GHiLA

Because Trump won?

…we’re jumping to conclusions a bit, aren’t we?

Why bother?

Reddit isn’t Lemmy. Lemmy is Lemmy.

Enjoy who’s here. Hi. I’m GhiLA.

2024

The last year voicechat was enabled on my copy of Team Fortress 2.

you don’t wanna know

Bluesky wins out.

Sorry, but there’s companies and interest groups at play here. No one is championing Mastodon but us fossy poors.

Would kinda be nice if I dunno… Harvard or, Brown maybe would take an interest in privacy focused social media and start lobbying for and spreading it.

We have companies spending billions on bullshit, with nobody spending a cent on truth.

So… same-same.

A summary of the standard mastodon front page:

1. News report about Trump
2. The temperature in Sudan
3. The travel trajectory of a plane carrying people you’ve never heard of, going somewhere you’ve never heard of.
4. A penis
5. Ai art of Bart Simpson and a worm from Dune
6. An AOC quote
7. Furry porn, diaper optional
8. A Linux distro professing a new update
9. Someone’s Chaos Space Marine (it actually looks really nice and they really took their time)

I like it in a flea market kinda sense but, I mean, come on, man.

installs both

Now… fight for my amusement.

Who’s forcing them to buy an iPhone?

I mean, at some point you might want to pull the problem up by the root. The root seems to be Apple.

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Headscale worked for me, but I get the non-tech saavy friends part doesn’t quite jive with it as a solution.

Still, anyone wanna ditch Tailscale and only use it for hosting sites across proxies? Headscale is great.

I don’t get the rush or the need.

Everything trickles down here anyway. If you’re ONLY on Lemmy and Mastodon, you’re still getting way more actual news than the average joe. Popular, shmopular.

I’m trying to remember a time in the last thirty years where something becoming popular made it better. It’s usually the opposite.

install mastodon

Pick an instance

Hit up all

giant penis

That’s why. That’s the reason.

but you could review the instance beforehand…

Is Jimbo Normalman going to review the instance beforehand? Lmao.

Maybe Facebook is the right place for some people.

Find a small community of like-minded friends to hang with online.

Hell, I only visit Reddit and Lemmy for the big news for a few minutes before heading off to check discord and matrix chats and everywhere else I go.

Branch out.

Carolina Outdoor Work Boots.

Like wearing a bulletproof vest on your feet.

Just put another number behind it. Luddites won’t know the difference.

Good time to invest in VPN companies

All that bridge stuff has me interested. I’d just like to put all of my chats in one place. Matrix seems like the solution for that. Just bridge everything lol.

Two ways.

1. Get a crutch and pretend you quit.

This can either be vaping, snus, nicotine pouches, the patch, anything.

2. Cold Turkey

Quitting one morning by just never smoking that day.

That’s all I know.

The average user isn’t going to replace the firmware in a wireless router, so if it sucks out of the box, it’s just going to suck and they’ll never think to make it not so.

The first word in getting into FOSS or open anything should be compatibility before you even get to the store.

If not, then… well, I hope you keep the receipt.