I use AntennaPod on my phone - highly recommended.
Writer, teacher, data driven humanist. Tech geek, model builder, mini-painter, reader. He/Him.
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displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’English
27·5 months agoEvery time I hear someone say something like, “Experts - what do they know?”, I want to reply, "Yeah, you’re right - now, when can I come by to fix your roof? I’m not a roofer - don’t know shit about roofing or construction, actually - but you don’t like experts, and I’m certainly not a roofing expert, just another ignorant monkey with a hammer and a lot of misplaced confidence in my abilities. "
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next yearEnglish
4·6 months agoThis device looks really interesting, but I don’t see anything on their site about how I can write software for Light Phone, or install anything except what they provide through their app.
How is that any different from what Google plans to do to Android?
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say SoEnglish
5·7 months agoThere’s a similar bill working it’s way through the Senate here in the US.
The Kid’s Online Safety Act has the same problems as the one in the UK, and people here like the EFF have been sounding the alarm. I’ve written to my Congresscritter about it, but sadly, they’re a bloody co-sponsor of the bill. Like the article said, they think the internet is made up of Facebook and Google, and they’re ignoring the impact it will have on the small players, like Lemmy server operators.
In this case, I don’t think just a VPN will help – I think Tor might, as long as the small operators don’t mind being borderline outlaws.
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•Pluralistic: Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification (07 Nov 2024)English
10·1 year agothe idea that these webs of laws or these models of “how things should work” mean anything tho the people with power are complete nonsense.
Kinda ironic that you are discussing the nonsense of “how things should work” on a federated service where you control the intermediaries you work with and through, which is, IMO, the way things should work.
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Pirate Sheet Music?English
8·1 year agoI’ve seen music books for recorders on ZLib - maybe there is stuff for ocarina as well.
I tried KMail and Organizer for a few weeks, but they kept losing connection with Gmail. My calendar would get out of sync, and they only way to fix it was to reset the connection and redo all the appointments.
I’m sure it was user error, since I couldn’t figure it out after spending a couple hours on it, so I just dropped back to webmail and not leaving the mail tab open all day.
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Is there any Podcast players that autoskip ads?English
4·2 years agoI like Antenna Pod for this - my BT connections let me use the Forward 30 Seconds feature when m driving or running. Since most ads are 30 seconds long, I can cruise through them easily.
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Alacritty, Konsole, or something else? Which terminal emulator do you recommend?English
1·2 years agoMe too - I’ll use Konsole if I need to have the results up all the time, but Yakuake is my main terminal.
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkitsEnglish
7·2 years agoMy first reaction would be to acknowledge them as a fellow geek, but that’s because most of the people who live near me would hurt themselves trying to open Notepad. Anyone who knows enough to start hacking my config files would be a welcome guest in my house.
Then I’d kill them with a hammer. :-)
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location, Browsing Data, Photos, and Spams You with AdsEnglish
16·2 years agoIt is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains.
The stains become a warning.
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What fonts are the most common on Linux today?English
6·3 years agoMy EndeavourOS (and the prior Manjaro distro) had all of them installed.
All. Of. Them.
I am so tired of having to scroll through hundreds of Noto fonts to get to the later ones, but I’m afraid, if I uninstall one, something will break on reboot.
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What fonts are the most common on Linux today?English
2·3 years agoI use these too, and Fira Code and Hack for coding.
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What's your favorite Linux Desktop software?English
1·3 years agoDefine “buggy”. I’ve still got a problem where occasionally when I mouse over the dock, it redraws the icons, but I’m living with that until it hurts enough for me to figure out why.
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•How to save kindle unlimited books after subscription endedEnglish
4·3 years agoI moved from a major metro area to middle of forking nowhere several years ago. I kept my library cards from the metro area, which still work for Libby ebook and magazine downloads, while the local rural library is tied into a regional system for the occasional dead tree book.
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What's your favorite Linux Desktop software?English
13·3 years agoNot sure if it counts, but
obsidianfor notes and my daily journal, andlatte-dockto replace the stock KDE app bar.Oh, and
emacswithdoomfor general text editing and most coding tasks.
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What's your favorite Linux Desktop software?English
7·3 years agoemacswithdoomFTW.Looking forward to learning how to get tree tabs in FF.
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What's your favorite Linux Desktop software?English
6·3 years ago+1 for
btop- so much easier to find and kill runaway processes.
displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Distro recommendation for ease of use and up to date softwareEnglish
7·3 years agoI just hopped both my laptop and desktop from Manjaro to Endeavour - so far, so good. I’m still restoring files from backup and installing stuff, so it’s still early days, but already things are feeling better.

It would have been too sarcastic for them to have touted it as a “legitimate” “new” “business”.