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I think mine was gentoo, waaaay back in the day. It didn't go great lol.

I'm loving opensuse rn though!

Some people simply like to be contrarian and troll online communities, including leftist ones. Or they're doing it out of anger or despair or low self esteem (or they're paid to by a government lol). Good modding, that has the tools, time, and numbers to do a good job, may be an answer to that side of it.

Otherwise, I think being involved with local irl groups doing things and then posting report backs is going to be a less-theoretical form of posting. I'd hope that would lead to more productive and inspiring discussions.

Thanks for your post!

It's a Triumph Gabriele-e. I love this machine.

Yes, I'm much more wary of corporate invasions of privacy than the odd looky-loo peering over my shoulder. There are ways of keeping your data away from prying eyes -- see Selfhosted -- but the brain-to-hand-to-mechanical machine (or pen) feeling is more satisfying, permanent, and tangible.

I would never trust a billionaire to do anything for us. If he doesn't just carve out an exception for only people like himself at first, he'll still lobby to have new restrictions on sharing if they threaten his business model.

It'll end up being a back-and-forth between him and the IP companies, so if he has enough leverage, they'll just find a way to give him what he wants without doing so for regular folks.

Mostly, I journal at home on my dining table. But, while I was on a trip recently, I felt the need to journal and of course didn't have my trusty typewriter with me. Writing on my phone would have been easy, but I felt that, in doing it that way, I would have missed the physicality of doing it on paper.

So I gladly accepted it as an excuse to go to the stationery store and browse the journal options. Given that I tend to like medium- or broad-nib pens -- in fact, I've recently fallen in love with a stub nib fountain pen -- I knew it'd have to be bigger than the pocket-sized options. For my Goldilocks combination of carrying size, size during use on a train or flight, fountain pen compatible paper, and minimalism, I ended up with a Mnemosyne 104. I've done one entry in it, but I plan to tear out the page and enter it into my springback binder, with all the looseleaf I usually use with my typewriter, so that it is integrated into my chronological order.

I realized that I didn't really care if people on public transit next to me were reading what I was writing.

Very cool! For the user scores, are you using monthly active users, total registered users, or something else?

https://thedigradio.com/

Also all of the Jacobin magazine podcasts are socialist

One of those Canon Selphy printers will make small prints fairly cheaply. Not as cheaply as a thermal printer, but it will be a real, full-color print that should last.

Thanks for this list! There are some fun suggestions here that'll help me get into peertube, but Russel Brand is a conspiracy theorist and far-right pundit, recently charged with rape & sexual assault. Suggesting you delete him from this list.

because capitalism, mostly

Pandoc can convert many kinds of files to docx, pdf, and lots of other things. Use the text editor of your choice!

Haha I sympathize. Glad to help!

There's also this mega list that overall leans libertarian-socialist, but contains authors from many perspectives