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Latest Videos :: Side Quest: Plants (this is the corn video) :: Author rejectconvenience

no_email@example.com (rejectconvenience) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:52:15 +0000

https://youtu.be/FwQpxZM66Xc

I seriously had so much fun making this one. New rendering challenges, new workflow techniques, it was just all around a blast. I hope you enjoy something different!

Latest Videos :: Re: Side Quest: Plants (this is the corn video) :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:41:00 +0000

‘Turns out, plants really like sunshine. Who knew?’
If I ever were to take up gardening, I would need to grow mushrooms. Sunlight irritates my skin (I use a parasol when I go out) and I darken my rooms with thick curtains, so I need plants which do not mind that.
The gymnosperms and cryptogams continue to enjoy a flowerless existence, even if flowering plants have supplanted most of them. They should get more love.

I dislike describing cultivated plants as man-made or ‘manipulated’. The variations involved would occur naturally, and the maize plant grows according to its own, unaltered nature; man’s only part in it was to maintain an environment where they could thrive, whereas they would have otherwise perished as freaks of nature. This fine point should not detract from how I enjoyed this film as a whole. I would quite enjoy more botanical discourses on your channel.

I am surprised you have got a Discord channel now after saying you disliked the site. What inspired you to create one there?

Latest Videos :: Re: Side Quest: Plants (this is the corn video) :: Reply by rejectconvenience

no_email@example.com (rejectconvenience) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:49:28 +0000

Mæstro wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 3:41 pm I am surprised you have got a Discord channel now after saying you disliked the site. What inspired you to create one there?

It's specifically for the Patreons. I thought a lot about it, and I can't really offer a lot of perks in general at this time, so that seemed like a reasonable one. Most people that use Patreon already link up their Discord accounts for other folks, so it wasn't like I was forcing people to join it or anything. That said, I encourage everyone there to be active here, because this is where I want the actual conversations to happen. That was the whole point of the forum, after all

Latest Videos :: Re: Side Quest: Plants (this is the corn video) :: Reply by Fireye

no_email@example.com (Fireye) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:38:06 +0000

Loved seeing your new environments with all the plants; It's super inspiring to see your technical workflow improve from video to video. (Also hbomberguy cameo whaaaat) Regardless, I've been inspired to hop into blender later today to see what I can put together lmao. Thanks!

Latest Videos :: Re: Side Quest: Plants (this is the corn video) :: Reply by zonk

no_email@example.com (zonk) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:46:14 +0000

corm

Latest Videos :: Re: Side Quest: Plants (this is the corn video) :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:26:39 +0000

When I tell other people that your channel is one people are sleeping on, it's for videos like this. Your craft is great and improving with every video. The styling on the plants and changing the background was awesome. I'll stop - it's cringe of me. But seriously, great video.

Latest Videos :: Re: Side Quest: Plants (this is the corn video) :: Reply by trafficone

no_email@example.com (trafficone) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 03:51:23 +0000

AWW YEAH THIS VIDEO IS MY JAM!

Beans are so f*cking cool! Ok, so first off, like almost all RAW beans are toxic, so if you're growing beans keep your kids/pets/etc. away from the beans. Cooking them destroys the poison, so be sure to fully cook beans before you eat them.

But what's really really cool is that beans don't convert nitrogen in the air into something available in the soil. They cultivate bacteria which can do the conversion in nodes in their roots. So, while you're farming beans, the beans are farming bacteria.

Latest Videos :: Re: Side Quest: Plants (this is the corn video) :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:25:55 +0000

This is true in general. Green plants are incapable of fixing nitrogen themselves, but depend on lightning or bacteria hosted in the root to fix it or them. Among others, the bacilli which cause tetanus and botulism (Clostridium spp) are at home in the soil, fixing nitrogen for themselves. Some blue-green algae, such as Anabaena, develop specialised cells for fixation to support nearby green cells. This being noted, all plants are capable of forming protein from inorganic nitrate salts once the nitrogen has been fixed; this is one of the features which are traditionally used to distinguish them from animals.

As an aside, because I cannot send private messages, have you considered joining the Traffic Cone Preservation Society?

Introductions :: Re: Introduce yourself! :: Reply by BellanaBanana

no_email@example.com (BellanaBanana) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 08:50:59 +0000

It's been a long time since I seen this format in a website.
Anyway I'm Bella, I am Australian, I got a Patreon which I posted elsewhere on this site, and I like to boycott companies I don't like.
Chocolate industry, Coca Cola, and fast food places. They were my favourites, but the companies do stuff I don't like and I am uncomfortable with buying their products now.

Great way to save money during the cost of living crisis, and if you look for alternatives sometimes smaller businesses have better products.

Introductions :: Re: Introduce yourself! :: Reply by Fireye

no_email@example.com (Fireye) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:54:49 +0000

Howdy! I'm Kai.

I'm a game developer from the states, but I'm currently employed as a software engineer at the Vera Rubin observatory. I'm still in university studying computer science and game design, but I tend to learn more on my own than I do in formal education.

I have a hand-coded personal website (https://fireye.coffee), i've set up a personal router (which still fails to run up a functional openvpn server as many times as I try; I'll get it eventually), have a test bench for computer repair and operating system shenannegans (I use arch btw), and have a few guitars, both acoustic and electric, as well as a drumset that I break way too many sticks on. I also love rock climbing, and I can climb stuff around the 5.12 area.

I love indie web shit so forums are awesome for me, especially when I can get RSS working for them. Anyway, have a good day!

Volunteering :: Re: Help for a Computer Fundemantals Course :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 02:28:58 +0000

Assuming that these kids have experience using a mobile device, it could be helpful to tie the computing analogies they learned from there to the computer. For example, tablets have apps and computers have apps (sometimes called programs). When you open an app it usually takes up the whole screen, but on computers you can window them to see more at the same time, and move them around as you need to. Doing things like that could help make a computer seem less foreign, and then you can highlight the differences to show how a computer can do more than what a table or phone can do. I figure the last part is outside of the scope of your course, but something to think about.

Self Promotion :: Re: boykisser.nl - My weblog :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:13:41 +0000

Looks Awesome, Can't wait to read it all. Also surprised you got the Domain, I would have thought it would already been taken. Also, how much did you pay? The standard Price or did you have to pay a Speciality Price?

Advertising your Forum is not at all against the rules (at least in my Interpretation). It's always fun to learn about new Forum's and Pages!

I also like the "Ad" on your Forum.

Self Promotion :: Re: boykisser.nl - My weblog :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:34:04 +0000

I bought the domain initially for less than a euro (with 5/6 euro for renewal).
I was surprised that the domain was still available at all.

Self Promotion :: Hey, check out my Patreon :: Author BellanaBanana

no_email@example.com (BellanaBanana) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 08:42:58 +0000

patreon.com/BellanaBanana

In the meantime I am studying Animation and Game Design at Curtin University.
I'm Australian, and endlessly trying to find something that works.

Aside from that I boycott certain companies, people here might feel the same.

Self Promotion :: Re: Wifey Art :: Reply by mimi

no_email@example.com (mimi) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:03:10 +0000

heck yeaaa
I loved the birb/raven/crow OC and the pixel arts

Self Promotion :: Re: Wifey Art :: Reply by foxx-doxx

no_email@example.com (foxx-doxx) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:32:36 +0000

mimi wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 4:03 am heck yeaaa
I loved the birb/raven/crow OC and the pixel arts

Awww! She appreciates it.

Self Promotion :: Re: Wifey Art :: Reply by Speb

no_email@example.com (Speb) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:40:52 +0000

That'd be a really cool tattoo!

Self Promotion :: Re: Wifey Art :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:39:10 +0000

Thats some lovely drawings.
I really like it ^^

Self Promotion :: Re: Wifey Art :: Reply by foxx-doxx

no_email@example.com (foxx-doxx) — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:20:02 +0000

loebas wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 1:39 pm Thats some lovely drawings.
I really like it ^^

Self Promotion :: I blog about nerd stuff :: Author PossiblyAxolotl

no_email@example.com (PossiblyAxolotl) — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 07:23:13 +0000

Hey I'm a nerd and blog about nerd stuff, so I thought I'd share it here. My newest post is about markdown editors and I just finished it a few minutes ago. I've also talked about Arch linux and a random game I like. It's very tech focused cause that tends to be what interests me, but it's really for whatever's on my mind I want to share. If you have a blog too, let me know!

Self Promotion :: Re: I blog about nerd stuff :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 01:46:25 +0000

This blog is super neat. Thanks for sharing!

It's a shame Obsidian didn't work out, but I can see how the mind map stuff can be overwhelming. I fully ignored that when I used it. Otherwise it was my favorite text editor. The only reason I moved off of it was because I wanted something web based so that I wouldn't have to manage my data. I landed on Cryptee and I've been happy with it.

Self Promotion :: Re: I blog about nerd stuff :: Reply by fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 01:19:27 +0000

Seeing Bean Dreams again is amazing. I ALSO played that game when I was super young, and the side of me that loves bouncy, colorful worlds just fell in love. Probably the most fun I'd ever had with a mobile game, really bringing a whole layer of dimensions with its simplistic controls. I tried to 100% that game back when I first had it, and I was seriously bummed when I saw it had vanished from the App Store a few years later. Seeing a response to it now brings me a lot of joy. I really hope I get to see Bean Dreams and Bean's Quest again, it will absolutely make my whole year... Love this blog!!!

Self Promotion :: Re: I blog about nerd stuff :: Reply by PossiblyAxolotl

no_email@example.com (PossiblyAxolotl) — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:51:09 +0000

CitricScion wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 1:46 am This blog is super neat. Thanks for sharing!

It's a shame Obsidian didn't work out, but I can see how the mind map stuff can be overwhelming. I fully ignored that when I used it. Otherwise it was my favorite text editor. The only reason I moved off of it was because I wanted something web based so that I wouldn't have to manage my data. I landed on Cryptee and I've been happy with it.

Thank you! I could have used Obsidian like that, but once I found Deepdwn I was sold cause it is a really nice editor. I've been considering setting up some sort of owncloud or similar which would be nice cause I could probably just save to a folder that gets synced and not have to worry too much about data management.

fitsoab wrote: Mon Jul 07, 2025 1:19 am Seeing Bean Dreams again is amazing. I ALSO played that game when I was super young, and the side of me that loves bouncy, colorful worlds just fell in love. Probably the most fun I'd ever had with a mobile game, really bringing a whole layer of dimensions with its simplistic controls. I tried to 100% that game back when I first had it, and I was seriously bummed when I saw it had vanished from the App Store a few years later. Seeing a response to it now brings me a lot of joy. I really hope I get to see Bean Dreams and Bean's Quest again, it will absolutely make my whole year... Love this blog!!!

Omg it's really cool to hear that, I love Bean lol. I would love to see it return at some point, but since I'm a game developer I've also been considering making some sort of spiritual successor to it as a future project in case it doesn't. Glad you like the blog too! :D

Self Promotion :: Re: I blog about nerd stuff :: Reply by fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:01:20 +0000

PossiblyAxolotl wrote: Mon Jul 07, 2025 6:51 am
Omg it's really cool to hear that, I love Bean lol. I would love to see it return at some point, but since I'm a game developer I've also been considering making some sort of spiritual successor to it as a future project in case it doesn't. Glad you like the blog too!

