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  1. Comment on I made a website with free and low-cost resources for web development, game development, privacy, graphics, small web, etc in ~tech

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    Sure thing! Yeah the Winamp museum is so fun to just look through. Some of them are very much "of a particular era" whether it's design language or pop culture references haha. I have a few...

    Sure thing! Yeah the Winamp museum is so fun to just look through. Some of them are very much "of a particular era" whether it's design language or pop culture references haha. I have a few downloaded that I still use from time to time.

    I always love to find more of these kinds of tools/links, so I've been going through the ones on your site. Always some neat new little corner of the web to discover where people are still making cool and useful things

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  2. Comment on I made a website with free and low-cost resources for web development, game development, privacy, graphics, small web, etc in ~tech

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    I have all sorts of tools/etc I've bookmarked. This is not the absolute full list but one I cut down slightly for this post. Hopefully someone here finds these useful- and of course OP (or anyone)...

    I have all sorts of tools/etc I've bookmarked. This is not the absolute full list but one I cut down slightly for this post. Hopefully someone here finds these useful- and of course OP (or anyone) feel free to add these to your own sites/lists/etc. I've been meaning to make my links/tools page on my site way more robust by adding a lot of these but hadn't yet.

    Some of these are lists or big grids/"many in one" tools too, so some of these sites can probably be looked through for more things to link to individually

    Earthbound Text Box Gif Generator
    blinkie maker | generate blinkie gifs with custom text!
    html.earth: Markdown to HTML Converter & Site Generator
    Video Game Screens with Custom Text - "The Death Generator"
    DOODAD.dev - Tools for making websites fast, expressive, accessible, and green.
    Dither it!: a web application for dithering images
    Gradients ⋅ Gradient re-sampler for web for smoother gradients
    Winamp Skin Museum - old winamp skins for preview/download (works with music software like Audacious)
    Zero Data Apps - A repository of privacy respecting tools/apps that run locally in-browser such as Idiomatic
    PixelCraft: A Pixel Art Editor
    themer - free and open-source development environment theme creator
    BeyondLoom's dithering tool
    Excalidraw - Locally stored browser whiteboard
    Easy/fast timezone reference (click to highlight columns/etc)
    IT Tools - Handy online tools for developers
    nifty.tools - List of small/terminal/etc tools
    REXPaint (Win/Linux via WINE) - A powerful ASCII art editor
    Tooooools.app - Image effects tools
    CSS Layout Generator
    delphitools - tons of private online tools/converters/etc
    Alembic - procedural/algorithmic image generation and text aesthetics tools
    BumpMesh - free meshing tool to add textures to 3D prints/files

    7 votes

  3. Comment on What is watts, volts and amps? in ~science

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    Would it be appropriate then to consider "watts" a measurement of the combined "amount of work being accomplished" by the amp and volt beings (in this image) per second? I was going to say effort,...

    Would it be appropriate then to consider "watts" a measurement of the combined "amount of work being accomplished" by the amp and volt beings (in this image) per second?

    I was going to say effort, but that sounds more like volts, and then I was going to say "the calories the amp and volt beings are expending per second in the image" but then I remembered the whole calories and joules relationship and then the analogies maybe get messy lmao... still fun to try and analogize/visualize these

    3 votes

  4. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    Yeah for sure! They're probably one of the most consistent death metal bands of all time. I'm frustrated with the direction of their latest music videos (especially one in particular that is full...

    Yeah for sure! They're probably one of the most consistent death metal bands of all time. I'm frustrated with the direction of their latest music videos (especially one in particular that is full of slop, which feels so out of place among the quality of everything else they do, and surprises me given they went with real art for their album cover- a sick piece by Eliran Kantor) but if I set that aside, everything else is great

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Matt Mullenweg says “the wheels have fallen off” in wide-ranging WordPress critique in ~tech

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    his own wheels fell off long before Wordpress' did

    his own wheels fell off long before Wordpress' did

    19 votes

  6. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    Many things: Metal Pissrot - Absolute Form - Second fave release of the week maybe? Furnace Floor - Ceremonial Passage Through Fire coming may 1st, listening to single Ordh - Blind in Abyssal...

