been a long long time since I’ve seen this template, noice.

Oh this is great, I’ve been using Elisa for a while, but this is so pretty & customisable, definitely gonna keep using this.

This might sound weird but, before bed I try to do basically nothing, I just sit on the couch & let myself relax, maybe with a little reading on the side.

probably to see that supernova or something was easily visible from earth and there were like tapestries of it & stuff, sounds cool to see & I’m sad I wasn’t alive to see it. I’m not even sure if it was real or not now.

Happy Cake Day I guess, I didn’t know Lemmy had this feature.

I get it’s obvious but it’s still cool that the borders are still sorta the same.

Frutiger Aero for it’s tranquility

Liminal Space for it’s eeriness but also sometimes it’s oddly comforting nature

Coastal Style for the nostalgia and tranquility

Spacecore because space is colourful & pretty

Neo Tokyo because I like pretty neon cities

I don’t all about aesthetics and it’s hard to pick just five so it’s extremely possible I’ll find a new one I like more.

I think I went to Reddit at first because of what it was, I watched a lot of Reddit “reading” videos for a while so decided to join myself, but the Reddit I wanted to join was already gone by the time I actually did join, then it got worse until I didn’t want to take it anymore, the AI got added, then the Games, that was the final straw I think.

This might be a bit of a hot take but I do visit Bluesky more than Lemmy, there’s more activity there & it’s less of an echo chamber, Bluesky still is a bit of an echo chamber I guess but not as much Lemmy can be, also some of the niches I like aren’t on Lemmy. I do hope Lemmy gets more users & Activity, it’d be a bit more comfortable to use.

So it’s basically just another instance of Youtube/Google going to extreme lengths and trying way to hard to stop alternative clients rather than just tackling the reasons why people use alternative clients, like ads & privacy?

I’m probably being too lenient but if I can still watch videos on Freetube I’m not gonna abandon it, especially not for the official client, I’m pretty sure most issues are caused by Youtube shenanigans that affect all the alternative clients, FOSS Devs have always worked around those shenanigans before, and if Youtube does succeed in breaking all alternative clients & viewing methods forever then I won’t watch Youtube videos anymore, yeah it’ll suck but I’d much rather do that than go back to using an official Google product.

What even is SABR, I, at first thought it was something the Freetube devs added to make playback more stable, but I sure I was very wrong now.

DuckDuckGo’s No AI version, but I haven’t really tried anything else, maybe that’s a show of it’s quality?

The more companies gloat about how much they care about your privacy & how important it is to them while selling every piece of user data they can dig up the more it means absolutely nothing.

That’s a stupid price, one of the main things of brick/flip phones is their low price, HMD feature phones range from about £20 to £70, some new google pixels can go for about this price, so getting something with the price of a smartphone with a fraction of the features sounds scummy.

Bibata Original Ice at day & Bibata Original Classic at Night

I know the appeal (I think) but I worry that these things can be very harmful after a while, like how with the constant internet access provides constant distraction from anything important in one’s life (like studying, working, etc).

Honestly in hindsight I think that point of mine isn’t very good, given what you said, I mean some people probably buy new Pixels but an entire point should not hinge on a possibility.

Smartphones are such an utter wretch nowadays, & I’m not even sure if there was a time they weren’t. I don’t get the appeal of a smartphone, they do everything a dumbphone does but worse, more expensive & with an unremovable thick layer of scum, yeah a smartphone has some of the features of a laptop or desktop but who needs that baked into their phone for every moment?

People are trying so hard to fix smartphones (even by giving money to the least privacy respecting companies ever by buying Google phones) when they can get a dumbphone and be rid of those problems in the first place. Well that’s my opinion at least, I think it might be a bit extreme.

I was so much happier switching to Librewolf TBH