Duuuuude a spiritual successor to Bean would be so much fun!!! I would love to see that!! I'm a dev too, maybe I should just be making spiritual successors to games I miss haha

Self Promotion :: Take back your privacy :: Author NightFire

no_email@example.com (NightFire) — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:51:54 +0000

I run a podcast to help people understand how to take their digital privacy back from big tech.
Free episodes on odysee.com
https://odysee.com/@NightFire:7?r=ERmKR ... 8Aatg9QQ6K
Follow me on Bluesky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/nightfire55.bsky.social
Join my community on Discord: ⁠https://discord.gg/7RwMvwsPRw
Reach out to me directly via email: Nightfire55@sudomail.com

Phones :: Re: In Search of a Dumbphone :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:31:13 +0000

So yeah HMD, the ones I bought it from, cancelled my Order so it never arrived. So I had to use my Smartphone for my Holiday. But while on Holiday my Aunt told me that they get a lot of Phones, especially Flip Phones for Recycling, from her Work and she offered to bring me a selection. I picked one out, a Kyocera S2720 unlocked Verizon varient, While it is defiantly on the Cheap side and I haven't Daily driven it yet. I am going to try it out soon.

Phones :: Re: In Search of a Dumbphone :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:11:22 +0000

The Kyocera series are quite nice! During my undergrad and early postgrad years in the US, I used one, as I mention in my introduction. The size, durability and capacity to tether have made it the most powerful feature phone without any needless SNS integration or ability to download applications I have ever witnessed. I honestly preferred it over the Nokia 105 which I got on returning to this country, and hearing that Verizon’s Kyoceras can be made to work here is rather encouraging. I might look into unlocking my old US American mobile if I ever need one again.

Cool Websites :: site for seeing the real size of countries relative to each other :: Author cl0ud

no_email@example.com (cl0ud) — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 09:48:02 +0000

[https://www.thetruesize.com]

I wonder if I'm doing the [url] thing correctly

If that doesn't work: maybe [this](https://www.thetruesize.com) will work.
Or is it like (this)[https://www.thetruesize.com]?

You can "spawn" countries in (they're color-coded) and you can drag them around to "unstretch" them cause cause on most maps countries closer to the poles look bigger cause you're displaying a sphere on a 2d space so there's inevitable distortion.
And yk, you compare countries' sizes with each other.

Cool Websites :: Re: site for seeing the real size of countries relative to each other :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:38:41 +0000

BBCode is not Reddit Markdown.
To use [url], write [url=http://www.example.com]text[/url], where ‘text’ stands for the words you would like to feature in the hyperlink: text.
Atlases often include diagrams like this, overlaying various important foreign countries, such as Japan or the USA, and also lakes over the country of origin. Because this is often overlooked, I will say in Mercator’s defence that it preserves all directions, which are the most important when navigating, intact.

Cool Websites :: Re: site for seeing the real size of countries relative to each other :: Reply by cl0ud

no_email@example.com (cl0ud) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:58:52 +0000

I wasn't thinking Reddit but yeah, thought it was md.
So it's kinda like html. Thanks for the demonstration

Cool Websites :: [Poll] Bluesky vs Mastodon :: Author CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:12:06 +0000

Since 2022 we have seen new options for decentralized social media come on the scene. Mastodon is a microblogging platform that's built on the ActivityPub protocol. Bluesky is the same but built on its own AT Protocol. Both provide a decentralized social network that can be owned and operated by the community itself without the need for a giant company running on surveillance capitalism. So they're both great and can even interoperate if you force them too!

Which do you prefer? What do you like or dislike about one or the other? Though forum is ancient bulwarks against the centralized internet of today, I think these other platforms are neat and provide a better path for using social media.

Cool Websites :: Re: [Poll] Bluesky vs Mastodon :: Reply by Fireye

no_email@example.com (Fireye) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 04:18:14 +0000

There's an interesting dialogue to be had about centralized vs decentralized open source social media. On one hand, decentralized options like mastodon and matrix are pretty clearly the most free (as in libre), however centralized ones like bluesky and signal offer a significantly more intuitive experience (or at least one that more closely resembles standard social media) to the layperson (non-developers, the average social media user, etc...)

Cool Websites :: Re: [Poll] Bluesky vs Mastodon :: Reply by PossiblyAxolotl

no_email@example.com (PossiblyAxolotl) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:46:43 +0000

Those are the only microblogging platforms I do have an account on, and I honestly don't use masto as much as bluesky simply because more of the people I know are on bluesky. It's a lot easier to get into since there's one place where it all is and there's arguments to be made about moderation and selective federation between instances and things like that with Mastodon, but I do think they're both neat and Mastodon's open nature gives it some really cool features like custom emoji and things that can't really be done with Bluesky.

(On that note, if you wanna find me here's my Bluesky and Mastodon :3 )

Cool Websites :: Re: [Poll] Bluesky vs Mastodon :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:25:03 +0000

While I have both Mastodon and Bluesky I really dont care about either. I find Mastodon a bit more open because of its Decentralized Nature and am more supportive of it. But generally I don't care about that Type of Social Media and rarely engage with it. I only have a few People there I follow via RSS and that's basically it.

Cool Websites :: Re: [Poll] Bluesky vs Mastodon :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:41:13 +0000

I have never used SNS at all, but I check artists I like on Nitter from time to time. Bluesky’s site is poorly designed: like many 2020s site, it refuses to display anything at all unless JavaScript is enabled. There is no Nitter equivalent for Bluesky, meaning that I cannot access Bluesky tweets at all. Mastodon pages have also never rendered well for me. Hence, I can endorse neither. Surveillance capitalism can motivate bad design, but bad design abounds in any case.

Cool Websites :: Re: [Poll] Bluesky vs Mastodon :: Reply by Fireye

no_email@example.com (Fireye) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:07:58 +0000

RSS is awesome lmao. If I remember correctly you can plug certain feeds from both bluesky and mastodon into RSS which is such a win.

I've been frustrated that you can't turn stuff like a discord announcement feed, for example, into an RSS feed, as I deleted discord off everything recently but would still like to be up to date with a couple things without having to get sucked into the infinite scroll of it all.

I might end up coding & open sourcing a discord.py bot that assembles RSS feeds and serves them on a get request at some point, gah.

Cool Websites :: Re: [Poll] Bluesky vs Mastodon :: Reply by Mark

no_email@example.com (Mark) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:09:17 +0000

Full disclosure: This comes from the standpoint of not completely getting rid of social media but have gotten rid of the vast majority - no neoTwitter, no Facebook, etc. Instagram is barely holding out (only because girlfriend has chosen it to be the meme place, but soon it'll be replaced I imagine). Because of that, I choose my social media/online presence very intentionally with what works for me and my highly opinionated self. Your choice in social media (or lack of) will likely work better for you.

I was one of those few who tried out Pebble (previously known as t2) when all of the twitter-likes started popping up. I really really wish it was a success but it just didn't work out (they had some very ambitious goals for safety and the like). I got to participate in some of the community workshops to help create their governance framework which was cool. When they shut Pebble down, one of the co-founders opened up a Mastodon and I got to help admin it. It stayed pretty consistent at just around 200 active, but never took off past a lot of people who tried Pebble, or wanted Pebble to be a thing. We tried to keep the same vibes as Pebble had. Unfortunately the SSL cert lapsed and eventually the hosting went away, so it faded off into the sunset too.

I honestly really really liked older Twitter (2008 to 2016 or so), back when it was specifically short-form text. I (heh) embrace convenience, and am pretty chronically online. But the discoverability and the speed at which information, news, active events traveled was unmatched, and really helped in some emergency situations too (natural disasters, civil unrest, local emergencies, etc). There is a massive void for such a thing that nothing is filling now that Twitter has become (at best) a rotting corpse of what it used to be.

I tried Threads, but it had some major flaws, particularly with how little control over the feed and discoverability was, and how it's owned by Facebook is quite the flaw by nature.

Mastodon is neat, and is kinda cool for highly special interests or tight-knit communities. But I don't really know what gap it's actually filling, except for communities or special interest topics that were already tight on Twitter. Scaling Mastodon is a pain, and it suffers the same barrier of entry as many new platforms, but worse, being "decentralized" and constantly making that a selling point. The ease of use is just not there for the masses and for that reason alone, it's doomed to forever be nothing more than a feed for special interests. And in a way, that's okay, because it's a decent platform for that and many want it to remain like that. It's just not for me (too shall we say, inconvenient?).

Bluesky has been pretty great overall. It feels a lot closer to what older Twitter was than the rest, and from a usability standpoint (for "normal" people - gotta remember, most of us are outliers), is much more approachable than Mastodon and others. I love being able to curate lists and feeds, and I love not having to deal with Mastodon's federated nonsense. Though, that's ultimately Bluesky's goal (the AT protocol). I do still quite dislike how custom feeds require either technical knowledge for self-hosting (and incurring the costs associated with that traffic which could potentially balloon) or using third-party tools. I do like that it has some semblance of "trending", which in a way helps act as sticking my head up every once in a while to see what's going on. Twitter was a great pulse check on the world, and Bluesky isn't quite there yet, but it's better than nothing, and better than the rest at being that pulse check. I do have some other annoyances with the platform but from a strictly "feels like old Twitter" standpoint, it's the closest I've seen.

Interestingly, I spend so very little time on most social media these days. I'm a Discord user (for lack of a better option - and no, I do not consider most alternatives to be a better option; Discord is where the people are and people are what makes a community). Discord is part community, but mostly communications platform for me anyways. And Bluesky is the only major social media I open, and I don't open it daily. And on days I open it, I don't really open it more than once that day, and that's even with Bluesky being on my home screen on my phone, on the first page. Weening off of social media to be more intentional with its usage has made a more healthy balance that works for me and what I want to get out of social media.

Computers :: What are some cli tools YOU want :: Author zirosi

no_email@example.com (zirosi) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:48:19 +0000

For the unix users out there on this forum, what are some cli tools that you would like to see.

And yes, this is the computers forum. All I have to say to that is software is a part of computers!!!

Computers :: Re: What are some cli tools YOU want :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 03:52:01 +0000

The first cli applicarion i would recommend is bpytop. This application shows off the usage off all your resources.
It shows off your CPU usage, total, and individual cores.
It shows off your RAM usage, and your disk usage.
And the same data top shows.
And it runs all from the command line.

Its very lightweight, and it shows all this infornation on your terminal(emulator). It even works remotely through SSH.

Computers :: Re: I use arch, btw :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 05:21:52 +0000

Want to come back to this saying i ditched Arch on all my spare devices, and settled with Linux Mint. Because it just works.

As i already posted in a other thread, i experienced some problems with EndeavourOS which where unfortunately dealbreakers for me. One the rolling release scheme, i dont have the time to constanly update my spare systems, and secondly my "iPad" would sometime lock up when woken up out of hibernation.

