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Imperial Knight vs Bloodthirster of Khorne by Hammk.

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Guwange Arcade 1999

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What tumblr fails to grasp is that I’m not interested in community groups for the things I like because fans of my favorite things are often very wrong about them

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Standing alone.

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Morrowind - Mountain Ranges of the Molag Amur

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Why I'm always thinking of going back to a "dumb" feature phone since they still sell newer models without the "smart" shite on Android or ios. There's always the option of rooting your phone and flashing a custom ROM. What's needed is something to come along for smart phones and do what linux has done for desktop computers. There are linux phones but they're not always compatible with your sim, camera might not always work etc. I wouldn't mind installing Graphene but fuck buying from Google to do it (the irony).

Also, most of the public will complain about this on modern phones and desktops then blame capitalism, corporations etc. Which is valid, but they'll also forget their own complicity in this. This situation where we have giga-corporations with God-like power stuffing spyware and AI slop into everything, this is what you get when hordes of normies aggressively supported those corporations throughout the 2010's. You can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't buy into corporate convenience culture, stubbornly refuse to change any services you use, even after enshittification, then complain about the consequences.

One of the most frustrating things is listening to normies whinging about the consequences of their decadence, stuck to their phones constantly, using apps to pay for absolutely everything etc then complain when Google et al have complete control over their digital life plus AI everywhere. Yet when you try and suggest an alternative they roll their eyes and treat you like a tin foil hat wearing fruitcake or just lose interest. Switching to Linux? Changing what browser or search engine you use? Paying in cash/ in person? Not relying on social media to form your opinions for you? Actually taking steps to protect your privacy and prevent your data being scraped by AI companies? "Oh no, too much bother. I'm going to whinge like fuck and still stubbornly refuse to stop using services from the likes of Google as much as possible".

God I hate how normalized not being in control of your own devices has become. My phone updates in the middle of the night without asking me shit or getting my consent for anything and its like "Oh hi I'm your new AI, please enjoy this forced overlay that you can't exit out of until you go through my tutorial"

"Great fuck you, I would like to uninstall you" "Oh I'm sorry you can't uninstall me! I'm a core system application and if you uninstall me your phone won't function correctly despite the fact that I did not exist yesterday and your phone worked fine" "....." "You can disable parts of my functionality but I will always be here and I will pop up notifications asking you to re-enable me unless you figure out how to disable those too! Then I will still show up in a different color at the top of your settings application telling you that you need to 'fix" a 'problem' with your phone, that problem being that I am disabled. Does that help?"

Like, you know what I can do on my desktop? "sudo pacman -Rdd linux" , this will just fucking remove the entire linux kernel. Fundamentally breaking my computer until I boot up a live disk and chroot in and reinstall it or whatever, and the computer will go "Are you sure (y/n)" or whatever and i'm like "y" and it will just go "Ok you got it boss"

But its mine, I get to do what I want with it. I control the computer, the computer does not control me. I refuse to cede control to my phone or anything else. The thing is a lot of people will joke that like "Oh I love just letting the machine tell me what to do, I don't know what I'm doing, it knows best" or whatever but the thing you have to realize is that when you say that you are abstracting away that "the phone" or whatever is not some value neutral logic driven robot like from sci-fi, it is a collection of the the capitalistic and fascistic desires of the tech oligarch fuckwits that are burning the world to the ground right now. You aren't submitting to the phone, you are submitting to Musk, Bezos, Nadella, Pichai, Cook and all those other evil bastards.

Fuck them, fuck their little AI toys, and fuck this.

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Give me strength, Almalexia…

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The Real Barenziah

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real, rb if you're a d&d enthusiast or sex pervert (or both like a True Linux User)

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