gary
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- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 2 days ago:
The absolute peak of gaming for me was the first time I got stoned out of my mind and played Minecraft. Probably like... circa 2012. I've never been able to get back to that place ever since lmao the colors were so vibrant, each pixel was absolutely perfectly placed. The light grey ui elements in your inventory... everything just tied together so perfect. It was like seeing a new color for the first time, but then every time after that is just, eh...
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 3 days ago:
I've been really curious about Ghost lately! I set it up in a container on pikapods not too long ago but I ended up staying on Micro.blog. Something I really liked that I had no idea about beforehand was that they have their own little Discover feed over there right? It felt too serious for me when I mostly run an old school link/microblog kinda blog and it seems SO optimized for mailing lists and subscribers
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 3 days ago:
Neocities isn't a bad option tbh. I haven't used it in a minute but if you're thinking about neocities I really really liked bearblog.dev too!
- Comment on The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08] 3 days ago:
That's awesome! I'm in Ohio and he's not coming anywhere near here on the tour lol but I did order the hardcover copy. I'm trying to hold off on the audiobook now so I can finish it as the actual book.
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 3 days ago:
Hell yeah! I've been blogging for a couple years but I just use Micro.blog. I'd like to switch to something completely self hosted one of these days though.
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 3 days ago:
I see a lot of potential for it to push people back to the small web too. Lots of people becoming interested in personal blogs lately, decentralized social media, the whole indie web movement, etc.
- Comment on The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08] 3 days ago:
Definitely informative and depressing. Honestly kinda just confirming what a lot of people have suspected all along I think; everything's a monopoly, companies are good until they lock enough people into their platform and then they're too big to care. Lots of really good examples and depressing fun facts weaved into it lol. One thing that makes it so interesting to me is that over the last couple of decades we've all been watching the enshittification of everything in real time. This book makes sense of it. That said, idk what his solutions are 100% but I gotta believe he offers some kind of clarity or way forward by the time I finish it. I have a little ways to go still.
- Comment on The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08] 3 days ago:
I'm about halfway through the book and it's so good!
- Comment on Ad companies should just cut out the middle man and pay me to watch their ads 5 days ago:
Closest I ever came was trying brave browser for a couple months a few years ago and I made a cool $0.83 in digital Monopoly money 💅
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 week ago:
I hate it. It even bleeds over into performance reviews. Like you'll never get a perfect score no matter how hard you work because you always have to be improving on something. It's supposed to be the sure fire sign of "success" but all it does is create impossible goals and bring everyone down.
- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 1 week ago:
I love it! Even the built in CSS and JavaScript customization goes a long way. I'm not creative enough to figure out anything crazy with Greasemonkey lol
- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 1 week ago:
I love RSS! For the longest time I used Miniflux, and I still have an instance running, but lately I've just been using the Unread app on iOS. That's one of the many great things about RSS: you're not tied down to any specific app or platform, you can pack up and take your feeds wherever you want if you wanna try something different.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That's how I feel about it too. Literally nothing I wanted to watch over there anyway. I'm not missing anything.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Almost everyone I know who cancelled their subscription is happily renewing it now that Kimmel is back on the air. I'm sticking with donating to PBS every month instead.
- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 2 weeks ago:
This was literally the first thing that came to mind. So many people have android phones with cards already linked to google, paying for YouTube premium would do the same thing. But nope, Skynet is the better way to do it
- Comment on New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule under new t 2 weeks ago:
I wasn't alluding to anything crazy or even very interesting I guess, but through my 20s I had quite a few factory jobs. Even at some of the better ones, it's pretty normal to work seven days a week for months at a time, the pay sucks, and almost everyone's on meth or opiates just to get by. The office workers always get exactly 40 hour weeks and no mandatory overtime ever while the factory people pretty much live there. I'm sure bigger companies like Intel, etc have much better conditions than metal stamping plants or commercial print shops, but it was the worst point in my life. Maybe it's just where I live, but I don't know anyone who has worked at a factory here and isn't either a long term high functioning addict or just miserable in general. I was one of the top producers at a label printing plant for a few years and I was so trashed all the time I don't know how I never got fired or lost a finger lmao I ran a lot of bad product at times and no one ever said anything as long as I had perfect attendance and showed up 20 minutes early every day.
- Comment on New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule under new t 2 weeks ago:
I've worked at American factories before lol I'll take the chips from overseas, please
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
That's like a leftist trying to start a clique on truth social lol