With linux mint i dont have the problems with it. (apart from some bluetooth probems on my Dell laptop)

Computers :: Re: I use arch, btw :: Reply by Rain

no_email@example.com (Rain) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:49:29 +0000

I've been using Fedora Silverblue for about a year now and it suits my needs well enough. I chose Fedora mainly due to the semi-rolling release model (less prone to breakage than something like Arch, but it still gets frequent updates and a new GNOME version every six months), plus it's officially supported on my Framework laptop so it runs like a charm out of the box. The fact that it's an immutable distro also means I can easily roll back if an update happens to screw up my system. Most days I just want to get work done at my computer without having to worry about fixing my system so having that peace of mind is really appreciated.

I might check out NixOS eventually though if I ever feel like changing things up.

Computers :: Re: I use arch, btw :: Reply by PossiblyAxolotl

no_email@example.com (PossiblyAxolotl) — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:26 +0000

Guess what?
I DO use Arch now!! (btw...)
I like it, genuinely been treating me much better than most Ubuntu-based ones have been imo. I wrote a lil blog post about Arch just now if you're curious but it's been pretty nice, and though I did have some problems with installing it's honestly been pretty fun and neat to use.

Computers :: Re: I use arch, btw :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:06:00 +0000

I have been using Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 since 2020. I am a layman (ie I have no programming background) who likes to adjust the settings in the control panel, but prefers to avoid the terminal if I can at all help it, and Mint is ideal for this. I favoured (and favour) the Debian over the Ubuntu edition for the usual wariness over Canonical. I removed Flatpak, for I prefer traditional package management. Since LMDE 4 has been end-of-life, I disabled Mint Report and switched to LTS and later ELTS security updates. I have not yet decided what to do in 2029. Now that I am using Pidgin instead of Gajim, I really just need to know that my Flash plug-in 34·0·0·137) will continue to work. Although my GPU is Radeon (viz AMD Trinity [Radeon HD 7640G]), and I have only heard about Glibc-Flash incompatibility on Nvidia systems, I am naturally wary.

Computers :: Re: I use arch, btw :: Reply by zirosi

no_email@example.com (zirosi) — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 02:00:31 +0000

I... do use arch btw >;3

Computers :: Re: I use arch, btw :: Reply by Monoki

no_email@example.com (Monoki) — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:03:29 +0000

Monoki wrote: Wed May 28, 2025 11:15 pm
rejectconvenience wrote: Sun Jul 28, 2024 9:28 am That's not true, I use pop_os, but what's your favorite distro?
I just installed Mint on an 10+ year old laptop of mine. Having fun with it so far even if the computer's slightly laggy from how old it is.

Update to this: installed it on my main laptop now too. May install a lighter Linux OS on the old one and use that as a server? Renderfarm? Not sure exactly.

Computers :: Re: How do reduce time spent on my computer :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 02:37:29 +0000

Is there something else that you are trying to do more of? Are there particular things that you want to stop doing on the computer? The way I see it I don't want to reduce my computer time in an absolute sense, rather I want to make sure that I'm being intentional with what I am doing on the computer.

For example, if I am wasting time on YouTube, I don't want to manage away all of my computer use. I only want to focus on that problem. Or if there's another goal I want to pursue, I'll take steps toward that whether it's on the computer or not.

I guess being more specific with what you're trying to tackle could help.

But if you want to reduce computer time in general, I would find other things to fill your time that don't involve the PC. Plan to hang out with friends, play video games, go for run. Set your intention on something else rather than intending to not use the PC. Otherwise you're just left with a vacuum and no activity to fill it.

Computers :: Re: How do reduce time spent on my computer :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:01:48 +0000

Go ahead and search for other hobbies.

I reduced my screentime with diamondpainting. Yes i know, it sounds weird, but it is really relaxing.
And there are a lot of other activities you can do as well.

I'm hitting the gym every friday now, and do my chores on the same day.

Or get an MP3 player, just any "nugget" will do. The internet archive has a lot of in store music for download if you need music, and bandcamp has a lot of niece artists you can support.
Listen to music without a screen

These are the things that reduced my screentime

Computers :: I migrated all my self-hosted services to FreeBSD :: Author zonk

no_email@example.com (zonk) — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:28:26 +0000

and I could not be happier!

I wrote an article about it on my blog. If you're interested in doing the same, I'm happy to offer advice and answer questions!

Computers :: Tips you would give Linux newbies :: Author PossiblyAxolotl

no_email@example.com (PossiblyAxolotl) — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 07:57:18 +0000

Hey everyone hi! I'm working on a little tutorial for switching to Linux since that seems topical and I want to try to do it in a format that's super quick and easy to watch, while not being too overwhelming. I was wondering, what are some comments, thoughts, or tips you would give to someone considering, in the process of, or post installing Linux? Trying to think of some things that may be important to bring up, especially small things that may not have crossed my mind since I've been using Linux for a little bit. Thanks!

Computers :: Re: Tips you would give Linux newbies :: Reply by zonk

no_email@example.com (zonk) — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:49:56 +0000

I've been using Linux as a daily driver for 11 years now, so I am quite out of touch with what a newbie would be running into, since things have improved dramatically on the desktop scene in that time. I think probably the biggest concept shift for people switching from Windows that's still relevant is the package manager. Windows users are used to searching the web for download links, and that's just not really how it works on Linux. You really should download software from the package manager because it has been vetted by your distro maintainers to work on your system, patched if necessary, and is cryptographically secured so you can make sure you are downloading it from a trusted source.

Computers :: Re: Tips you would give Linux newbies :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 01:45:48 +0000

I agree with @zonk that emphasizing the package manager is helpful. You could say that instead of downloading apps from the developer's website, you get it from your computer's "app store."

Something else you could mention is that nowadays you can do almost everything you need without the command prompt if you pick the right distro. Most people just need a browser to do what they need to do, and many apps in Flathub or in a distro's repo will take care of their needs.

Along those lines, new users may have to look for alternatives for the apps they used if they're not available on Linux. Sometimes it takes a real alternative, like needing GIMP to cover for Photoshop or DaVinci Resolve instead of Final Cut Pro. However, sometimes there are web apps that can still work well! For example, if you're used to Microsoft 365, the web apps have actually gotten very close to the native experience. As someone who works with Excel regularly I can speak from experience.

You may want to give some recommended distros for people to get started with. Linux Mint and Ubuntu are common recommendations. I would also recommend Fedora, though they may need to do some tinkering under the hood if they run into a driver they need or something like that. You may want to talk about the main distros that are out there (Debian, Arch, and Fedora) and then speak to how most distros are slight tweaks to these. That way they don't feel as though all of these distros they will come across are extremely different from each other. It's like, if you want to explore a bunch of distros, have fun with it, but if it's overwhelming just remember that there are all basically the same thing.

Another thing to consider is desktop environments. Just like with distros, you could talk about some of the options out there, but maybe bring it back to just GNOME and KDE as the main options to consider. Yes they're the most popular, but they're also the best supported from a community and technical standpoint, especially when it comes to things like Wayland. I think sticking to these two will give a new person the best chance of success (with the exception of Linux Mint's use of Cinnamon.)

I guess the last thing I'll recommend is distros to choose from. I mentioned a few already, but I'll pitch the Universal Blue family of custom images - Bazzite, Bluefin, and Aurora. These are images that are designed for people who don't want to bother with the ugly side of Linux and they work to solve lots of problems on the front end. Bazzite in particular is making the rounds among tech youtubers - some who have used Linux before and some who haven't - with success. These are new projects compared to Linux Mint and Ubuntu, so that's why I want to highlight them as good options even though Linux veterans may not think to mention them. Links below if you want to look into them more!

https://bazzite.gg
https://projectbluefin.io
https://getaurora.dev/en
https://universal-blue.org

Computers :: Re: Tips you would give Linux newbies :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:00:40 +0000

Many Good Points already Mentioned. I would say for the Initial Linux pick focus more on the Desktop Environment than the Distro (Families). As that's what the People are actually using. Because when it comes to the Day to day use of Linux the Distro really doesn't matter.
Beyond that I would recommend explaining the "App Store" and the use of Flatpaks and System Packages. Maybe give some App Recommendations to give the People a Jumping of Point, like LibreOffice/OnlyOffice or Thunderbird, etc.

The Atomic Distros, @CitricScion has mentioned. I would recommend them only if the Person doesn't use the Computer in a more extensive Fashion at all, what I mean with that is to use a Browser, E-Mail Client and Word Processor. Nothing more extravagant. They are purpose Built and beyond that it can be hard to make them do what you want to do with it.

Computers :: Using arch btw :: Author CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 01:41:07 +0000

@PossiblyAxolotl it was cool reading your blog post on installing Arch for the first time! How has it been? Do you still see yourself sticking with Arch on that machine or somewhere else?

I've thought about installing Arch at some point, but I still get intimidated. Even when you learn how to install Linux, that's still very different from installing Arch or similar distros.

Anyone else use Arch? How long have you been using it? What do you like about it? What unique thing have you done with your system? I guess we can make this the Arch love thread lol

Blog post: https://blog.possiblyaxolotl.com/2025/0 ... -arch-btw/

Computers :: Re: Using arch btw :: Reply by PossiblyAxolotl

no_email@example.com (PossiblyAxolotl) — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 07:51:29 +0000

It's honestly overall been the most reliable distro I've used, and I weirdly really like getting a very barebones distro where I assemble all the tools I use on it. I think I will still stick with Arch for the forseeable future, as I also want to get into ricing the Niri wayland compositor and some other stuff. I actually just now had my first "Arch Linux moment" where I updated and then suddenly my internet connection was gone, but I worked through it and am probably gonna blog about it tomorrow lol. I am also curious about bare Debian as I've almost exclusively used Debian based distros prior to trying Arch and it seems fairly barebones and customizable compared to something more common like Mint or Ubuntu, but for now I'm happy just messing with it in virtual machines and pretty happy with my current setup overall. It's definitely easier to install and also comes pretty empty, and I noticed that in the installer they actually give you the choice of what desktop environment you want with it which I think is really neat.

Computers :: Re: Using arch btw :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 01:11:13 +0000

How did you prepare for installing Arch? Did you just follow the wiki and work with any recommendations there, or did you need to have a list of what exactly you wanted beforehand for anything that needed to be done before you're done installing?

Computers :: Re: Using arch btw :: Reply by PossiblyAxolotl

no_email@example.com (PossiblyAxolotl) — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 01:51:31 +0000

CitricScion wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:11 am How did you prepare for installing Arch? Did you just follow the wiki and work with any recommendations there, or did you need to have a list of what exactly you wanted beforehand for anything that needed to be done before you're done installing?

I didn't really have much of a plan, I just knew I wanted to install KDE Plasma and followed the wiki, and gradually over time I've been installing more stuff as needed like printer drivers and that.

Computers :: Re: Using arch btw :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 09:04:58 +0000

I have been a long time Arch user. The Installation Process, as long as you don't try something Funky, is actually fairly Straight forward and well Documented on the Arch Wiki. So trying it isn't too difficult, and you learn some neat things that will help you save your System when it fails.

