No doubt, I’m floored.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

They announced a series A in which they stated they are implementing paid features through a subscription model and took 15 million dollars from Blockchain Capital.

They say in this statement they won’t “Hyper Financialize” the platform, which is corporate doublespeak for “We are now monetizing this platform”.

The additions to their board are people who come from crypto/NFT companies.

As a result, the clock is now ticking on Bluesky and its destruction is inevitable due to the laws of capitalism.

It’s lack of marketing since it is not a business, and people conflating useful optional features with confusing usage.

Everyone I know moved to bluesky, after which bluesky basically immediately sold out to crypto people. I brought up the idea of “hey, this is why I think mastodon is a lot better, because it’s impossible for it to sell out entirely”, to which one person lost their fucking shit and responded stating that I was “fear mongering”.

This person also said they didn’t care if a business owned all their data and controlled their entire life because “all their data is owned already anyway”.

This same person also said that after the recent US election they “spent the night throwing up until they were dry heaving and crying”.

Why they claim to not care about their life being controlled by corporate entities, but claim to care so hard about their life being controlled by a government that they say they have a physical reaction to it is a subject I haven’t broached because I’m sure they wouldn’t be able to see their hypocrisy if they pointed the James Webb telescope at themselves.

In a nut shell, many people are incredibly stupid and not at all interested in their best interests unless the news tells them which interests they should care about.

You think that’s fucked, I updated and I get this message now that won’t fuck off, stating I am both up to date, and missing updates at the same fucking time. Doesn’t matter how many times I check for updates, nothing new is found, nothing installs.

You can hope they won’t pull your license, but with this shit I’m just hoping they don’t brick my fucking system.

I see. Over a long enough time I do find that these ones harden as well at which point I change them, however that’s usually a month or more instead of a couple weeks. I hope they work out well for you should you buy!

As heads up as well, the little pucks they come as are way too big for my ears, but you don’t want them to be too small either.

These are amorphous like a sort of putty, so I usually tear a puck in half, and then another into quarters, and then mash them together such that I have 75% the size of a puck for each ear. This insures they completely seal my ear, but also cant get stuck or anything.

This also has the benefit of not needing to worry about sizing though!

While this does appear to be a grammatical error, Wiktionary also lists it as a dialectical, nonstandard past participle of run, so it looks like some people use it depending on where they’re from, including myself it seems.

I suppose I select ran as the past participle because in other cases where I use it in past tense, run does not sound correct to me.

For example where I am from, I would say someone “ran” from the police, instead of that someone “had run” from the police, so I default to this version of the word in these cases.

It can probably affect all gaskets, but depending on the type of rubber some might be better or worse. I haven’t played around enough with testing different ones to know for certain though.

The ones I recommended are similar to some other silicone ones, but are a bit softer. As a result I find they seal better in comparison. I had been using silicone ones prior to discovering these and they are definitely my preference.

Rope saws are neat as fuck as well.

Its a matter of practice. Just know that as long as you only move the razor in a straight line and dont wobble it side to side, you cant fuck up too bad. You want to learn to hold the razor such that it is always meeting the surface of your skin at a 45 degree angle, use very short strokes, and use your other hand to pull your skin taught.

You also want to remember that, especially when starting out, you dont have to do a great job on the first or even second pass. Do the best you can, and if there is still hair, just re-apply shaving cream and go over those spots again. Eventually you get good enough you can get everything in a single pass most of the time.

There are some good videos on youtube where people have tutorials on learning to use one. Also because it cuts closer to the skin, you may want to invest in a face moisturizer in addition to an aftershave. Really helps to prevent ingrown hairs and makes your face feel amazing after shaving with one. For pubes/longer hair, I would shave with an electric shaver first to shorten the hairs, and then follow up with the razor.

Yea or water is what I primarily use it for. You CAN put coffee and such in there however, you will want to take off the gasket and clean the hell out of it. It absorbs smells quite strongly. You could also probably get a different gasket which is not as bad for it. Should the gasket begin to smell, I recommend soaking it over night in vinegar, and then another night in water. This really seems to suck the smell out of it.

I’ve been interested in this subject for a while and have a few recommendations.

Stanley Thermos. It could get hit by a fucking train and would still outlive you. Don’t recommend putting cofee/milk products etc in them though because it will make the gasket smell. Excellent water container though.

Double edged straight razor. The handle piece is virtually indestructible. I bought a package of like 500 blades for like 30 dollars and haven’t had to buy new ones for actual years. Fun fact as well, once you learn to use one it’s better for sensitive skin because you’re only dragging one razor across your skin per stroke instead of 5 or 7 or whatever the fuck the “better” ones have. Can confirm the “more blades = better” shit is just pure predatory marketing.

Buck knife. Multi tools are cool but if you tend to use the knife often, invest in a higher quality knife and stones to sharpen it. Sharpening stones (not the crap ceramic stuff they try to sell) will last a lifetime and will also keep all your kitchen knives beautiful for years. While you’re up to it, get a piece of raw leather, like the back of of an old belt, and use it as a strop to polish off the blade when you’re done sharpening, it really does make the cut smoother.

