I’m so used to everything we do being another stride into a dystopian hellscape that it took me a moment to realise that this wasn’t (in any immediately obvious way) the government helping the fuel industry. This treaty is absolute nonsense, and should never have been ratified in the first place, so this is actually good news, unless they’ve somehow thought of something worse to replace it with

This is happening in the Memmy app too

Wait, are we supposed to think of influencers as humans?

Arctic prison, not gulag, honest

Mine is a Casio I’ve had for about 30 years, I’m pretty sure it’s mine by now

I’ve got a digital watch

I have the Flint, I think I paid about $80 for an open box one, it’s easy for a pleb like me to set up. Running Mullvad on it is definitely quicker than on my devices

Anyone who thinks that these things could or would be anything other than a colossal waste of time and resources should watch Adam Something’s recent video on them. Such a pointless way to solve inner-city transport

To be honest, I’m taking it as a sign of it developing genuine artificial intelligence. It examined its situation and surroundings, and made the only logical choice

Cornwall outsourced mobile speed cameras to a private company a while ago, and realised that they, and the company, we’re making money hand over just, and due to Cornwall’s number of tourists, much of that money was coming from outside Cornwall. This feels like a development of that idea. Ethics and everything aside, if they can find a way to roll this out further and increase the flow of money into the councils coffers, they will

Having tried to build a blocklist repeatedly, I’m suffering from this problem too. Standard app-store Memmy. Put it in the blocklist, restart the app, everything works as it should. Next time I open the app, blocklist it empty again

Mint, thanks. I wanted to block the yiff stuff, but I don’t know if I’ve blocked each community, and I’m damn well not searching for it to find out!

Thanks

Perfect, thanks. Is there a way to see your list of blocked communities? That’s not included in the filters section, and it would make this a lot quicker to see from which instances most of my blocked communities come.

Yeah, I blocked that one, and it had a great effect. That’s what got me thinking of this. The damned hand-egg instance has a separate bot for each team’s community though, so that truck doesn’t work with them

Working with my hands really helps me. I have a fairly weird life, but the times I can throw myself into making things, or fixing stuff, are the times I find the most peace. Physical work, that’s also a bit of a cerebral workout really helps my brain state. There’s a lot of the time that I don’t really enjoy being me, but looking at a thing that I’ve made that solves a problem or serves a purpose, and will do so for years, that makes me feel pretty good. That said, my brain works best when solving physical problems - I guess it’s different for everyone, so finding that thing that your brain is good at, and makes you feel good by doing is the key. You might be useless at carpentry and metalwork, but a good cook or artist, or whatever, but putting effort into creating a thing that you’re proud of will definitely give you some lasting satisfaction

Edit:- less time scrolling or playing endless phone sudoku definitely helps me have more space to find happy moments too. The fediverse is a fantastic place, but I think it can be pretty detrimental to my mental health too loose myself in here

I find that Apple Maps is noticeably worse at directions in the countryside in the uk, but I just put up with it, as I try not to use google products. It’s definitely improved recently, but it’s still not reached parity

I’ve only just discovered Darktable, so I was a bit reticent to call it one of my favourites, but for the relatively minimal editing I actually do, it does seem to be pretty ideal. I only use Digikam for organisational stuff really - do you find that Darktable’s filing/cataloguing ability is good enough that you only use the one program?

I’ve been liking Digikam and Rawtherapee (which is an awful name for the record) for photo gubbins.

And a better name for it too I reckon