My Personal Experience with Arch has been really Good, my PC installation is currently 1 Year Old, and has been running really well. But I have a tendency to reinstall my System regularly. But what I like about Arch is the expansive Repository, and the Bare-bones Nature, which gave ample Opportunity to build my OS the way I want it. So give it a try and on your Journey will teach you many things that are interesting.

Computers :: Re: Using arch btw :: Reply by Fireye

no_email@example.com (Fireye) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:57:29 +0000

Arch linux is great! been using it for a bit more than a year or so and a couple breaking updates aside, it's been awesome. The flexibility and customizability is unparalelled, and I love how well it's propelled me into involving myself in various open source communities.

I do find myself looking at nixos pretty frequently though, as I really love how reproducable environments are over there, which comes in super handy for handling programming projects without using virtual environments or conda-like tools, as well as duplicating system state between computers, which will come in super handy when i make edits or install something on my laptop and want to duplicate them to my desktop. Even more impressively, the nix package repository is bigger than the AUR which is straight up bonkers lmao (https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/total). Further, the one problem i've had with arch, that being the breaking updates every once in a while, is completely remedied on nix, due to its central versioning system which by default doesn't actually enable the system upgrades unless the whole upgrade process went well, and also keeps old snapshots of your system (which is pretty storage trivial, as the system is represented in one central config file), which allows you to revert state and fix problems from a functional OS rather than the broken one.

Switching over is gonna be a pain in the ass though so I'm probably gonna wait haha.

What is everyone runnning though? Here's what I have currently:

Arch,
Niri WM (xwayland satellite breaks a bit more than standard xwayland but gamescope and xwayland-run work fine as workarounds),
Custom vertical waybar,
pretty vanilla tofi runner,
kitty terminal emulator (thinking about swapping sometime lemme know if anyone has suggestions!),
mako for notifs,
tuned-adm for performance/battery tuning (over power-profiles daemon as it's more customizable https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentatio ... -tuned_adm)
and here are a few common apps i'm running: btop for system stats, spotify-player for music (hoping to get a media server working soon but I have to get my self hosted vpn up first gah), gurk for signal, nvim for text editing and programming IDE (using lazy vim as a base right now, but I hear lunar is good too).

Gaming :: Re: Game development on simple programs :: Reply by cl0ud

no_email@example.com (cl0ud) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:07:28 +0000

This brings me back a little. A couple years back there was this really simplistic game maker program for android that I used, before knowing a lick of programming. It was called Sketch Nation: Create.
It was very limited. You had certain game "presets", like you could make a platformer, a bullet hell style thing, a match-3 game etc. I think there were eight-or-so presets total.
Either way it was pretty cool. You made your own assets, customized the objectives and so on. People made some cool little games with their own little stories and objectives.

I looked into it a year or two ago and, iirc, it's not on the android store anymore but the apk can be found on sketchy apk hosting websites.
It's not very good. WAY more limiting that something even as simple as Scratch, but I'd probably recommend Sketch Nation to a complete beginner before having them try Scratch.

Sorry if this was a bit off-topic haha.

Gaming :: Anyone here into Kenshi? :: Author cl0ud

no_email@example.com (cl0ud) — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:40:01 +0000

I discovered Kenshi idk how many months ago and have fallen in love with it.

Currently doing a run that has been solo until very recently when I got 2 other dudes in my squad. My main guy is a martial arts powerhouse that takes many enemies out with ease and he's run around the entire map basically so he's also fast as fuck lol

Gaming :: Re: Anyone here into Kenshi? :: Reply by fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 02:56:03 +0000

I haven't heard of this game before but looking it up it really intrigues me. Seems like it takes after those kinds of immersive sim titles. I'm actually really interested in this, I think I'm gonna have to check it out... I love how dirty it looks, haha

Gaming :: Re: Anyone here into Kenshi? :: Reply by Linkard

no_email@example.com (Linkard) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 09:19:44 +0000

I LOVE Kenshi. Started playing it years ago (2018-2019).

Fun fact : for a while, I believe it was the largest static video game map ever, meaning it was the largest map in a game that didn't have aspect of it that was randomly generated (like for Daggerfall). The entire surface area is about the size of Basse-Terre Island (which is insanely big for a video game map).

I personally never messed with the base building mechanic (never liked that kind of stuff), but I also know that there's a lot to that. The game is just so good at letting you mess, which always leads to memorable scenarios and stories. I'm very likely to play Kenshi 2 when it comes out.

Gaming :: Re: Anyone here into Kenshi? :: Reply by cl0ud

no_email@example.com (cl0ud) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:16:05 +0000

Yeah, Kenshi is great

Also I found this amazing kenshi wallpaper, on wallhaven, made by someone going by "agnafrei" (or just posted by agnafrei but made by someone else, idk hopefully I'm crediting the artist)

I wish there were more Kenshi wallpapers the game is so beautiful I wanna have a piece of it on my screen at all times

Gaming :: Re: controllers :: Reply by fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 03:40:21 +0000

One of my favorite gifts I ever got was a controller! It's a big pink Switch pro controller that's cat themed! It's pink and white with little ears, and a face and whiskers on the front, and even has these little claws on those bottom handles. The ears light up when you turn it on and it's adorable! And, of course, it didn't even get past my Switch's home menu, because the drift was so bad it rendered it useless, so now it's become part of the weird trinkets I have sitting on my desk.
I also have this pretty Xbox controller that's black with a deep turquoise glossy fade on it. I use it for everything. However, I REALLY want to feel the shape of a Gamecube controller. That big green A button is so enticing...

Gaming :: Re: controllers :: Reply by Pearlple

no_email@example.com (Pearlple) — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:49:26 +0000

I use the oldschool Steam controller, the discontinued one with two touchpads and only one stick. It's the only controller I ever had that feels comfortable in my comically large hands, even for longer gaming sessions. After setting up compatibility features for various other control schemes I never had any trouble with it and it has native mouse control support as well.
Even though I never had any issues with it in ~7 years, I got myself a second one from ebay, just in case.

Gaming :: Hero of Law - a Legend of Zelda / Phoenix Wright crossover rom hack! :: Author zonk

no_email@example.com (zonk) — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:11:05 +0000

Hero of Law is a crossover mod for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time that puts Link into the shoes of a defence attorney!

I stumbled upon it in my feed yesterday. It seems to be quite a new rom hack. I've only seen the beginning but it is very silly and seems super fun.

Gaming :: Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 (and friends) :: Author fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 23:06:04 +0000

Me and my partner really like shooter games, just cause they're fun to play when done well. Lately, I've been thinking a lot about them, and remembering one of my childhood favorites I really miss playing, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. It's such a special game that, for all its flaws, has a lot of charm packed into it that I think made it an extremely valuable title to have in my early life, because it really taught me the beauty of style and personality in artistic works. The first game was also especially interesting to me, with its weirdly dark and gritty appearance and all. The gameplay was fun, though, it was honestly balanced pretty well. And then Battle for Neighborville came out and slapped the previous game across the face but I won't go into detail about THAT
I'm wondering if anyone else played these games and liked them as much as I still do!

Gaming :: Luanti (open source Minecraft) :: Author CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:55:26 +0000

Luanti (formerly Minetest)

An open source voxel game engine. Play one of our many games, mod a game to your liking, make your own game, or play on a multiplayer server.

Available for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and Android.

I feel like this crew would appreciate this since we value ownership and privacy. The community has made several games, but I think that the Minecraft clones like VoxeLibra and Mineclonia are the most popular. Look, it's not as good or polished as Minecraft, but I think it has charm and potential, and it feels awesome to play something that feels like old school Minecraft while being totally free of the Big Tech ecosystem Minecraft exists within.

https://www.luanti.org

PS - I'm not dunking on Minecraft, btw. I love that game and I think Mojang do a good job.

Gaming :: Re: Luanti (open source Minecraft) :: Reply by zonk

no_email@example.com (zonk) — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:11:26 +0000

I fixed a couple of bugs myself in Voxelibre (back when it was called mineclone2). It's a pretty good clone. Me and some friends played it for quite a while.

Gaming :: Re: Luanti (open source Minecraft) :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:55:11 +0000

Ha, I downloaded Minetest again just yesterday to occupy myself while at the hotel for the night. My repository offers v0·4·17·1. Unfortunately for me, my exploring was dampened by the facts that it is too dark to see anything at night, I cannot make charcoal for torches in the familiar way and /settime seems to fail for me. Would anybody know how to activate these commands in single-player survival mode?
(Just after writing this post, I answered my questions myself. In the advanced settings, any desired command should be added to ‘standard privileges’, or rather German Standardpriviligen; I do not know how it is in English. Alas, the base game does not feature charcoal, although there are mods to include it.)

Gaming :: Re: Luanti (open source Minecraft) :: Reply by zonk

no_email@example.com (zonk) — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:38:31 +0000

Yes, Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an engine before it is a game. The base game is called "Minetest game" and is basically there as a proof of concept for the core engine. It is meant to be modded or completely replaced, hence the Minecraft clones like Voxelibre.

Gaming :: Re: Luanti (open source Minecraft) :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:45:21 +0000

@zonk awesome, my suspision was even more right than I realized. Thanks for your contributions!

Yeah, when I tried the regular Minetest Game I couldn't stick around for that long. A friend had us try MeseCraft I think but that was also too different for me to figure it out.

Now in my second pass at trying the game I tried VoxeLibre and Mineclonia and it helps so much. Yes, they are Minecraft clones, but they don't feel exactly the same. If anything they feel closer to Minecraft 1.8 or 1.12, but it's a vibe. Really, it helps to have the quality of life features like shift clicking and knowing how to craft basic things. Makes it easier to get into. Now I am more comfortable exploring different features or game modes than I was before.

Gaming :: Re: Luanti (open source Minecraft) :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:42:20 +0000

In my opinion, Minetest v4 suffices already. It resembles Minecraft Classic, which I am old enough to remember. There is no need for mobs (I always played in Peaceful mode) or whatever has accreted onto Minecraft in the years since 2010. This is a sandbox. The player has blocks and can play as he wishes, but he must think of ideas for himself.

Gaming :: Re: Luanti (open source Minecraft) :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 01:57:00 +0000

I totally vibe with that, but I also like all of the neat things people have done with Minecraft. I love the latest versions of Minecraft, I love the older versions, I dig Hypixel and Wynncraft and the modded servers too. I was looking forward to Hytale as well before the unfortunate news of its cancellation (let's see if it comes back.)

What I appreciate about Luanti is that it made me realize that Minecraft is part of a game genre, which is to say that the core ideas it brings aren't owned by Microsoft. For as much as I like Mojang, I like knowing that the type of video game I love is not owned in its entirety by a big tech company.

Gaming :: Re: Luanti (open source Minecraft) :: Reply by two_dogs_in_love

no_email@example.com (two_dogs_in_love) — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:49:57 +0000

This is cool! Any suggestions as to servers?

Music Players :: Re: any good cheap mp3 players :: Reply by Phantasma

no_email@example.com (Phantasma) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:34:32 +0000

I bought this as a gift for my partner (I own an iPod classic and wanted to give a similar experience to what I have, but iPods are EXPENSIVE)

So I went ahead and bought search online and stumbled across the Ruizu Clip (www.ruizutek.com/x52-53929.html)

I tried it a bit, it supports FLAC. But it also has amazing features like radio FM and external micro SD support. It’s worth the look and the price. I hope you enjoy it if you get it!