People say Mag light, but I’d personally recommend Olight as well for flashlights. The Olight Baton 4 is a ~600 lumen adjustable brightness flashlight with strobe which will blind you if you aren’t careful and its smaller than a pill bottle and comes with a reversible clip and inset magnet in case you need to stick it somewhere to keep the light steady.

A graphite metal “magic” pencil. Instead of using normal graphite, these metal bodied pencils have end pieces you screw in as a tip, are erasable, and one nib takes forever to run out, something like 5 pencils. They dont draw as dark as a regular pencil due to the hardness but for general usage they are handy.

Mighty plugs ear plugs. Want to know what it’s like to be deaf? Buy these. They aren’t too costly, completely seal the ear, and I only have to get a new package once every few years. They’re so effective I had to purchase an alarm clock built for deaf people which shakes my mattress instead of making a sound because I couldn’t hear any normal alarm clock after I started using these. This combination is unbeatable if you have awful neighbors or live on a busy street with night traffic.

Any self winding watch. Stop fucking around with button cell batteries and evolve. If it’s cheap, that’s probably better, if it gets scratched you don’t have to care. Seiko is a good brand in my experience.

If you’re into camping get a decent mid sized carving hatchet. I have a mid sized Hultafors swedish steel one. People like splitting axes because they do what they’re advertised to do, but theyre huge, heavy, and you cant carve or skin with them. A lighter smaller carving axe will do the same job splitting a log if you baton it with a medium sized stick. If you need something bigger to cut down a tree, go for a curved folding saw to bring with the hatchet. The Silky Saw Big Boy is great for that. Also buy a wool blanket. That shit will keep you warm in -35 C if you use it correctly. Also tents are neat but cumbersome, instead invest in a tarp and learn to make a lean to/other tarp configurations in combination with a ground sheet. If you expect you’ll be facing inclement or extremely wet weather, get an oilskin tarp (or make one yourself its literally just a cotton sheet which you have ran through a few dryer cycles as hot as possible, and then soaked through in a 50/50 mix of boiled linseed oil and mineral spirits and hung outside until completely dry. Don’t put an open flame near it at any point in that process).

I probably have a bunch more, but can’t think of them off the top of my head.

Used to work at one a long time ago. The weirdest stuff is the stuff that never makes it to the floor. Take for example this framed picture of young Michael Jackson which we promptly hung on our wall in the back.

Yes, I recall the content of reddit being much better around the same time you describe. There was a vast amount of actual original content produced directly by the users there at the time, and the quality of discussion was very good.

Over time as more people joined it, it seemed to become more and more of a sort of parody of itself, sort of like when you make a friend and introduce them to your group of friends, and they begin to use an inside joke that existed before they were there. Sometimes it’s still funny, but it is an odd feeling that when this new friend tells the joke, you can tell they don’t exactly understand why it’s funny themselves.

Reddit to me felt like this to the nth degree when I left. I suppose it really is a result of some kind of “herd” behavior; people just acting a specific way or saying specific things because they saw other people doing or saying the same things, but to the point it no longer goes any deeper than that and becomes bereft of any real meaning or deeper thought or variety.

Whenever I see an argument made in good faith, there’s frequently contrary responses that delve into the actual issues and discuss some of the nuance around them.

I am in agreement, I have found this to be the most refreshing part of the platform. Many more people on Lemmy as compared to reddit seem much less likely to take every single thing at face value only in my experience. I have had some extremely interesting and informative conversations here in which some very good points were brought up because people were more interested in discussing the topic instead of other users opinions of the topic.

This is a long reply, but understand that I don’t intend a mean tone here, I am just speaking my honest thoughts in response to your question.

When I was on reddit I wasn’t exposed to so many people with extreme absolutist views

You have entered a place with many groups of people with many views, and you are paying attention to the loudest ones. I can understand that can be upsetting to someone if they haven’t spent a lot of time outside of reddit. Surely on Twitter you would have seen more of this kind of thing, but it really depends on what and who you pay attention to. In my case, people always talked about how volatile Twitter was, but that was never my experience, because I was on it strictly to follow various artists. I just ignored everything else, or otherwise often just didn’t bother myself with other people’s thoughts on there.

who will stop at nothing to maintain the echo chamber.

Lemmy, functionally, is a collection of echo chambers, and chambers of many other kinds depending on how you leverage it. Some - often the loudest - do devoutly believe in the things they believe in and will talk about it all the time.

Reddit was/is arguably a single large echo chamber, but you may have not noticed this because that chamber aligned with your personal thoughts and opinions.

What you are describing sounds more like someone who has left an echo chamber with a set of strong ideals and entered a place with many multiple strong ideals rather than someone who has entered one, as your chief complaint sounds like you don’t enjoy that there are multiple groups of people who believe in different things than you as strongly as you believe in what you do.

Very few people here are able to make concessions.

