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6 months ago

i was reading your thoughts archive & i agree with your stuff on foss fans. while i do have a degoogling post, i don't use linux at all. don't get me wrong, i get why some people love it. but the thing i always go back to is convience. sure, customizing its look & not have your data stolen sounds cool. but i don't wanna lose all the stuff i downloaded, or install apps 7 diff ways or learn 50 command prompts

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draggianuniverse 6 months ago

okay yeah that was a rant in response to some other folks -- like, the thing that really bugs me is, as mentioned, that it is a fandom, not a movement. it's tech for tech's sake and the only use cases they care about are each other. So if you're like me and would love to de-Google and use Linux and stuff, but need to have a phone that works on phone plans and Office backwards compatibility for work, then, uh...

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lakestheguy 6 months ago

yeye, fortunately my last job used libreoffice if you can believe it. but like the best way to promote foss is to have sites or programs that are just better. for example, my brother doesn't care abt foss & has given up on privacy. but he still uses firefox as his default bc chrome eats up sm ram.

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lakestheguy 6 months ago

sometimes i feel pressure to use linux, like "i dont REALLY care about privacy if i still use windows/android as my main os" even though i'm doing everything else i can. including using privacy conscious settings for windows & android

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draggianuniverse 6 months ago

exactly, re: functionality. I love Firefox and FreeTube, but LibreOffice doesndoesn't do the visual and format features I need, I've never met an OSM client that doesn't suck at road navigation, and I'm sticking with Ecosia BC all the more "private" search engines have had shit results. a lot of the "alternatives" are just unacceptably weaker or don't work for what I need

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draggianuniverse 6 months ago

also, documentation is kind of a huge problem. you basically can't get support through any means except forums and socials, and most users who need to Use Their Computer For Things don't have time for the arcana. (speaking of Using Your Compoter For Things, can we agree that "dephoning" is stupid for anyone who doesn't live in their mom's basement?)

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draggianuniverse 6 months ago

it's all just showing off that you have the privilege to carry around 5 different inefficient devices (also that's a lot of e-waste) and do jailbreaking and arcane documentation and all that bullshit. it's showing off. it's a fandom. it's an aesthetic. any movement that doesn't actually meet or care about people's needs outside of its privileged uber-online core audience can never be anything but.

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draggianuniverse 6 months ago

it's a bunch of individualist punchy algorithmic aesthetic Tumblr bullshit that does exactly nothing to actually change tech ecosystems or fight problems. it's like telling someone for whom walmart is their only grocery store to "simply don't shop there". if you like playing with and showing off tech as a hobby, fine, but if you're not gonna address folks' computer needs except your bubble don't call it a "solution".

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lakestheguy 6 months ago

yeah calls to boycott stuff are nice and all. but the fact is: since big tech propriety software has more funding, it's a requirement for certain jobs & they're able to put that money into features, gimmicks, and ui design (even if a lot of big tech is getting worse). plus i agree that osm clients suck at navigation even if i still use them.

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lakestheguy 6 months ago

plus big tech tends to put their trackers on other websites, so unless you have a really good content/tracker/script blocker, you're probably still funding them in some way.

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niicespiice 6 months ago

ngl i havent seen enough media to see EITHER a trans struggle story or a trans instant acceptance story /srs. i have only seen characters that aren't properly confirmed trans but vaguely implied

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ocrevol 6 months ago

re:33, this was part of my impetus to create my trans books page. even as someone who enjoys horror and otherwise dark/fucked-up stories, it's really disappointing that transphobia (external or internal) is so often the main conflict any time a trans character is featured. many authors don't seem to grasp that transphobia is an ADDITIONAL problem that trans people have to deal with, not the ONLY problem

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ocrevol 6 months ago

I was so blown away when I watched Talk to Me (2022) and it featured a character that was openly transmasc and this was treated as a non issue. They were just another character in the film, in their own words "not a theme, just a person"

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ocrevol 6 months ago

and I shouldn't have been blown away by that! the bar should not be that low!

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niicespiice 6 months ago

in terms of my own story, the main character is nonbinary and depending on your reading you can see how this impacts their sense of isolation. however their story isn't really explicitly about being trans, it's about a bunch of other things instead. it's just a background element. so i suppose it's being accepted..? but they're lonely so hmm

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lakestheguy

7 months ago

my brother just called neocities techbro shit when half-jokingly calling me cringe 😔

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jaidenle 7 months ago

a real "techbro" is someone who likes technology, a fake one uses it for money.... (YOUR WEBSITE IS AMAZING, DONT LISTEN TO EM!)

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lakestheguy 7 months ago

@jaidenle dw it's fine. i just think it's funny because i dont see neocities as "techbro" shit at all (depending on your definition ofc). if anything he should have called my interest in i2p or freetube "techbro shit" because at least their fanbases are what most ppl think when they hear "techbro"

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niicespiice 7 months ago

THATS SO RELATABLE HHHHHHHHHHHH me when youtube i suppose?

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oopsiedoodle 7 months ago

that balaclava is incredible. i'm a knitter and have no clue how to crochet, but i admire how much easier it seems to freestyle in crochet than in knitting. projects like this really make me want to learn!

