I can’t speak for how viable it is for success or whether it’s just a grift (as I haven’t had the time to really research into it) but feels like as good a time as any to mention that, out in Australia, The Pack Music Cooperative is fundraising for a cooperative music streaming service: https://www.thepackaustralia.com.au/

They haven’t raised a lot towards their goal, yet, and could probably use an the help they can get. As a cooperative, they’ll side step a lot of the probably problems a corporation like Spotify or Tidal will have and they already are dedicated to prioritizing artists and their rights.

I made a promise, Mr. garretble: a promise. “Don’t you make me use any other browser,” said my nan; and I don’t mean to. I don’t mean to.

She’s still using Windows XP.

FB is ostly AI, and right wing content.

Sure but it wasn’t always; it’s been nearly a decade (if not that) since I’ve stopped using it. A lot has changed.

Maybe I read it wrong but (to me) the meme makes it sound like Google’s taking the local data (that’s supposed to be forgotten, once you close the browser window) and sending it over to Google for them to, I dunno, run analysis on.

If they’re saying that Google sites (like YouTube, Google search, etc.) were collecting data when I visit them (as, unfortunately, sites do), then I’d say, “Well, duh;” but this makes it seem like they were exporting your local data off to their cloud which, like, they could obviously, technically do but wouldn’t very much be in the spirit of how Incognito mode was portrayed.

I realized sometime in the last year that Lemmy provided me all the usual community groups I needed and actually content I wanted to read (I never really used Reddit to just browse, outside of the sub.s I’d joined).

And I’ve been using Mastodon since, like 2020 or something (never was a fan of Twitter, though).

Also stopped using Facebook though that’s probably more due to burnout and falling out of touch with a lot of the people in my life. Facebook really did make navigating socializing and keeping in touch both easier and less energy intensive and it is, for me, a good example of how social media can be good rather than this nebulous Garbage™ that people seem to emotionally brand such a large classification as. Shame about it being owned by one of the worst human beings (but it was also always going to end up as shit – in the end –, so long as owned by a corporation); since I’d already dropped in using it, I just opted to stay stopped.

Still use YouTube as there isn’t a real viable alternative yet; itching for the day they’re is.

And still use Tumblr, as most of those I socialize with are on there; though it has built up plenty of its own enshittification over the last few years. If I ever finish my Fediverse clone of it, that’s where I’ll be sprinting to.

But, also, who thinks Photoshop is easier‽

As someone who’d learned Photoshop and, eventually, learned GIMP (just because it was easier to run after eventually switching to Linux), trying to argue that Photoshop has an industry stranglehold because it – apparently – is just so much more intuitive than GIMP is absolutely wild. No one I knew learning Photoshop was finding that the UI or layout just magically clicked (or even swiftly got less impenetrable, as time went on).

Oh, and I suppose you’ve figured out a more modern way to balance the humors‽

Same; I simply can’t use a laptop without mouse buttons.

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It’s so hard for people to make meaningful connection, these days, in our modern, tech-driven society.

I expect it’s just a taste thing; water tastes fine but, like, it could taste more interesting if we added a bit of sugar or flavor to it (I was a huge justice fan).

For my own end, it was an easy way to keep my emotions/mood simulated or engaged against my depression that was low effort and easy to supply; that said, I switched entirely to water last year and, now fully comfortable drinking nothing but water and being fairly averse – previously –, I can’t say the previous reasons really make that much of a difference for me, now. Maybe it’s just having drank to my non-water content, already, but drinking nothing but water’s been pretty great and removes low-key health fears I always had.

Guix

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Well, – you see – a colon can never follow quotation marks, in traditional typography: only ever two hyphens~

I’m not sure that’s quite true; here’s an example from King George III doing it the way America does it now (top right corner of the top page):

And an example from America in the same century (though I think we’re already in agreement, there):

But wouldn’t that just be an extension of the way of doing things, though? If I’m used to writing “July 4th, 1776”, I wouldn’t start writing “04/07/1776” when that format picked up (which, as I understand things, didn’t really become a widespread norm until computers).

Unless I’m misunderstanding you, of course (always possible).

But in any given situation where the month is important enough that I need to know it, I want to know the month regardless of the day. The 25th means fuck all to me unless I know the month, as well; whereas there are plenty of scenarios where I want to know the month but the day isn’t quite as important.

Is it really switching if that was the way it was traditionally done and they just kept doing it that way?

You and me both, swelter; you and me both…

Perhaps closer to what you’re thinking of? https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1/