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4 days agoAfter all, it’s not your location history. It’s Microsoft’s history of where you’ve been. You never monetised it anyway.
haverholm
I used to make comics. I know that because strangers would look at my work and immediately share their most excruciatingly banal experiences with me:
— that time a motorised wheelchair cut in front of them in the line at the supermarket;
— when the dentist pulled the wrong tooth and they tried to get a discount;
— eating off an apple and finding half a worm in it;
every anecdote rounded of with a triumphant “You should make a comic about that!”
Then I would take my 300 pages graphic novel out of their hands, both of us knowing full well they weren’t going to buy it, and I’d smile politely, “Yeah, sure. Someday.”
“Don’t try to cheat me out of my royalties when you publish it,” they would guffaw and walk away to grant comics creator status onto their next victim.
Nowadays I make work that feels even more truly like comics to me than that almost twenty years old graphic novel. Collage-y, abstract stuff that breaks all the rules just begging to be broken. Linear narrative is ashes settling in my trails, montage stretched thin and warping in new, interesting directions.
I teach comics techniques at a university level based in my current work. I even make an infrequent podcast talking to other avantgarde artists about their work in the same field.
Still, sometimes at night my subconscious whispers the truth in my ear: Nobody ever insists I turn their inane bullshit nonevents into comics these days, and while I am a happier, more balanced person as a result of that, I guess that means I don’t make comics any longer after all.
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But probably only the useful content.
Ah, makes sense!
As in a folder of text files? Because that’s what I’m doing. Syncing across devices with Syncthing and editing/adding files with whatever markdown editor works best in each platform.
4·23 days agoI’ve tried LocalSend for this, but I usually end up using more reliable ways like Syncthing (not instantly transfered, but at a decent speed) or sending myself the file on Element for Matrix (as good as instantaneous).
Email alternatives I’ve been recommended but not personally tried — please comment if they’re also gone to the dark side somehow:
- Tutanota (already mentioned in another comment)
- Mailbox.org
- Posteo.eu
- Fastmail
For low end dum-dums like me, https://sabre.io/baikal/ is a simpler, but very stable caldav solution. I bet Radicale has more features, but did I mention being low end? 🙂
For a second there I thought you’d genuinely connected all your devices to a service you didn’t know the first thing about 😄
TIL Taildrop is a new(ish?) Tailscale feature that adds airdrop-alike transfer to your tailnet.
Nope, and I bet Mark Cuban isn’t really invested in TikTok either way. It’s just a current talking point pivoted to make him feel relevant.
Oh, I know “Web3 is going just great” already. It is the true ledger of the blockchain hype, and it’s all in the red. Hopefully your link brings it to somebody for the first time.
I see, I thought the finger was aimed at Nostr and cryptocurrencies. As you describe them they sound like the last hiding places for the worst assholes of the internet, and I feel confirmed in staying far away from everything web3/blockchain.
I don’t disagree with your point, but how do Nostr or Monero play into the article? They aren’t mentioned at all.
I verify my sessions. its a hassle, but it’s getting rarer and easier.
I’ve used matrix for the better part of a decade, and I get that reference.
That said, while the matrix crew have worked hard on the decryption issues, I’d much rather feel that particular pain on a federated network where I can change servers than be stuck with Signal if/when the single server’s policies turn evil.
That tells you all you need to know about my sources for firearm trivia! I don’t even remember watching DH2 😄
OT, and I’m usually not the type that comments with gun trivia, but
the cold metal of a glock
Wasn’t Glock famously made of ceramic polymer and became popular for evasion of metal detectors?
Sorry for the sidetrack, that single point irks me even if it’s way outside my wheelhouse.
Incidentally, FediMeteo uses the existing Open-Meteo API. The use case is just… you can follow your nearest city on Mastodon and get forecasts in your home feed?
Yeah, that’s the kind of unhelpful condescension I recognise from that “enthusiastic” community. Thanks for the nitpick.
I tried Yunohost once, and everything worked as long as I stuck to the officially supported apps. The community forum was supportive within reason, and would respond with advice fairly quickly. When I reported an error with an unofficial app, however, I was instantly told off that I shouldn’t expect any help.
Now, having used and admined my Linux desktop systems for a decade (without claiming to be an actual sysadmin), I nosed around the system a bit and to my eyes it seemed a right mess of app and user folders, permissions and containers. Surely, a combination of my limited understanding of server apps and a system that is made primarily for GUI use to make administration easier for beginners.
What I mean to say is, if you already run a set of working docker containers, you’re probably more advanced than the intended Yunohost user. I was that half ounce more literate that I became frustrated with the GUI-centric setup, and imperial pounds too illiterate to actually muck around in the command line.
Look at it this way, Yunohost offers a fraction of the apps available on Docker, and not all of them are maintained. They do offer a graphic admin interface and out-of-the-box working setups (or did five years ago when I tried it).
I think we have found the root of the issue. Nothing bothers Musk as much as being told he can’t buy something and slap a childish name on it.