Frickin love RSS feed. I’ve actually gotten bad about populating it with my favorite YouTubers and the git projects I’ve been following lately. Plus archlinux news updates of course.

I use feeder though, it does the job but it doesn’t pull the websites directly.

I mean most of those are replacing platforms from meta and Twitter with fediverse based platforms but that’s not the point.

That last part is a huge bonus. It’s creepy how much information the get from watching your consumption habits. Imagion how many times you’ve stopped to look at an ad of something you were interested in just to see if it’s on sail or something.

Not even interacting with the ad they can gauge interest in certain categories let alone the product itself.

It’s so hard to find populated hashtags though. I wish there was more discourse on mastodon but it’s just people shouting into the void.

I love the enthusiasm but it’s funny to say posting to a platform that makes copies on other servers and opens up APIs that make it very easy to scrape and build a profile with a little scripting has any privacy.

It’s still better than meta or Twitter but your not private on these platforms. The companies that might make accounts to advertise from can easily be blocked and need to try harder to actually get your attention.

Just be weary AI and ad companies are probably already scraping these platforms and it’s thanks to the open nature and the inherent flaws of modern monolithic social media design.

Someone’s gotta make toxic sludge!

It’s tough man, It just doesn’t feel good.

I finally picked up a steam deck so I can find more time to enjoy my library. It’s weird how your attitude changes when you start using your gaming PC for studying or work. I just don’t want to sit there for a few more hours after spending three or four working on something.

My switch collects dust because I’ve grown a custom to picking up 10-15 games for the same price as a three year old title on the switch.

Kinda a neat utility for kids. I thought it was kinda neat when I used it as a kid.

https://scratch.mit.edu/parents/

Get em started young. By the time they’re 16 they’ll ask what’s all this about then and flip the desk like a British rockstar every time they’re handed a computer with vscode.

Sorry, had too much fun crossing the natural rockstar trope with the vim Chad meme.

The sad thing is the users in the comments on Reddit was starting to sour my mood before I switched.

It’s about as good as old reddit!? Isn’t that what people want? A website straight out of the early 2000s.😁

EDIT: probably cheaper to host for sure.

I see a lot of people posting and no one engaging with each other there. Honestly what’s the point if no one talks to each other.

Yeah, I don’t have foss painted on my chest but I like the idea. It’ll become more mainstream once people figure out a system to get devs paid and reduce the drawbacks of someone cloning a project, injecting ads, and providing it as a free alternative. If all those things and the issue of paying people to provide professional support for companies using it get solved. I can see a bright future for foss.

EDIT: I’ve also heard graphene is is pretty good, I like my android auto though.

But you can’t do that, the whole phone has to be open source Right down to the chipset! How are you going to know if it’s respecting your privacy the hardware is a black box it doesn’t matter if you have to create custom solutions to get your banking app working on it. That’s kinda the standard your holding these open source devs to.

It’s not enough you spend your free time writing code with basically no compensation you have to maintain a server, pay for hosting, make sure security patches go through, troubleshooting when it goes down, write custom software to automate support tickets, and deal with people potentially trying to ddos your instance, etc.

Maybe you should ditch your android phone for a pine phone while you’re at it.

It’s just the way I prefer it. I prefer paying for a copy if I can and downloading a copy when I can’t. I get the appeal, but if there’s a way to show companies I prefer a tangible copy over paying monthly/perpetual license I prefer going that route.

I’m not above downloading a copy if they don’t sell a copy if you get where I’m coming from. I consider it sort of abandoned at that point, even if it’s on a streaming service.

You guys are talking about 4k meanwhile I’m digging in bargain bins and going to garage sales for DVDs.

EDIT: Didn’t see the community when I posted. It makes a lot more sense now.

If you have chrome browser JavaScript applet as the media player backend, terabytes.

Debian + Docker.