Yep eventually in the deGoogle quest you just reach a point where you’re like “Well I guess I’m just not using that app anymore. Time to hit up AlternativeTo.net”

I got it working on Wine eventually but I do recall having to hunt down instructions for the terminal so it would properly read my USB port. It was definitely confusing, and I’m glad I won’t have to remember all the steps again.

As soon as that news came down I immediately went to my extension and turned off auto-updates. Glad I did now!

I’m glad I got one when they came out. It’s not an OLED screen but that’s okay. I don’t use it as my primary gaming vehicle anyway. Feel bad for folks who didn’t snag one then and want one now though.

Decent write-up, thanks for sharing. I’m probably never going to buy one of these myself but I’m still interested in seeing how the product performs.

Feels like the setup to a round of “Name that dystopian sci-fi novel!”

Never noticed/thought about this, is Lady having coffee out of that saucer?

A lot of people can get used to it. I actually can’t sleep without it now, and I use the full face model. It’s almost comforting now. That said, some people truly cannot get used to a full face mask. If it’s an option, they do make nasal masks (only covers your nose) and nasal pillows (kind of just rests under your nose.)

I’ve heard there are even more cutting edge options out there but I never looked into them since I’m fine with what I have, but it’s definitely worth doing some research about. Quality sleep really can be life changing if it’s achievable.

Very thought out write-up! I generally use Freetube, as I’m primarily a desktop user, but since it’s been down, I learned how to use yt-dlp, and picked up some GUIs that sit on it to try out. It’s been a little surreal watching everything as a self contained file, but almost nostalgic in a way too.

That said, I look forward to when things get patched up on the Freetube front.

I remember MUDs! I played Achaea!

When I was a young teen, I loved collecting MIDIs because I didn’t have a good way of getting music in other formats–I still had dial up, and didn’t know about other methods. Plus I mostly enjoyed songs from video games. There was one I found that had a very enchanting melody and I loved it to death. Kept it on its own special floppy disk. Inevitably, it got lost and I never could remember the name of the song or what game it came from. I did search but not knowing either of those things, and it being only a melody with no lyrics, made it difficult to find. Then, one day, while listening on Spotify, it just magically appeared.

Sora from Escaflowne :)

Between that, this, and Disney+ cancellation page “accidentally” going down during that fiasco, this is exactly why I’ve switched to using only virtual cards for subscriptions. Pause/Cancel the virtual card, voila, no more subscription.

Heck I live in a moderately sized town and the library is a 10-15 minute walk away.

Here’s a documentary about it! https://youtu.be/H7lWCqbgQnU

This feels like a Brian Morabito short haha.

Anecdotally, I only keep services that require an account to get past the landing page on my VPS. (I’m very new to self hosting and haven’t figured out ways to stop bots/scrapers yet.) So I think if nothing else, that’s a pretty easy starting point.

Didn’t IHOP do something similar by claiming that they were going to change their name to IHOB?

“IHOb also issued a press release about the change and still used the original “IHOP” in its footer, suggesting the switch was a temporary promotion.”

Seems so. Source.

Well, this abstract says it’s about 20% effective over not advertising but this is a meta analysis and isn’t focused exclusively on internet ads.

The baked in biases being that the authors are “a German chaired professor of marketing at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany” and his research assistant.

Android only? Desktop client stopped working last night. Did you do anything special?

Ahh, Manna.