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2026-10-15 20:02:03 UTC

Wait, @nprofile…60xv on Android works with Chrome extensions now? This is FANTASTIC.

2026-08-30 23:08:12 UTC

I used to have a website where I’d showcase photos I’d taken that I was particularly pleased with. Might trawl through the archives and get something like that going again and maybe encourage myself to take more such photos when the time and energy grants ^_^

2026-08-04 20:07:13 UTC

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@nprofile…ggeh Seems simple , no??

2026-08-04 20:02:48 UTC

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@nprofile…ggeh patreon and similar does seem like the least-bad route currently. YouTube sucks in a great many ways, I can only manage to do anything with it with severe ad blocks - not because I don’t want those making the videos to be supported but because it’s functionally near impossible for to get around the place otherwise.
Man I miss mid-late-90s internet.

2026-08-04 19:53:26 UTC

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@nprofile…ggeh I’ve heard it said you can get more or less the “premium” experience by using Brave as your browser, even on mobile. Just be sure to disable its crypto tomfoolery.

2026-07-23 18:16:12 UTC

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@nprofile…05fn I never played the N64 take on Tetris.. thinking I'll have to check it out!

2026-07-13 21:54:26 UTC

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@nprofile…ryua if it transpires it can be done to Ahmed it can be done to anyone. Horrifying.

2026-07-09 18:39:11 UTC

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@nprofile…hqk5 unrelated..? Clonezilla makes one big-ass image file, so might be possible? Mind you not worth risking any of the bytes having already been used again..

2026-07-09 16:12:23 UTC

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@nprofile…hqk5 Huzzah! May the rips be accurate and the audio reproduction lossless ☺️

2026-07-08 15:08:40 UTC

Please send me your music recommendations! I like electronic music but I’ll gladly listen to absolutely anything. I’m mostly hoping to find some new contemporary artists / groups / bands to delve into ^_^

2026-07-07 11:38:50 UTC

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@nprofile…5y0h I arrived at the definition of what qualifies retro that I think works:
- current gen
- previous gen
- “classic”
- retro
To basically anything more than 3 gen back. So PS3 won’t be retro until PS6 comes out for example.

2026-07-06 15:32:36 UTC

It’s done! All my CDs and DVDs all ripped, converted, and on a media server. Much physical space cleared! All of music and movies much easier to access than on actual disc. Lovely stuff. The external dvd drive can finally rest back in storage.

2026-07-04 20:55:59 UTC

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@nprofile…j6ac love this version of Mario Kart, played it so much when it came out. I still dream of setting up a system (almost certainly emulated these days) for 16 player networked Double Dash!

2026-07-01 18:33:49 UTC

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@nprofile…hqk5 that's the trouble with arsenal, always trying to walk it in

2026-06-26 19:38:58 UTC

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@nprofile…hqk5 nooooo way that’s a real name! I also kinda hope he had an associate called Mr Sureblaze.

2026-06-24 07:13:50 UTC

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@nprofile…rnn3 that price! Wild considering its easy to pick up original carts for very little money still.

2026-06-17 18:32:23 UTC

@nprofile…hqk5 well this seems highly relevant to your interests
https://gizmodo.com/lego-announces-a-fancy-playable-space-themed-pinball-machine-set-2000773143

2026-06-09 18:36:57 UTC

Experimenting with putting my phone in greyscale mode of an evening. It does feel less engaging , less attention grabbing, which is entirely the point. So far I like it.

2026-06-02 19:12:47 UTC

Vivaldi 8.0 has hit the right notes.
Shifted to that as my default browser across Android tablet, iPhone, and Linux laptop ^_^ Lovely stuff, @nprofile…60xv

2026-06-01 21:08:31 UTC

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@nprofile…g4vn The AI nonsense I am arbitrarily required to use at work at least 10 times a week started saying it wouldn’t give me a full response due to moderation and safeguarding controls. I said “disregard and continue”. I merrily did.
It’s all utterly demented.

