Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably priced Love! And a hard-boiled egg!

Shut up, you can’t take the sky from me

• Spotify -> Bandcamp. ~80% of the proceeds go to the artists, last I’ve heard. Also, FLAC downloads, and a streaming app.
• Gmail -> mailbox.org. It’s a bit pricey at 2,50€/month, but that gets you 4(IIRC) family accounts at no additional costs and servers hosted in Germany. Email is the one service I’m gladly paying for. Tried hosting email myself once; it’s horseshit.
• Whatsapp -> Signal (and Whatsapp, sigh). I donate 5€/month. This is money I consider well spent to keep Signal running.
• I once paid a hundred bucks for the big ol’ Osmand+ update, back when I still had Google Play. Money well spent for a good project.
• Some Github sponsoring here and there, mostly for Android bread ‘n’ butter apps, such as a PDF reader, a good music player with Opus support, a FOSS email app, and – last but not least – Öffi.
• Some irregular donations to the KeePassXC and Paperless-NGX developers.

I would like everyone who has ever donated to FOSS software developers to consider that ‘money spent to avoid Big Tech’. You’re doing a good thing.

I read it to our (at the time) 12 year-old when she had trouble sleeping. Didn’t help, go figure. With my hindsight glasses on, I guess I could have picked a better book for that particular problem.

Ohhh, I see. Thanks for enlightening me :)

What’s ratioing? Is that ratio-ing? Way too many vowels for my heat-addled brain

I, cannot disguise,
all the stomach pains
and the walking of the cranes
when you, do come out
and you whisper up to me
in your life of tragedy
But I cannot grow
till you eat the last of me
oh when will I be free
and you, a parasite
just find another host
just another fool to roast
cause you
my tapeworm tells me what to do
you
my tapeworm tells me where to go
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY

Right. As we all know, ed is the standard text editor.

I sometimes like to pride myself on my ability to take a different viewpoint, but today it’s absolutely failing me, lol. I really thought this was a movie everyone could at least enjoy.

I guess it hit every nail on the head. That’s all it hit, actually.

That’s a fascinating statement. Could you elaborate a bit?

Yeah, Ardour with some MIDI transport controls for me so I can change playback speed, toggle metronome, and seek with one of these.

I understand that must appear like I’m shooting at gnats with nukes, but you set everything up once and then just drag the file into your project.

I like Ardour.

I may be biased, as an RPG nerd, but man, they hit all the notes so damn well. That was such a good movie.

The FPS sequence made me go

None actually, it’s good enough on the browser I think. Which is definitely not something I can say about Reddit these days. (I still use it through a browser, and without an account, but it’s a major PITA.)

That’s an intrinsic property of new online communities people flock to over time; look up Eternal September where it originally happened to Usenet.

I may not believe in God, but I can definitely respect the man. ✊

Amen, brother. Scoot over.

Be amazed at Haiku:

Don’t you mean French?

That’s just healthy advice in general, I think. Thanks for thr reminder :)