I would dare to say doomscrolling in lemmy is impossible

Could just be my ADHD but I’d like to contest this. Maybe we need to be really careful about the communities we follow, but besides Linux stuff and some other niche group there’s a lot of politics on Lemmy, and while there’s a lot of insightful discussion there’s a high concentration of unhinged doomerism.

I sometimes feel like I’m addicted, not because of the algorithm but because of the feedback loop that I need to know what’s going on, and I want to reach out and communicate…

Like others said, a lot is just nostalgia. I liked a lot of the aesthetics of the time, from 90’s to XP, to Vista/7.

Also like others said, a majority of actually-affordable peripherals use some sort of specific driver system that’s Windows only. Big example being my cool Mechland keyboard I really like, but it’s one of those where trying to give it cool effects in OpenRGB would brick it, and only their Windows software can access some of its main features.

Not the worst though, I just have a Win10 VM I fire up exclusively to update those peripherals.

WAIT, KNOW WHAT? WORKING VR. I MISS THAT. But M$ themselves killed that one so it’s kinda moot? My WMR Odyssey+ worked GREAT, and since M$ decided it’s a paperweight now, the awesome souls behind Monado are our only hope for decent VR before the Steam Frame. (Which now terrifies me thanks to RAM inflation…)

Ah nice, I use ANGRYsearch for this, but yeah you gotta run its updater on occasion. It’s VERY fast though!

Wait I’m pretty sure there’s Linux screensavers for those and a bunch of others?

I do miss some of the classic Win95 screensavers though. :D

TIL! Sweet! If I can use emojis on my desktop, I have less reason to wreck my thumbs on my phone! :D

(But hey classic emoticons are 4eva! Lol)

I might have a lot of fun things that aren’t legal in California. Never thought my OS would be one, but here we are.

If people went out of their way to learn a damn thing about computers, and all-consuming jobs didn’t force entire generations raised without parents, and maybe they didn’t let their 6 year olds on social media / online gaming / whatever unsupervised, maybe there’d be more backlash to the state and corporations trying to step in as parental figures.

…Wish that wasn’t too friggin’ much to ask.

Servers and data centers have zero business knowing anything about who’s behind my machine by default.

It will get repealed when all the always-working parents can’t stand “teenager smell.”

“Oop…hup… Uh-oh. I’m in a hole.”

I’m sure I have a lot, but comes to mind:

EDIT: Sorry this turned into a big reply haha…

• Zombie (both the original and the 2016 Bad Wolves cover) , the second it opens, just visceral; it’s the same old thing, in [2026], in our heads…
• The Kids Aren’t Alright by The Offspring , I hate relating so hard to this as a generation, watching so many kids with promise just get smothered out surviving in a bleak “cruelest dream reality.” Oft by drugs and hopelessness.
• In the Arms of an Angel by Sarah McLachlan : My mom always cries if she hears this song because her late mom did too. Then my cousin sang it at my dad’s funeral so…Yeah, I don’t let that one play. Sorry, Sarah.
• Immortal by Marina and the Diamonds ; The entire song is beautiful and profound. “And if the earth ends in fire, and the seas are frozen in time, there’ll be just one survivor, the memory that I was yours and you were mine.” (Holy shit just typing that…)
• Pretty When I Cry by Silent Rival ; Such a beautiful song I thought was about a partner who taught the singer about true unconditional love… It’s about her late mother. It empowers me to fight to be there for those I love, and it sends a powerful message that we can be strong in our weakness.
• Dust in the Wind by Kansas ; anything about the fleetingness of life hits me hard.
• Memories by Maroon 5. I miss people…

Lots of happy songs too…Like they’re beautiful and wistful and lovely and I think I cry because I can’t imagine such peace… My wife likes these songs and I guess I kinda break imagining us getting to just unshoulder our burdens and truly live.

