DiscoShrew

joined 2 years ago
[–] DiscoShrew 2 points 2 years ago

Starmaker and First and Last Men were truly ahead of their time with the ideas they explored. I would even go to say it explored a great many of the basal Sci fi conventions that exist today. It is especially impressive because it's nearly one hundred years ago that they were written.

[–] DiscoShrew 4 points 2 years ago

I have a Kobo Libra 2, and it's what I use for at night reading or when I'm out and about. Otherwise I use my Supernote for the bigger screen and the notetaking capabilities. Naturally everything is organized through Calibre.

[–] DiscoShrew 4 points 2 years ago

I've just been using the browser or a progressive web app on mobile so far. Seems to work more or less okay.

[–] DiscoShrew 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I can see your comment fwiw

[–] DiscoShrew 4 points 2 years ago

After hopping around from PopOs, Debian, and EndeavourOS, I've been settled on Opensuse tumbleweed for a couple years. Have no desire to change because it does everything I want and YAST is awesome.

[–] DiscoShrew 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. I used the first book as a palate cleanser after finishing Blood Meridian. It's very whimsical and playful in many aspects but also builds out a beautiful world that you can definitely lose yourself in.

[–] DiscoShrew 8 points 2 years ago

I think, at a fundamental level the Reddit I am mourning isn't Reddit as it exists now, but perhaps how I imagine it did ten or so years ago, the so called "Early Days". We're all here now because Reddit at is now is unsustainable and actively hostile against it's users. The contradiction between the need for monetization of the userbase and the userbases disgust at being monetized. This isn't a recent occurrence but sometimes we need to get a bit of a kick to realize how bad its been, in retrospect.

I do know, as many fellow tech people do, whenever I have to look into a problem I haven't encountered before, appending "Reddit" to the search often leads me closer to an answer. I will miss that, as it had become so well indexed. Lemmy isn't there yet in terms of being indexed.

[–] DiscoShrew 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm on the mobile browser version, but click your profile picture, settings, and then go to the blocked tab. Should be a blocked communities subheading. Let me know if that works.

[–] DiscoShrew 12 points 2 years ago

I think the presently smaller user base makes it easier to feel comfortable posting and talking, plus I feel as if many could be motivated to participate more because of the ideals the community upholds through FOSS. It certainly feels good to post here, a more guilt free experience.

[–] DiscoShrew 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Usually you have to search, wait a little while for it to populate and refresh. It should then show up. Unfortunately you do need the link for that.

But https://browse.feddit.de/ is a fairly good search engine for lemmy communities.

[–] DiscoShrew 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey, Howdy MHCat!

[–] DiscoShrew 7 points 2 years ago

Pictures you can hear. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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