I didn’t know soulseek and downloaded music for the first time in ages, tried listening to some FLACs of songs I only ever streamed and damn now I think I understand audiophiles
Plastic in general, except that we know and just keep doing it. I’m trying to use less plastic if I can but it’s frickin everywhere. If you want to buy an ear of corn it’s wrapped in plastic as if it isn’t already wrapped in nature’s protection. Seriously people.
This right here. We are undoubtedly the plastic generation. And it’s not letting up any time soon; our kids will be included in this cohort as well. Banning plastic bags in cities is next to useless when everything we eat, everything we drink, and everything we buy is wrapped in plastic.
Banning plastic bags I could get behind. It was inconvenient, but necessary. My city just passed an ordinance that all paper bags require a $0.15 charge. As if it wasn’t already $7 for a hamburger, now you get to pay more to keep your fries from spilling all over the car seat.
Buy a plastic package of crackers? It will be filled with smaller packages of crackers all wrapped in plastic with a plastic freshener pack for each one. I am not exaggerating. I am not sure I have ever bought something that didn’t have at least two degrees of plastic wrap.
We did stop giving plastic bags out at cashiers unless requested, but that means shitall when everything you buy is triple-wrapped to begin with.
can you subscribe to all of them? yes. do you have to? No. Lemmy is still new, overtime people will gravitate to particular ones and the others will wither away
Logseq fits the bill. By default it opens today’s date journal page and I just type everything into that and tag it (you can tag at any bullet level within the note). You can also create hierarchical tags like #topic/subtopic1 #topic/subtopic2, so the note will show up for topic regardless of the subtopic.
Honestly, check out some of the smaller games as well. Botw and Totk and other Nintendo-based games are amazing, but I've found a lot of indie games fun (e.g., Cult of the Lamb, Hollow Knight, Oxenfree, Spiritfarer, Gris, etc.). The smaller games also get deals the most.
Not like what you think, and you can thank Disney and the Record Label companies for destroying US and international laws regarding copyrighted material.
There may be a streaming service in the fediverse that streams music it owns the rights to, or unknown soundcloud artists and other people who dont have a record label, but any licensed music is going to have some pretty severe limitations. I would imagine that there may never be a fediverse equivalent of Spotify or Youtube Music.
Hubzilla is a "social content management system", so-to-speak. It's actually an absolute feature monster.
It's kind of a derivative of Friendica by Friendica's own developer who also created the protocols that each one of them is based on (DFRN for Friendica, Zot for Hubzilla). It inherited several features from Friendica: Post length is virtually unlimited. Text formatting is supported through BBcode which includes embedding of images and other media within the text, and which has been enhanced further on Hubzilla. Both have supported public groups/forums from the beginning, as well as a public calendar.
Friendica had organisation of contacts in groups before Diaspora*'s aspects (which some think were the first of their kind), let alone Google+'s circles (which everyone else thinks were the first of their kind), but Hubzilla expanded them with privacy features. Generally, Hubzilla has one of the most advanced access/permission control systems in the Fediverse.
Both have built-in file hosting which is also used for embedded images and other media. Instead of your pictures being stored "somewhere", you always know where they are because you've put them there.
Friendica mostly became famous for the many services and protocols it federated with. Diaspora*, OStatus, e-mail, RSS (in both directions), WordPress (with no plug-in in WordPress), Tumblr, Libertree, Twitter (!), even Facebook (!!!) for a few months before Facebook changed its TOS. Hubzilla took most of these connectors over.
Now comes some of what Hubzilla has on top, some of which is optional and has to be activated by the user:
WebDAV access for the file space
private CardDAV address book (I'm not kidding)
an additional system of private CalDAV calendars (yes, separate from the calendar inherited from Friendica)
long-form article writing using BBcode (and I'm not talking about posts, this is fully separate and a nice way of showing formatted text with embedded pictures to Mastodon users)
a wiki system based on BBcode and Markdown + a bit of HTML, allowing for multiple wikis (I'm still not kidding)
a simple webpage engine based on BBcode, Markdown and HTML
That's why Hubzilla is a "social CMS". You can do everything with it and then some, just pick what you need. The official Hubzilla website itself is a Hubzilla channel.
Speaking of which: One major organisational difference between Hubzilla and almost the entire rest of the Fediverse is that your content is not stored in your account. Hubzilla (when it was still young, in development and named Red Matrix) introduced a system of "channels". That's where your content goes.
When you register your first account, you automatically create a channel along with it. The channel is your home, your online identity. The account is only necessary to access the channel. You can have multiple channels on the same account, i.e. multiple fully separate identities with one login, and you can switch between them while logged in. Of course, on top of that, Hubzilla still has Friendica's feature of multiple profiles per channel (per account on Friendica) so that you can show the same identity to different connections in different ways and with different details.
