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☕ #AprilKofiRun25 Day 04 for @sleepyssnail! ✨

In the above thread, Dr. Glaucomflecken identified the glasses in the image, and attempted to, visually, establish the diopter value, that is to say, the level of correction given by the lens. Diopters are usually given without a listed unit. So when the doctor declared "she's a -1 maybe a -1.5" he was saying "the corrective lenses in the image appear to have a corrective factor of -1 diopters, meaning the individual is nearsighted to such a degree." He was excited to be able to identify the power of glasses lens from a photo, which is a very unique skill showing that one is very excited about the field of vision and corrective lenses.

In the early twenty-first century, people also rate photos of people (especially women) on a scale from 1 to 10 based on attractiveness. It's a very intentionally objectifying and dehumanizing practice, often intentionally "skewing" the otherwise arbitrary numbers for some agenda, such as lowering their victim's self esteem.

A negative 1 or negative 1.5 would be ridiculously and outrageously low, to the point where there is no positive interpretation of a person making such an already creepy statement on social media. It would be a mean spirited remark.

Typing this from Graphene now, in fact. But, both of those take the Android Open Source Project, without all the bloatware--and largely de-Google the whole thing. They give you much more control over privacy and what the apps you choose to install can do and access on your phone.

I know Graphene sandboxes everything, including the optionally installed Google Play Services which a lot of apps unfortunately require to run. (Lineage uses an alternative to Play Services instead.) So, you can install what would normally be unacceptably intrusive apps and just lock them away from pulling any funny shit with your data, or phoning home. Including the couple of Google things I do still keep around.

I also prefer running much more transparent, privacy-respecting open source apps where possible. Besides the transparency, I'd rather avoid the shitty tech corps entirely where I can. There are pretty good alternatives available for a lot of the usual suspects.

An alternative app store:

Thanks for ruining my life.