Eyedust

joined 5 months ago
[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I miss watching the little moon spin with the shooting stars of Netscape Navigator. It's weirdly the most nostalgic thing for me. Maybe because my first full memory ever is the library computers and learning how to use Netscape in first grade. It's the first time I started really retaining information fully, aside from snippets of Oregon Trail for the Commodore 64 in my kindergarten class.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Krull is one that stays in all my libraries. It's so obscure yet has names like Liam Neeson, Robbie Coltrane, and David Battley. It was my dad's favorite movie.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yup, I agree 100%. I usually go with a slim case because I follow a few self-imposed rules.

  • Phone does not leave pocket when drinking or around people who are drinking.
  • I don't need to take my phone out if I'm visiting friends or family.
  • I immediately pocket my phone if I'm moving, even just around the apartment.

I've not dropped my phone once since owning my first 12 years ago. I do not care what it's made of.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Kind of bs, seeing as how I use my friend's account (with permission) to access the free Udemy courses that his career provides him and I've never seen this. Figures they'd nail legitimate users and completely miss people who abuse the system. Typical Microsoft.

Hope an alternative comes someday; I've always disliked LinkedIn.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Three. Depending on where you are in the U.S., a toilet is also a "can". It's more of a slang meaning, but if you ever hear an American saying they're "going to go hit the can," it means they're going to use the bathroom.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It didn't affect me, due to using startallback. It replaces start menu, taskbar and explorer. So my start menu is Win7 and my task and explorer are Win10.

It used to have a 100 day all access free trial and was 5 bucks, but I haven't checked lately. I gotta keep a Windows machine around for art. My Gaomon tablet was able to use wacom drivers on Linux with some terminal tinkering, but it couldn't map the scroll wheel by design, which was a deal breaker.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

My ex-fiancee and ex-girlfriend for 7 years was getting hit on by our boss. She used to brag to me about it. They started texting back and forth until suddenly she wanted to "just be friends" with me (which entitled "benefits").

This was all about a month before our wedding. So naturally I declined being "friends" and slept with her bride's maid. We decided the sex was good enough to try dating.

That was 12 years ago now.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Would be useful, but I can't think of anything that would do this. A bot that scraped the chosen song's links from popular streaming services would be pretty neat and, to my knowledge, possible. I've seen it done with stuff like Skyrim mods or MTG Card linking on Reddit.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

Story time.

I learned Debian-based distros back in high school from a college tech class. After leaving school and getting my first job, I built my first computer (after two DOA boards and much gnashing of teeth). I sat happily in my Windows bubble for a long time.

Years later I had a catastrophic failure when trying to get clever and unlocking my system32 folder to do some tinkering. I'd had enough of Windows. Thought Pop! OS looked really nice.

But we sometimes have that one friend. Arch. Every time I talked about my OS or showed him my clean setup, Arch. If I had a problem with packages. Pacman. AUR. Arch.

I was going nuts. Did he care I was running Pop! OS with KDE Plasma using Kubuntu backports to jury rig a later version? No. Arch.

After a long and grueling battle, after slogging through mountains of unsolicited Arch memes in my DMs, after vehemently defending Debian, I will only say this:

I use Arch, btw.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

That's enough from you, gregorium.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I found a cool little app on F-Droid called Gramophone. It has neat little animations that make me happy, and it can color the player controls according to album art. I'm a sucker for nice UI. I was using Auxio before that. Both are good.

If you want something for ad-less streaming, RiMusic is really nice. For local audiobook playback with chapter selection, Voice is the best I've found so far.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's the PP in your heart that matters.

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