Ive read the first few so far. The next book on my list looks to be a full length novel.

I find your reference of “her humans” is interesting. I never thought of muderbot as a her. Perhaps I missed an important line somewhere in the story?

I think your review is right on. You captured exactly what it’s like. I look forward to reading the next book.

Doesn’t seem to be available for Android.

Fennec Scan:

2 trackers = 1157 Classes

598 tested signatures on 21823 classes
(12812985)

²?Sentry
Mozilla Telemetry
 
*Mozilla Telemetry
342mozilla.telemetry.glean.
31org.mozilla.fenix.components.metrics
568org.mozilla.fenix.GleanMetrics

*²?Sentry
216io.sentry


file:///data/app/~~k4F0B9l9UkHypp0nn27niw%3D%3D/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid-_WwVR-gNLaGHpnUII6BfVg%3D%3D/base.apk
 
MD5sum: 392619da4257fda7f9fd888afedba8b5
SHA1sum: 8781f7d8b48ee92af264af324362719bddcff56f
SHA256sum: 06151ec252361697a743388911ea571a145a7e32996b8a9affb59d1e1c609075

CN=FDroid,OU=FDroid,O=fdroid.org,L=ORG,ST=ORG,C=UK
 
SHA256withRSA
 
CERTIFICATE fingerprints: 
md5: 344552de69704d24e09dba05230df2c8
sha1: f5545ec2f9681d40ba4211a0967a3bbd4f4bf54b
sha256: 06665358efd8ba05be236a47a12cb0958d7d75dd939d77c2b31f5398537ebdc5

Privacy? Firefox [at least on Android] has Trackers.

6 Trackers = 1747 Classes

598 tested signatures on 23677 classes
(13792756)

Adjust
°Google Play Install Referrer
Google AdMob
Google Firebase Analytics
²?Sentry
Mozilla Telemetry

*Adjust
183com.adjust.sdk.

*Google AdMob
5com.google.android.gms.ads.

*Google Firebase Analytics
1com.google.firebase.analytics.

*Mozilla Telemetry
343mozilla.telemetry.glean.
44org.mozilla.fenix.components.metrics
616org.mozilla.fenix.GleanMetrics

*°Google Play Install Referrer
11com.android.installreferrer

*²?Sentry
544io.sentry


file:///data/app/~~kGEETamkCtNrtff0YUQwJA%3D%3D/org.mozilla.firefox_beta-uIpZWar9aqI8JdCRKxBL4Q%3D%3D/base.apk

MD5sum: 898c5776bd4ae16ccbf3a17b463d55d1
SHA1sum: 045059895e3b387343c00ae2d80d85e1ef24b37d
SHA256sum: e63240e437b73c64991c27a23d3ffe1fb3b7e8d3b49346b6dcd8a43cc782b75e

CN=Release Engineering,OU=Release Engineering,O=Mozilla Corporation,L=Mountain View,ST=California,C=US

SHA1withRSA

CERTIFICATE fingerprints: 
md5: b1e1bcee2733025ece9456e419a814a3
sha1: 920f4876a6a57b4a6a2f4ccaf65f7d29ce26ff2c
sha256: a78b62a5165b4494b2fead9e76a280d22d937fee6251aece599446b2ea319b04

It’s pretty scary how media can influence us so much, even when we think they aren’t, and even when we think “only dumb people fall for it.” No my friend, the majority fall for it. Not cause they’re dumb, but because they’ve scienced the hell out of human nature and know precisely how to do it right under our noses. It started with marketing and advertising that works well, unfortunately. They’ve cracked the psyche code. Media adopted it. Big tech improved it. Gah… this is turning into a rant about capitalism; I didn’t intend to go there. Eek.

Can you recommend one with a short window title bar? I’ve tried numerous ones that appear in the Main Menu -> Preferences -> Themes: Add/Remove Tab. None of them thus far has made any difference regarding the height of the title bar. Or are you suggestions to get these gtk themes from elsewhere?

How does one do that? Through the Themes icon in the menu bar, under Preferences, I was able to double click on the following themes. Adapta-Nokto, CBlack, and Windows 10 Light Theme.