The channel system became necessary for the introduction of another one of Hubzilla's killer features: nomadic identity. This goes way beyond account migration. Essentially, you can have the same channel on multiple hubs. Not independent, disconnected copies, but the exact same channel with the exact same content and even the exact same identity.
It works this way: When you register an account on another hub, and you already have a channel, you can choose to clone that channel to the new hub. Not only does this create an identical copy of your channel with everything in it. It also links the original ("primary instance") and the copy ("clone") together and makes sure they always stay in sync. So whatever happens to change on one instance is mirrored to the other one in near-real-time.
You can basically have as many clones as you want to have. If one instance goes down, the others continue to work. And if you have multiple channels, you can mirror them to separate hubs; you don't have to have all of them on the same hubs.
The ID is derived from the hub which the primary instance is on and includes its domain name. The primary hub can be switched if necessary, for example if your original primary hub will or has shut down. This will also change your ID accordingly. One downside is that you have to re-connect all your non-nomadic bidirectional connections (Mastodon, Lemmy, Diaspora*, Friendica etc.).
Last but not least, another nice feature introduced by Hubzilla is a single sign-on system called OpenWebAuth. When you're logged into any hub on which you have an account, and you visit any other Hubzilla hub or other website that supports OpenWebAuth, your login credentials are recognised, and you're treated like logged into that site, only that you obviously don't have all features you'd have with a local account. So you can post directly onto the "walls" of other Hubzilla channels, regardless of on which hubs they reside, but you can't create a channel without an account. Mastodon is said to plan to introduce OpenWebAuth, too.
There's another Fediverse project with nomadic identity, by the same developer yet again. The result of of a long and somewhat convoluted series of forks from Red Matrix which persisted beyond Hubzilla's stable release as an experimental platform.
The project itself is deliberately, intentionally nameless (!) and brandless. But since the code repository needed a name, it was named Streams. So the project is commonly being referred to as (streams), but most instances don't identify as that; they tend to have individual identifications and logos because these can be customised.
In comparison with Hubzilla, (streams) is cut down a lot, offering only Friendica-level "basics" and external federation only with ActivityPub which, on the other hand, is greatly improved.
The original idea behind (streams) is no longer to have a jack-of-all-trades that has all kinds of features imaginable and unimaginable readily built in for admins and then users to activate. This part of Hubzilla's concept made it rather unfit for specialised hubs because the hub admin first had to remove what was unnecessary.
(streams), on the other hand, is fairly bare-bone, and the idea is that creative admins capable of coding can and shall develop their own additions on top of it, ideally also share them. At the same time, (streams) gained some interesting new features such as additional Markdown and HTML support in posts.
Since (streams) is based on a newer version of Zot, now named Nomad, it federates with Hubzilla quite well, and both understand the other's nomadic features. It's even possible to mirror a Hubzilla channel to (streams) (minus the features that (streams) lacks, of course), but not the other way around.
Being able to easily switch back to Windows hindered my attempt to learn Linux. When I wasn’t in the mood to learn a new concept, or failed to get something working after a few tries, then I’d just boot right back into Windows. I was able to push on when I deleted Windows in a rage and now the alternative to getting over the Linux hill was going back down and doing the “no, no, no, no, fuck off” dance that is the Windows install process.
Websites recommending Ubuntu to noobs didn’t help me much. The panel being stuck of the left size of the monitor after my friend boasted about customization on Linux really grinds my gears. Linux Mint was much better coming from Windows, and I’m still on it years later.
@tabular @Andonyx
Agreed on all points, I didn't end up finally switching to linux until I got so fed up with the auto update caused issue I was having that I just got rid of windows entirely
And while I at first switched to Ubuntu, I wouldn't be happy until a few months later when I landed on fedora with KDE
Well there are some Doug Demaw books on scribd.com which might be of appropriate vintage ( QRP classics or W1FB Design Notebook for example ). Maybe search ‘QRP’ in the books section of archive.org but I’m not so confident on that one.
I did this a few years ago because for university I needed the spyware software “Respondus Lockdown Browser” that is specifically designed to not run in VM or wine and only supports Windows. I needed it only a very few times so a dual boot would take away disk storage I may use in better ways. If you too are obliged to stay away from a VM I’ll try to remember the tool I used, it was windows only but allowed to create windows bootable USB for free, without even a license. I partitioned my 500Gb SSD to not waste it all for Windows. Otherwise, a VM would probably serve you way better (and faster)
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