My eye exam is done and I picked out boring frames today. Still nearsighted AF, but this latest prescription will make my vision clearer. It is time to enjoy a long walk home!
After that, I foresee a session of No Man’s Sky because a hotfix for the Xbox version dropped this morning. Can't wait to be alone with those abominations in space!
Feeling fantastic about my experience with Ubuntu now; I'm adjusting to the use of a mix CLI and the graphical interfaces to get stuff done on the distro. Knowledge that I thought was lost is resurfacing, since my comfort zone is expanding again.
Installing more of my games and will be testing each one over time to see which performs well or poorly on Ubuntu 24.04.
Funnily enough, Microsoft only provides an Outlook.VCF file if you export passwords on iPhone into the iCloud. The VCF file was the one iCloud contact importer was capable of parsing.
When I first tried to import the basic ass CSV file into contacts via iCloud, it literally said, 'this file is trash, get me something better, peasant'. Like the god fearing dirt kneeler I am, I did. LMAO
I missed this little gem from the Cassandra of Video Games; The one who screams a foreseen truth before many do. Patterns of foul companies competing to be the shittiest of them all, pointed out in a crass and eloquent way. James Stephanie Sterling, if there is a God, I thank them for thee!
It's unsurprising that a shitty corporation like Konami would hire a team of hacks to remake a nuanced, mature game about trauma.
Ah, nothing makes me feel more alive than James Stephanie Sterling roasting a bad video game made by dark pattern worshipers! This one is Star Wars: Hunters, sounds like absolute trash, a case of as James Stephanie puts it, "grifter see, grifter do".
@Dennis5891 There are so many unethical free to play games out there these days; A shame, but as long as an audience exists for those dark pattern developers, it will persist.
#WritersCoffeeClub 05 Have you ever dreamed about characters in your work?
All of my characters come from dreams or daydreams because the creative process for me is distilling those nightly and day imaginings into a coherent form.
I've had thousands of characters emerge from my dreaming mind, but very few see actualization on the page. I use mental alchemy to distill their essence and experiment with personality mixes until I get a character just right.
The re-mounting of my big HDD went well due to not needing the command line at all. After doing a bit more reading, a simple repairing of the File System was needed. The difference in my problem-solving skills with sleep vs no sleep is telling. I deleted the previous panic toot.
Everything is fine now because my brain was working better in the morning.
ROFL I do love Ubuntu because of its user-friendly nature; I need to take a chill pill and think before panicking.
I got Proton Unlimited sooner than I thought, which is good! Tonight, I’ll transfer my passwords over to Proton Pass and clear all passwords from Microsoft. I will use Microsoft Authenticator for my Microsoft Account, switching the other 2FA accounts to Proton Pass as extra privacy is nice!
@crcollins I already had the email account and found it to be lovely. The bonuses of a paid account are quite lovely, made even sweeter because Proton has no plans to get heavily involved with LLM BS. 🤩
ROFL, I had the pictures and documents I needed on my HDD. I made more work for myself than necessary! OneDrive has been emptied, and now I will only use Microsoft for the Xbox, Outlook accounts.
Microsoft is really wanting me to stay on OneDrive, as the zips I have attempted to download have been damaged several times now. This makes me more motivated to remove the majority of my data from their clutches. I've had to individually download each folder at this point, I will succeed at this task.
Got most of my stuff from OneDrive in downloading process on my second huge hard drive. Next week, after paying my bills, I will move over to Proton Unlimited for all the perks. Realistically, I need 500G of cloud storage because I will consistently delete any backed up content which is out of date. Documents are really the only thing that I need to keep up to date in the future, I went cloud for most things. Like Apple Music, but I still have a hard copy of my music saved.
I will be purchasing an external SSD or HHD for my larger collections of media; likely a 4TB depending on the price. I may even get a larger drive, as one of my media folders is an eye-watering 1TB worth of digital media.
The Laura Preston essays are always worth a read! She wrote about AI and a conference that techbros and gals have showing off their progress on AI related products. She was the honorary contrarian they nominate every time it's held.
Having sifted through my options between harder and easier, I will likely go with Proton Drive as that will allow me to combine costs into one service. It will save me money, and that makes me quite happy. I will still use a Microsoft account due to having an Xbox and password less login…
However, my reliance on them is greatly lessened. I will be less reliant on Google too, there are some accounts that are a pain in the ass to change. In 2024 that is untenable!
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds I was a little surprised too at first, but I thought about my use case and I understood the need for a proprietary base. Honestly, even if I could, Mac would be useless to me. It doesn't fit the plan.
@wendigo Yeah, since I went iPhone; the pieces in my case fell into place due to needing an Apple related thing to maintain my iPhone myself (in case something happened).
From a Desktop hardware perspective, it's well-supported by the Linux Kernel. Due to my unspecialized needs, it can fully remain a Linux machine.
I can see your point as well, it's fairly clear to me, knowing the good things Windows does have and provides...
So in my attempt to get away from Microsoft, due to their bullshit. I am looking into Nextcloud. The installation process seems a bit complicated, but I could likely manage it after reading the instructions repeatedly.
I need to first see how much it will cost per month as a private user to have a Nextcloud Account.
Ugh, Microsoft and Google make it so easy at the cost of privacy. It's time to take chances with self-hosting to have control of my data back!
Only if there is genuine unsettling content in a book that one would not typically expect in a story. Content warnings are good because it allows a reader to make active decisions about the type of material they will be reading. It's a kind thing to do, in my opinion; I wouldn't want to read a story which puts me in a bad state of mind.