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I'm in an odd mood for the day.
Listening to Manic Street Preachers, from back in the Good ol' days of Holy Bible, Generation Terrorists, and Gold against the Soul. I never could get into the newer stuff from Everything must go and on.
It feels odd, to go back to a time when I wasn't really me, but to still feel quite a lot like that person is me.
Nostalgia is a strange thing.

Is it suspicious to anyone else that Games Workshop brought back Mortarion, the champion of Nurgle, God of decay and disease.. And then we got a pandemic?
This is next level marketing.

I'm reading Lord of the rings again. Or rather, listening to it. Audiobooks are the best.

Man, First paragraph of https://thedorkweb.substack.com/ and I'm on a very strange adventure... I'm counting it as a historical artifact, preserving a period of time in which things were very different. A time after we defeated the horrors of the world, but before they showed back up in a new suit and reminded us we're still fairly terrible creatures on a whole...

People using their Iphones or Samsungs don't want to think, they want to click it and install it and have it work. Not because they're dumb, but because they don't have an interest in these things. They want to talk to their friends and family easily and quickly, not debate the finer points of licensing and privacy. I don't know what the ANSWER to this is, I would prefer we use matrix or XMPP personally, but you know... I run my own synapse/prosody server. I don't think that makes me the norm.

The reason I think people are switching to signal, over the less centralized alternatives, is related to ease of entry.
For whatsapp, all you had to do was download it from the app store and give it a phone number, and you're off. Your contacts are already there, everyone is good to go. Signal mirrored that, but removed facebook, so it seems to be a better secure alternative. Things like matrix, XMPP, even IRC require that you pick a server, find your friends, put in some effort.

So, I installed #CalyxOS on my phone. Here's what I learned. 1. It works perfectly, no complaints in regards to phone based functions. 2. The auto installer requires that your phone be close to stock. Mine wasn't, so I had to go with the old school flash all technique, but I assume this is planned since clearly if you're not stock you already know what you're doing. 3. #Aurorastore works if you turn on internal storage for downloads. Otherwise, it's a no go.

Alright, there we go. Docker set up, running nextcloud, freshrss, transmissionVPN, portainer, various other things. So happy!

Quietly installing #debian on this laptop of mine.
#Ubuntu made it angry, and honestly, debian is more fun.

There. I got #liferea working.

Okay, seriously, why is #brutaldon not the default look for mastodon? This is beautiful.

Debating swapping my server (in normal people terms a 15 year old laptop with a 1tb USB drive attached) over to a #docker setup. Just run all the various things in docker containers so I can fudge with them without breaking the entire system. Dunno if that's smart or not, but it's certainly tempting.

Debating going a little more private on my phone, I have #lineageOS installed right now, but it still runs opengapps, and all the google that entails. The issue is I need to be able to use my phone, and some things aren't easily accessible via #fdroid. I'm thinking I might try #calyxOS, since I like what I see over on the #calyx site, and it seems to allow access to the play store via alternative means.

Did I mention that I am in love with #magit now?

So, I've been hanging out in the #gemini space for a bit, Not really doing anything exciting, but watching it interestedly. The people over there seem so smart, and at the same time actually nice. Im debating throwing up a blog just for the heck of it. I don't really have anything to say, but I love the idea.

You know, it occured to me that I could basically use ANY linux distro, or even windows, in exactly the same way, if I trusted in #emacs. I have jabber running through it, mastodon, my email. All I need to do is backup my init file and let it do it's job on pretty much any system, and I'm back to basically the same workflow instantly.
And then, I forgot to git push my dotfiles, and had to start my init file over.
So there's that.

I realize I just keep asking dumb questions, BUT, are any of you on twtxt as well? I was debating setting myself up a twtxt feed on silentfoof.rocks, but no one seems to have one, since mastodon sorta fills that niche already. #twtxt

Okay, I think I've got mastodon down, next question!
Where are we all just hanging out? Are we on #IRC? #Matrix? #XMPP? What rooms, what servers.
I need moar social behavior. But at a distance, cos otherwise I freak out.