spelk @spelk@linuxrocks.online

I update the apps on my phone manually because it gives me an opportunity to remove the apps that I am not using.

It only takes about 3 minutes per month. 🤷‍♂️

#DigitalMinimalism

week-long boycott of Amazon and virtual picket line starts this Sunday, March 7

support your fcomrades and their efforts to organize against a corporate juggernaut - don't use Amazon next week

https://ucommblog.com/section/corporate-greed/dont-cross-virtual-picket-line

Free is a Lie (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldhHkVjLe7A

And of course things got worse after 2014. Back then Twitter didn't even have an algorithmic timeline and Cambridge Analytica was just some startup.

Look it's basically everyone #onhere

For those among you who have played and loved the 2000 game "B17 The Mighty 8th", well, they are coming back with a revamp!

Hit me with that nostalgia <3

https://www.microprose.com/games/the-mighty-eighth/

If you are interested in alternatives to centralized social networks like Facebook and Twitter, check out the latest episode of the Small Tech Foundation podcast about #decentralized social networks with Paul Frazee, cofounder of CTZN, hosted by @aral and @laura: https://small-tech.org/videos/small-is-beautiful-06/

@spelk Not surprised, but I can give you the skinny on Outriders for free: it isn't worth paying full price at launch. Wait until you can get a copy for $20, because if you've played Mass Effect or Gears of War then you've pretty much played Outriders already. Also, the "desperate sci-fi universe" touted by the game's promo copy is basically the backstory to C. S. Friedman's COLDFIRE TRILOGY plagiarized by edgelords.

I got so confused when people said they 'had a Discord server'.

Apparently that's lies. None of them have a Discord server. They have an account.

Public Service Announcement

The symbol # has many names, including "hash". Using a hash to make a tag word easier to search makes the whole construct a "hashtag".

Because people say things like "check out hashtag 'learn'", people inferred that the # itself was spoken as "hashtag". This has led to some confusion in certain kinds of discussion.

Hey guys, just a little update: this still hasn't changed.

Rishi Sunak's Two-Nation Toryism

http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2021/03/rishi-sunaks-two-nation-toryism.html

I do wish to thank you too @solderpunk

I'm not sure if you know, but me, @HexDSL and @uoou have a somewhat #gemini centric podcast over at
gemini://chriswere.uk/trendytalk

Idea I have not put enough thought into: adapting my workflows to lower-powered devices could mean finding/building some kind of Minimum Viable Org... Reducing Org and reducing Emacs to the absolute bare minimum.

Not just to make it lighter, but to focus it in a way. What are the essential primitives of a text-based outlining/writing/whatever-Org-is system?

If Plan 9 was an evolutionary step after Unix, what is *that* but for Org?

The computer built to last 50 years | ploum.net
https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/

How to create the long-lasting computer that will save your attention, your wallet, your creativity, your soul and the planet. Killing monopolies will only be a byproduct.

Usually when I go to kick Emacs to the curb I end up instead making it feel new by starting over. https://www.baty.blog/2021/emacs-from-scratch-again