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Idk who needs to hear this, but you're doing really well right now despite the world falling apart

@PastaThief I'd say I'm actually the exact opposite, I have all the motivation in the world when I'm ready for bed, but can hardly drag myself downstairs to make a coffee in the morning

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The current political climate seems like an ongoing joke, and I'm just not understanding the punchline.

@GoatsLive I should reiterate: without a deliberately installed contact-tracing app the google exposure notification service does effectively nothing. The reason the service was implemented was to avoid the limitations that running apps in the background has on Bluetooth communications

@GoatsLive was it the exposure app or the framework that allows other apps to notify you more directly?

Because the "COVID-19 exposure notifications" settings inside the Google settings of the phone is literally only for the notifications side of things - it does not perform contact tracing or any data collection (outside of Google's normal (evil) practices)

@cuervo because your collecting your data is part of their business model

@mister_monster So give it a few weeks and you'll be onto Linux From Scratch, right?

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Updated my Linux Mint desktop installation and it fell to pieces. Fuck Debian. Fuck Ubuntu. Fuck Mint.

Fuck it. Wiped the thing. Installed Manjaro. That feeling you get when you first move from Windows to Linux? That's thee feeling you get when you switch from a "user friendly" desktop distro to an Arch based distro. The shit is fucking magical. Arch FTW.

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