Doublespeak has always been their bread and butter, like “trickle down”. Add the mindrot of “faith”, and bang, you have the reigns. My birth family ate that Reagan-era shit up.

edit: heh, I didn’t notice your username until after

i.e.: Eternal September amplified by the host of knock-on effects stemming from overshoot and the resultant insecurity

Thanks man. I figured there was probably a cross-section of a few cars that fit the bill. I would wonder about and need to confirm functionality. When I rent, I often receive Corollas, and I do like Toyota’s implementation. The one’s I’ve driven brake gracefully on lane switches and in finding the follow distance. I’ve yet to hit a situation, even amongst torn up construction areas, where the assists get janky.

Anecdotally, I’ve heard from others, with older cars, who won’t use the ACC because of perceived jank.

I fully agree with that. Well designed public transport, human-powered local transit (bikes!), and more densely packed infrastructure for human populations are the way to go with respect to the global predicament. This is a big part of the reason I refuse to own a car. But, I can appreciate some features added to the old ways, while gritting my teeth.

I don’t own a car and am not a fan of most modern “features”, but, I must say, I’m quite fond of adaptive cruise control. Setting a follow distance and just cruising for long drives is far better than pumping the brakes every 5 minutes for folks mucking up passing lanes or trucks attempting to overtake on lane-limited roadways. I bet if everyone used it, traffic snakes wouldn’t be such a nuisance.

I’d rather never own a car, but if I needed one, I’d be hard pressed to sacrifice privacy for that sweet adaptive cruise. Of course, network connectivity isn’t required, so perhaps there will eventually be options.

4/5g card in mPCIE slot until I source a more portable device to do phone things. Yes, there are m.2 options as well. If the supply chain eventually dries up, for expansion cards and/or FOSS phones, then I’ll only communicate via my ISP or local mesh nets, until my computers break.

Off with your head!

To usenet! Let’s start a new world order.

Heh, praise uBlock. If it didn’t work as well as it does, I’d drop youtube in an instant. Invidious used to be awesome, but it’s so hit-or-miss now that I seldom try it. Youtube isn’t bad without ads, but ads + wading through clickbait bullshit just isn’t worth it.

Nice list. I recently started using Fossify Launcher and have been pretty happy with it. It’s simple but does what I need. Thought I’d mention it as it’s absent from that list.

I bet that’s a delicacy in orca society.

I had a similar dilemma recently when my old xperia broke and needed a new phone in a hurry. I rolled the dice on a Moto G '25 model. It was $200 bucks carrier unlocked. It’s not yet supported by Lineage and doesn’t appear to be supported by CalyxOS. This year’s model moved from snapdragon to a mediatek soc. I can say, however, that it is easy to root. If you root it and then scrub it carefully with debloater, it can be a solid phone. I imagine it will eventually be supported by Lineage and/or Calyx.

I have fiddled with graphene a bit, and it is nice, but meh. I don’t need a powerful phone, so it’s budget for me. I just want reliable GPS, good battery life, termux, and a headphone jack. Rooting had no negative effects save for allowing me to remove all the bullshit.