The circumstances that led you to any particular decision are pre-determined at the time you’re making that decision, simply through the fact that those circumstances have already happened prior to the current decision at hand; but that doesn’t mean you don’t have the free will to make that decision in the moment.

To extend on that a little: if you were able to make the same person face the same decision multiple times under identical circumstances, I don’t believe you’d get identical results every time. It may not be an even distribution between the possible choices; but it wouldn’t be a consistent answer either. The Human element introduces too much chaos for that kind of uniformity.

Cue dumbasses tossing their iphones in the toaster oven in 3… 2…

There are several front ends for lemmy. Some show more info than others.

Photon.lemmy.ca/modlog

Vs

Lemmy.ca/modlog

For example.

I’ve had some good ones and bad ones. Most of the thin plastic film ones are a total waste of time, but there are some really nice gorilla glass screen protectors that will stand up to a whole lot of abuse.

Yeah, the screens are really tough, but they’re still glass. They will still break if you manage to drop/hit them at the right angle with enough force. A screen protector makes sure that force isn’t directly on the screen. A broken screen protector is much easier/cheaper to replace than the screen.

A really good one, applied properly; you should essentially never even notice is there, but adds an extra layer of protection for when you do inevitably drop the device.

Poor quality or poorly applied protectors can be a PITA; interfering with touch detection, air bubbles, scratching really easily, crappy glue, sometimes even comming off during use. You get what you pay for.

I haven’t really noticed scratches on any device with a decent protector in several years, but I don’t keep things like keys in the same pocket either. They aren’t perfect though; I’ve broken at least two phone screens through the glass screen protector without breaking the protector itself…

Still, better to have that little bit of extra protection.

🤷 Sometimes you need a recipe for muffins, other times you need ‘instructional videos’ on muff diving. Google is here to help, lmao

I still want to know why they show up on porn sites…

Cause I’m sitting here watching backdoor sluts 9 and thinking to myself; “you know who’d really enjoy this? Grandma.”

Sigh… The fact that you have to ask.

Yes; you should always use your turn signal when you are turning. Just because you saw the arrow on the ground, that you are now stopped ontop of, doesn’t mean everyone else is fully aware of your intention to turn. Hence, signals to indicate your intentions to those around you…

It’s google; their entire business is built on fucking you out of your personal data. Once they have it, they will never let go.

Until a highly scrutinized third party audit proves otherwise; I doubt even GDPR removal requests are complied with internally. They might stop telling you they have the data, but thetly won’t actually get rid of it.

Hisses The light! It burns!!!

Listen to my flesh sizzle while my retinas recoil in agony

Can always go with RGB and pick colours on demand. I just like the color red. Blue light wakes/keeps me up.

I have RGBW tape on the underside of my kitchen cabinets, inside some nice tracks to keep them out of direct line of sight. White during the day for counter top lighting; red at night for nightlighting that doesn’t wake you up when you go for a late night snack. And random disco colours for parties, just because…

Red LED tape on the underside of my desk, dresser, and shelves. Keeps a nice dull red glow in my room, just enough to see around, but low enough that I can sleep through it. Smart plug for scheduling.

There’s a lava lamp on a smart plug that turns itself on ~1hr before I go to bed (so it’s movin and groovin by the time I’m in there). It’ll also turn off after 8hrs regardless of whether it was turned on manually/automatically. Saftey/longevity of the lamp.

Finally a regular bedside lamp, with a dimmable smart bulb.

The smart controls let me set schedules so the desired lights come on as I’m going to bed or with my morning alarm, and making sure that they’re off when I leave for work. Plus I can turn them on/off or set brightness from my phone without getting up from bed.

Rebooting just seems like a very roundabout, slow and inefficient way to get back to that initial state you describe.

It’s exactly what the reboot process is designed to do; return you to that fully encrypted pre-boot state. There would be no purpose to implementing a second method that does the exact same thing.

Much of the data on your phone, including critical information that’s required to run the operating system and make the device function, is fully encrypted when the device is off/rebooted.

While in this locked down state, nothing can run. You don’t receive notifications, applications can’t run in the background, even just accessing the device yourself is slow as you have to wait for the whole system to decrypt and start up.

When you unlock the device for the first time; much of that data is decrypted so that it can be used, and the keys required to unlock the rest of the data get stored in memory where they can be quickly accessed and used. This also makes the device more vulnerable to attacks.

There’s always a trade off between convenience and security. The more secure a system, the less convenient it is to use.

I’m guessing the black parts slide like wax? For ‘grinding’ without a board?

I WANT OFF MR BONES WILD RIDE

The Columbians get upset when you cut their shit; pride over that ‘pure un-cut’ label…

You don’t just casually naw on a whole loaf?

You’re supposed to smoke the grass, not cut it.

LPL showed us how he beats his one-eyed monster. He even convinced a friend to let him beat theirs on camera too. (gotta say, I’m not a fan of the veins or the puss…)