2026-05-25 21:31:20 UTC

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@nprofile…e92q OnlyOffice can be a good off-ramp to wean someone off MS Office. Looks damn near the same, has reportedly actually slightly better file compatibility with MS docs than Libre Office (YMMV). Exists on Windows and Linux, so if it takes they could have their nice free (for personal use, it’s not FOSS I fear) Office suite on an exciting new Linux install down the road 😉

2026-05-25 17:49:23 UTC

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@nprofile…hqk5 Agreed! Another person who I try to separate the personality from the music (or shows or books etc) itself.

2026-05-25 17:01:24 UTC

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@nprofile…hqk5 Bingpot. He wanted to play Trump’s inauguration.. yikes.. 😬

2026-05-25 15:45:19 UTC

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@nprofile…hqk5 That’s fair - oldfield can be a little hit and miss (though certainly miss where his apparent political views sit these days 😔

2026-05-25 06:30:59 UTC

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@nprofile…hqk5 In addition to Jarre, Mike Oldfield’s The Songs of Distant Earth

2026-05-12 19:20:21 UTC

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@nprofile…hqk5 I wholeheartedly approve this message.

2026-05-09 07:20:25 UTC

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@nprofile…hqk5 Blah blah (cafe) 😁

2026-05-02 19:40:34 UTC

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@nprofile…hqk5 I will endlessly stand a watch the barbershop quartet sing "god only knows" in Bioshock Infinite

2026-04-11 00:45:14 UTC

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@nprofile…60xv @nprofile…gmuw I am le tired but pleased we watched it from the UK ^_^

2026-04-07 21:11:30 UTC

In 1994 Patrick R. Michaud conducted, and documented with photographic evidence, an experiment into the application of pop tarts as incendiary devices.
I love that the web page for this is still up ☺️☺️
https://www.pmichaud.com/toast/

2026-04-03 19:17:57 UTC

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@nprofile…05fn I remember being warned off Street Fighter 2 for the GB. I suspect that was sound advice. I ended up with a SNES a little later anyway ^_^
That said Mortal Kombat 4 on the GBC wasn’t entirely terrible.

2026-03-28 20:58:59 UTC

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@nprofile…zut6 @nprofile…pnmk For my admittedly meagre self-hosting needs (immich, paperless ngx, Plex / jellyfin, audiobookshelf used by me and one other person) I like dusting off 8-10 year old "high spec", for the time, laptops then chucking Mint on them and letting them fly ^_^

2026-03-05 16:26:48 UTC

Never underestimate the power of a new screen protector and case to give you that “new phone” feeling.

2026-03-02 20:36:54 UTC

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@nprofile…kdr8 @nprofile…mk4p what’s it called? ChatMP3

2026-02-22 22:27:33 UTC

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@nprofile…e92q Worth a punt! They have an active and helpful Discord (assuming your on discord and that it hasn't yet accused you of being a child 😑) should questions or queries arise ^_^

2026-02-22 21:40:22 UTC

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@nprofile…e92q I did add my pre-immich stuff. It's self-hosted so just made sure my existing archive drive was mounted for its Docker image and away it goes.
Immich does a great job of face recognition, processing metadata, and making that all easily searchable and easy to work with.
It took my laptop a few days for Immich to process a roughly 400gb existing archive, but once done it's been plain sailing.

2026-02-22 19:36:28 UTC

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@nprofile…e92q I’ve had a lot of success with a self-hosted (via docker) Immich installation.

2026-02-20 18:48:11 UTC

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@nprofile…e92q @nprofile…npc0 Installing on parents devices is genuinely high praise. I’ll pop it back on my list of options! My iPhone 13 has a few years in it yet, no plans to replace the hardware until I need to but if graphene remains I can see me picking up a compatible refurbed Pixel and giving it a spin ^_^

2026-02-20 18:46:36 UTC

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@nprofile…ml9f It’s shouting into the wind, I appreciate, but the simple rule should be that any *actual* journalist just shouldn’t use AI. At all. Ever. At least not for anything relating to an article.
I remember being at uni in 2000 and watching the journalism course student and dreading for the state of News once they were in charge. Now they are, and I was right to worry.

