The one that really stuck with me was COCKFAIS

At what point does a twig become a stick? Are all twigs also sticks?

I feel like the difference between twig and stick must be not intrinsic to the stick, but a property of the observer. To a bird, a twig is already a stick, and to a giant, that which we call a stick is surely nothing but a mere twig.

LatteGo, LatteGo, Can’t hold it back anymore~

I guess that’s part of WhatsApp’s terms of service. Good to know, thanks.

Either way, my dislike for corporations using closed platforms still stands. I really wish we had some modern, secure and featureful version of SMS - a federated direct messaging system that everyone was on, and yet nobody owned.

There’s nothing to stop anyone sending you a message on WhatsApp if they have your number, be they an individual or a company.

But it IS absolutely infuriating - not because it’s an advert, but because I don’t want any aspect of my communication with companies to take place on third-party proprietary closed platforms of which that company has no ownership or data control and which would require me to have an account with said platform.

I’m sure many people love being able to contact customer support by shooting them a DM on Instagram, but to me that’s wholly unacceptable.

If companies want to talk to me it should be through email or SMS only - because those are the only methods which are provider-agnostic.

Email and SMS are like the original federated systems. (And the postal service is, too!)

“Empty” is pretty contextual.

I mean, she’s being burned at the stake…

My seven-year-old niece showed me that movie.

I didn’t have high expectations going in but it’s an absolute banger, largely because of the excellent songs. It is, fundamentally, a musical.

And yes it’s silly, but not in the ways that matter.

I remember watching an anime years back which has an anthropomorhpic bread bun who is depressed because he came out the oven burnt. He spends his days working a miserable office job and his evenings getting ‘drunk’ on ‘milk’, wishing he wasn’t burnt so he could dare ask out the girl of his dreams, the beautiful and perfect strawberry bread.

The guy is literally bread. The premise is as silly as they come, but the characters are real and their feelings are intensely relatable, so it works.

Demon Hunters is the same show. Main girl is trying to make it with her band, but is secretly worried and self-conscious because she’s hiding a terrible secret that she knows would tear her friendships and her life apart. And the movie is about how she comes to terms with herself.

So yes it’s got unbelievable fights, and earth-protecting barriers that are somehow powered by music, and a group of demons that for some reason decide to form a shit-hot boy band (they’re very good). But that’s not the movie, that’s just the vehicle.

For anyone else on the fence, you don’t need to wait. Lots of distros support gaming right out the box. I switched my gaming desktop (nvidia card) to Pop_OS!, installed Steam, and it just works.

What factors lead you to select Cachy?

Same for me. When the third party API fiasco happened, Reddit was dead to me.

If I can’t engage on my terms, I don’t want to engage at all

That’s a very considered answer, I like it.

I expect if I was asked this question back when I was 20, I’d have said “20 lol”- because why on earth would you ever want to be older than that?

But that answer completely overlooks there’s a lot of external factors to consider which are increasingly relevant as your mental age diverges from your physical age. Right or wrong, perceptions matter and people will judge you on how you look.

30 is a very good middle ground where you could participate in just about any social group you wanted without sticking out too much.

Genuine question - what aspect of it didn’t work for them?

That’s the thing - we just can’t know. Sometimes a feature is just a feature, but with commercial software there’s always more risk it’s going to change under you for the wrong reasons when they find some way to monetise it.

Except it will, because developers aren’t going to bother maintaining an app where the install base is just pixel users with Graphene

1. Fuck preorders

2. This isn’t a post complaining that Silksong brought the networks down, it’s people celebrating it, because it’s amazing to see a small studio doing so well and absolutely crushing their launch - not because they had an insane marketing budget, but because the community is just organically so excited for it. And all at a low price that puts big studios to shame.

Same for me with Markdown. Love the simplicity.

I went through a phase a while back of evaluating a bunch of note-taking and to-do apps, and hating almost all of them for being proprietary products with so much vendor lock-in.

I eventually settled on Joplin because it just uses plain old markdown, and allows you to selfhost the storage back-end so you own your data.

So because of that, my recipes are just a folder (and some subfolders) with markdown in Joplin.

Tap to pay is a choice, with a viable alternative.

You could choose to NOT use tap to pay, carry a bank card, and it would have basically no impact on your ability to conduct your life.

But I agree the banking app itself is a big problem, and something that cannot be lived without.

A person with a hammer? Why does it need to be difficult :P

Or just go with direct address

“If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”

I feel like I’m in the same boat. I don’t have a solution, just wanted to say I understand your perspective.

I’ve completely ditched Microsoft from my life and I’d love to ditch Apple too, but there’s just nothing on the market I’ve seen which matches the build and usability of macbook hardware.

With the old Intel macs it was simple enough to run Linux but now with Apple Silicon it’s not on the cards. I love what the Asahi team have been doing and I hope they keep doing it, but it’s not ready for primetime yet.

And so I’ve reached the same annoying conclusion - for the moment I’m stuck with Mac, and therefore stuck with macos too.

Qview is very light on features, so if you like featureful it probably isn’t for you :)