If I had a nickel for every time a fascist leader of a country spun up a Mastodon instance to promote themselves, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.

"Got a Wish?"

eurovision fans when they look at their keyboard (it has an ESC button)

Cloudflare seems to have stopped showing the CAPTCHA on my laptop with Linux on it. Maybe they answered my prayers lol Also passkeys in Linux are generally not in a good situation, only app I know does them well is Chromium. and now even Windows is well ahead, allowing password mana[...]

Been trying Mastodon and Wafrn and yeah Wafrn is better for me lol. Mastodon feels stressful.

Oh yeah, I'm gonna stick to Apple Music, even if I switch back to Linux. I just prefer it. It feels like home to me. Spotify in comparison feels like my ADHD had gone mad. I can get by using Cider on Linux which is just a fancy wrapper for the web client. I want to write a full revi[...]

💭 #Alastor

Noticed I still do threads here despite the limit. I think I use them as breaks or tangents here lol.

Logged into my Mastodon to test Mona on iPhone, and immediately saw someone dismiss the problems with Mastodon because "people have problems". That rubbed me the wrong way tbh. To me that just means you favour ignorance over change.

Decentralisation discourse on my Wafrn timeline, time to bail.

FUCK YOU

Windows crashed trying load Apple Music. oh ok. tbf I think it's AMD drivers - AMDGPU is pretty good on Linux outside of the fact you can't get HDMI 2.1.

Is it just me or does Wafrn now support Bridgy Fed posts?

Went to search up if Linux Mint has a roadmap for going full Wayland, the post merely *asking* about it on the LM forums devolved into a shit-flinging between X11 and Wayland evangelists. And for no reason whatsoever, Microsoft got away with forcing AI slop onto their customers. 🤔 #Linux

I will say, I am frustrated with the state of the display servers since, well, VMware has/had lots of issues with Wayland, and I strongly prefer VMware for virtualisation. It was one of the things that led to me getting Linux Fatigue, since I had no way to virtualise Windows 11 in a w[...]

the PDS I use on my main is kinda fucked rn so I'm here lol

So I tried VMware on CachyOS on both KDE and GNOME. Both result in VMware crashing if XWayland doesn't have a proper xbpmap set. Both also have issues with the clipboard - KDE will update the clipboard at least if you click the title bar, GNOME will not - meaning clipboard sync on GN[...]

I just had the weirdest fucking issue with Windows. My USB flat-out stopped working. Normally, I'd readjust the ports my devices are in, but it seemed like the whole USB shit was broken. So I restarted. It gave me a Windows Vista-style boot menu, which was strange... then I get a Bla[...]

Watched the Brodie video on GNOME's middle-click-to-paste disabling and holy shit GNOME really needs to stop antagonising innocent people trying to suggest something. The hostility towards the guy who wrote the suggestion for the pop-up was pretty much unwarranted. KDE handled it pret[...]

cringe fascist pedophile government

ChatGPT joins a union

Been a while since I got my iPhone (used to use an Android phone) and honestly, I don't regret it. I definitely needed a change and the iPhone was a good one. [tags for fedi side] #iPhone #Apple

Installed Wafrn on my phone to see how things go. There's a lot of protocol discussion happening on my mentions right now though and it's overwhelming :neobot_swearing:

haven't been posting here a lot tbh, not really Wafrn's fault and the people here are cool! I think I'm just mainly focused on Bluesky (using this as my go-to for SFW) and I've basically grown to dislike ActivityPub.

Turned my recent Linux ramblings into an actual blog post. Also allowed me to see how Windows would fare for my Astro blog pot writing workflows. It's okay lol, I'll get used to it. https://flaky.blue/blog/giving-up-linux/ #Linux

Myusy, a festive sea slug, is a mascot for the coastal town of Hayama, in Kanagawa Prefecture. Myusy supports beach cleanups and activities to protect the marine environment.

There's been an exodus from Twitter to Bluesky after a recently added feature (image editing via image generation AI) caused an artist revolt. And apparently Bluesky is deciding to act like Mastodon users. 🥴 I've seen people blatantly disregard the flaws of Bluesky because they've h[...]

Denji and Pochita doodle in my style Made for a friend!✨ They're a big fan :3 #fanart #chainsawman #doodle #cartoonstyle #art

the past two years of my computing life can be summarised with this article: https://hard-drive.net/slight-problem-with-windows-solved-with-massive-inconvenience-of-switching-to-linux/ #Windows #Windows11 #Microsoft #Linux

Everyone likes feeling informed & righteous, which is what made Encyclopedia Dramatica and Your Fav Is Problematic such positive shaping forces on how incendiary information is disseminated

Merry Christmas! With lots of love and thanks! 🎄✨ #Radiotrio

Linus Torvalds is the reason my parents divorced... 😔 #Linux

Rate my neofetch, fedi #linux #gnulinux #archlinux

Ice cold cutie Glaceon! #glaceon #pokemon #eeveelution #PokemonLegendsZA

I do have terminal Linux brain despite going back to Windows since I'm installing apps from the terminal via Winget and I just installed Konsole. #Linux #Windows #KDE

Zavok: Morning, neighbor! (Late night drawing... I'm getting sleepy...) #Drawing #DigitalArt #DigitalDrawing #Zavok #SoncTheHedgehog

I've dropped Linux on my main PC. I was thinking about it and honestly, the past two years have been like pulling out teeth trying to stick to Linux. Some of the biggest pain points for me were: - The lack of a MusicBee equivalent native to Linux, so I was relying on WINE for local m[...]

linux mint would be nice but I need wayland

Nearly redeemed a GOG discount for Rayman games before realising I own all of them on GOG already...

IMO if you're gonna use an adblocker then you should also look at paying at least one of the sites you use that rely on it - I do it for Rate Your Music, the site I probably use the most, especially since in the past they've struggled with malicious ads, and they're not getting enough[...]

⚡️⚡️ #hazbinhotelfanart #hazbinhotelvox

legoshi :)

on that note I'm seeing how long I can get by with just Vivaldi, before I go reaching for Zen Browser. Mainly because I'm too lazy to set up another browser rn. I hate setting up Linux.

people are fucking weird about browsers ngl. including myself but i'm stopping that any way i can lol both options suck, so just use whatever the hell you want.

Gaming on macOS

Borked my Linux install. Windows is looking veeeery enticing right now. 👀 #Linux #Windows

Firefox's PR is posting on Bluesky trying to do damage control. 💀 If you're a free and open source software project wanting to maintain a community around it, I think you need to make sure that community doesn't end up acting like a bloody religion, because that's how Firefox ended [...]

yeah what of it

This is what happens when you all keep praising a browser & treat it like a god .. why are you all surprised?