Arkhive

Not retro at all, but Destiny 2 Forsaken. I’ve always loved the Bungie game feel and gunplay, and I finally kicked my D2 habit right after Edge of Salvation week one. I’ve tried many single player shooters since and have yet to find something that comes close to scratching the itch.

I first read that as “interested in threats” and I almost shouted out loud “SAANNDDDYYYY NOOOOOOOO!!” Expecting to see a porcupine or something in the photo.

VPN worked for me and others all through uni, adding in the seed box layer seems even better.

Feeld is a half decent dating app for this, but I really hate suggesting a platform that still tries to rope you into a subscription by praying on insecurities around not getting many matches. But it seems like people are pretty open with what they are looking for, and it’s a pretty diverse platform.

Second for Owncast. Pretty much the only thing I know of. Or maybe screen share in a shelf hosted Revolt server?? With permissions it should be pretty easy to set up a chat only room where the person streaming is the only one that can stream and speak.

Woah!! Never would have expected to see a post about this spot on Lemmy!! I know that area well! Such a beautiful part of the world!

I’m going to mention SLSKD if you’re at all into self hosting. I run that on a crap laptop at home, and can access it via wireguard/tailscale, then from my phone handle adding new downloads. This is borderline a required feature for me because I learn about a lot of music via word of mouth and being able to go grab it on the spot is great functionality.

Spotify’s payment model also adds a ton of bias to their suggestions. Artists need to hit a threshold number of listens a month to get paid at all, so Spotify ends up just suggesting music from artists they are already paying, rather than letting other folks hit that threshold. It’s also why the “shuffle” feature never actually shuffles a whole playlist before starting to repeat songs. If you really pay attention the songs that get repeated by the shuffle algorithm are the ones from bigger artists to try and keep smaller groups from getting paid at all.

Please let this be your sign to start ditching corporate platforms across the board. Enshitification will come for your pristine app experience eventually. Go spend your Spotify monthly bill on one album every month from bandcamp or something. Own your own media. Share it with friends. GET OFF CORPO AD PLATFORMS! I realize this is the fediverse, so people are already kind of on board, but I think music streaming is often given a pass, or sneaks by our focus when discussing these issues.

NOOOOOOO!! Where am I going to get my lobotomy! Now I’ll never be like the other girls!

Woah, I just got an ad for this today, and was intrigued enough to see what their monetization model was (in app purchases/subscriptions for “pro” features) and took a big pass on it.

I want to boost this approach. At first I just whole sale swapped to the full Proton Suite as a G-Suite replacement. But I quickly decided I did not want all my eggs in their basket, so I kept their VPN because it’s got good interfaces for mobile while also playing nice with OpenVPN on Linux, and then I’ve used other solutions for email and cloud and such, self hosting wherever possible.

This is just a gentile reminder that if it’s truly a flag design, it should work just as well and be readable when hung from the short side.

Okay, I’ve been following your posts for a while, but never commented. Wanted to finally say I’ve been really loving getting to see your journey with Sandy. I feel like I’m seeing her grow into herself under your care and it’s honestly very sweet. Brightens my day whenever I see a post of yours!