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I prefer LTS releases usually so Tumbleweed doesn’t suit me. Slowroll sounds doable but I see it’s still experimental. Is it as reliable as Tumbleweed?

I was seeing downvotes of hundreds of thousands and in some case even millions. But that's not the case when I log in from the standard Lemmy UI. (See left of picture) Also, tens of thousands of dollars are being solicited from the app (see right) Finally, some odd spam posts appear only via this app (middle right).

I don't know if this app is abandoned, but to the users: be warned. I've switched to alexandrite.app out of safety concerns.

I use my computer for so many things and I have about 200 applications on my computer. I don't know why, but it bothers me that everything happens on this one machine as well as seeing so many app icons (even grouped into folders). It's not an option, but I'd prefer to have dedicated computers for broad categories of tasks (Audio DAW, video editing, bash scripting, web dev, gaming, system stuff like disk space visualisation, web apps for social media and video sites, games, communications, office, music and film.

So I was thinking of installing something like openSUSE in a VM on my iMac. But I'm not sure if it's a good idea. Putting CPU intensive applications onto the VM is pointless since they'll struggle more. But putting convenient apps on the VM seems like a mistake too because it means that quick utilities like calendar, voice memos, alarms, contacts etc become inconvenient.

Anyway. I miss the days when all these functions weren't service by the same hardware and screen. Does anyone who can relate have any ideas?

One thing I've done is have my music served by Navidrome on a headless server.

released March 14, 2025

Guth / Vocals - Róisín Seoighe & James Shannon Giotár / Guitar - Neil Ó Briain Giotár / Guitar - Cian Mac Cárthaigh Dord / Bass - Karl Oldum, Cian Mac Cárthaigh, Neil Ó Briain Buillí / Beats - Karl Odlum & Cian Mac Cárthaigh

Available on music / streaming services including https://imle.bandcamp.com/album/taoille

I know links to long YouTube videos aren't ideal for platforms like Lemmy, but I thought this was an exceptionally sincere and constructive talk. There's analysis and solutions for screen addiction. The journalist seems to really know what she's talking about.

The main thing I got from this was insightful validation: It's helpful to delineate problematic use from non-problematic use. They discuss the brain patterns that lead to device "addiction" and more importantly, the behaviours that can get us out of it.

Anyway, I learned a lot and saw clearly many of the traps I fall into which was helpful.

I'll put the TOC here below. I don't know either of these people and have never heard of them before.

• 00:00 The Hours We Spend Daily On Our Phones
• 04:31 Effective Ways We Can Reduce Time On Our Phones
• 09:06 Why Phones Can Cause A Decrease In Our Attention Spans
• 16:17 Do Dopamine Detoxes Work?
• 26:34 What Are Phones Doing To Our Memory?
• 30:34 How Screentime Can Effect Our Perception Of Time
• 38:30 The Impact Phone's Have On Our Happiness, Health And Relationships
• 44:50 Predictions For How AI Is Going To Change Each Aspect Of Our Life
• 56:22 Fundamental Changes That Are Happening Due To Our Use Of Screens
• 1:06:28 Highest Impact Habits To Help With Phone Use
• 1:13:13 Where To Find Catherine

A) Funeral, casket and burial, or B) Get myself taxidermied ?

A pair of Long Island Trump voters visited Ireland recently. I think they were in their late 60s / early 70s. It looks like the current administration will be downsizing or disbanding the organisation their daughter works at and she'll likely lose her job.

Some other changes made by this administration mean that several of their investments are losing value. So they're very unhappy about him being in power now, although apparently the rape thing and being an overall creep was never an issue.

Anyway, Id' read that people like this exist and never actually saw / heard them before. It's real folks. They don't seem particularly bright but it seems they've done well for themselves in life.

Well worth reading. A lot of aid was misattributed to European settlers but was actually from First Nations (who themselves had very little). They have scans of original letters sent with the aid.