2026-02-20 18:43:03 UTC

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@nprofile…e92q @nprofile…npc0 A pixel 7 pro will be plenty powerful enough for general usage for a good few years yet. Graphene does look interesting to me but I’m at a point in life that I need a stable system. I don’t have the luxury of rolling an alternative ROM and spending the evening tinkering to resolve some oddball issue (as much as a genuinely used to enjoy doing so).
Would love to see a viable alternative shake up Google and Apple.

2026-02-20 18:35:58 UTC

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@nprofile…e92q @nprofile…npc0 as long as AOSP exists a lot of niche devices will be OK, even if they roll without formal Play Store support.
But it’s troubling nonetheless. I’m on iOS currently (no loyalty to it) but don’t like where it’s going. Not keen on where Android is going. But, realistically, I do “need” my banking app among other things and it’s a real gamble for how that works on degoogled forks or Linux alts via Waydroid.
Interesting times for sure.. 😔

2026-02-04 20:20:19 UTC

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series is SO GOOD. I’m a couple of parts in to the 3rd book now. It slowly builds up a growing and convincing world (well, galaxy) and makes me care about what’s going on.
Also, without spoilers, I enjoy that two of the earth ships are called Gilgamesh and Enkidu ^_^
Hoping my library gets the audiobook of the 4th in the series due out this year.
#bookstodon

2026-01-27 23:11:18 UTC

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@nprofile…ml9f it’s an approach that appears to be working very well for Vivaldi.

2026-01-17 17:40:47 UTC

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@nprofile…wtal Batocera has been great when I’ve played with it in the past. It’s perhaps a tiny bit fiddly to get set up (a few nuances really need you to SSH in or get command line up) but a lot really just does work “out of the box”.

2026-01-17 16:23:47 UTC

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@nprofile…hqk5 that’s going to be a tough call.. 😅😂

2026-01-12 06:41:15 UTC

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@nprofile…tlrx depends on what we mean by crash maybe. I’ve had Windows crash plenty of times, Linux less so (purely in my experience, not meaning to discount yours). I’ve found Linux recovers well after a crash too, generally a quick reboot and I’m back on the go. Rare though, mostly had crashes as it turned out my SSD was failing.

2026-01-11 16:24:29 UTC

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@nprofile…tlrx @nprofile…npc0 I’m guessing you have some particular use-case it’s falling over on, which sucks. For the average, especially non-technical, person a stable distro like Mint is a solid long term option.

2025-10-27 20:28:02 UTC

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@nprofile…mssx Looks fantastic!

2025-10-23 21:27:18 UTC

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@nprofile…na88 @nprofile…ep96 totally! Nintendo just brought fantastic things to handheld every time. Though while I appreciate the Switch is technically handheld it’s lost the pocketable charm of the dedicated portables ^_^ still have plenty of love for the Switch, mind you

2025-10-20 17:16:35 UTC

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@nprofile…d9d3 I would hate to have critical infrastructure outside of my direct control. I understand the business appeal, it’s compelling, but it’s also shortsighted & yields control of key parts of your business to someone with almost zero interest in if you succeed or fail.

2025-10-07 17:16:33 UTC

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@nprofile…n7a3 Better than Tetris DS? High praise indeed! 😃

2025-06-07 09:07:59 UTC

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@nprofile…t2zk I hadn’t caught this - thanks for the heads up!!

2025-05-29 17:40:41 UTC

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@nprofile…t2zk I’m amazed Game are still functioning. They were making balls up after balls up when I worked there 20 odd years ago. Their trade *any* 4 games for any new game debacle was incredible, especially when we had pre-owned games people could by for a couple of quid then immediately trade them back in on this offer. Damn near bankrupted them 😆

2025-05-24 19:34:48 UTC

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@nprofile…4h6v If you've done 5 impossible things this morning why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways!

2025-05-23 21:08:45 UTC

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@nprofile…t2zk Surely you lie, good sir!!

2025-05-23 19:37:27 UTC

I don’t think port forwarding is working on my router. That or the IPv4 address reporting as “me” isn’t just me and the IPv6 address isn’t playing nice with SSH 🤔
#linux

2025-04-17 17:52:05 UTC

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@nprofile…k0gr
I find it hard to get into vertical tabs but logically they make sense. Our computer screens went wide for movie and TV content, but we don't do that as much on them now so the horizontal space is less useful. Might as well use some of it for tabs to free up the vertical screen space!

