Digital artist who infrequently can scrape enough energy to create stuff. I like to escape with art and draw cute anthros.
It’s quite a nice player for that purpose, and I was able to move over all of my favorites and ratings without too much trouble either. I chose it purely because it’s FOSS and met my needs on my distro. If you’re willing to use freeware on something like Windows specifically though, idk.
If you’re having trouble with proprietary hardware networking and bluetooth, I wonder if the some USB hardware from ThinkPenguin would help you with that. Namely the wireless dongle and the bluetooth one, both of which don’t rely on proprietary blobs and work with fully free systems out of the box. Not exactly the cheapest thing to outfit on inherited, old systems at ~$50 each, however.
Adding to say I have the same experience. Not banned, never used a TPA, but downloaded RIF Is Fun when people were writing up a storm just to see what was even going on. When the blackouts happened, I saw the more and more unhinged shit the Reddit administration was doing to stifle the protests and decided to make my blackout permanent from then onward. My exposure to the Fediverse has entirely changed how I interact with megacorps and software now. If it’s not FOSS or DRM free stuff on my device, I don’t want anything to do with it. Obviously getting to 100% on that is a very tall order, but I’ve been making a lot of headway since 2023.
Even in spite of the vast disparity in quantity of content, I would vastly prefer Lemmy to current Reddit without contest. Even aside from the massive brain drain the blackout had, and all the ad related enshittification, imagine being punished for even upvoting awesome things like Luigi Mangione? Now instead of the countless years I spent leaving my art and constant comments to boost some boneheaded corporation, I can post them here and be involved with a movement controlled by individuals. A movement made for and funded by each other, instead of lining greedy pockets.
All down to bigotry of course. For fun, try earnestly writing in absence of pronouns. Perhaps a bit more challenging than expected!
Yeah, it is it’s own free (as in freedom) alternative to it. It’s in the name GNU: GNU’s Not Unix
Related, there is a donation group for Mastodon for Harris. I imagine a great way to show there is interest in her making an account is to see fundraising coming from the user base. It’s at ~114k at the time I wrote this: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris
Damn and here I thought my 13200Ah phone I charge once a week was big. I wish more phones went down the route of massive batteries, it’s so much better than being thin and barely lasting a day of normal use.
As someone who loves puns and other dad joke type humor, puns feel very much situational and a part of improv. They’re great in the moment when you quickly think of something that gets the crowd groaning, but I can’t just dig them up with no buildup and get that same feeling.
For example, I could tell you ten random puns without context to try and make you laugh, but more than likely, “no pun in ten did.”