    Many things:

    Metal

    Non-metal

    3 votes

  7. Comment on Today I shipped twenty apps and a screensaver in ~tech

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    Although I am out of the macOS ecosystem now I definitely would have enjoyed some of these! Maybe I will give Mojibaker a shot since I am on iOS. Sorry to hear you were laid off and I hope these...

    Although I am out of the macOS ecosystem now I definitely would have enjoyed some of these! Maybe I will give Mojibaker a shot since I am on iOS. Sorry to hear you were laid off and I hope these pursuits find you some success and sustaining.

    Really appreciate the bloat-free "fits on a floppy" approach too. I love highly optimized and efficient things and specialized "does one thing exceedingly well" kinds of tools.

    4 votes

  8. Comment on What are the current channels to find remote work? in ~tech

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    Yeah it's going to majorly depend on the position and type of work of course too, I'm sure a lot of what you're envisioning in particular is circling around these higher level jobs where a lot of...

    Yeah it's going to majorly depend on the position and type of work of course too, I'm sure a lot of what you're envisioning in particular is circling around these higher level jobs where a lot of that is necessary a lot of the time. I've had customer service / help desk types of positions where checking in with management on any kind of progress was minimal and minimally needed - just not the type of job that necessitates it. I've had sysadmin jobs where a weekly team meeting was enough for progress reports and so on, and as far as what needs done I'd just hash that out with a team lead or something a bit periodically. Etc. And I have excelled in those positions.

    But regardless, I've lost most of my motivation or aspiration for a majority of fields and the job positions that would be remote these days, but maybe I can still find something. No need, or necessarily even desire, for it to be anything super exciting. Of course I'll feign whatever demeanor is necessary to succeed. More transactional than aspirational or whatever. If it's doing spreadsheets all day or something, perfect. I just want to input work and output enough money to get by and leave it at that and honestly I wish more employers just could face that reality and let their workers be upfront about that, but nah, in society everyone's gotta put a huge layer of BS on top of everything. Maybe it will be packing boxes for minimal pay at some local business, who knows anymore. My excitement for most fields of work has been sapped out of me, I leave the excitement to my hard-to-monetize hobbies

    Edit: I am also fully aware that sometimes I am in a negative headspace and let that leak through here. So, after some much needed sleep let me say that maybe I will still find a niche that brings me joy and excitement! As negative as I can be sometimes I still have hope. Every day is a new day and I am sorry for probably being a downer sometimes with my posts. Been struggling a bit.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Making the most pickproof lock yet in ~engineering

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    I can't find any "official" info on this, just a lot of comments (that aren't WBD) speculating and making assumptions. Might not even be a "grudge", just more of a "hey if LPL wasn't interested in...

    I can't find any "official" info on this, just a lot of comments (that aren't WBD) speculating and making assumptions. Might not even be a "grudge", just more of a "hey if LPL wasn't interested in my last one, why would I waste my time sending him this new one I spent so much time and money on". I think comments tend to overdramatize every interaction between youtubers

    and yeah, I'm curious to see what aspects of it he may have missed, maybe shimming is one of those! hopefully those that get a chance to spend time picking it have some cool findings

    4 votes

  10. Comment on Making the most pickproof lock yet in ~engineering

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    I have enjoyed a number of videos from Works By Design, and his video editing and animation skills rival the rest of his skills. What a joy!

    I have enjoyed a number of videos from Works By Design, and his video editing and animation skills rival the rest of his skills. What a joy!

    3 votes

  12. Comment on José González – A Perfect Storm (2026) in ~music

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    I'm a José González fan generally. Loved Junip and some of his earlier solo work. I will say I like the song but I don't like the video- but I've tried to set a personal rule on this site not to...

    I'm a José González fan generally. Loved Junip and some of his earlier solo work.

    I will say I like the song but I don't like the video- but I've tried to set a personal rule on this site not to get into any further discussions on generative AI (since my position is 100% unmovable), but I'll say that's the reason, and it pains me to see yet another musician using it.

