Verizon is very protective over their network and always has been. They used CDMA for years just to lock out outside competition amongst other walled garden bullshit. When they moved to GSM they still tried to lock their network to a whitelist of phone IMEIs they control. They do not want you to buy an unlocked phone from a brand they do not get paid by to be put on the whitelist support.
Android devs spent years optimizing for tall aspect ratios and now we’re straight up being sold a device that is squat and won’t show all of the user view on the outer screen? I’m so confused who would want less onscreen lmao.
I’m comparing ROM hacking to decompilation. Decomp completely renders the full source code as readable and compilable for new binaries. ROM hacking doesn’t go that far.
Very simply, the source ROM is code that isn’t readable in that way. The emulator interpolates the ROM binary. While ROM hacking is a thing, it’s done through hijacking the emulator’s/platform’s API calls.
Imagine having an audiobook as an MP3, but you want to rewrite chapter 8. You have all the words, you can hear them, but you don’t have the script. You have to transcribe everything first in order to have the book text. From there, you can edit what the book says, but it’d be easier if you just had the text in the first place.
I find it hilarious that people are flocking to a device with less repairability and durability… if I had to guess, normies are ditching their laptops/tablets and getting a foldable instead.
My parents had 12 chickens for a few years! They’re not bad pets, nor bad starter farm animals!
Compost piles need to be churned constantly or else you’ll just have an oxidized layer on top that makes the further inwards material petrify rather than decompose. If you have hard winters, the pile will eventually freeze, so it’s super important to have it covered, and still churn it in winter so the microbes raise the temp as much as possible. Also, if it’s too dry where you are, microbes won’t break anything down.
You don’t start a chicken farm with Tractor Supply chicks is the answer. Even if you did it that way, you’re not really losing out much in the grand scheme of things.
Tractor Supply chicks are sold as glorified pets.
Fun fact: it costs next to nothing to ship chicks through the USPS because of heavy subsidies for the industry. You literally just buy a crate from a wholesaler to start a broiler farm.
I stayed on my iPhone 🙁 I really wanted to switch now that AirDrop and Universal Clipboard are coming to everyone. Samsung is a nice alternative, but I’m turned all the way off by them using non-flagship tiered chips in the Galaxy pad since I was going to buy the whole ecosystem. I’m taking it year by year, considering that there are other annoyances I’m unable to cope with.
Pixel phones are a nonstarter because Tensor is so unbelievably underpowered. I’m not paying full price for a chipset that lags behind 5 year old snapdragon phones.
yes, although the vast majority of circumcised individuals can still copulate, feel sexual gratification, orgasm, etc., the level of sensation loss is so massive that the two experiences are not comparable. As someone circumcised after their first sexual experience, I can confirm this fact. While yes, you can wear a cock ring to immobilize the foreskin to simulate the loss of gliding action, the sensations brought about from tissue that is removed in circumcision makes that simulation a still better experience than the circumcised experience.
All that said, the level of sensitivity declines as you age after circumcision because the head of the penis will generate a thick layer of keratin in response to external friction that wouldn’t occur if the penis was covered by foreskin, much like a callous that develops on your feet or hands from over-manipulation/exposure to stress. Many accounts of adult circumcision cases fail to follow up with patients as they age and the keratin layer develops over time.
My penis was incredibly sensitive feeling following circumcision, but some time later it was dull feeling. Years later, it was numb to sensations of temperature and light touch.
Now, that said, I’ve been undergoing circumcision reversal, and I’m about half way restored. The only parts that have improved are the keratin layer (gone now, temperature and light touch are restored slightly), and the gliding motion.
the feeling in the rigid band? Gone
the purse string muscular effect of gathering the skin forward? Gone. (Although skin tensing still occurs when I’m cold, it’s not sufficient to keep the skin forward, and the muscle is gone, so the skin doesn’t collect forward by itself)
the frenulum? Drastically reduced; in fact, the amount removed varies case to case because our individual anatomy has variation, and the procedure is done by humans which also introduces variation
the amount of mucosal derived lubrication? Drastically reduced
It’s mutilation because it’s a permanent, irreversible removal of the most sensitive parts of the penis, removes the gliding action, protection of the head of the penis, there’s no free option to get reversal surgery to restore gliding action (the rest is lost permanently and can’t be replicated without tissue regeneration technology that hasn’t come to market yet, which may never come to market), usually the frenulum is removed (it’s the most sensitive area), etc.
I really liked the O+15 but returned it within the return window after the rumors of exiting the US started. I was able to look past the lack of UWB, but not a loss of software support…
I visit a few times a year, and stayed once at LAX; getting to Santa Monica Pier took like 90 minutes by metro train. The metro system is beyond useless.
AT&T started using a whitelist too at some point. T-Mobile is the last major carrier left to not care what phone you use.
