Things aren’t going to get better, are they?

I don’t really think the current setup is too bad. Chromium being open source means anyone can fork it and make their own better browser without having to write everything from scratch.

Personally, I use Vivaldi. To the best of my knowledge Google can’t spy on me, they have plans for mitigating Manifest V3, and it has many useful extra features such as tab splitting and separate workspaces. It’s made to be super customizable and from my experience the interface stays mostly the same between updates - something that annoyed me a lot about Chrome/Firefox. It can be a little rough around the edges sometimes, but I love using it.

This is the power of FOSS. By default it treats the end user with dignity because you aren’t a tool to extract value from anymore.

You WILL watch this flashy, totally necessary popup video on 4G and you WILL like it!

It’s already happening, North Island has been flooding so much this year it’s barely newsworthy anymore. And yet people think voting in the rightwing “we need to be fiscally conservative but also we will spend billions on roads” party is a good idea.

Drums for me, but due to the mere logistics of that it’ll probably always be a pipe dream. Oh well

I think it’s pretty easy to explain it just by saying “the fediverse is a group of small social media sites that work well together. These sites talk to each other, so you can post on any of them with just one account. Usually these sites are ran by small groups of people instead of corporations, so it’s less soul-crushing than Facebook/Tiktok/Twitter/whatever.” No need to go into details about how everything works, the internet is magic to most people anyway. (myself included!)

I’d really like to spend a good chunk of time learning how to play/produce music. It’s a lifelong dream and something I’m slowly dipping my toes into, but real-life commitments make it difficult to keep up :(

WSL - Microsoft Linux

Grim, but not out of the question.

My personal, uneducated opinion is that we are going to have a period of ever-worsening crises, mainly because climate change is nowhere near to being at max ferocity yet. But I mean, humans are great at adapting to change. Maybe once things get bad enough, once people realise just how badly we fucked up and there’s absolutely no reason to believe in the lie of capitalism anymore, humanity will rise from the ashes and things will get better. But I’m not looking forward to seeing what’s next.

edit: I don’t like exactly how this is worded. But I hope the gist of it comes across.

There’s something just so charming about the DS format. I’m hoping to work on a small game for it when I have the time.