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swiftred 7 months ago

Thank you!! I find crochet significantly easier, but I learned it first, and I'm under the impression it's a lot more versatile which I appreciate. I hope you do end up trying it :D

wanillaberry swiftred

7 months ago

Hello, me again. Sorry I don't think it lets you reply to replies? Anyway thank you haha I was giggling the whole time I put him on there. I've been trying to make my site a lil more interactive, so I'm glad you enjoyed it! (P.S: I think you'll like my Death Note shrine too wink wonk) ALSO I thought the writing pieces you did with prompts were sooo interesting, were the prompts part of the club or from elsewhere?

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swiftred 7 months ago

Ah, yes! I did a quick skim earlier of the shrine because I needed a better gauge of what you thought of Light, lol, but I need to go back and read it thoroughly. Looks really nice! and thanks !!! The prompts were part of the club, which is ongoing (I'm very behind on it). Here's a link if you're curious https://museariadne.neocities.org/prompts

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wanillaberry 7 months ago

I want to bash his skull in with hammers!! But I am obsessed with him! Thank you for sending me the prompts, I've been trying to practice writing more lately!

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wanillaberry swiftred

7 months ago

Obsessed with your noticing page, may have to plagiarise lol. Also I love (read: despise) Light Yagami lmao.

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swiftred 7 months ago

Thank you!! Please do. I'll link it to mine. and HELLO FELLOW DEATH NOTE LOVER, RAH!!! and thank you for the follow :3

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swiftred 7 months ago

ps. I also got a kick out of your rotating slenderman section. Love the “Letters to Nowhere” page too.

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lakestheguy

7 months ago

vscode acting buggy and slow for anyone else? eversince it updated, it's been having trouble loading my extensions

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lakestheguy 7 months ago

ok i defragged my computer and it's working fine now

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badgraph1csghost 7 months ago

the problem i've always had with asking for constructive criticism is that whoever decides to critique my work suddenly becomes the world's foremost authority on art and gives me a lot of criticism without pointing out anything that they liked or offering ways to improve. i say "critique my work", they hear "make me feel bad for creating this".

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niicespiice 7 months ago

on 28: become a bandori hyperfixator like me perhaps (or don't)

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smokoswebzone 7 months ago

@badgraph1csghost I've kinda had that issue as well. Granted, I'm sensitive as all hell and even the rudest constructive criticism has the potential to be helpful if it's at least given in good faith. However, there definitely are people our there who use it as a bad-faith cudgel to tear people down.

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smokoswebzone 7 months ago

re: 30, it sounds like your asexuality is pretty similar to mine. I consider myself aegosexual, i.e. I only find sex enjoyable/appealing when it's third-person, fictional fantasies or scenarios, esp. in drawn or written smut. Otherwise, real-life or self-involved sex seems so boring, if not outright repulsive. It seems paradoxical, but I felt very vindicated to learn that a lot of aspec people experience this.

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niicespiice 7 months ago

unfortunately i feel like i'm too young to know my orientation - i did a lot of digging into it and i can't really seem to find concrete answers. i keep flipflopping between pan and ace in my head. probably ace in reality but i like to be in denial because comedy

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lakestheguy

7 months ago

for some reason, the bullet points on my blog post won't fit inside the window body no matter how i adjust the width. it was fine in the live preview, very weird.

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draggianuniverse 7 months ago

Instead of doing li tags, you could just attach bullet points as Unicode characters to the text of your messages. That'd get the same visuals but avoid anything weird with HTML indentation. (also, do you have an answer to my webdav question or were you just liking the post? I'm not sure how to parse liking-without-commenting on question posts.)

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draggianuniverse 7 months ago

You might be able to do something like p::before, but just putting your "bullet points" into the text of your HTML proper should definitely work, and it's not like anybody's going to not have Unicode support. (and if you're really worried about it, you can locally load the font.)

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lakestheguy 7 months ago

thank you. also just liking your post

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saddleblasters 7 months ago

Re: the April 3rd update (I think your profile was disabled at the time), subvocalizing is imo the best way to read for actual enjoyment, for the exact reasons you say: you need to hear the author speaking in your head to really feel what they're communicating. The people who are against it are all deep in the speed-reading world, which I'm sure has advantages for certain types of reading, but...

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saddleblasters 7 months ago

…you shouldn’t let them make you feel bad. Also, I relate to that weird loneliness that comes after spending a long time with someone. I feel it less now that I have a girlfriend who is always here when I come home, but when she goes on business trips it’s weird how desolate it suddenly feels here. Writing definitely helps — it feels like planting seeds for future connections and communications

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swiftred 7 months ago

I find your comments very valuable, thank you :)

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niicespiice 7 months ago

relatable, it feels like making friends is pointless to me because there's always this time when they disappear and i'm just... back how it was before i even met them. it's llike it's entirely pointless if they're not going to be t here for me 100% of the time

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swiftred 7 months ago

@niicespiice Yeah, people coming and going is really difficult. I don’t personally find it pointless if somebody eventually leaves though. Painful? Very. But I’m usually grateful to have had the connection, though I’ve had some really bitter endings

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