Snowrunner

It counts the keyboard taps & cursor clicks (optional) that you make, and your desktop pet cat taps whenever you type/click. As a reward for your tippity tappity productivity, you periodically get random cat costumes and skins. You can also buy/sell the costumes & reskins on the steam community marketplace.

It doesn’t work on Linux for me (mint btw), but I use it on my school laptop

I’m not sure how segregation/listening of inputs works between software in Linux, but if there’s a way around it to get bongo cat to work… 👉👈

I have a need for more Scottish accents in the movies I get recommended :<

Reading is underrated. Definitely read a book often, front to back. I only made it through two books this year after over 10 years without, and… it was definitely harder than I remembered ;^.
Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart was a fun sci fi ish romp :u

You won’t believe how exasperated I am evry fucking day working for a boss with shit for brains reading comprehension - but I digress

It’d be on brand then - if they asked AI to write out an argument for them, they’d take credit for the whole essay & if found out, they’d claim it was what they wanted to convey anyway

I been wooshed, sorry v.v

Tl;dr, bc linux is based

I got a steam deck when it came out. The desktop side was really cool, and all my games ran great on it.

Soon after, I finally bought my (former) dream pc case & decided with my next pc build I wanted linux because… it felt like the cool thing to do. With the steam deck, linux seemed just cool-new and easy to use. I couldn’t imagine not being able to solve any problems on a well-established distro with just patience and google-fu.

So I had mint and two flavors of fedora on flash drives and couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to enlarge my cursor on either fedora version. On mint cinnamon, I found the setting right away. I’ve been on mint since and haven’t looked back.

Pretty rarely, I get the question, why tf are you using linux? My answer is pretty much “cause I think it’s based? Plus I get to learn more about computers along the way anytime something doesn’t work.”

Sauce? Or sarcasm?

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My lil neato bot from 2017/2018ish makes a perimeter map around my place each time it deploys, then makes back and forth sweeps. It’s got a built in weekly timer by the quarter hour to schedule sweeps. It beeps at me when its bin is full. Why do robot vacuums need the internet?

Think of self-hosting as - instead of depending on cloud services from other entities (google/apple/whoever), you host those services yourself by running them on your own pc or maybe your secondary pc running 24/7 (usually locally, in your own home).

Some common services might be automatic photo backup and storage (like immich), or running an adblocker for your home network, or streaming movie/music from your hard drive to your phone/TV (like jellyfin).

Not sure if you were angling for this response or used a voice transcription service, but it’s *seizing, not ceasing, btw

Unrelated: sometimes I’ve had confusing chats over fb marketplace trying to gauge the other person’s tone/sanity, but found their texts were just off because they let voice-transcription take the wheel.

The next update I have pending for Synology Office needs me to agree to AI use on my server. No thanks.

Toxic coworkers

Sounds right, tbh. Source?

Somebody remind me what movie this was. I faintly recall that it was short, but awesome

https://voidfox.com/blog/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_your_own_msp/

Someone breaks down why it’d be a monumental task for Valve/Itch to vertically integrate the whole payment processing thing into their business. The essay is highly readable.

The only thing I had to look up was
Escrow: a financial arrangement w/ a third party who holds/manages funds on behalf of two parties in a transaction

My takeaway was that Valve/itch/GOG would still be beholden to the banks who track porn as high risk for fraudulent transactions.

So what can we do about it? ~asking in earnest, btw. I buy porn and toys like a regular ass person, too~

Yes.

Whatchu gonna do about it?
~(not asking specifically you, bridge, just didn’t want to leave the thread at a circle jerk)~

For me, Tumblr was an online culture different from the ADHD of other journaling/blogging platforms like Instagram or Twitter. You could find conversations in tags, gifs didn’t lag my browser to hell, fan content was proliferous there, webpages could be personalized to the lengths you might’ve gone to in MySpace. It was the place to find fandoms and fandom content, even for the most obscure series. There were no ads. And I felt like gifs/texts of porn and kinks were made more accessible when searched for by tags.

There was no algorithm - discovery of new blogs was just subscribing to tags & maybe following who your followed-people followed, the way the fediverse kinda is.

I felt like the presentation was good to relish each post of content with less distraction, and the pagination + scroll browsing was just enough to keep me addicted.

Someone correct me if I’m remembering it wrong.

RIP 2011 Tumblr