2025-04-04 20:13:54 UTC

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@nprofile…8nj8 @nprofile…5lc3 Not especially useful considering how much is would hallucinate and just straight up get wrong in such summaries.

2025-03-30 06:51:54 UTC

Happy Temporal Confusion Day to those who celebrate

2025-03-21 18:05:29 UTC

Let’s be honest, @nprofile…x9jw *did* feel kinda sluggish. Past tense deliberate. Version 7.2 absolutely RIPS along. Great work, team Vivaldi!

2025-03-15 15:16:35 UTC

@nprofile…sszg hi! Is there any way to set up filters / mail rules in roundcube, or anything else I can install, for email hosted with your excellent selves?

2025-03-11 15:53:30 UTC

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@nprofile…843t or.. Order pizza to make up the deficit.. 🍕

2025-03-02 14:32:01 UTC

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@nprofile…9agp do not touch? Boo! Arcade Club in Leeds have one of these up and running for all to get their hands all over to play 😁

2025-01-28 13:13:38 UTC

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@nprofile…lwgl every LLM is inherently biased based on both the views of the team behind it and the materials it’s trained on.
How we’re this far down the “AI” conversation with so many people choosing to disregard that is somewhat alarming.
Of course next up is some LLM aggregator that uses its own model to query all the others then patch together a response taking into account all replies.

2025-01-26 16:54:50 UTC

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@nprofile…843t definitely the sort of thing I’d love to read-along to ^_^

2025-01-26 16:53:06 UTC

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@nprofile…843t love it! Not in a position to participate right now so I won’t muddy the vote but I hope this takes off and I get join in when life affords the opportunity 😊😊

2025-01-17 08:41:19 UTC

“I was unable to leave the car until this phat drum and bass track finished” is as good a reason to be late as any

2025-01-13 23:23:32 UTC

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@nprofile…spn0 @nprofile…n9s2 @nprofile…asy0 Cool - maybe file a constructive bug then? @nprofile…asy0 is one guy making big things so perhaps we can be a little more supportive instead of looking for opportunities to tear him down

2025-01-13 20:07:58 UTC

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@nprofile…spn0 @nprofile…n9s2 @nprofile…asy0 Care to contribute your skills to help the platform? 😊

2025-01-10 21:41:16 UTC

Can anyone recommend a cloud storage service that I can get at least 2 accounts at 1TB each for around £80 annually and which has phone apps for photo backup?
Bonus if accessing and viewing said backed up photos is vaguely competent.

2025-01-07 20:28:15 UTC

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@nprofile…843t now THIS is pod racing!!
Feels like the start of something very very cool.

2025-01-01 13:25:47 UTC

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@nprofile…843t thrown that into Instapaper to read when I get a moment ^_^

2024-12-18 21:56:49 UTC

Bluesky is getting a little toxic around the edges with some dogpiles (from folk who used to *get* dogpiled.. the irony is lost on them) becoming nasty.
Here? Wholesome stories about the OLPC project.
I have more IRL friends on bsky but fedi really does feel much more friendly still.

2024-12-15 19:10:20 UTC

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@nprofile…er6e when the nuts spill in the shop and the guy cries “ROOOOACHEEEESS!” then the place empties in a flurry of panic while our Agent friends stand befuddled lol

2024-12-11 10:23:26 UTC

@nprofile…x9jw hi! Is sync down at the moment? Tried to log in with iPhone and iPad but both saying sync server is experiencing issues and neither prompting for my encryption password

2024-12-08 11:22:52 UTC

#Photo people of #Linux - does anyone have experience of the Epson FastFoto FF-680W on Linux? I’m looking at one and I’m running Linux Mint Mate.
#Photography

2024-11-19 22:44:56 UTC

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@nprofile…3s66 @nprofile…3x9q
I’ve got a good stash of Lego that will land in my small human’s hands once they’re old enough for it - Lego is expensive but fantastic value for money considering it just lasts and lasts. I’ll be happy with the duplo out for now, though we have been keen to reduce how many toys are out at once then cycle them now and then when boredom appears to creep in.
Thanks for the comment back ^_^

2024-11-19 14:33:13 UTC

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@nprofile…3s66 @nprofile…3x9q Honest question: does Lego count as one toy or many?

