I ended up on AnyType and still really like it.

It’s kind of open source even if not proper FOSS, it has effortless cloud sync on free accounts INCLUDING mobile apps, and it is focused on privacy and local first. Like I don’t think I have a login and password - there’s just a 12-word passphrase that gets generated on device and that lets me connect my other devices to my “account.”

I don’t think it directly stores things in plain text, but the interface makes it easy to use it as an organized pile text pages, because that’s what I usually want to do. You can of course export it as well.

What color are they now, what color are they now?

A fine pink mist, oh a fine pink mist!

normal people realizing he was never killed

Or normal people realizing the connection to Mossad and/or other state actors.

(I saw the account was faked, but I still think this would be much more significant than him being alive)

Oh good. I would hate to make it all the way to lunch time without being reminded that this country is run by mid popcorn movie villains.

This is not a complaint about the OP. This is a complaint about stupid evil people in positions of power, and their enablers.

When it comes to “traditionally geeky topics” I might have been looking for that stuff at most other points of my life. And if somebody gets into some dorky lore discussion on here today I might participate.

But for me, and I would wager it’s the same with MANY people on Lemmy, the last decade has made me very much not interested in filling my social interactions with banter about which billion-dollar global brands are the most dank.

As an example, I am still very interested in technology that I can learn about and do things with. I am very much not interested in products from tech companies.

Or in another area, I still have a soft spot for old Star Wars and especially Lucasarts games like TIE Figther and X-Wing Alliance. I will always keep my old copies of those and probably play them every several years. But I don’t even know what Star Wars content is in development right now.

We’ve had one, yes, but what about second genocide?

politicians argue “no one will want to be a cop if we hold them accountable for their actions.”

That sounds a lot like when they insist that nobody will ever innovate if they ever have to pay taxes when they get rich off their product.

Oh yeah agreed. Their role in the rat race makes up a significant part of their personal identity. That’s part of the design, to keep you focused on your consumption instead of your life.

I guess I should have referred to the noise as attention-grabbing things instead of serious things, lol.

I wonder, is hatred of advertising a common thing for folks with ADHD? They take away something you are giving your attention to because it interests you, and shove some other crap in your face just to serve their own interests.

I remember being enraged at the scheduled commercial breaks in the '80s and '90s. The only benefit they had was that I always knew which segment of the show I was in and therefore roughly what time it was.

But now? It is so much damn worse and the normies just seem more OK with it than ever. I just remind myself they are living in a society that conditions them to accept it and gives them a thousand more serious things to worry about.

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I like and appreciate the extras that physical albums bring, as well as the freedom and reliability of physical media.

But even as an old guy that’s all about connecting with the physical world and stimulating all the senses and all that, when it comes to the mechanisms of listening to music it’s hard to beat FLAC albums on the Jellyfin server. It takes up so little space.

Decades of indoctrination and conditioning is a hell of a drug.

The importance of open & interchangeable hardware and software goes way beyond the upgrades you may or may not make, or even saving money & reducing e-waste.

You get better products that way. Having complete control over your system benefits you even if you never exercise that control. It is literally a constraint on enshittification.

Getting jacked and reading old books are examples of hobbies. If these sound strange and foreign to you, you should look into them!

Hobbies are activities that you do because you want to, not because you are forced to. (Pause for fellow Americans to catch their breath…) Hobbies have the potential to help you enjoy life, to have something to look forward to, get excited about, and hopefully even improve yourself or broaden your horizons in some way.

You don’t have to make money at it. You don’t have to be “efficient” at it. You don’t even have to be any good! But if it’s something you care about, there’s a strong chance you’ll end up pretty good at it.

My example is along the lines of the meme of the linkedin profile that ends … -> Senior Architect at Microsoft -> Goose farmer.

I’m a middle aged computer nerd software engineer, typing this in LibreWolf on Linux. 100% on-brand Lemmy user, lol. But I am a science & nature nerd first, and I have a distinct memory of a divide in my high school science classes: I gravitated towards physics and especially electronics and mechanical design, and I really disliked studying chemistry. My chemistry teacher was awesome and shared lots of college stories to prepare us, and that left me notably terrified of organic chemistry on top of the general dislike.

So it might not be a surprise to find that I am into carpentry, woodworking, and home automation, given some of my past. And my love of animals has led to lots of pets, including a pond in the back yard. The surprise? I kinda fucking love organic chemistry as a hobby! What is your Oxidation-Reduction Potential, babyyy?

The funny thing is that the biggest practical benefit to most Linux users is not the access to do these things.

It is the secondary effects of not needing to restrict access in order to preserve lock-in and enshittification. It makes the whole user experience better because it is only doing wider you’ve asked it to do. For example, I apply updates more quickly on Linux than I ever did on Windows, even though my Linux DEs are way less pushy about it, because the process is an absolute breeze!

Look at each OS option like you were a product development team, and think “who are my stakeholders?”

The commercial products have long lists of what’s driving the product features and anti-features. Linux has the developers who want the code to be helpful and stay free, and the users who want it to do what it says on the tin, with the option to audit or modify the system’s code. But of course it’s still run by humans, so big personalities and bad actors and whatnot do affect things.

Me reacting to that statement 30 years ago: Yeah ok it’s the Illuminati controlling the world and doing evil shit. I’ll be sure to hunt them down in the future smash hit game Deus Ex.

Me reacting to that statement 30 seconds ago: fuck

I nodded along with this comment, and then got thinking about the nation-state-military caliber funding that ICE was handed recently.

And, after a bit of mental breadth-first search of where that train of thought could have led, I was left with a frown thinking “this could get so much more bloody so quickly.”

I leave ls alone and instead do

alias l='ls -latrF'

I do sometimes just want to use the plain version, especially if I’m in a small terminal window for some reason. But I think my brain likes scanning 1D lists more than 2D grids, no matter whether I’m in a terminal or using a graphical file manager.

Funny timing for me.

Just the other day I was at a hangout / arcade kind of place and saw some folks playing a PS3 driving game on a CRT and ngl it looked really damn good. I was across the room so the low resolution wasn’t as apparent, but the quality of motion and contrast works at any distance.

The point isn’t to keep voting for democrats because they will save us.

The point, given we are forced into a two party system, is more about trying to take over the party most of the time while also voting against the outright nazis in general elections.

I’ve been voting that way too. I question it often but haven’t changed my mind yet.

I might have an issue with “vote blue no matter who” were it not for the fact that the morons around us are voting by the tens of millions FOR Nazi land!

They had the opportunity to vote for the center-right corporate-friendly administration that will probably not get much progressive stuff done because they have the same billionaire donors.

But no, they voted for the idiotic criminal self-labeled dictator THREE TIMES! They cared more about who could get hurt (LGBT, minority, female, “other”) than whether we could actually improve society.

The DNC shares a ton of blame too. I don’t mean to leave them out of it. I hope that some young progressive voices can drag the party to the left. It would be great to not be forced into a two party system in the first place of course, but I worry that the only way such a change will happen any time soon is that a lot of people die and then the survivors write new rules.