Verizon is very protective over their network and always has been. They used CDMA for years just to lock out outside competition amongst other walled garden bullshit. When they moved to GSM they still tried to lock their network to a whitelist of phone IMEIs they control. They do not want you to buy an unlocked phone from a brand they do not
get paid by to be put on the whitelistsupport.Android devs spent years optimizing for tall aspect ratios and now we’re straight up being sold a device that is squat and won’t show all of the user view on the outer screen? I’m so confused who would want less onscreen lmao.
I’m comparing ROM hacking to decompilation. Decomp completely renders the full source code as readable and compilable for new binaries. ROM hacking doesn’t go that far.
Very simply, the source ROM is code that isn’t readable in that way. The emulator interpolates the ROM binary. While ROM hacking is a thing, it’s done through hijacking the emulator’s/platform’s API calls.
Imagine having an audiobook as an MP3, but you want to rewrite chapter 8. You have all the words, you can hear them, but you don’t have the script. You have to transcribe everything first in order to have the book text. From there, you can edit what the book says, but it’d be easier if you just had the text in the first place.
Having the source code makes it trivial to do whatever you want with the code. Working through an emulator is not fun from a coding perspective.
I find it hilarious that people are flocking to a device with less repairability and durability… if I had to guess, normies are ditching their laptops/tablets and getting a foldable instead.
And when I got my iPhone 3G in 2008, I was so fucking happy I could just have the one thing in my pocket.
My parents had 12 chickens for a few years! They’re not bad pets, nor bad starter farm animals!
Compost piles need to be churned constantly or else you’ll just have an oxidized layer on top that makes the further inwards material petrify rather than decompose. If you have hard winters, the pile will eventually freeze, so it’s super important to have it covered, and still churn it in winter so the microbes raise the temp as much as possible. Also, if it’s too dry where you are, microbes won’t break anything down.
You don’t start a chicken farm with Tractor Supply chicks is the answer. Even if you did it that way, you’re not really losing out much in the grand scheme of things.
Tractor Supply chicks are sold as glorified pets.
Fun fact: it costs next to nothing to ship chicks through the USPS because of heavy subsidies for the industry. You literally just buy a crate from a wholesaler to start a broiler farm.
My thing is that I use the iPad app with the pencil. The last time I tried GIMP it was great.
Leaving this here for Photoshop converts
https://github.com/Diolinux/Photogimp
I use Affinity full time at the moment, but if they ever go paid, I’m running straight to GIMP.
I stayed on my iPhone 🙁 I really wanted to switch now that AirDrop and Universal Clipboard are coming to everyone. Samsung is a nice alternative, but I’m turned all the way off by them using non-flagship tiered chips in the Galaxy pad since I was going to buy the whole ecosystem. I’m taking it year by year, considering that there are other annoyances I’m unable to cope with.
Pixel phones are a nonstarter because Tensor is so unbelievably underpowered. I’m not paying full price for a chipset that lags behind 5 year old snapdragon phones.
yes, although the vast majority of circumcised individuals can still copulate, feel sexual gratification, orgasm, etc., the level of sensation loss is so massive that the two experiences are not comparable. As someone circumcised after their first sexual experience, I can confirm this fact. While yes, you can wear a cock ring to immobilize the foreskin to simulate the loss of gliding action, the sensations brought about from tissue that is removed in circumcision makes that simulation a still better experience than the circumcised experience.
All that said, the level of sensitivity declines as you age after circumcision because the head of the penis will generate a thick layer of keratin in response to external friction that wouldn’t occur if the penis was covered by foreskin, much like a callous that develops on your feet or hands from over-manipulation/exposure to stress. Many accounts of adult circumcision cases fail to follow up with patients as they age and the keratin layer develops over time.
My penis was incredibly sensitive feeling following circumcision, but some time later it was dull feeling. Years later, it was numb to sensations of temperature and light touch.
Now, that said, I’ve been undergoing circumcision reversal, and I’m about half way restored. The only parts that have improved are the keratin layer (gone now, temperature and light touch are restored slightly), and the gliding motion.
Frankly unacceptable results 🙁 guess I’ll check back in with the pixel next year.
It’s mutilation because it’s a permanent, irreversible removal of the most sensitive parts of the penis, removes the gliding action, protection of the head of the penis, there’s no free option to get reversal surgery to restore gliding action (the rest is lost permanently and can’t be replicated without tissue regeneration technology that hasn’t come to market yet, which may never come to market), usually the frenulum is removed (it’s the most sensitive area), etc.
Sysadmins?
Background blur is one of the things making me stuck on iOS. Blur algorithms run performantly on hardware older than what you have, so don’t sweat it.
I really liked the O+15 but returned it within the return window after the rumors of exiting the US started. I was able to look past the lack of UWB, but not a loss of software support…
I visit a few times a year, and stayed once at LAX; getting to Santa Monica Pier took like 90 minutes by metro train. The metro system is beyond useless.