Wow, I can’t believe I almost forgot about netbooks

Nah it was a while back. IIRC there were multiple sources, but I don’t remember any of them 🙃

Though, I don’t really remember the details either. Maybe it was OS specific? I know there was a dodgy FUSE implementation out there for macOS at some point, and Cryptomator depends mounts its local drive with FUSE. I use macOS and NixOS, so it coulda been that.

I’ve been trying Peergos lately, and I’m pretty happy with it so far.

Google’s nagging offers for free trials of Gemini made me realize that I was basically handing data over to an AI company 🤦🏻‍♂️ So I’ve been looking for an alternative too

I started to go down that path, but then I heard that there were problems with data corruption

I learned a bit of Esperanto, many years ago. It’s crazy how easy it is to progress in that language, compared to natural languages.

I’ve been learning Portuguese (Brazilian) off and on for a while. I’m mostly okay-ish at reading it, but it’s nearly impossible for me to understand it when spoken.

This might be a weird question, but: Did you have a particular reason to learn Swedish or Norwegian, or is it just for fun?

I’ve been interested in learning Swedish or Danish, but I haven’t been able to find a practical reason to. I hear that almost all of them speak English pretty well, and will prefer speaking English with you if you visit their country. (The curse of being a native English speaker who likes languages.)

I would have had easy access to a native Danish speaker, but sadly, my Mormor (“mother’s mother”) passed away just last night. Her English was perfect as she lived in the US for >70 years, but her beautiful accent is what originally sparked my interest in Scandinavian languages.

Have you ever considered not being like this?

Yep, that’s the main problem: I live alone, and only drink 1-2 cups a day.

I could try practicing with like soapy water or something (I think I’ve seen that in a YouTube video at some point), but honestly, I’m just not motivated enough for that kind of effort. For me, my coffee looks pretty enough with my “abstract art” 😅

Not professionally, but I got way into learning about coffee during the pandemic. I now have an awesome espresso machine.

I’m horrible at latte art though

This is definitely one of my favorite dog behaviors 😆

Huh, yeah that is kinda weird. 🤔 If most cops and politicians are trying to kill most people, then there should be a lot of self-defense pleas flooding the courts…

I’m just an internet comment though, not a lawyer or whatever

I made a custom Linux image to run inside a web browser. No particular distro, just a Linux kernel (compiled with a custom configuration to produce a tiny binary), a shell, and a few small apps.

When reading from the filesystem, it made HTTP requests for each file (+ browser caching), so no need to load a disk image all at once. IIRC, I got the cold boot time down to <1 second (after assets were already cached from a previous load though).

I also got NixOS to run in the browser, but even after stripping out as much as possible, it was still really slow due to systemd. (I’m not a systemd hater, resources are just very limited when running this way.)

I used an x86 emulator called v86. It’s a very cool project 🙂

You guys are really making me consider GrapheneOS.

Did you find a Google Drive alternative? I’m strongly considering Peergos, but still kinda shopping around.

Thank you 🖤 I’m sorry to hear about your cat. What was their name?

Many thanks to everyone for the love 🖤 This seems like such an amazing community.

To those who have also lost a beloved dog: What did you do with your dog’s things?

I have a nearly-full (but opened) bag of dry food and lots of canned food, but they’re prescription stuff — kidney support diet. Does anyone know what do do with that? I’d love to give it to someone whose dog has kidney disease, but not sure how to find someone like that.

I imagine I could clean and donate her toys to a local animal shelter or maybe Goodwill, but open to suggestions for that too.

🤔 is this accurate? I don’t even follow political stuff and I’ve heard about everything in that list. Seems like people have been talking about these things

Doesn’t that apply to pretty much all platforms though?

I mostly browse Lemmy, but I occasionally check Reddit. I never really got into the microblogging types of platforms (Mastodon, X, Bluesky, Threads, etc) for some reason