same, until keepassdx had problems on my samsung phone, at least for a while, so i swapped it out for keepass2android
against which kitchen pots have proven surprisingly useful elsewhere. against all odds
long ago i shifted to vscodium, a packaged version of only the open-source base of vscode that provides most but not all of the available extensions. for two reasons: so that i didn't leak telemetry to m$, and so that i wouldn't get used to features that aren't open source. it's available in a lot of package managers, mac/windows as well as linux
thanks to this post, i'm trying out searxng and then kagi, neither of which i knew. hopefully there's a searx instance configured roughly to how i'd want. i'm not philosophically opposed to paying, but search is a delicate thing to be personally identifiable - and i don't care what your privacy policy is, if you're taking my money, you can connect me with my clicks
nobody reads this junk here so i'll just shout at a cloud
a deadly education, naomi novik - this should finally unjam the block i've had on fiction; i don't do well with fiction when the world is burning. i've picked this up and set it down many times, but the novelty is that normally, a fiction book that stops after the halfway point to do world-building is one that will end up propping open a door. but in this one the late add increased my interest.
keep my heart in san francisco, amelia diane coombs - an adorable fluffy book set nearby that ended up on the to-be-finished pile during some political firestorm or other.
guide du routard, catalogne - americans don't want to see what i want to see and american guidebooks know it. i often drag in other people's guidebooks when i think about going other people's places.
i didn't realise that was out already! it's a different world to murderbot?
to a techie, i'd say, it's open source and if they ever overpushed politics, they'd find they'd become the fork as the community would fork away.
to a non-techie, i'd say, everyone's an asshole a different way, but they don't own the whole place like spez and musk do.
and i wouldn't argue. let them walk away haters. this platform isn't ready for everyone to come right now anyway.
i have a paranoid indie bookshop around the corner. i buy an interesting one. and put it on the tbr pile 😛
but seriously while that's true (and i do work that pile, just not in real time), i'll see ideas most anywhere (social media, press) and throw them in my bookwyrm tbr list.
last week those merged, i actually bought a book i'd previously seen and put in tbr, and i guess i'm glad i found it interesting twice. it is… on the pile
woah are those negative or slide? we have a place here that i used to hand a hundred or so negatives at a time, but that was in the before times. they're still here but don't really advertise scanning anymore, so not clear on what would be possible
i am on a niche server (as i am on most fedi platforms) because it was the sheer volume of review-dunking that chased me off goodreads, long before bozo bought it. so when i went back to book social, i started out hiding in a corner and never left.
https://book.dansmonorage.blue/user/emmadilemma
federation on bookwyrm seems more hit-and-miss than on other platforms, so the instance you're on makes a difference. most people i know are on books.theunseencity and bookrastinating; i keep a secondary on the latter to see some updates that don't flow well to dansmonorage
although to be fair, physical access generally = game over. i would be (am) more concerned with exfiltration over a really innocuous-looking google endpoint