It's been satisfying watching my configuration.yaml file shrink over the years as more and more things get handled by the UI.

As a fan of Greek mythology - if you don't think sex can drive a plot you need to read more stories.

I just think they really need to justify it more than normally do.

Why? Why can't they just have it for fun like any other type of gratuitous scene in a movie? I agree it's not usually done well, but that doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be done.

I'm not saying I want a movie with non-stop sex, that would obviously just be porn. I'm saying the "it doesn't progress the plot" complaint about sex in movies is bullshit when those same people watch other movies that are full of gratuitous shit that doesn't move the plot (violence, action, contrived drama).

Movies have been all but stripped of sexuality other than clumsy attempts at pandering to lgbt people. I think some of it is an overcorrection from Weinstein and Me-Too, some of it is just America's puritan cultural hangups that have always been there, and some of it is the effect of Gen-Z growing up with an abundance of porn and now they can't associate sex/nudity on a screen as art (or even just fun).

I'm fine with asexuals and representation. But currently it feels like 99% of media is catering to either asexuals or homosexuals.

And I bring up violence to point out the double standard. When it comes to nudity people scrutinize if it's relevant to the plot - but don't tend to do that with violence or clunky moral preaching.

The fact that you only equate sex and nudity to porn shows the problem. Sex and nudity can be fun, dramatic, scary, or funny depending on the context. It wouldn't be "competing" with porn.

I can't suspend my disbelief when media pretends sexuality just doesn't exist or isn't relevant.

I don't want porn. I want art to stop awkwardly excluding a major part of life.

"Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny." It's like movies these days are all set in this weird Twilight Zone world where sexuality just isn't a thing. I find this far creepier than the gratuitous sex scenes of the 80s.

Apparently I'm the only one that likes being titillated by movies. I don't get the "it adds nothing to the plot" complaint. Tons of movies have action scenes and gratuitous violence that add nothing to the plot, yet i don't see complaints about that. 90% of John Wick is gratuitous violence that added nothing to the plot, but I still love it.

I think this says more about American prudishness and people's unhealthy attitudes towards sex than anything.

Bunch of unnecessary death? Cool and fun! An unnecessary titty? Awkward and gratuitous.

Fuck all of you. I want more nudity and sex in my movies and the comparative lack of it compared to the 80s and 90s feels like we're going out of our way to exclude a huge part of life from art because it makes the prudes out there uncomfortable. But those same people are happy to watch nameless dudes get creatively and graphically killed for half a movie's run time.

I want more gratuitous sex and less gratuitous moral pandering

The day I hear complaints about the lack of men in primary education and the lack of women I coal mining, then I'll give a shit about the lack of women in tech. I don't understand why society is deciding tech is sexist but the others are just natural preference.

With Home Assistant and locally controlled devices there's no issues whatsoever. Completely locally controlled and solid as a rock ime.

Always bugged the shit out of me that he actually says "mother freaking" in that scene

Completely ruined my suspension of disbelief and I still cringe when remembering it.

I'm not convinced they're at all the same. Consciousness may go dormant during sleep, and you may not remember it, but it's still a continuous, uninterrupted, stream of electricity.

This kind of teleportation would completely snuff out that fire and replace it with an identical one at another location. It's not the same as sleep.

No difference for the rest of the universe, but the difference between life and death to my current stream of consciousness.

Imagine if the teleporter malfunctioned and created the duplicate on the other end but failed to disentigeate you. A worker notices you're still in the machine and says, "oops sorry, had a malfunction on this end. Give us a minute to fix the issue and we'll destroy you. No worries though, 'you' made it out the other end."

Wouldn't you do everything in your power to get out of that machine before they could fix it and kill you?

The fact that a clone would be seamlessly picking up my stream of consciousness after I die would be little consolation to me.

Sleep may be similar from a philosophical or external point of view. But I'm not sold that lack consciousness during sleep is in the same league as completely destroying, and then, rebuilding it.

"As far as you are concerned"

Correction: "as far as anyone else is concerned."

Consciousness IS continuity. If you are disentigrated and a perfect clone pops up somewhere to replace you... you died. Your current stream of consciousness ended and a perfect copy replaced you.

As far as all external observers are concerned it's still you. But from your own perspective? Well you won't have one anymore, you'll be dead.

Yes we do. Carbon tax.

I simply don't understand how so many communities, especially the tech ones, are on Discord instead of Matrix.

Is Matrix that new? Or hard to use? Because I found it just as convenient as Discord without the laundry list of downsides.

Agreed, but I have a feeling I'll be using Jellyfin in a few years.

As far as I know Matrix is the best FOSS alternative to Discord right now. Maybe try using the coturn addon for voice instead of Jitsi. I've been able to share audio snippets just fine this way.

In my experience moving to Graphene OS on its own was easy. The UI was refreshingly simple with no bloat at all, and I got used to it quickly.

Entirely ditching Google services is a different matter that I found much more difficult. I ended up installing Google Play Store/Services since some of my apps relied on it to work properly (usually because they rely on Google's Notification service). Depending on what apps you use this might be easier or harder. There are good open-source alternatives for many things in F-Droid, and its possible to get everything else via the Aurora Store without using your Google credentials. You could also set up a separate profile for apps that require Google services so they're in their own sandbox.

In the end I did none of that, and just logged into the Play Store with my Google credentials on my main profile. Everything just worked with little effort, and if I'm ever feeling particularly paranoid at least I have the option to revoke permissions and/or uninstall, Google services.

TLDR: Moving to GrapheneOS = Easy. Going full FOSS with no Google = hard (at least for me).