2024-11-19 11:43:25 UTC

If I was to create a character of a German baker I would call him Gluten Morgan.

2024-11-08 10:52:14 UTC

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@npub1h29…gq7w it's from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio play / book). "Belgium" is referred to as the worst most crass curse word that's only uttered by those with the most lose tongue and on Earth where they don't know what it means 🤣

2024-11-08 10:41:45 UTC

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@npub1h29…gq7w Belgium, man Belgium!! (Hoping that’s not going over everyone’s head lol)
Fab, thanks for the link!

2024-11-08 10:36:19 UTC

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@npub1h29…gq7w looks like a book right up my alley! Where did you pick up your copy from?

2024-10-28 08:04:44 UTC

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@npub1w9a…04m0 by someone involved in creating Lemmy - isn’t he a problematic tankie? Appreciate I’ve not look too closely so might just be picking up hearsay.
Still, the web is open and wonderful so this guy should be as free to create this project as we are free to criticise and mock it!

2024-09-07 14:01:01 UTC

So OneDrive sorts photos by file “created” date, not exif take-on date. Which is rubbish when I’ve just uploaded masses of older photos from my offline archive. Why is it SO SO HARD for photo services to get this *incredibly* simple and so very important bit right! #Photography

2024-08-29 14:34:15 UTC

@npub1n0m…z5ld hi! When connecting to Mullvad on my Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon laptop DNS no longer resolves. I can ping IP addresses but not domain names.
Tried using custom DNS and not, toggling DNS content blockers on and off, wireguard or OpenVPN - same result.
Any ideas where things are going wonky? Thank you :)

2024-08-02 20:46:34 UTC

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@npub1w9a…04m0
Fact checkers! 👏 Fact checkers! 👏 Fact checkers! 👏
For real though this is fascinating, I had no idea he was up to this.

2024-08-01 06:54:54 UTC

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@npub1x6a…d5cx **grumbles in Brexit**

2024-07-22 22:50:10 UTC

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@npub1up2…k6en oh man just missed out on that free modem offer!

2024-07-20 20:30:58 UTC

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@npub1afz…wdvg probably some BS attempt to show he can relate to the "everyman" - "food between bread, I eat that too peasents, I'm one of you!"

2024-06-29 07:29:22 UTC

It really is getting difficult to just have conversations and debates on here. It’s getting more and more like Birdsite each day which is vexing.
Last time I was commenting on a post with a clear “type” or following, this time it was on a post from a tech journalist and writer.. nowhere is safe from the weirdly angry crowd who just want to wind up strangers online!
Happy birthday to me, lol
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/112/698/721/367/134/291/original/e3334406ab844a12.png

2024-06-23 08:49:09 UTC

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@npub19lt…qfjk I’m a big fan of Octopus! My only criticism is that for such a technologically progressive company it’s kinda weird that they don’t have a mastodon / other open social network presence.

2024-06-21 17:47:27 UTC

There’s been attempts to get new Retro gaming forums going, but ultimately I think they struggle because it’s _another_ login to make & monitor etc..
So I propose this: a #RetroGaming email discussion list!
No new usernames or passwords required, no new places to monitor for goings on, it’s all in what you already have.
Fancy giving it a go? This is the sign-up link 😁👾🕹️
https://gaggle.email/join/retrotowers@gaggle.email

2024-06-05 16:42:41 UTC

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@npub1afz…wdvg I just asked it to make a country song about a chicken that saved the world. The initial results are far better than they have any right to be haha!

2024-06-01 10:06:44 UTC

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@npub1up2…k6en is that a MiniDisc drive? 😍

2024-05-31 16:16:11 UTC

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@npub1m9p…4fja rings a bell, I definitely feel like Ubuntu use to have this , unless I’ve Bearstein Beared that

2024-05-23 19:34:19 UTC

This article from @npub1jla…zr22 sums up exactly how I feel about email, all the more so now I’ve shifted over to my own domain to really “own” my email 😊
https://lifehacker.com/tech/email-is-the-best-social-network-now