There is a checkmark to the left of them indicating they are installed. But I can’t seem to activate them. I double click on them and nothing happens. Right mouse button and middle mouse button does nothing.

When I go back to the Themes tab under Simplified Settings, they do not appear in the Style drop down list.

How do I activate these themes I downloaded? I see they are in ~/.themes as expected.

~$ ll ~/.themes
drwxrwxr-x  5 clu clu 4096 Sep 11 19:49 ./
drwxr-x--- 26 clu clu 4096 Sep 11 19:55 ../
drwxrwxr-x  9 clu clu 4096 Sep 11 19:48 Adapta-Nokto/
drwxrwxr-x  7 clu clu 4096 Sep 11 19:48 CBlack/
drwxrwxr-x  9 clu clu 4096 Sep 11 19:49 Windows-10/

So I found an option under Themes Tab called Desktop. When I click it, the downloaded themes are available to select, along with a million other ones. I selected each of my themes but really didn’t notice much difference. The Start Menu changed a little bit. Very underwhelmed. Is theming only available for the Start Menu? No title bars, windows, background, icons, mouse looks different at all.

I must be doing this wrong. ??? The Mouse Pointer, Applications, and Icons buttons don’t list the new theme as an option to select. ?? I guess I mistakenly thought a “theme” impacted most aspects of the GUI. ??

Still couldn’t find anything in Cinnamon Spices. Oh well.

the font you had before you changed it may have already been hitting the minimum size of your gtk theme

I don’t understand what that means.

Font size did not affect change.

Okay thanks. May try it. Or may juts switch to i3 or xfce. I installed i3 the other day. Took a few hours of playing with it before I became comfortable with it.

It was a burger I ate when the chef was going to kill us all.

Tried. No go. It doesn’t change with the font size of the title bar.

This is exactly right. Divergence was small when sizes were small. Good point.

I wasn’t talking about HDD sizes, but I know the person to which I was replying was talking about HDD’s specifically. I shou,d have clarified I was talking in more general terms (CPU RAM, NVM sizes, etc.)

I remember being miffed about the advertising of the HDD sizes. So I think you are correct there. Wish I could go back to the mid 80’s and do some research on my old HDDs and floppies. I honestly just can’t remember, so thank you.

I hate the new prefixes, not just because they aren’t the older nomenclature, but because they feel ridiculous to speak out loud. If a less silly sounding prefix was chosen, I probably wouldn’t be tainted about it.

I agree with you. A long time ago, those of us “in the know” techies could parse the difference like it was a native language. When talking anything but computers, it was always the SI of 1000. When talking about computers, it was always 1024.

I think the masses were confused and the SI purists felt their SI prefixes were being corrupted. So they made a distinction/standard between binary numbering system prefixes and decimal numbering system prefixes.

I hate it. Feels wrong because I’m old and set in my ways. People like me are confused because we still use the old nomenclature, and when someone else uses the old nomenclature (when talking about computers), it’s ambiguous to us because we don’t know which numbering system they are using (e.g., binary as opposed to decimal). I still have to ask and half say binary and half say decimal.

I suppose if they’re teaching it in high school and college it’ll become native soon enough, if it hasn’t already with the next generations.

Marketing and advertising. They show a huge, juicy, scrumptous nice quality burger. You go to buy it and it’s a cold, limp, tiny, frail nothing burger.

There used to be a law about false advertising. But it doesn’t seem to be enforced anymore. Marketing and advertising can lie straight to your face. Its not right and shouldnt be tolerated.

And Americans are so complacent about it, they say things like, “It’s , what’d you expect?” Instead of demanding what was advertised. It’s soul crushing. It’s like we’ve given up.

It isn’t like anything. One moment you are counting down, the very next moment you are waking up. Time does not pass for you. It’s one instant (counting down) to the next (waking up.) It’s very strange. Like you skipped through time. Like you magically moved forward in time instantaneously. You will never have memories from when you are under.

I like the last one. Interesting to think about.

You make choices, but in the end, choices really make you.