Music Players :: Re: iPod pics! :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:56:56 +0000

Just repaired my Fathers old iPod, new Battery and SD Card Storage. And wrote an entire Program to Automatically Sync my Music and Podcasts on to the iPod when I plug it in to my Computer.

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Music Players :: Re: FiiO Echo Mini :: Reply by zirosi

no_email@example.com (zirosi) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:25:09 +0000

PossiblyAxolotl wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 9:26 pm I've been wanting to get a dedicated mp3 player of sorts for a while. I was gonna repair my iPod but it genuinely would cost so much with each upgrade and shipping to Canada that it didn't seem financially viable. I also really don't want one of those Android ones that's basically just a phone with an SD card slot and bigger audio jacks cause I want a dedicated music device that just plays the mp3s I give it. No more than that. I just recently found out about the FiiO Echo Mini which I ordered today and am super excited to try out when it arrives. It costed me $60 CAD with the nice welcome discount AliExpress gave me (yes FiiO officially sells their products on AliExpress) which is significantly cheaper than the literal hundreds of dollars it would cost to add some features to an iPod like bluetooth + new battery + upgraded storage. Thoughts on this lil thing? I'm pretty hopeful for it when it arrives, I've heard good things about FiiO overall. Some of the main criticism I've heard is just that you can't use Apple Music and other streaming with it but I never expected that. I've been building up a bit of a Bandcamp library and even have some CDs now. I'll be back here once it arrives to give a little update on it

That seems to me like a modern iPod (almost) and I have been looking for how to fix my iPod and it has been like 6+ months I've been trying to fix it, but at this point I was just looking for inexpensive music players. So, I will check that out. Hope you enjoy it

Music Players :: Re: FiiO Echo Mini :: Reply by PossiblyAxolotl

no_email@example.com (PossiblyAxolotl) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:06:51 +0000

I've had it for a short bit now so I thought I'd give an update!

It's a very cool device, good audio quality coming out of the 3.5mm jack (I haven't tried the bal output cause I don't have anything that plugs in) and as mp3's I can fit my whole music library so far on the device's built-in storage. It's also got a very nice UI that receives occasional firmware updates you install by dropping a file in the disk and restarting it. I actually just installed the newest one that came out earlier this month and it adds some new system themes besides the default dark and light which is very nice. It did mess up my music library, but pressing the rescan button fixed everything. Just a little software bug from installation.

I do have some gripes with it, though. The main one being with how it lists songs. When you play a song it shows the name, artist, cover, and all that from the file metadata. When you are looking through the song list, it just shows the filename minus the extension. I ended up deleting a lot of stuff from the filenames to make it so I can actually read the song titles, and ended up going with the format of "SONGNUMBER SONGTITLE" since that's the format Bandcamp files use, but shortened. I wrote a little script that lets me convert all files in a folder matching the same structure to a shortened one like "tv room - The Big Big Deal - 02 So Beautiful" -> "02 So Beautiful". I just tested it and it and you don't actually need the numbers there. Despite the fact that it displays songs based on filename, it still sorts songs in order based on position in the album. I will be removing numbers from all my filenames from now on. I also think that at times the ui can feel slightly slow, but it's also in part due to the fact that it has to take a few ms to load in all the song titles when you select a menu. The Bluetooth is also not the best, like, some songs genuinely sound like that one video with the rotating fish, so don't get it just for Bluetooth. Despite these flaws, it's still a really nice device, feels solid even though it also feels very light, and still very usable.

I also got a case for it as I realized it could get scratched up and that also came with a screen protector, so it's looking like a pretty solid little thing I can carry with me.

Music Players :: Re: FiiO Echo Mini :: Reply by PossiblyAxolotl

no_email@example.com (PossiblyAxolotl) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:12:13 +0000

Also, these are the scripts I use to remove the file prefix stuff. I didn't want to include this in the main "review" post:

Code: Select all

#!/bin/bash

for file in "$1"*;
	do mv "$file" "${file#$1}";
done;

To remove prefix, do the command: /path/to/file.sh "file prefix - "

Code: Select all

for f in *.mp3;
	do mv "$f" "${f#?? }";
done

Then just run this (can be done as one line in the terminal) to remove the number part. One line ver:
for f in *.mp3; do mv "$f" "${f#?? }"; done

Music Players :: Re: FiiO Echo Mini, a cool retro-modern porable MP3 player :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:35:23 +0000

PossiblyAxolotl wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 6:12 am Also, these are the scripts I use to remove the file prefix stuff. I didn't want to include this in the main "review" post:
Code: Select all
#!/bin/bash

for file in "$1"*;
	do mv "$file" "${file#$1}";
done;
To remove prefix, do the command: /path/to/file.sh "file prefix - "
Code: Select all
for f in *.mp3;
	do mv "$f" "${f#?? }";
done
Then just run this (can be done as one line in the terminal) to remove the number part. One line ver:
for f in *.mp3; do mv "$f" "${f#?? }"; done

There is a tool I can recommend called Musicbrainz Picard which is open source and can sort your Music in customized Fashion, while also being able to add missing Metadata to songs. It uses for that the Musicbrainz DB which is also Open.

Music Players :: Re: FiiO Echo Mini, a cool retro-modern porable MP3 player :: Reply by Fireye

no_email@example.com (Fireye) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:27:08 +0000

Ooh this is a neat convo! I've been looking at ditching Spotify recently in favor of actually owning my music, but my main problem at the moment is synchronization, in that I just want my music files to be added in one central self hosted media server then have my devices query that server when I tell them to. That probably locks me out of a lot of these dedicated MP3 players which is a shame, as many support Bluetooth and could probably do this if only their operating systems supported it.

Regardless, I also recently saw that the vorbis (.ogg) file format (the open source alternative) generally outperforms MP3 in terms of audio quality at the same compression size, or allows smaller compression at equal audio quality, which was super neat, as all I wasn't aware of other formats beforehand, let alone open source options.

Music Players :: Re: FiiO Echo Mini, a cool retro-modern porable MP3 player :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:19:25 +0000

Fireye wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 5:27 pm Ooh this is a neat convo! I've been looking at ditching Spotify recently in favor of actually owning my music, but my main problem at the moment is synchronization, in that I just want my music files to be added in one central self hosted media server then have my devices query that server when I tell them to. That probably locks me out of a lot of these dedicated MP3 players which is a shame, as many support Bluetooth and could probably do this if only their operating systems supported it.

Regardless, I also recently saw that the vorbis (.ogg) file format (the open source alternative) generally outperforms MP3 in terms of audio quality at the same compression size, or allows smaller compression at equal audio quality, which was super neat, as all I wasn't aware of other formats beforehand, let alone open source options.

So for Media Server I can recommend Jellyfin for general media Streaming and for Music specific I would recommend a Subsonic Server implementation. Both have a nice suite of Apps that People made to use them.

But I personally don't do it that way and rather have a Syncthing setup that sync my Music Folder across all my Devices so I can use whatever App as the Files are local.

I heard that Vorbis is pretty good, but haven't looked into Audio Codecs really that much. I tend to try to get my Music in FLAC or WAV which I then convert to FLAC, to get the best Audio Possible. As the Storage Consumption is still not to major.
I have around 230 Songs as FLAC in my Library, and it only uses around 7G. Which is a lot for just Audio Files, but considering that it is Lossless I can justify it.

Music Players :: Re: FiiO Echo Mini, a cool retro-modern porable MP3 player :: Reply by Fireye

no_email@example.com (Fireye) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:14:12 +0000

Syncing is probably the way I'll go as well with music anyway. I'm all open source these days, so syncthing certainly looks worth a star, thanks for the rec!

FLAC is certainly the way to go if size isn't a concern. If I recall correctly it's also foss & made by the same group as vorbis (xiph.org), which is pretty neat! If you are opting for a compressed format though I definitely recommend vorbis! I use it in game audio tracks & in publishing my music to my website both of which are more size sensitive than standard use. Honestly I should be taking more advantage of FLAC otherwise though; I just get a bit space paranoid every now and then XD

Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:23:30 +0000

Well it's a Cloud based Analytics Platform, I am always a bit skeptical of them. The Insight they Provide is valuable to the Website owner but can also vary easily breach the Terms of Privacy first Design. Especially if they share Visitor Data between Customers. Which can be used to create a big inferred Data Network about everyone who has Visited your site.

Cloudflare, as Maestro mentioned already, has many Issues. While my experience with their Services isn't Bad. I have a heard a lot of Horror Story's with Customer Support and Marketing Departments. So I be careful to use them.

Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:10:18 +0000

As an alternative, I think the best examples of captchas for ensuring all and only natural persons may access the site are those which appear on DuckDuckGo and Xcancel when JavaScript and cookies are disabled. The first requires selecting three pictures of ducks from a grid of nine, as in the picture. The other resembles a traditional site captcha in reading numbers from an image, where the numbers are a one-time password generated by means unknown to me. The only fault in them which I could imagine is that I do not know how they would treat the blind. Many sites have also lately implemented Anubis. While it still requires scripts and cookies, it is, at least, far less intrusive than Cloudflare.

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Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:47:46 +0000

Mæstro wrote: Sat Jun 21, 2025 3:55 pm As an alternative, I think the best examples of captchas for ensuring all and only natural persons may access the site are those which appear on DuckDuckGo and Xcancel when JavaScript and cookies are disabled. The first requires selecting three pictures of ducks from a grid of nine. (I will update this post with an example when the site next demands it.) The other resembles a traditional site captcha in reading numbers from an image, where the numbers are a one-time password generated by means unknown to me. The only fault in them which I could imagine is that I do not know how they would treat the blind. Many sites have also lately implemented Anubis. While it still requires scripts and cookies, it is, at least, far less intrusive than Cloudflare.

Anubis isnt really a Captcha System, it only makes it harder and therefor more expensive to visit your Website. Harder meaning in Resources not in actual effort on the User Side. It's more there to prevent continues Scrapes of your pages. By making the Computer that is scrapping you do some hard Math.

Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:14:10 +0000

Because I disable cookies by default, I can attest that Anubis denies rejected users access and is therefore a proper captcha, even if it requires no user input. It does not merely punish scrapers the way that an email server punishes spammers by tolling the client’s processor whenever a message is sent.

Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:23:11 +0000

Mæstro wrote: Sun Jun 22, 2025 2:14 pm Because I disable cookies by default, I can attest that Anubis denies rejected users access and is therefore a proper captcha, even if it requires no user input. It does not merely punish scrapers the way that an email server punishes spammers by tolling the client’s processor whenever a message is sent.

Cookies don't determine if smth is a Captcha. Anubis blocks Connections that couldn't execute the Proof of Work or which don't have Cookie Capabilities. Regardless of it being a Bot or a Human. But that doesn't make it a Captcha. That is only a Feature Requirement. A Captcha does require a form of Human Interaction, like a Text you have to type in or as simple as Clicking a Check Mark. The goal of a Captcha is to determine if smth is a Bot and, if set to do so, block it.
At least in my Interpretation of what a Captcha is.

Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:21:56 +0000

Crazyroostereye wrote: Sun Jun 22, 2025 9:23 pm Cookies don't determine if smth is a Captcha.

Verb sap. The full argument is as follows: Anubis blocks traffic to those whom it denies, its behaviour towards cookieless browsers serving as evidence of this.

Different sources give slightly different definitions on whether human interaction is necessary, or are vague enough that it is unclear whether a user or his computer must complete the challenge. (My usual dictionary, Collins, defines ‘captcha’ narrowly enough to exclude this site’s registration form’s.) The word’s coiners define it as ‘a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot.’ Anubis’ hashing tests do this. In my case, activating cookies is a manual process, so it is a captcha in your sense also.

Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:23:43 +0000

You make a Good Point.

But In the Definition of Collins and the word's coiners its goal is to determine if a Connection is from a Human or a Bot. Anubis doesn't, nor it tries to determine if a Connection is Human or Bot. It just sets a Requirement your Browser has to meet and requires you to do a Calculation.

Mæstro wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 10:21 am ‘a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot.’

This is also not the case with the Proof or Work test that Anubis Presents, as Computers are the only ones that can preform the Calculations in a timely manner.
The way Anubis works is by making Hard to Compute calculation that the Computer has to preform, which its intent is to increase the Computing bill of Bot Networks that access the Website frequently.

Online Privacy :: Re: Cloudflare Web Analytics :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:23:10 +0000

Now, this is more interesting than bickering over the real definition of captcha.
For my part, I would define captcha as software intended to filter online requests so only those by natural persons succeed.

Crazyroostereye wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:23 am Anubis doesn't [determine if a Connection is from a Human or a Bot], nor it tries to determine if a Connection is Human or Bot.

I think this is false, for Anubis itself and its official documentation state otherwise. Anubis’ official instance introduces itself to users as ‘making sure you’re not a bot’, as shown in the attached screenshot. The readme describes Anubis as a firewall and an alternative to Cloudflare, an unambiguous captcha (where ticking a box is the challenge), which is why I had brought it up in the first place. The developer’s explanation states that Anubis is intended to block scrapers, although it does so by testing features.

]Computers are the only ones that can preform the Calculations in a timely manner.

This is literally true, and when I spoke of vagueness in my post, this is what I had in mind. Anubis says on the official instance if cookies are blocked that it ‘requires cookies [for] making sure you are a valid client’. ‘Client’ can refer just as well to the end user himself or the computer which he uses to access the server. The user, not the computer, is reading the message, but Anubis tests the computer itself. None of the definitions I have found are pedantic enough to bother splitting this hair, so neither do I.

The way Anubis works is by making Hard to Compute calculation that the Computer has to preform, which its intent is to increase the Computing bill of Bot Networks that access the Website frequently.

It is true, from the the developer’s comments, that Anubis uses the same technology, that also in Hashcash, which is used (among other things) for punishing spambots, but from the above documentation, Anubis infers from the results whether to deny bot networks access. The readme also mentions that legitimate web crawlers will fail to index sites wielding Anubis, which would not happen if it only tolled the user’s processor like some antispam measures.

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Online Privacy :: The fun new world of surveillance pricing :: Author rejectconvenience

no_email@example.com (rejectconvenience) — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 02:38:21 +0000

Cara Nicole just made a fantastic video on the topic. I am surprised I had no idea this was a thing, but all these privacy policies are starting to make a lot more sense...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmlwDVDNEQc

Online Privacy :: Re: The fun new world of surveillance pricing :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:50:48 +0000

This reel is weakened by so many concessions to disturbing practises, eg asserting that facial recognition software is legitimate to ‘detect shoplifters’ or offer targeted discounts, until the cat is let out of the bag about 7′50″. I will not turn this post into a political discussion, but it suffices to say that this leaves a rather lukewarm taste in my mouth.
On surveillance pricing in general, I recall CGP Grey mentioning this practise in two casual asides (19″ and 1′1″) in 2017. How is it that knowledge of these practises is so slow to spread? This is not the only case; I recall Echelon appearing in children’s books in 2008, well before Snowden.

Online Privacy :: Re: The fun new world of surveillance pricing :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:25:05 +0000

In a book I am reading at the moment, "Die Daten, die ich rief: Wie wir unsere Freiheit an Großkonzerne verkaufen" (eng.: The Data I Called: How We Sell Our Freedom to Big Corporations). From a German Data Privacy Activist, has a segment talking about how Data is being collected from Surveillance Capitalism but also for the spying over the Employees and some examples that happened here in Germany and the US. If you are able to read German it's a great read. With also some extremes she said could happen, that have now become true. As the Book was written back in 2017.

Online Privacy :: The closing circle of privacy :: Author CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:07:09 +0000

Over the past couple of days I've really been feeling how digital privacy is being slowly lost. I try to do what I can to preserve my privacy in a reasonable way, based on my threat model, but it sometimes I feel the sacrifice. And it comes up even in small things.

For example, I tried moving most of my text communications to Signal. That didn't go very far. So then I tried getting everyone to use WhatsApp since there was a high likelihood most of my contacts use that. WhatsApp has worked out where I can actually get a response from folks. So far so good, right?

Well, I know that most of these folks would prefer to use iMessage. I use Android so the experience isn't the same, but at least it would stay in the main app they use. They don't like to use WhatsApp, sometimes to the point of texting me rather than messaging via WhatsApp (this is not across the board, just in some circumstances). Then sometimes I will try holding conversations over WhatsApp but they're somewhat limited.

In the back of my mind I have the sneaking suspicion that if I just texted people that I would not be having these problems. In effect there is friction in maintaining a relationship with me just because I'm using another app. That's sad for me because all I'm trying to do is use something that's a little more private.

But it gets worse than that. Recently I tried going back to Instagram to share some specific stories. I started following a bunch of folks who I know in real life or knew at one point. There they all are. I joined the party! I could keep up with what they're doing, they're proactively messaging me, I can see their stories and they can see mine. And so can Meta. I found the place where everyone chooses to live and share their lives, and it's on a platform that takes advantage of them for simply wanting to connect with others.

To be clear, Meta is at fault here. It is Meta that is taking advantage of their users by spying on them and manipulating their emotions with algorithms. However, emotionally, as a dude who just wants to connect with his friends, it's frustrating to see them having a party where the entry fee is my privacy - a party that many times could literally be happening on Signal based on the ways many of them use Instagram! It's frustrating to have basic pathways to connection be locked behind exploitative gates while the people who are inside could leave at any time. It makes me feel like I have to choose between connection and privacy.

I don't see this problem going away. I'm trying to find solutions. Lots of folks are feeling lonely nowadays, and I'm a little upset to feel like I am exacerbating my own problem just because I don't want a company or the government to be able to listen to my every conversation.

Online Privacy :: Re: The closing circle of privacy :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:10:03 +0000

CitricScion wrote: Wed Jul 02, 2025 1:07 am For example, I tried moving most of my text communications to Signal. That didn't go very far. So then I tried getting everyone to use WhatsApp since there was a high likelihood most of my contacts use that. WhatsApp has worked out where I can actually get a response from folks.

This is curious to me. Why had they refused to move to Signal, and why had they accepted WhatsApp?

In the back of my mind I have the sneaking suspicion that if I just texted people that I would not be having these problems. In effect there is friction in maintaining a relationship with me just because I'm using another app.

I prefer to speak of necessary or sufficient conditions for events than causes. (My formal background in pure mathematics is showing here.) Your wish to avoid needless surveillance does not suffice on its own to introduce friction. It is also necessary that they do not switch for there to be any, and there are further conditions which (they believe) suffice for them to refuse to switch.

That's sad for me because all I'm trying to do is use something that's a little more private… It's frustrating to have basic pathways to connection be locked behind exploitative gates while the people who are inside could leave at any time.

As my own commentary on escaping Discord shows, I know how it is, even if my case is far milder than yours. (As an aside, I hope to update this community on my progress in about a week.)

I'm a little upset to feel like I am exacerbating my own problem just because I don't want a company or the government to be able to listen to my every conversation.

To be clear, you are not making your own problems worse by seeking that others respect your human rights. Rather, you are trying to mend a grave problem you already suffer. You are acting neither in malice nor negligence towards yourself or others. How, then, can you be blamed?

Online Privacy :: Re: The closing circle of privacy :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:39:12 +0000

I appreciate the sympathy. It's tough because, as you say, moving to Signal would benefit not only me, but the other person as well. But alas the opportunities aren't open today.

The reason that people do use WhatsApp but don't use Signal is because many of them already have WhatsApp installed. Where I live in the US WhatsApp is not the default messenger at all, but it is used for family and community members who are outside of the US, and then for group chats in many cases since iMessage group chats with Android users were bad for so long. Most of my contacts already had WhatsApp as a secondary messenger already installed, so all I had to do was start pinging them from there instead of texting.

To make Signal happen, I would have to convince people to download the app and then remember to use it when we're messaging. In the brief time I had a handful of people using it, it was common for folks to forget and just text me rather than use Signal. Even now I will sometimes get a text instead of a message on WhatsApp, which I think shows how much friction there is to changing this.

Online Privacy :: How to grow and professionalize as an artist while moving away from Instagram :: Author Targa

no_email@example.com (Targa) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 02:03:38 +0000

I'm an artist, I make mostly abstract fineliner drawings and mandala's and I give mandala workshops every now and then. I'd love to grow and professionalize more and I feel like I need to grow my audience to do so. I've been on Instagram for a while now and slowly but steadily posting and growing.

Lately I've been taking my privacy more seriously and I feel uneasy sticking to a platform like Instagram. So I'd love to hear your thoughts on (some of) the following points!

- Is moving away from Instagram feasible for smaller artists?
- I'm thinking of hosting a portfolio website, with a blog/exhibition section and a mailing list for friends/family/interested people. Thoughts? Do these things actually get traffic?
- I'm also thinking of ways to keep things more IRL, like talking to my local community center and library for example, if they would be willing to hang something there or put my stuff in a folder.

I'd love to hear what you think, extra points if you're experienced with this yourself! ❤

Online Privacy :: Re: How to grow and professionalize as an artist while moving away from Instagram :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:45:53 +0000

I don't have direct experience with promoting art, but I do have ideas for what you can do for marketing.

First, there are other social media platforms that you can be on. For the mainstream platforms, I figure Pinterest and Reddit could be good options to explore if you're not already. Then there are the "new" decentralized platforms of Bluesky and Mastodon. Bluesky in particular has millions of users already and because it's built on an open protocol there are even apps in development that will replicate the experience of other platforms, like Spark for the IG experience. Mastodon has Pixelfed as well. The social web is growing!

Regarding the blog and mailing list, those are also valuable. From what I understand, newsletters have become popular ways of staying connected to people or organizations you like. By having a nice website/blog you give yourself a polished space to show off your work that gives you much more creative freedom to sell folks on your art than what you can do through a social media profile.

In both cases you are taking more ownership of the relationship between you and your audience. In the base of Bluesky and Mastodon, no one can take those platforms from you because they're open. No one can take away the following you have worked hard to build. In the case of your own website, no one can take that away from you. It's an online page you own where you can share whatever you want. Not only are taking back privacy for yourself with these options - you are also giving your audience an opportunity to preserve theirs and taking back our shared open spaces.

