Just an ordinary myopic internet enjoyer.

Can also be found at lemm.ee, lemmy.dbzer0, and Kbin.social.

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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • I use adblock (uBlock origin) because the internet is nigh unusable otherwise. It’s incredibly risky (even irresponsible) to not have adblock turned on given the danger of malware, or malware in the guise of advertisements. However, I’d whitelist sites that are decent about it–though in practice, I find it risky to temporarily disable my adblock just to test things, much less to whitelist them.

    Most of all, there are other, better, ways to support content creators in the internet.








  • I am actually agreeing with you, it is not impossible.

    However, given that Javascript is ubiquitous in the internet nowadays, giving it up would mean practically having to forego the “normal internet experience.” Not many people are willing to go that far.

    I am not saying he is wrong. I am saying that there are people like me who, despite not being prepared to go as far as he did, still recognize that he’s right about such things.




  • I’m aware that Richard Stallman had some questionable or inadequate behaviours. I’m not defending those nor the man himself. I’m not defending blindly following that particular human (nor any particular human). I’m defending a philosophy, not the philosopher. I claim that his historical vision and his original ideas are still adequate today. Maybe more than ever.

    This is really an important note. I’ve always maintained that while not every little one of Stallman’s ideas are gold, his ideas on things he’s got expertise on (especially open-source software) are pretty much on point—even if his ideas are a bit too idealistic and are seen as aspirational ideals rather than calls for action and the fact that a lot of them are painful for ordinary people to follow.



  • Arch Linux with KDE Plasma

    Had previous experience on Linux Mint way back, then Ubuntu. Had Manjaro with‌ XFCE for a couple of years before moving on to my current one.

    Moving on to Arch, btw, wasn’t my idea. Someone convinced me to let him have a go at converting my Manjaro installation to Arch. It was an interesting experience, but not one that we would want to go through ever again.


  • It might be an instance-dependent or user-setting-dependent thing, but I’ve noticed that my responses default to English.

    For the time being, I’ve set my language preferences to these languages:

    • Undetermined
    • Esperanto

    If my hunch is correct, my instance will detect that I haven’t selected a language for this reply and set it to English.


    Edit: It didn’t. 😅


    Edit 2: I’m stupid. The OP is talking about post creation, and not reply creation. My bad.