• Perfect by Ed Sheeran
• Just Too Good by Phil Wickham
• “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” , a popular Christian hymn from 1907, made prominent in recent history by BioShock Infinite.
• On that note, Amazing Grace really is amazing, but it doesn’t help that it’s the ‘somebody died’ song now…
• The Prayer by many artists: Celine Dion and Andre Bocelli
• Prayer by Hayley Westenra
• In My Arms by Plumb (has some sweet remixes, but man, a mother’s love is truly something…our first is on the way and I really feel it now…)
• Somewhere Only We Know by Lily Allen

… Okay I’m sensing a theme here. Yeah, I’m a person of faith. Thinking of a refuge in my Father where I can stop worrying, stop fearing, stop fighting. Songs about pure and unyielding love, or lullabies , crush me instead of relax me for some reason. Maybe because the contrast with our present circumstances is so harshly defined and such respite feels like it can’t be had in this life.

I’ll have to check these out. I’ll add another Sabaton here:

• Christmas Truce

It’s powerful. The “true meaning of Christmas” has been satirized and watered down to death in our time…

…But there was a time it truly could stop a war. It could get people to lay down their guns and be brothers again.

Their “superiors” forced them back into battle. If we all snubbed our masters and just stopped fighting, what could we be?

I would totally love to browse a simpler “layer” of the Internet that could be navigated with Lynx! The biggest downside would be lack of images. (Maybe Lynx can do images?)

But I could see an indie web of little blogs and human created artifacts that would be surfed kinda like logging into a MUD. :D

First off, I’m really glad to see posts from personal websites and blogs! Way to keep the indie web alive!

Sadly I got a Cloudflare error trying to open the page. But, I think on this subject, GUIs can be great tools, but they’re the most commonly designed with exploitative dark patterns and “our users are drooling simpletons” in mind.

Terminals are also super cool. It’s definitely easier to automate terminal programs than GUIs!

Also TUI? Man, opening BTOP is always a treat .

It just kinda depends on the tool for the job, right? Blender is a great example of a streamlined necessary graphical interface that asks for a terminal-like familiarity from the user. (And GUI-only folks kinda rage at it at first hehe)

Running as much as possible in terminal is definitely easier on the resources though, and I want to get a lot better at that. (As sexy as KDE is!)

Oh that’s so COO-(FLASHBANG LIGHT AND PINGING SOUND) - why’d it have to be a white webpage lmao. X_X A sign I should be sleeping lol.

Seriously this is awesome though, thanks for sharing this! Sounds like it could be a great upgrade from the PineTime some time. That was unexpectedly exciting!

Can attest: Gadget Bridge with my PineTime is LEGIT.

Really curious if there’s an upgraded watch experience though. This AsteroidOS sounds pretty neat. I miss those “pebble” watches.

People sleep on Blender’s “VSE” capabilities so much. I feel like an extension to make it a little bit more turnkey like Kadenlive could be helpful, but it’s a VERY good video editor and I think few users really know how much it can do in that realm.

WOAH. How have I not seen this? Looks like a fantastic alternative to Aseprite!

Gimp’s latest version is much cleaner and a way smoother experience. I’m actually really excited about it. :)

Totally agreed on Krita. It’s a joy to use. My drawing and painting could certainly be better, but I definitely don’t feel like the software is what’s holding me back!

This. This. A thousand times a thousand times, yes. Nobody should be blindly trusting their safety to Amazon, one of the worst abusers of trust and privacy.

(Plus they’re the most common hardware… Guess what’s getting targeted for mass exploits?)

Almost anything is better than giving Amazon access to your home.

I think I ended up with a hybrid of your approaches haha. I run Proxmox with a VM running Open Media Vault, and that VM ended up hosting all my Docker apps because it has a REALLY nice interface for managing all of them!

I only have my PiHole and 3D printers on separate VMs

Downside right now is, a lot goes down if that OMV server does, so reminder to everyone (including me lol) backup lots!

Yeah as a warm blooded human being I’m all for a little spicy entertainment, but I feel like the mainstream of that industry is becoming even more depraved and unhealthy because, like everything else, it relies on the attention economy and prioritizes addiction. It’s also notoriously cruel and exploitative of its talent.