That said, I wouldn't say that you should delete your IG in favor of these options only. You want to start building these up and see how the business grows. If they hopefully prove their value over time then you are spreading your risk so that you aren't entirely dependent on Instagram. If that platform goes away, people have other ways to reach, you have direct ways to reach them, and you might all just move to one of the healthier platforms.

Lastly, I don't know how effect in-person stuff would be, but I think it could be good from a marketing perspective, and it's a based thing to do.

Good luck!

Online Privacy :: Re: How to grow and professionalize as an artist while moving away from Instagram :: Reply by Targa

no_email@example.com (Targa) — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:15:20 +0000

Thank you so much for your in-depth response! I'm definitely seeing lots of value in your way to phrase it, to claim ownership of the relationship I'd be building. I'm also coming to terms that it's probably not great to get rid of Instagram immediately, rather to build up my presence elsewhere and eventually, once Instagram has become one of the media where I have presence, I can let it go.

Online Privacy :: Re: How to grow and professionalize as an artist while moving away from Instagram :: Reply by Fireye

no_email@example.com (Fireye) — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:26:43 +0000

The approach that I'm moving towards is a central post on my own website that then automatically replicates onto any number of other social media sites automatically. This is known as POSSE (publish on own site, syndicate elsewhere). Here's a good article on it, but you can find good stuff on it everywhere. https://indieweb.org/POSSE

The benefits of this type of approach are that you're able to distance yourself from these social media sites, while also leveraging their large userbases and increased capacity for exposure.
You also own the central post, so individual sites can't just remove it because they feel like it. Additionally you can link back to this central post on your website in order to start gathering your community off these sites and onto one that you directly control.

Online Privacy :: Re: How to grow and professionalize as an artist while moving away from Instagram :: Reply by Targa

no_email@example.com (Targa) — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:53:11 +0000

Ooo great read, thanks. I wonder how the back linking would work on instagram since you can't link in post descriptions. Maybe just a link to site in bio.

I'm definitely going to work out some version of this once I finish up my portfolio website. Which I definitely started working on already

Other Tech :: Re: RSS Readers? :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 05:02:19 +0000

I use feeder for android on my shoephone. Its available in the f-droid store.
Its a very simple, and non intrusive. I havent used it in a while, but now i'm started to using it again.

Oh yeah its open-source as well, you can find the source code over here: https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder

Other Tech :: Re: I'm considering renting a server :: Reply by Davidmenk321

no_email@example.com (Davidmenk321) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:17:24 +0000

Haha, been there! I started with Raspberry Pis too—felt like I was running NASA on a toaster . If you're serious about hosting stuff like Nextcloud, Minecraft, or your own mini-Twitter, you’ll want something beefier. I stumbled on HostNoc(server provider) while hunting for the best server deals, and honestly, for the price, it felt like I was robbing them (legally, of course). Way better than selling a kidney to afford some other hosts. Definitely worth a look before you marry Hetzner !

Other Tech :: Re: I'm considering renting a server :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:44:13 +0000

I used my raspberry pi for my nextcloud too.

I'm in the progress of migrating everything from YunoHost to HestiaCP. Currently i moved from a 120GB SSD to a 2TB HDD i had lying around. But as you have guessed, it doesnt really work out yet. SO i ordered a external NVMe SSD for it (Samsung T7, 2TB). Hope that will up the performance.

But anyway. I dont like YunoHost. It worked fine for my nextcloud, but thats it. I tried hosting my website on it, but its very restricted in what you can do. (no custom robots.txt, 404 pages etc. Unless you change the whole server configuration) This is the reason i migrated to HestiaCP.

Other Tech :: Amazon One??? Is nothing sacred??? :: Author inconveniencecurious

no_email@example.com (inconveniencecurious) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:17:39 +0000

I've had quite a few medical visits as of late, and they keep pushing me to use Amazon One. Basically it uses biometrics to do quicker signins. They've said I could opt out and I do, but how did we as a society let this happen?

1. Why do we think it's ok that Amazon would have access to our biometrics like that?
2. Why do we think it's ok that Amazon would have access to our medical history like that????

I'm sorry, it feels all too dystopian.

Has anyone else seen this?

Other Tech :: Re: Amazon One??? Is nothing sacred??? :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:51:15 +0000

I haven't seen that in particular, but I have noticed Amazon's entry into the healthcare market. I also don't like. It's not just that they're providing a pharmacy, as other companies have done like grocery chains and Walmart. They want to be like your one stop shop for healthcare and it feels gross.

Tech News :: Ed Zitron's (AI critic) newsletter :: Author CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 01:55:54 +0000

In the last couple of months I came across Ed Zitron who seems to be one of the few AI critics who is actually following the news and reporting on the unsustainability of AI. I don't necessarily want to assume that everyone on this forum is against AI, but if you're looking for a strong critique of the technology and what will happen with the industry in the short term, I think he's a valuable voice to have in the mix.

One of his latest articles is titled thusly: Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis. He's a big brain boy.

The newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at

Tech News :: Re: Ed Zitron's (AI critic) newsletter :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:42:30 +0000

I am categorically against I have variously heard described as a compost heap of linear algebra, a very lucky paper shredder or, most recently, a ‘recycled mashup of Reddit threads and Hallmark leftovers’. The privacy implications are obvious; how they plagiarise in mass and launder social biases is well known. The technology has no reason to exist, except perhaps demonstrating to those who would otherwise miss the point that the Turing test and behaviourism in general are worthless, and I only wish some country or other would ban it firmly to prove to everyone else that something can be done about it. Zitron’s diagnosis is correct. The profit motive and the work ethic are evil and corrupt anything they touch. The cruellest, most miserable souls I have ever met have been, without exception, those who actually believe in scarcity, opportunity cost and the other premises of orthodox economics. Meanness is no way to organise the world.

Tech News :: Re: Ed Zitron's (AI critic) newsletter :: Reply by Monoki

no_email@example.com (Monoki) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:08:56 +0000

CitricScion wrote: Sat Jul 12, 2025 1:55 am In the last couple of months I came across Ed Zitron who seems to be one of the few AI critics who is actually following the news and reporting on the unsustainability of AI. I don't necessarily want to assume that everyone on this forum is against AI, but if you're looking for a strong critique of the technology and what will happen with the industry in the short term, I think he's a valuable voice to have in the mix.

One of his latest articles is titled thusly: Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis. He's a big brain boy.

The newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at

I’m definitely critical of AI and its use in my own right. On the one hand, it is a neat toy. On the other, I fail to see its benefits for the long term. I read an article yesterday on the matter and in many ways it sums up my feelings on the matter.

Tech News :: Re: Ed Zitron's (AI critic) newsletter :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:31:57 +0000

Describing it as a toy is apt; that's how I feel as well. Literally, it's like the digital equivalent of a fidget spinner that I mess around with when I need a break from what I'm working on sometimes. And even then it could disappear tomorrow and it would have no affect on me.

I will be curious to see how AI continues after the bubble bursts. This technology has existed for a while, and it gets globbed together to with other areas like machine learning which have been helpful. I guess something will continue afterwards, but hopefully folks will treat as the niche tool that it is rather than insisting that it be used for everything.

Tech News :: Re: Ed Zitron's (AI critic) newsletter :: Reply by Monoki

no_email@example.com (Monoki) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:48:34 +0000

CitricScion wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 1:31 am I will be curious to see how AI continues after the bubble bursts. This technology has existed for a while, and it gets globbed together to with other areas like machine learning which have been helpful. I guess something will continue afterwards, but hopefully folks will treat as the niche tool that it is rather than insisting that it be used for everything.

I definitely hope so. Though I do expect for a little while, it’s going to be pushed into anything and everything until the bubble bursts. And thus continuing to push us into an ever accelerating lifestyle I don’t think we’re meant to sustain.

I haven’t really found much of a good use for myself to be honest. For art, music, etc I prefer doing it by my own hand. It’s more rewarding that way even if it might not be the most “profitable” monetarily speaking. Research is the same.
I’ve thought about getting a local model and maybe playing with that. Maybe play a TTRPG with it occasionally or something. Treat it like a pet . But not much else.

Art :: Some silly creature designs :: Author fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:55:04 +0000

Been having a game idea in the works recently, and I've been mapping it out before I actually start. It's about inanimate object-based creatures, themed around collecting them and such. Here's three I like, named Carghost, Aeghiss, and Tyrantula (that name's my favorite).

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Let me know if you have ideas/criticisms of the designs! I'd love to improve them all further.

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Art :: Re: Some silly creature designs :: Reply by DedRoll

no_email@example.com (DedRoll) — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:54:49 +0000

Cool idea!

I have this idea of stapler creature because it already look menacing lol

Art :: Re: Some silly creature designs :: Reply by fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:32:11 +0000

DedRoll wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 10:54 pm Cool idea!

I have this idea of stapler creature because it already look menacing lol

Oh you are so right. That HAS to be in it. I can't not.

Art :: Re: Some silly creature designs :: Reply by SapphireFire

no_email@example.com (SapphireFire) — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:55:38 +0000

I love the color choices you've made here. Very vibrant with lots of contrast!

Art :: Re: Some silly creature designs :: Reply by Speb

no_email@example.com (Speb) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:35:37 +0000

Big fan of the second two, better designs than most recent Pokémon

Art :: Re: Some silly creature designs :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:42:34 +0000

Super cool designs! I agree with the pokemon similarity, though I don't know if that's intentional.

Movies and TV :: Everythig Glitch Productions pushes out :: Author Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:00:06 +0000

I just wanted to leave a general Appreciation and Discussion Topic open for Glitch Productions and all they make.
I find the Animations they push out are unique and the Story's entertaining. As a big fan of Animation, I really like the fact that Glitch is showing you can succeed in Indie Animation, and how they try to push the whole Community to the Front with things like GlitchX, or they're Partnership with Lackadaisy.

I'm in general a big fan of all they're Shows they have Produced. And can't wait to see what Knights Of Guinevere will bring especially because it's made by Dana Terrace and other The Owl House alumni.

Movies and TV :: Re: Everythig Glitch Productions pushes out :: Reply by fitsoab

no_email@example.com (fitsoab) — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:48:21 +0000

Being totally honest, I'm not always huge on most of Glitch Productions' stuff, but I don't care much because the studio is suuuuper important to indie animation as a whole. It's really, really nice to see something like them, dedicated to bringing artists' visions to life and all. I don't think I can stress enough to anyone just how special it is, and how much hope it gives me for the future of animated shows on the internet. I really hope Glitch gets to stay around for a long time and continue finding success.

Also I do really like the Gaslight District pilot. The Knights teaser interests me a ton, I can't wait to see more of that.

