always pissed me off that smartphones actively refuse to make this simple, but now I could really use it since my workaround will be costly:

Does anyone know a reasonably straightforward way to transfer files (primarily image, video) from an old (<10 years) android phone (samsung something or other) to a windows 10 desktop PC over usb?

I have the cable, but it's never let me copy files across (where much older phones let me directly browse and copy/paste from folders etc, like it SHOULD be but smartphones are garbage)

please do not suggest installing google/amazon/palantir's file copy and heartbeat identification through walls "app" ty

(please do not try harder I am fucking ancient with exhaustion

and I still don't hae full internet

and I have 12 articles to write

and so fucking much bullshit still to do BUT...

TRY HARDER UNIVERSE

YOU HEARD ME, BITCH

WE BOTH KNOW IT

TRY HARDER AND FAIL MORE

[EDIT: an extraordinarily kind stranger helped and I keep tearing up just thinking about it thank you. Thank you all but especially them]

if you know someone please ask them I am disabled and exhauste dand scared and traumatised and so fucking stressed and tired

I'm so close, I have a house and some secuirity and more work lined up than I have for years I AM SO CLOSE to getting back what was taken from me by abuse

I just need help moving my stuff so I don't lose everything. [EDIT: leaving this part in particular up becuase "just" was both true but also, god the person who helped gave SO MUCH and deleting this feels somehow like downplaying that? hard to explain. also I am very tired and sleepy so can't words good]

unpacking not needed. I can help a bit with loading/unloading but less so now that I've had to do so much on foot

There's no furniture and the most awkward item is a single mattress (not that heavy, but bulky) and dismantled bedframe in a box (one healthy adult can carry it, I can't)

There's parking at the pickup and destination. Nothing very valuable or fragile. Most things are already boxed, I am working on the rest. Measurements on request.

After tomorrow [thu] I will be without internet for several days and probably too exhausted to leave the house so this will all get even harder

please do not molest or murder me ty

I CAN PAY. THIS IS A PAYING THING

the next two days are going to be brutal

oh my god i did not need that to take my entire day and still not even resolve the most important thing I need to do rn

"Capitalism is doing what every single POC and poor person has been saying it's doing for decades, finds bold heroic groundbreaking new bbc report"

[EDIT: an extraordinarily kind stranger helped and I keep tearing up just thinking about it thank you. Thank you all but especially them]

I need a queer-friendly mover/driver who can move my stuff in london, please

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I am so tired and will be in a lot of pain tomorrow. I physically can't do much more of this on foot. Please help, I have so much work lined up and a raise and lower costs. I just want my life back.

It's []. I will try to help with loading but I'm in a lot of pain from hauling some of it on foot for several hours

I have internet for less than a day, so I need to arrange this very quickly (probably asleep soon though)

. Thank you

(sorry for all the edits)

" a fat book she could trust to be packed with sex, scandal, and slime"

uh oh

Darienne is a total prick I love her

the above quoted text is their transcription of posters they've made, I'm only sharing this one though cos it's redundant

(I do not know this person or their account etc, but they're in a group thing that's quiet and private enough that I'm pretty confident passing it on)

"Why Instagram?
I agree, fuck Meta, but I have severe ME and this is the most accessible place for me to set this up. I also believe this platform will be able to reach the most amount of people.

Why UK only?
I originally planned to organise a fully masked winter market in London this year, but then my ME went from moderate to severe and I quickly became bedbound.

I want people to be able to easily browse items that can be shipped to them. To include other countries introduces conversations about international shipping, and more organisation to display which goods can be shipped to where. It's an extra factor that I don't think I have capacity for as a sole organiser with severe ME. This market is essentially a directory of artists, and anyone who can ship to the UK is welcome to apply. "

Pasing on a thing some of you might like to sign up for:

"UK Virtual Airbourne Aware Winter Market

This is a virtual winter market to amplify airbourne aware artists, and give everyone (including house/bedbound people) the chance to browse items and shop small without leaving the house.

It will be hosted on our Instagram page (@aawintermarket), and all vendors will also be listed on an online aternative (Carrd or Neocities website) for those who don't use Instagram. You'll be able to browse items and there will be contact details or links for how to purchase directly from the artist. "

https://forms.gle/GTKEEC7XeJ3dnsWa6

(Apologies for google + facebook links, but it's what the organiser can manage within their capacity, please don't be a dick about it)

A thing that corporate dipshits don't understand (apart from the other seventeen trillion things they don't understand) is that yes, most people who play games don't read game sites or keep up with news or whatever.

But the people who DO are friends with those people, and play games with them, and talk to them. There is a limit to how much contempt you can get away with, because humans who have souls instead of corporate titles TALK TO EACH OTHER.

Hell, some of the "i just play game and don't read about them" people are like that precisely because they know their friends will tell them that stuff

"fantasy" video game: smash barrels for 1 item

do you have any idea how expensive and specialised barrelmaking was

"wait a minute! If we set the power plant on fire it will be hot enough to make the turbine go super fast for a couple of hours. We don't need to buy fuel or pay staff anymore!"

"Genius idea, cruthers. Here is one billion dollars. What else can you set on fire?"

it's cool how even though nobody but the most coked-up self congratulatory bottom feeding dipshits ever invented wants it, but we've replaced it the global economy with a literal false economy

i mean even compared to the fake bullshit that economics was partly built on

investors give me 2 trillion dollarinos to type "make a 3d game big titty profitable aaa marvel extraction crafting" into the box

Writing is hard. That's why I take a long time and a lot of care of it so that the result is worth reading, and unique to what I bring to it

alternatively I could just fabricate statistically genericised dogshit and then go suck off a nazi in case that makes them momentarily pretend to respect me