since nonalcoholic beers have gotten much better in quality and variety, i have been enjoying some lately at least

oh no.

I’m already lactose intolerant and while I’m not big mad at that because the dairy industry is rat trash anyway, if i become gluten intolerant I swear to fuck I’m gonna pull a Thought Emporium I FUCKING LOVE BREAD AND SEITAN

Don’t think so given the hilarious quantity of gluten I eat intentionally in the form of seitan. Fuck I really hope not. Eco-friendly cheap protein does not have an abundance of varieties 💀

I should probably do another elimination diet for a month or so to check at some point. Been a few years

yeah I’m only half mad because i have other health issues i need to be working on, i don’t need to be adding a carcinogen into the mix

plus, all the homebrew and cocktail hipsters are also getting old, so the NA beverage industry is gaining momentum

Seedlip and Pearson’s spirits, Asahi Zero and Athletic beer, Lyre’s cocktails, and BOLLE and French Bloom wines are some of my craft NA faves

ugh it was until i turned 27 and started getting hungover from singular beers >:(

the cause of my autism is also the cure, i see

damn look at this funky dude

yes, with a usb drive containing Linux installation media

it’s fantastic! she did a wonderful job. she could do those professionally!

I had the perfect phone. Sony XZ2 Compact. released in 2018 so not even that old

5" screen. No headphone jack, but I was honestly just glad to have a screen that small. Ran LineageOS like a dream.

Then came the 3G tower shutdown. Now, the XZ2c is capable of 4G LTE calling. Lineage even had the settings option for it unlocked (as opposed to stock). So I call up my carrier and ask them to please enable 4G LTE calling for my phone so that it’ll receive calls again.

Turns out, the major carriers in the US decided not to support 4G LTE calling for the XZ2c. There’s a line of code sitting somewhere that could be flipped to “true” and my perfect phone would work again. But no, fuck me for wanting to resist CONSOOM NOO FONE EVERY SIX MONTH.

Fuck capitalism I’ll never forget what they took from me

bonus:

accidentally turning your kids into Web 1.0 enjoyers lol

In the U.S., according to Census Bureau data, an estimated 163,401 households were using dial-up alone to get online in 2023, representing just over 0.13% of all homes with internet subscriptions nationwide.
(AP News)

As far as US households, looks like not many. Most likely very remote locations. I had also read that some businesses maintain a dial up connection as a backup for broadband outages

https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-providers/aol-will-end-dial-up-internet-service-in-september-34-years-after-its-debut-aol-shield-browser-and-aol-dialer-software-will-be-shuttered-on-the-same-day

jokes on you I’m not originally from Philly i find all uses of jawn to be cringe (and use it anyway) YOUR MOVE

i mean it wouldn’t be any less colonial if it was called a state :( but that’s a fair point

sometimes we Pennsylvanians like to be a little fancy