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Well I just finished looking at their website for 20 minutes.

Those look pretty awesome, and I know that I'd find reasons to use the thermal imaging all the time.

Does it run pure android (site says something like that), can you install your own OS, and how is the update support?

Yeah, or along the same lines I would love to see

• Whole phone as thick as cameras, while still using good cameras.

• Much of that space taken up by battery

• Rest of that space taken up by some kind of compact cooling system that even has a thin little fan that can kick on when it's docked

• Because of course i'm talking about a dockable Linux phone

(I'm already seeing problems, like the fan probably needs to be part of the dock and the phone use the outside surface of the case as its heat sink)

Yeah your average user today does their "computing" on a device that they never plug anything into except power. And some of them never plug anything in at all.

I love cables and mechanically rugged tech, but the mainstream does not.

The act of complaining constantly while not doing anything about it is a huge part of what I dislike about the angry white conservative culture I grew up in. It's such a widespread cultural issue, and while it fits my conservative family members like a glove, it is not unique to them.

I think that when we are attacking mental health issues, we need to think of it like the swiss cheese model of security in IT, except that we are on offense instead of defense.

Everything needs to be on the table. Mental health affects how it feels to exist, which is pretty damn important when it comes to quality of life and finding some fulfillment, comfort, happiness, etc.

There is usually not a single thing that "cures" somebody. And if there is such a single thing that works so wonderfully, it certainly does not work that well for the vast majority of people.

Go for it.

I got heavy into carpentry this year because another one of my hobbies involved a bunch of construction.

Working with wood is satisfying as hell. So is building the exact thing you need that isn't a product sold anywhere.

I appreciate your concern for the quality of your contributions, and I think this place has a higher proportion of that type of user than just about any other platform.

This place is small and it's generally friendly and inclusive. Most comments won't get any replies, but the ones that do will generally be constructive. The users here are into the whole idea of the social contract and that we can have something nice if we are just excellent to one another.

I repeatedly say "generally" because this is an open platform and assholes are allowed to join. The assholes can even have their own instance dedicated to asshole topics! But fortunately the instances and communities are generally moderated by actual decent humans who are much like the users!

So let that knowledge help you comment more, not less! Even if you get no comments and like 5 upvotes, it actually feels like something of value even if it's just a nod from a few decent people.

Edit: part of the conclusion was supposed to be that you can consider comments more like a discussion with people and not some strict message board.

Funny enough, Zelenskyy also did take a selfie there because he is the rare national leader that DOES give a fuck.

It's a very widespread problem, and I don't know how much to blame on media and culture vs human nature. Maybe some magical thinking too.

Basically, it's the issue of people being on autopilot and expecting the life they're supposed to have just happening to them. Interpersonal relationships are a huge part of it.

Yeah there is a real trend in conservative culture (at least where I grew up) that fits right in with the rest of the anti-intellectualism. And it's not taught explicitly but it permeates social interactions.

I'm trying to decide how to describe it... Basically, you look down on people who are trying to improve themselves.

And as a free bonus you get your characters in front of even more millions of impressionable faces than usual. They can tie their personal identity to your IP incrementally ever more. Hooray!

yes /s

Very much true in my specific limited experience.

I live in a nice little town here in the US, and I'm a well educated middle aged white guy. It's safe to say that I get to see a pretty nice version of America even as horrible shit is happening all over the place.

I've gotten to spend a few weeks in Sweden of all places over the past few years. Plus I got to see the insides of some airports in other places luke Belgium and Germany.

There's just something different in the air over there, in a good way. I thought of it as a kind of dignity that came from respect for others as well as oneself, but I like how you call it social cohesiveness.

I think some of the details around food and drink showed it best, and they make good examples because they apply to a mix of the general public.

The food itself is obviously much better over there. Even things like the hotel breakfast or the cafeteria at a workplace had a huge variety of fresh, real foods as opposed to ultraprocessed manufactured branded products.

But the dishes and utensils were some of the most interesting to me as an american. In places like an office cafe at work, or a local restaurant, or I think even an airport, they would have actual GLASSES, plates, and silverware. And on top of that, you would often return your dishes to the kitchen or even put them directly on to the dish washer rack waiting for you.

This breaks my american mind. Fragile non-disposable cups in a public place? Other than coffee mugs on people's desks or restaurant glasses being dropped off and picked up with at your table, I'm not sure I've ever seen that within these borders. If you could use glasses and silverware in public places here, I can't decide what would happen first: somebody would get cut on one of the immediately broken glasses, or so much of the stuff would get stolen that they'd close it down.

I like to call out their bathrooms too. The way we do it over here is big men's and women's restrooms with next to no privacy (it's one big room with flimsy floating dividers forming the toilet stalls) and stupid culture wars about who should and should not get their genitals inspected or whatever. Over there it's just several individual doors, each with a small bathroom. Much better privacy, no fodder for the bigots, and much better utilization of the resources.