I got pissed off at Google Photos, which led me down a self-hosting rabbit hole. Ended up installing Linux everywhere, even my “gaming” one eventually (I do development, and WSL was a resource hog).

The hardest thing to degoogle has been email - I’ve used the same address for years. But I use Thunderbird so at least I don’t have to see ads in my fucking inbox

If I were a spider I’d wanna be this one

Well shit, when you put it that way

Same here! I was worried I wouldn’t use it (I haven’t been gaming on PC much) but I actually game on it much more than on PC

If we need to start supporting diagonals, I’m quitting webdev for good

I was playing Laika for a bit. The difficulty is pretty brutal - one of the harder games I’ve played in awhile. Like, you can randomly die from basic movement mechanics if you’re not paying attention. I wasn’t having fun anymore, so I had to drop it.

Moved on to Going Under, and that’s a lot more my speed

I wanna get back into MHW, but those unskippable cutscenes at the beginning are a PITA

Feels like maybe you’re not the target audience for this article

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I use FreeTube but hadn’t heard of Newpipe before. Thanks for the recommendation!

Will do sir

Omg same, but it’s been a rough year so this is my Christmas gift to myself I guess. Also glad to hear it’s helping you :)

I just got one so reading this makes me hopeful. Fallen out of love with gaming a bit in recent years

Same here fam

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Maybe unpopular opinion, but… if you’re not interested in learning DSA with any form of rigidity, you don’t have to learn those right out the gate. Just get your feet through the door. Build a small project, automate something - you will learn about your chosen language’s data structures by default. If there comes a point in time where you’re expected to know about DSA, you’ll probably have found the reasons/motivation by then

I hardly ever see people talking about Pocketbase in threads like these, but as a dev I love it

Dark patterns, gotta love em

Classic!

Master copy on my desktop

At midnight, my cron job kicks in and mirrors it to

• hard drive
• makes a backup to another machine via restic
• makes another restic backup to backblaze