Movies and TV :: Avatar: The Legend of Aang (2005–08) :: Author Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:30:52 +0000

After seeing somebody named ‘Sapphire Fire’ here, I knew I was not the only enthusiast on this board. I watched the series as a child when it was first airing. At first, I was too young to recognise that the series was ongoing and therefore supposed that, when gur Rnegu Xvatqbz sryy at the end of Book Two, that was simply the end; this misconception was put to rest when I followed Book Three as it released, day by day. I recall obtaining many of the trading cards which had been released for it (but not the mat or anything else needed actually to play), the PSP game, three of the worldbuilding books and even a plush Appa which, I think, is somewhere in my closet to this day. I never knew about the comics as a child and lost interest in Korra while the first series was airing, but I had stayed in the cinema far longer than I should have in the vain hope that the film would improve. I watched the original series again a year ago, renewing my interest in it. I have not written fanfiction or anything like this, but I have speculated privately about subjects like how substances like wood ought to be interpreted through the four elements, leading me to read a fair deal from academic and primary sources on the history of chemistry. I have also been able to enjoy private discussions with friends who were either too old or young to watch when the series was new. How have you enjoyed the crown jewel of US American animation over the years?

Movies and TV :: Re: Avatar: The Legend of Aang (2005–08) :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 17:55:45 +0000

It was also broadcasted on Dutch television, with dutch localization.
I watched the series on Nickelodeon, well actually my younger sister did.
I loved the show too.

Movies and TV :: Re: Avatar: The Legend of Aang (2005–08) :: Reply by Crazyroostereye

no_email@example.com (Crazyroostereye) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:37:11 +0000

Similar here to, I watched it on German TV with localization which probably broke a couple of the Jokes. I do rewatch the show every now and then in English or German depending on how I feel like. I think the last time was in 2023. I also watched Korra all the way through when it was airing, but I do agree It didn't hock me as much as the Original Series did. But I didn't find it bad, just not as good as the Original.

There wasn't a Store, at least I didn't see one, that carried Avatar Merchandise back then so I never got some. Up until now I didn't even know they had Trading cards. But yeah its one of my all-time Favourite TV shows.

Movies and TV :: Re: Avatar: The Legend of Aang (2005–08) :: Reply by Mæstro

no_email@example.com (Mæstro) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:46:57 +0000

My father went on business trips to the USA often when I was a child, affording me access to much of the early merchandise which has been forgotten or neglected in later years. I do not think any jokes break when we recall the characters diagenetically speak Chinese with one another: any puns in the German or English versions are interpolations.

Movies and TV :: Re: Avatar: The Legend of Aang (2005–08) :: Reply by SapphireFire

no_email@example.com (SapphireFire) — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:05:32 +0000

Avatar the Last Airbender was peak! I too grew up watching it on TV but I still continue to rewatch and enjoy it as an adult. The themes and message of the original show really are timeless.

Music :: Re: What album is on repeat for you? :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:46:48 +0000

I've been listening to Ocean Deep by Arcologies lately. It's not on repeat, but it's definitely in the mix of albums I will listen to in the day. I tend not to listen to albums on repeat, but I will give an album one listen every day for a while. It's drum and bass I think is what it's called?

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list ... mb0ozDsY9A

Music :: Re: What album is on repeat for you? :: Reply by PossiblyAxolotl

no_email@example.com (PossiblyAxolotl) — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:59:00 +0000

For a while it was Neo Wax Bloom but right now I've been listening to Eat Your Dreams by Nelward since I got back into it a few days ago. Midi Bunny and om:eyes are also some I've been listening to a lot lately. Really, anything I own on Bandcamp is probably going around a lot since I started using an actual mp3 player.

Music :: Re: What album is on repeat for you? :: Reply by SapphireFire

no_email@example.com (SapphireFire) — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 02:23:54 +0000

Recently for me it's been Foxlore but my all time favorite is still Demon Days.

Music :: Re: What album is on repeat for you? :: Reply by two_dogs_in_love

no_email@example.com (two_dogs_in_love) — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 01:17:18 +0000

I don't have any albums on repeat right now, but I do have a few albums I keep coming back to:
Seen Comin' From a Mighty Eye Folk / rock / indie
Music For Nine Post Cards Ambient
Elephant Eyelash Trip-hop??
King Cobra Experimental/political/rap

Music :: Re: Dungeon Synth 101 Reading List? :: Reply by two_dogs_in_love

no_email@example.com (two_dogs_in_love) — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 01:30:34 +0000

I'm no dungeon synth expert but I know what I like, I listen to Fief, 1381, and I'm obsessed with Jim Kirkwood

I would also check out this profile Bandcamp did: https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/dungeon-synth-list

Gardening :: My garden :: Author BellanaBanana

no_email@example.com (BellanaBanana) — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 04:07:53 +0000

I show a pineapple plant in my next post.

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Gardening :: Re: My garden :: Reply by BellanaBanana

no_email@example.com (BellanaBanana) — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 03:08:43 +0000

My pineapple plant image.

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Gardening :: Re: My garden :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 02:04:46 +0000

Pine-A-pple! Pine-A-pple! Pine-A-pple! Nice garden! How long have you been gardening?

Gardening :: Re: My garden :: Reply by BellanaBanana

no_email@example.com (BellanaBanana) — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 04:03:22 +0000

Well that plant is 3 years old, I have been gardening most my life on and off.

Gardening :: Re: My garden :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:36:05 +0000

Wow, that's wild. I've only recently starting gardening. Half by necessity and half to see how far it goes. I hope to make it three years with any plant!

Gardening :: Re: My garden :: Reply by rejectconvenience

no_email@example.com (rejectconvenience) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:55:01 +0000

I LOVE THIS!!! Look at all these happy plants I tried to do a pineapple a couple years ago, it didn't end up enjoying the move very much. I very much plan to try again in the future!

Other :: Re: test :: Reply by Rain

no_email@example.com (Rain) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:28:50 +0000

test

Other :: Re: test :: Reply by loebas

no_email@example.com (loebas) — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 05:20:22 +0000

I see exactly what video that is

Other :: Re: Ihop or Dennyś :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 01:58:04 +0000

First Watch. But for sentimental reasons, IHOP.

Other :: Re: Bullet Journaling & Fountain Pens :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 02:10:52 +0000

I don't do bullet journaling today, but I love it! I have tried using it as my main task management system in the past, but what I have found is that it's helpful for figuring out my ideal system which I then recreate in Todoist. The friction of having to go find a physical notebook to run my life is helpful for focus, but once I land on the system I want to use it becomes more trouble than it's worth.

However, I do love knowing that an analog system exists. It gives me piece of mind that I don't HAVE to use my phone in order to get things done. I'm someone who needed to engage with task management deeply just to handle basic responsibilities, so I'm glad that if push comes to shove I am not tethered to a service or device in order to keep trucking alone.

Other :: What do you think about the loneliness epidemic? :: Author CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 02:18:36 +0000

I've been thinking about this as a topic because it tends to come up a lot online. From some I have heard the idea that there isn't really a epidemic going on, male or otherwise, and I think I'm amenable to that view. However I have heard from others online or in person that they do think many people feel lonely nowadays, themselves included. I haven't landed on any firm theories, observations, or solutions, but I figured I'd beg the question to see what more people think.

Other :: Re: What do you think about the loneliness epidemic? :: Reply by Cobra!

no_email@example.com (Cobra!) — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 23:46:57 +0000

I can only speak for myself, but I used to feel very lonely in my 20s because there wasn't any reason for me to go out. Covid happened around the same time as my uni graduation so there weren't any job prospects for me... I hate drinking or doing any "normie" hobbies, so I was stuck in my house with only the internet for social interactions.

This all changed when someone I knew opened a new geek club full of video games, computers, board games etc. It proved to be a great way for me to go out and socialise with people and I even met my now girlfriend, with whom I'm in a very happy relationship!

If my experiences are anything to go by, I think it's to do with people of non-mainstream tastes not having anything to do outside of home or work. They lack a 3rd place to socialise with people.

Could also be that people, like past me, desperately wanted a relationship and feel nothing less than that will cure their loneliness, but it was when I accepted the idea of never meeting anyone that I made some great friends, and funnily enough actually found a relationship to be in. Even without that relationship I'd have still felt fulfilled.

Other :: Re: What do you think about the loneliness epidemic? :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:15:49 +0000

That's a really good point about folks with certain interests not having an in-person space to share those interests. It makes me think about how much easier a time I have connecting with people in a forum, Discord server, or Minecraft server than I can IRL. Nerds don't have the convenience of a sports bar or something like that to meet. Not to mention the fact that we're more likely to be introverted.

How did the club you attended start? How did it grow over time? Is it still going?

Other :: Re: What do you think about the loneliness epidemic? :: Reply by Cobra!

no_email@example.com (Cobra!) — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 23:46:10 +0000

CitricScion wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 5:15 pm How did the club you attended start? How did it grow over time? Is it still going?

I just saw a meetup on meetup.com that it was opening and I knew the person opening it, so started attending. I enjoyed it so got a paid membership, and met a girl, and we ended up like liking each-other.

It's still going. I, my gf, and a bunch of friends go to visit twice a week. Playing games, watching films and just chatting.

Other :: Re: What do you think about the loneliness epidemic? :: Reply by SapphireFire

no_email@example.com (SapphireFire) — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:13:42 +0000

I believe the loneliness epidemic is very real. Socializing is a muscle, and with Covid-19 and the loss of third spaces that muscle, for a lot of people, has atrophied. Understandably so too. Even if you're fortunate enough to have some sort of third space close to you that doesn't cost a fortune to frequently go to, the thought of getting back out there and exercising that muscle again can feel daunting. There is much less effort, resistance, and/or conflict, involved in simply tapping onto social media and scrolling endlessly through short form content.

And I think we see the effects of this in people beyond just the feelings of loneliness. It feels like people have have become meaner, more impatient, and more self centered. Whether this is a result of the current political climate, just the place I live, or some other factor, it seems that we all to some extent just forgot how to interact with each other.

Fortunately though this is a very solvable problem. Like any other muscle, socialization can be built back up with regular exercise. Using social media less, talking to your neighbors, starting a new hobby, chatting with strangers, and showing others kindness are all good ways to start to feel less isolated.

I believe the loneliness epidemic is very real, but I also believe that our muscles are slowly healing.

Other :: Re: What do you think about the loneliness epidemic? :: Reply by CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:12:51 +0000

@SapphireFire what a great summary of what's going on. While I think folks have been feeling like this for a while and I do think COVID exasperated things, I think it has a lot more to do with the existence of the internet and our naive understanding how to balance that with real life connection. Couple that with the algorithmic spaces that have intentionally sought to monopolize our every waking moment and you get something that's very hard to compete against when you don't know what you should be doing.

You say that our socializing muscle has atrophied and I agree. I would go a step further and say that we have forgotten how to contribute and be part of community since 2000. There have been more reasons to be closed off and we didn't realize that we were forgetting how important community is. But I also agree, or at least hope, that people are beginning to realize this. My hope is that we are beginning to realize that we need to actively rebuild communities in person, as well as continuing to mature online communities.

@Cobra! thanks for the MeetUp suggestion. Just found a Linux User Group that meets in my area apparently!

Feedback :: Still needing to manually approve new accounts? :: Author CitricScion

no_email@example.com (CitricScion) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:56:49 +0000

I noticed that the May 4 update about having to manually approve new accounts hasn't changed. Is that still an issue?

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