I Am Totally Going To Come Across As A Boomer In This Post But As An Engineer It's Common Sense To Not

i am totally going to come across as a boomer in this post but as an engineer it's common sense to not build systems with a single point of failure. and i'm starting to realize that our usage of the smart phone is exactly that. a single point of failure. the calling/texting is the implied function of the smartphone, which is fine. that's what it's built for. but nowadays we don't think to keep a physical map or atlas or gps unit in our car because our phone has google maps. we don't keep address books anymore because it's all stored in our contacts. i serve customers who no longer carry a wallet/physical card because it's all on their phone. this is literally a single point of failure. if you lose or break your phone when you are in a foreign place you are fucking screwed. maybe you're still screwed even in your home town because so many people have become accustomed to using a smart phone to take them anywhere.

Finish What You Started event information

Premise: The Finish What You Started event is a multi-fandom, multimedia event focused on finishing existing works in progress. While primarily aimed at writers, this event is open to any kind of creative fanwork. Fics, translations, podfics, fanart, animations, cosplay, sculpture - if you started it and never got it done, it qualifies. There are no prompts or sign-ups, and few limitation. Participation is mainly done by tagging any wip progress you post with #FinishWhatYouStarted2023 and making a promo post for your completed work so it can be shared and celebrated, with the tag #IFinishedWhatIStarted2023

Dates: September 1st to October 31st, with a check-in on October 1st.

Additional sites: twitter.com/finishwatustart, Discord server, AO3 collection

Rules can be found as a post on here, the Twitter, and the Discord.

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don't use any of these browsers, they're also chrome

Here are my favorite firefox plugins for security/anti-tracking/anti-ad that I recommend you get

please get off chrome google is currently being investigated for being an Illegal Monopoly so get outta there okay love you bye

― Ali Smith, The Whole Story and Other Stories

[text ID: It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four.]

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I'm not mad at this combination I'll be honest, it's very positive lol

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if you search a tag on someone's blog on the mobile app it will show you only a selection of posts in an inscrutably random order but if you go to a mobile browser and type [blog url].tumblr.com/tagged/[tag] you will get all posts on that blog with that tag in reverse chronological order. if you add /chrono behind it you get them in regular chronological order. naturally this works in desktop browsers too but i know many people are mobile only these days and the app's built in tag search is shit so this knowledge is vital to your survival