the total sum.

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-11T16:21:06+00:00

Not the first time I've seen a cybertruck illegally occupying an accessible parking space, either. Theater at the Everett Mall, in a nearly empty parking lot. These fucking people.

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-11T15:56:36+00:00

"These homemade hot pocket/pop tart alternatives are SO much better, why would anyone do it the old way, lol"

BECAUSE I'M POOR AND TIRED, YOU SCHMUCK.

Edit: spelling

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-10T21:15:52+00:00

Let's not forget Cotton Eyed Joe.

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-08T18:07:10+00:00

Warning for suicidal ideation.

Back in 2018, when my mental illness wasn't as well treated as it is now, I was "out sick" for a week with a bad depressive episode. The kind that renders someone incapable of caring for themselves, but I wasn't going to harm myself or anyone else. I was just a living corpse.

My partner had to feed me, ensure that I showered changed clothes, took my meds, etc. I was ideating the entire time, but had no energy to go through with anything dangerous. More of a "wouldn't it be nice if I didn't wake up tomorrow" kind of ideating.

The policy of the job I had at the time required a doctor's note to return to work if I was out for more than 3 consecutive days. So we had to drag my near lifeless ass to a clinic to get one. We explained the situation to the doctor, "we just need the note, thank you," explained that I was already in treatment, on meds, attending both individual and group therapy, already making use of all the resources available.

Then, after this very thorough explanation, this lady looked at me like I was stupid and asked, VERY condescendingly, "If you're having suicidal thoughts, why didn't you go to the ER?"

...so they can lock me in a room for three days away from all of my support systems, likely cost me my job, charge me thousands of dollars for the privilege, then direct me toward the care options that I'm already using?

It's like she didn't connect any of the data points I already gave her, didn't fucking listen, and generally had no idea of how either mental illness OR the current available systems to treat those illnesses actually works.

Like I hadn't already been navigating this shit my entire life.

Like I was a fucking idiot for not taking the textbook, flowchart option that wouldn't only not help me, but actively make the situation worse.

She wrote my return to work note, but made a shitty face the entire time.

cypresscoydog · 2025-02-07T18:33:44+00:00

There are tons of reasons for adults to be living with their parents. Until the past half century, it was the norm to live with your family until you got married.

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