What concessions do you want, or think are necessary? You have the options of blocking the communities or people you disagree with, or creating an account on an instance which defederates the instance/s you primarily disagree with and/or has rules for its communities that you identify with. You can also install an extension and filter stuff based on keywords:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/471718-lemmy-post-keyword-filter

If what you want instead is simply for most other people to believe in what you believe then unfortunately I just don’t think that’s a realistic expectation to have for the international public.

I just feel like every time I get on here I go away angrier.

Well, you can try the above things to ignore the things that make you angry, otherwise I spent my first year on Lemmy working on tolerating and contending with the thoughts of people other than me instead - of course I have blocked some communities and some people as I agree some are more trouble for me than I find worth in, but generally speaking I think forcing myself to learn to control my own feelings when I see a complete stranger say something I personally disagree with has made me a more patient and better rounded person.

Personally, if someone says something I disagree with, that is just how the world is, and I know this is the experience of every person on the planet to some degree, so I have no expectation that my thoughts and feelings are special to anyone else.

It is just is not possible for every single person to be in agreement on every single thing, so it is useless for me to be mad about other people’s thoughts. Sometimes, I think it is useful however, to express your reasoning to other people, even if some of them hate you for it and even if you feel it’s at your own expense because otherwise how would anything work socially between anyone in the world. But even at that, I don’t think I ever feel the obligation to.

I have learned that for my peace of mind, there is a line to walk such that I never feel my opinions or feelings are innately righteous, and that they are not pointless either. I find believing this about other people’s thoughts and feelings as well helps me to meditate on why people think and feel the things they do; to reach an understanding of those things even if I disagree with them.

We won’t attract new users if we’re like this

I have a contention with this for a couple reasons.

I think that if the objective of Lemmy as a platform were user count, it would be a business instead of software, and I am glad it is not a business. That is what attracted me to it, and I am not too concerned if other people aren’t. Lemmy probably will never attract a lot of people like normal social media, because it isn’t a business and has no marketing as a result. In some ways I think Lemmy could even be made worse by having a population like reddit or twitter.

The idea of “we” is unclear here compared to traditional social media. Do you mean “we” the users on the instance, “we” as in all users on all Lemmy instances, “we” all users on all activitypub based social media platforms?

Depending on what you mean, “we” could both care and not care about attracting more users, and want to or not want to work toward that, at the same time, because it depends on what and who you actually mean.

You’re posting to a community in Lemmy.ml so I have some guesses about what you might mean, but Lemmy.ml is not Lemmy, and many users on it do not hold ideals similar to reddit users in the slightest. Remember, “Lemmy” is just the software.

So the question “is Lemmy worse than Reddit/Twitter” is like saying “Is Firefox worse than Facebook”, though I know this is not what you meant.

My answer to your actual question as a result is Yes and No, at the same time, because it depends on which instance you are on, which instance you are looking at, if you leverage the blocking and filtering available to you, and your ability to contend with people who are different than you.

Oh kerosene! How many what with without it? All of the and drenching in outside of it is are not bones. In experience did not to remove feathering over all did it.

Can any with chicken, the brines my hand it wasn’t, but for wasn’t did for certain.

Do you have any recommendations for anyone looking to switch from windows DAW to a Linux DAW? Are there any tips regarding getting the plugins to play nicely?

I would love to switch to Linux on my desktop, but the only thing holding me back is that I use FL Studio with the Arturia V collection and I feel as though it would be nightmarish to try to get such a thing working in Linux.

It depends. Some of it is more readily available than other stuff. For example, someone can bring up Christmas specials and I can think back and vaguely recall stuff like the Garfield Christmas special and other things I would watch seasonally as a child.

Other stuff is a lot deeper, and usually it is a lot harder to access because there is no straightforward path to remembering it like a holiday, because it’s the things I experienced in between things like holidays.

An example I can think of of this is that I recently went through a listing of 90’s television shows which were shown on the YTV network (In Canada), and I came across a couple names which vaguely rang bells; but the exciting thing was that I couldn’t remember why they rang bells. One of the listings in this case it was for a show called “Stickn’ Around”.

Went and searched for it, found this intro sequence and suddenly unlocked the memory that I watched this show almost every day for most of my childhood, but I had forgotten because there was no correlating event that let me remember this.

(Forgive the youtube link, can’t find it on invidious right now).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etJLl415RuY

Makes me wonder what other lost memories I have, and how the hell I could possibly go about accessing them, because this was just by chance.

I highly recommend everyone go look up listings from the TV stations they watched in their childhood, you might just find something you forgot ever existed until now.

If you want to get into doing it, I found searching through a lot of note taking applications until I found something I really liked helped me remember to go do it regularly.

For FOSS stuff a lot of people like Joplin, and I could certainly recommend it. Personally though, I really like Obsidian for its backlinking and graph view features, but it’s not open source.

Furthermore, just carrying around a notebook and a pen everywhere you go as a habit helps a lot. I got into the habit of doing this by maintaining a personal journal for some time. For writing effective notation on paper which can easily be digitized, I would recommend looking into “bullet journaling” methods, and again, finding a notebook and pen that you really quite like, helps a lot to make the experience enjoyable and develop it as a skill.