In case anyone does not know: when a brand name becomes the generic term for a product or action, courts and trademark offices may determine the mark has become “genericized.” If that happens the owner may lose exclusive rights and the mark can enter the public domain.

See Zipper, Heroin, Escalator, Yo-Yo, etc.

So if you are anti-capitalist, you should photoshop with Gimp, google with duckduckgo and so on.

we’re not guaranteed anymore if these safety nets will be there for us

Well, at least in Germany it has been guaranteed that it won’t be there. It is great to pay for a system I will most likely get way less money from than what I put in.

I would not bet on that. For some countries retirement systems are collapsing, so that could be seen as viable solution for retirees that cannot sustain themselves…

ChangeDetection does not necessarily need a browser and can be run without, but can do more with it (e.g. bypass some bot protections or even do some steps on the website, like filling a form, before checking for changes).

are like virtual nation-states and the admin teams are ALL despotic auth-rulers with the temperaments of toddlers

So just like the big ones minus the capitalistic machine…

As someone in a city with a population of ~250k and only one gay bar: Hard dislike, if you aren’t in company of actual queer folks (or do outnumber them massively). I get that especially straight women see it as a safe place - but where there are straight women straight men usually follow - and at some point they outnumber us. And now I do not feel welcome at the only gay bar in town - it is most of the time essentially a bar with some queer decoration. Some gay bars in the next bigger city do not allow women for this exact reason. Others enforce it via kinky attire dress code (e.g. leather, rubber, lycra, puppys, etc.) - but that can be anhoying when you don’t have a specific kink for that dress code and this may not have the required outfit.

Who’s a good boy?

That (in beginner size) was my first one from Neotori. That thing unlocked something in me and now I have an evergrowing collection and a machine (and another Finn in size M).

Anyone can get it: NSFW

This was created with AI, so while it seems interesting, I will give it some time for others to find issues with their backups. Maybe in a couple years.

I switched to Gotify when I ran into an issue where ntfy would delete old api tokens when creating more than 20. Only thing missing in Gotify is UniversalPush, other than that it feels actually more solid than ntfy to me.

Damn furrys… stupid, sexy furrys… _/pf

Okay, I will upgrade your kernel. proceeds to delete everything

What is your struggle with db backups? Databasus makes it so trivial for me personally.

Heimerdinger being suddenly onboard for the dangerous time travel experiments

As I see it, Heimerdinger was ready to give up, when he was removed from the PiltoverdCouncil by Jayce, his former pupil. He tried previously to dissuade Jayce from using Hextech like this.

Then he found Ekko creating a community in Zaun with an inspiring ingenuity despite pretty much everything else happening, so Heimerdinger decided stayed and helped out while teaching Ekko on how to improve on his designs. Heimerdinger wants to improve the world after all - but safely - and sees his opportunity here.

Then in season 2 they wind up in alternative dimensions due to Hexcore shenanigans, because Heimerdinger wants to help Ekko sustain his community. Jayce ends up in over where the “final battle” already happened. Heimerdinger lands in one where Hextech apparently does not exist at all and the city is better off because of it missing. One where Heimerdinger himself can probably be more relaxed as he has more time for his stuff and has to deal less with politics and betrayal.

Ekko arives 3 years later. And Ekko wants to go back no matter the cost. And this puts Heimerdinger in a pickle: the last time he tried to dissuade his his pupil the results were catastrophic. Ekko would have worked it alone (or would probably have roped in Powder) endangering not only himself but atleast Powder, probably even the Zaun/Piltover (mind you, Ekkos knowledge about Hextech is very limited, while Heimerdinger oversaw the research most of the time - and Hex is notoriously unstable).

So to protect the timeline/city/Powder/peace he liked as well as helping Ekko get back to his community the reasonable conclusion would be to help despite not being keen of the idea. The ~4 second limit of the Z-Drive comes from the instability of the Hexshards. Any longer and it goes boom, potentially killing people around. And this limit is what he uses to break Victors mask in the end for Jayce to intervene.

I really like that. As a variation I’ve heard “What shall your gravestone read?” and then work backwards from that to make it happen. Currently I am struggling a bit with an answer for myself but I am working on turning something up. I appreciate your answer :)

Thank you for this perspective. I will try to adapt some of it for me. I do not intend to become depressed artist.

Thank you for this reply.

don’t get scared when your habits and thoughts change.

I guess that is the quiet part of the question out loud, isn’t it?

This gives me some hope for my future. Currently I don’t see a spark for me to lose, so only upwards from here.

I certainly will try as I found a low I did not existed and the trajectory hasn’t been great for years, so something needs to change.

you can always add restraints to kick-start your process.

Though what do you mean by this? I seem to have trouble understanding.

I hope that I discover the same for me

e.g. “What does love mean to me?” (To me the most obvious question.) For me it means choice and then effort. I choose my partners every day and I hope they make that choice too. Then comes the effort to make the choice known, in little as well a big gestures.

(Does this make sense?)