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I don’t see this mentioned very often but Mlem is such a good app for lemmy and piefed both. I think it’s iOS only though.

They absolutely ruined the Sound of Silence for me

Lmao I wake up in a fucking rage any time I let it get that far

Ah marbled rock roast 😌

For the first alarm, I use the default iPhone setting. For the second emergency alarm, I use Entombment of a Machine by Job For A Cowboy. I already wore that song out the better part of 20 years ago and it’s guaranteed to wake you up every time

god’s plan for the apocalypse maybe lol

Honestly with how much of a reality show the US already is, I’m surprised this hasn’t been tried and televised lol

Just blows my mind that they even delay it for paid users but I guess I’m blocking a lot of tracking stuff too, even without any ads to block

Not completely sure, but even as a paid YouTube Premium subscriber, when I open the website on my laptop (Debian 13, Firefox ESR and uBlock) it consistently takes anywhere from 10-20 seconds to load the page even on my 1gbps home internet while literally every other website loads pretty much instantly. I’ve been wondering the same thing as you tbh.

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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…

Small Town Murder! shutupandgivememurder.com

Super good true crime show from two comedians. It’s been the only podcast I never miss a new episode of for the last couple years

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

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!

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.

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.

she’s SO BRAVE 🙄

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.

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.

I’m about halfway through the book and it’s so good!