ElectroVagrant @ ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world

Another traveler of the wireways.

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It weally was, I can't believe I whiffed that wheelie

Honestly that's one of my favorite parts of anthology/episodic shows. You get a loose theme of what to expect but each episode can pleasantly surprise you.

Aah, so I think Play Store is up to date but F-Droid isn't, check again here: https://f-droid.org/packages/app.vger.voyager/

Unless this updates between me commenting & you checking (or browser cache is messing with me), it still shows v2.29.1 for F-Droid.

Checked the other day and it hasn't gone up via F-Droid repo yet. I just downloaded the updated version from Github since it was bugging me.

I don't know how accurate the stats are, but around the bottom of each instance sidebar they have a breakdown of users per day/week/month. I think that's supposed to pull not from signed in visits but whether they were active by voting/commenting/posting.

Excluding the instances you mention, there's still a sizable amount of people active if those stats are reliable.

You can see the weekly/monthly stats aggregated in the list view of instances on Lemmyverse:

https://lemmyverse.net/

If at all possible, I'd try to arrange for a break.

A lot of this sounds like it may stem from burnout (before getting into any more long-term conditions). Taking a break probably won't help you see your job in a new light (some jobs simply suck, or aren't a good fit for people personally), but it could give you time to rest enough to look for other opportunities. However first and foremost any such break should focus on resting and recovery to get you to a better state to just be well and happy.

Once you know you can sort out breaks and recover, you can set aside more time to look for opportunities. Right now it seems almost like this may be among your best options: carve out breaks for yourself to rest and recover. Once you're feeling better, take time you've reclaimed for yourself to seek out opportunities to change jobs and improve your work situation.

Image uploads are enabled 4 weeks after account creation, & image upload limit is 500kb per image.

Source is instance sidebar, but if you're using an app that's gonna be found in a variety of places. In Voyager for example it's under Communities>3 dot menu in the upper right>Instance sidebar.

Also while there's a modest amount of people here (I'd reserve small for under a thousand online, personally), many of them seem to have a rather narrow set of interests they like to engage with. Namely technology (self-hosting & Linux in particular), news (primarily to do with politics), and memes (a mix of things but largely politically-tinged, old memes, nostalgia-tinged).

Outside of these interests the next most active may be cute animals, comics, and video games with some gradually rising gardening, stitching, woodworking, art, and certainly other interest communities I'm forgetting or haven't noticed.

With that affectionate tone that she'll deny up and down to the others that overheard it

Cult of Disney is eerily real. Maybe it's the US version of how some Brits obsess over the royalty.

For anyone interested in reading up on what Spicetify is and offers in more detail: https://spicetify.app/

I don't use Spotify much, so I just wade through what I dislike in it on the rare occasions I do. This sounds like it made the desktop experience much nicer, so this sucks if it holds true.

No problem! A lot of people here are aggressively anti-AI anything, so they take any opportunity to bash it, often including people trying it out.

Personally I don't like the corporate AI stuff either, but I recognize my distaste is better directed at the corporate jerks than regular folks like yourself giving it a go.

Honestly I think this is because the datasets it's taking from have a tendency to do this too. Try asking people online for a game or device with specific features and some will skim the question, overlook your criteria or disregard its importance, and offer unrelated or only barely related things.

This is part of why it's silly to build AI off of bulk internet data and expect much better. It takes devices capable of precision and reliability and makes them generate imprecise and unreliable output, a perfect pairing for frustration at best and disaster at worst.

Stop-motion legend right here. Some may know him in particular from his work on Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans.

The way he and his teams made little figurines come to life is still a sight to behold today, knowing it was meticulous practical effects at play.

It's great! Also for anyone that happens to be in the overlap of people that enjoy chess and go, and want to play go online as well, there's online-go.com.

I don't know that it has all the features that Lichess does, but it does have puzzles, tournaments, custom games, and so on.

Gonna take this as a jumping off point to mention some software.

Wanna get into video editing? Shotcut's pretty solid in my experience.
Into mind-mapping stuff? You might give Freeplane a look.
Have a drawing tablet & want to use it to take handwritten digital notes? Check out Xournal++.
Cross-platform Notepad++ alternative? Might give CudaText a try.

Could list off more but will leave it at a few for now.

In terms of fully free, obligatory mention:
Your library may offer more than books alone, depending on how well supported they are. Borrow music, movies, sometimes even video games. For music and movies they may also offer these to borrow digitally as well via online services they coordinate with.

Lately I've been casually researching a variety of things like usual, and remembering again that part of that needs to involve finding more international sources, like looking for the various research groups/centers in different countries to see what their approaches and results are.

I don't really know where any of that would fit into any communities (CivilianScience? CasualResearch?), so here we are.

Besides that been doing the usual browsing around for more open web stuff and hey, NeoDB is cool! It's federated software that "helps users to manage and explore collections, reviews, and ratings for various cultural products, including books, movies, music, podcasts, games, and performances." So sort of like a hybrid Letterboxd/RAWG/Goodreads/etc. from the sounds of it.

A few of the highlights I disagree with pretty strongly, but much of that's my being-too-online showing so I see why they mentioned them.

I don't think so. The largest ask communities, according to their own descriptions, say they're for more open-ended questions, albeit AskLemmylemmy.ml seems to be more lax about it (and it seems like maybe AskLemmy@lemmy.world has kinda relaxed on it too).

There's the newer !ask@lemm.ee that doesn't have the open-ended part to their description, so might be a good fit.