I don’t even think it’s good for gooning – It’s much heavier than a phone, so you can’t hold it in one hand (unless you have unnaturally strong and dextrous fingers?)

Like sure, that screen is big and pretty, but without something to hold the device up it’s not a comfy experience.

Man it wasn’t even anything crazy. It’s just.

All my android devices have a syncthing service that… Syncs. Things. Between them and my PC/Homeserver.

Now, the only app for Syncthing I could find on the Apple App store was a paid app, but I was actually fine with that: It seems Apple stuff is made for rich people, and I had accepted that everything would be paid for.

Except.

When you use Syncthing on Android it just. Drops things into folders. Like a normal program on a normal computer. And other applications can just access that.

But nope, not here. Everything is in its own cage, and the user has exactly ZERO control over this (unlike, say, the likes of Flatpak on Linux, where it’s just a matter of granting permission manually)

My comic book folder? I had to go through a cumbersome process to manually import all the cbr files into the comic reader app. Same for my video files.

Plus like. Just the lack of options in general. It felt like I was in an airport – Stuck in an, admittedly nice, environment and only having access to whatever overpriced products existed inside that environment.

Probably the iPad

Got it for free from a relative who had bought a newer model (he always has the latest iShit)

Played around with it for a week

Sure. It’s smooth. That screen was drop dead gorgeous.

… And yet everything I tried to do on the thing felt like I was fighting against it. Everything was restrained and needlessly clunky. It made me think “golly gee, windows cooperates more”

I wash. With water. At least when home

Toilet paper destroys my arse

Because the people who care already know, and the people who don’t know don’t care, being somewhere between ‘apathetic about the US descent into fascism’ (they might be foreigners, or Americans who are alienated), and ‘actively supportive of this descent into fascism’.

Brazil is a very large place with each state/region having its own type of food.

So if I may make a suggestion of my hometown’s favourite snack (which I think originated in the state of São Paulo)

We call it Prensadão – It’s a Brazilian take on a hot dog, and like everything Brazilian… It is very extra.

The hardest part to get outside of Brazil is probably the bread. It uses a bread that is a bit like a hamburger bun in texture, but instead of being round, it’s a rectangle and it’s large.

You start with hot-dog sausages. Cook them up, then slice them in half longitudinally (so you get two long half-sausages). Get like three or four of those and put them in the bread.

Then you add Potato Straws, Cheddar Cheese, Little Tomato Cubes, bacon (fried until crispy), and optionally some chicken (grilled and then cut into tiny shreds)

(Other optional additions: Calabrese sausages, sweet corn, ham, mozarella, cream cheese)

You know you reached ideal Prensadão density when it looks like you CAN’T CLOSE YOUR DAMN SANDWICH.

So now you put it in a hot pan, get a large piece of metal, and squish that bitch down using your body for leverage (our local restaurants have dedicated presses for doing this, but you can and I HAVE improvised with just. ANOTHER PAN.) – Flip. Press again to toast and squeeze on the other side.

Serve with a sauce made of mayonnaise blended with garlic and chives for added flavour.

Or if you want the meal traditionally associated with Brazil, you should try feijoada. Made with black beans, pork, and sausages. Served with some oranges to take the edge off.