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I am very sick of seeing three letters here on Nostr: B-I-P 🫨

I won't lie, I like Valve but they're REALLY testing my patience as of late... View quoted note →

I used to be a Samsung fan but they've completely lost me in recent years. They're also heavily responsible for this RAM crisis which doesn't help matters. View quoted note →

I love what Odysee has done over the years, and I still support it for now, but things aren't looking good when the co-founder leaves because of the way things are going. Julian also says that they're in major financial trouble, which makes things worse.

Odysee

Goodbye Odysee

View on Odysee: Goodbye Odysee

I still use Odysee but I haven't uploaded anything aside from articles, and I haven't even posted any comments in a while either. As such, for now, I've decided to go back to using LBRY's desktop client. For those who don't know, LBRY was what Odysee was originally built upon but the meddling SEC destroyed the entity behind LBRY in a total farce of a case. Much of LBRY (as a program and protocol) still exists, however, and you can still use the desktop application fully. It's not a perfect solution, nor is it necessarily going to work long-term, but I see this as an excellent opportunity for someone to fork the original repos and merge it into the Nostr ecosystem somehow, at least to some extent. I'm far from a skilled developer, so I'm not going to be able to be the one to do it. I'm learning Python (which the SDK is built in) and I have a tiny bit of experience with some C-likes such as JavaScript and C#, so I can't hope to pull it off any time soon, but I hope someone out there can at least fork LBRY and turn it into something now that Odysee appears to be in trouble. #decentralization #odysee #fosschain #opensource #freespeech

Nostr still has so much untapped potential! I wish I were better at coding, I'd make some of my ideas real. Maybe someday! View quoted note →

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So, I discovered the Smart Video Wallpaper Reborn plugin for KDE Plasma and I might be in trouble... I already spend way too much time mashing up different elements of themes, ricing my system the way I love it, this just added another layer of complexity to waste more of my time 😂 #Linux #KDEPlasma #fosstr #opensource

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Humanity would be infinitely better if musicals never existed 😒

I take a pretty minimalist approach to browser extensions but this one has been added to my must-have extensions. If you use Amazon in the modern age, it's a downright TERRIBLE experience all around, especially on the storefront. It's full of scam brands, knockoffs, lookalikes, and the people behind these have learned to game the system. The Knockoff extension adds tags next to all entries by unrecognized brands (you can allowlist any of them), with the option to hide them entirely if you really want to, allowing you to make a better and more informed purchase. Absolutely game-changing extension right here!

GitHub

GitHub - Shpigford/knockoff: Chrome extension that filters pseudo-brand junk out of Amazon. Buy from real, established brands.

Chrome extension that filters pseudo-brand junk out of Amazon. Buy from real, established brands. - Shpigford/knockoff

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I got my new Arduino Uno Q today, only to realize that I somehow do not have a single USB-C to USB-C cable, nor do I have a hub to plug a monitor into it... so, on top of the money I've recently spent on tech upgrades for my homelab, I now need to spend more money to get both of those at some point. I guess I'll just do another large tech order at some point and include other stuff I need, such as more breadboards, components, maybe even one of the IoT Nanos if they're on sale. And I thought my PC gaming hobby was expensive... 🙃

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