Thanks. I could go on and on. Like how I've been wearing glasses and contacts for years, but they recently accused me of faking because I could hold a container inches from my face and see a few ants inside.
I lost my job and had to move in with them recently. I wore the same pair of contacts for a month, and need to refill my prescription. Everything more than a foot and a half away is blurry.
So, a day or two after saying I was faking, mom sent me a Facebook video out of the blue instructing people to stare at the Sun for better eyesight. No apologies, no nothing, but apparently she believed me again and wanted to "help".
And like a day later, when I told her a friend was going to help me order a small box of contacts so I can see, and drive, and work, and even just be able to read; her response was to tell me she could have helped, but didn't want to "enable me"...
I can only imagine she meant I should squeeze my butt cheeks real hard and bootstrap my way into better vision, or she thought my bad vision was a delusion that she didn't want to feed into. Either way, not great.
Like, she's the one that complained about me using old contacts in the first place and urged me to throw them away to avoid eye damage and going blind.
But then what was with the random accusation, then the sudden change of heart? The fuck is going on?
My friend never followed up, and they're dealing with their own stuff, so I don't want to just ask them for the money. So it's been over a month of not being able to see and I'm just... existing. Can really do much when I can't even read without holding the thing a foot away from my face.
There obviously more to the story, but it's a complicated living situation at the moment.
Anyway, there is a lot more than just those two things, and I suspect they have narcissistic and paranoid personality traits. They constantly make the worst assumptions. Like tonight, they were looking for a bottle of sauce in their pantry. (My sister and I have our own in the garage.) They couldn't find the bottle, and immediately assumed someone stole it. I don't eat meat, so I wouldn't have used it. So, they assumed my sister went into their cabinet and took it. Mom told me that was the exact reason why they can't trust us, or something like that. I was trying to ignore her.
Guess what though? They found the bottle on the counter a few minutes later, and mom scoffed at dad for accusing my sister for no reason.
He's so persecuted. Guys, guys, be nice to Elon. He's just the victim here. There's no way these strikes are a direct response to his policies and business practices.
Which is why you have to void warranties and go through a lot of hassle to r
Unlock the bootloader, or root your own phone and have actual control over it.
And that's the reason Google is trying to push shitty web standards to remove your control.
And why Apple and Microsoft keep restricting your access to your OS, with rumors of Windows 12 being cloud-only.
Many governments around the world don't want you to have any control or privacy. Many tech giants don't want you to have any control or privacy. It's the same old thing religions have done forever. Enforce a lack of control and privacy through violence, social pressure, or resources. Only now, the enforcement style is indirect, trying to say you don't own your device, can't use ad blockers or privacy tools, have to agree to terms and conditions that waive your rights, your usage has to be monitored, or that backdoors have to be built into everything.
Don't expect this behavior to stop unless regulation is created to prevent it, or the company caves to financial or social pressure to change....for now.
Don't expect regulation to be created unless you put people who care about privacy and such in power.
Even then, people in power need to be held accountable if they misbehave, or nothing else matters.
Oh, I have no idea. It's just something I noticed previously, and has a similar thing to this post, so I thought I'd mention it. I don't have any inside or expert knowledge here.
My memory sucks, but I'll try to find an example for you. I remember it apparently last worked like two major Ubuntu releases ago, 21.04 or something. I tried for weeks to find workarounds and community-updates to fix it. I was on Pop!_OS at the time. Nothing quite worked and I gave up.
Dude shares the name of an ex. The headline threw me for a loop.