I somehow didn’t know about Linkin Park’s new (couple of years old) album and I listen to it a lot. Good Things Go and Stained are so good.

I’ve found that there hasn’t been much point in subscribing. Communities are so small that most have one post every couple of weeks or even months (outside of a few core popular communities). It has always been more worthwhile going to c/all and filter through what you see.

I would recommend Floccus.

I tried Linkwarden and others, ultimately didn’t want to consume half a gig of ram for this when all I need it simple bookmarks. I sync through WebDAV and use the addons in all my browsers and the app on Android. Works great.

You say you don’t need drive storage, but you already have it with Mailbox if you ever need it.

Not needing Meet because you don’t talk to people, this is the energy I need.

I’ll be waiting for my cheque in the mail for my cut of the income from the video then.

AI isn’t really required. Someone should tell billionaires that you can just ask for people’s work/ideas and steal them directly.

Is this free crowdsourcing ideas that are going to be regurgitated into a PCmag article or something?

If you’re up for doing work and going bargain hunting for broken keyboards to salvage parts from then you could make a macro-pad(there are other designs besides 4x4, but I like this one). Instantly gives way way more than $25 value with minimal spending.

I like making keyboards otherwise, and you can get a nice set of keycap under your price limit if you’re willing to buy from Aliexpress. Or maybe a couple of artisan keycaps.

You can get magsafe attachments for a phone or tablet. You can get a wallet or kickstand attachment. Phone cases can be decent gifts too.

I buy all my electronics secondhand now and there’s great value to be had. If you’re ok with gifting used things in excellent condition, then I recently got a couple of top tier game controllers for a bit more than your budget (Flydigi Vader 4 Pro for £26 and a Gamesir Cyclone 2 for £28). Also needed an extra set of speakers for my garage gym and got a secondhand Logitech x230 speaker 2.1 system for £22 and it punches way above its weight.

Depends on what your friends are interested in. I would be very happy with a gift of a gigabit switch.

USB C chargers are always handy, and you can get a branded 65W PD laptop charger within your budget on eBay.

If they have a Steam Deck or something then there are plenty of accessories (holders, stands, cases, etc).

Remote with keyboard and wand mouse would be pretty cheap.

Chinese mice from AliExpress are now top tier. Or could get a cheap trackball if preferred.

A FLIRC USB dongle is $25 and makes your TV IR remote work with your media PC.

I don’t know about Tuta, but if you’re looking for an alternative then Mailbox is awesome. It also takes care of calendar, contacts, drive, basic online office webapps, I think they have a basic video conferencing thing too.

I think Mullvad comes up repeatedly as one of the best VPNs, but you need to look up otherwise since VPNs sell out and enshitify all the time.

Sounds great, I’ll try it out.

I’ve just uninstalled Super Productivity because all the data was client side and server sync was problematic. I’m always going to use it on the home network. This sounds like what I wanted with time tracking and everything.

Same with removing Affine having recently removed that. Same client side data nonsense. I want everything processed on the server.

Other than this… I’ve been trying to keep up with updating everything with all the vulnerabilities with PHP, Debian Kernel vulnerability, etc.

Oh I also set up Homarr. I didn’t think I needed a dashboard. But this has been amazing.

More specifically, life is a rogue-like. You get what you get and have to try to make the most of it. You might beat a very difficult stage and get a shot reward for it and that’s just the luck of the roll. Some will get lucky with a legendary that makes their run very easy. You likely won’t and still need to carry on even if you get an anti-synergy. No one is coming to help, this is for you to do.

More specifically, Binding of Isaac really resonated with me and I think I took away a lot of life lessons.

How could anyone online be expected to explain this satisfactorily?

You’ve clearly reflected on how it went and have not identified anything to learn. There could be an infinite number of factors on his end that have nothing to do with you.

Good luck finding someone else.

Watership Down

Was fucked up for a child to watch. My parents thought it was going to be a harmless animated movie for children. I watched it again as an adult. It is still fucked up.

This is with a discount code. I remember discount codes being offered out by some creators on YouTube to encourage people to join Nebula. I obviously don’t look anymore, but you will likely find one of you look around and wait.

If longform video is your thing, I would highly suggest Nebula. I’ve paid £27.30 for a years subscription. Creators say they get paid fairly and can make content without censorship. It has been exactly what I’m into.

Not only are they not necessary, they’re actually harmful to existence. Admittedly I use YouTube somewhat through privacy front ends, but quitting all the others has been great for my health. Using nebula has also minimised my use of YouTube.

If you can’t repair or use that, it will still sell for quite a lot these days on eBay.

I don’t have many alerts setup, but I use Mattermost anyway and I send alerts into a Mattermost channel. Sonarr and Radarr report when a download is complete. Jellyfdash reports when someone outside my home starts streaming something over Jellyfin.

I feel bad for anyone building now. I built my gaming setup + NAS and server PC and upgraded my Steam Deck in the past 2 to 3 years. Going to get as much milage out of these as I can till things settle down. I’ve changed all my Docker services to lower resource alternatives to keep things running on my existing ram.

Then in 5 years when things have only gotten worse and this is the new norm then I’ll cry alongside everyone else. Or maybe China will get their fabs up and running and swoop in to undercut these bastards to save us all.

Hey that’s the town I used to live in before I was concieved!

Ending RSS support really sucks. But I guess it’s a bit of a blessing to remove that last bit of reddit from my feed.

Same. Except work seems to block my cloudflare tunnel so I have to use Synology reverse proxy.