    Slightly more detailed feelings I'd rather not discuss No amount of ethics-washing and prostrations and disclaimers these studios and production teams do will ever be enough for me. 'Synthetic actors' made to look like and function in the place of real people (and not be obvious like a video game character or some other fictional characters) will always feel fraudulent to me, and any emotions said 'actors' make me feel will feel (and DID feel) manipulative in a way that makes me feel an amount of disgust so big I cannot articulate it. For a moment I thought some of the people were real and breathed a sigh of relief- and let my guard down and let their expressions affect me. Finding out they were all fake hurt a lot and I resent the video for that, especially in those fake 'outtakes'. I hate it with the burning rage of a thousand suns

    While I am wholesale-opposed to generative AI regardless, I found it interesting that this particular use which attempted (and failed IMO) to present some kind of "ethical way" of doing it actually achieved the opposite and enraged me. I think the more real it was, the easier I was "tricked", the worse it felt. At least most slop is obvious

    4 votes

  13. Comment on What are the current channels to find remote work? in ~tech

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    Yeah, probably same here. While not actually diagnosed, I've matched enough detailed descriptions of ADHD, and heard from others similarly, that I'm quite certain I have some level of it and...

    Yeah, probably same here. While not actually diagnosed, I've matched enough detailed descriptions of ADHD, and heard from others similarly, that I'm quite certain I have some level of it and always have (it would explain a lot)

    5 votes

  14. Comment on What are the current channels to find remote work? in ~tech

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    I'm the same way, at least in that aspect. Even as an introvert I can easily socialize with coworkers as appropriate, but the boundaries that remote forces that aren't respected in the office...

    I'm the same way, at least in that aspect.

    Even as an introvert I can easily socialize with coworkers as appropriate, but the boundaries that remote forces that aren't respected in the office in-person (in my experience) help me do better work.

    As an introvert some of that long list of items makes me want to curl up into a ball. Regardless of that, I've done well in a remote environment already, so I don't know that the full list always needs to be so stringent- I think introverts can operate well in remote positions even if one thinks they don't match every item in the list.

    Then again, I'm not really going to be looking for positions where I need to be "volunteering" a bunch of stuff I want to "fill my plate with" because that's just not how I operate. I can work independently, sure, but I just need a big list of crap to do

    And that said, I can "pretend" / "switch modes" and being super outgoing, sociable, and so on when my paycheck demands it. I've done customer service long enough that I'm good at faking it :)

    7 votes

  15. Comment on What's a battle that nobody knows you're fighting? in ~talk

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    I feel this very deeply and think I find a slight relief in the same way (the optimistic nihilism way you mentioned) I also want to note to any readers that I'm also not in danger and not going to...

    I feel this very deeply and think I find a slight relief in the same way (the optimistic nihilism way you mentioned)

    I also want to note to any readers that I'm also not in danger and not going to do anything.

    But I'd be lying if I didn't say, for a number of reasons, that sometimes I hear it calling too

    4 votes

  16. Comment on What are the current channels to find remote work? in ~tech

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    Yeah i am curious about this too because there is no shortage of horror stories about recruiters in general

    Yeah i am curious about this too because there is no shortage of horror stories about recruiters in general

    3 votes

  17. Comment on What are the current channels to find remote work? in ~tech

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    Thanks for this, this might prove super helpful for me

    Thanks for this, this might prove super helpful for me

    3 votes

  18. Comment on What's a battle that nobody knows you're fighting? in ~talk

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    This is probably an overshare I should delete later. Anxiety surrounding the fact that I left a prior job because I was extremely unhappy and also to take time and reset life and truly have...

    This is probably an overshare I should delete later.

    Anxiety surrounding the fact that I left a prior job because I was extremely unhappy and also to take time and reset life and truly have improved both mentally and physically since as I have worked on myself.

    However due to many reasons plans I had for moving got mega postponed and it's tough and something I have never navigated on my own, especially trying to sell a place I live in and there's so much to tackle with all of that still so I will be where I am a lot longer probably

    I also unknowingly picked a time to leave (a couple of years back) that ended up being awful timing. Now the job market and the searching process are absolutely 10x worse than before. I have minimized my budget so I can try to move before getting a new job however, despite having lots of savings I have burned through a decent amount and watching the numbers continue to decrease is anxiety-inducing regardless (mega privileged position tho I know)

    My neurodivergence plays into all of this too. I haven't been motivated to look for anything new, it all feels too overwhelming and now when I do look for something I will have a big gap in employment and so on.

    I have enjoyed my time out of the rat race and probably wouldn't trade it for anything given that my mental health is so much better (still plenty of issues but I don't dread waking up every day now) but my brain still wants to beat me up for not gritting my teeth and staying for the income. Hindsight is a mofo I guess

    The days feel like they go by so fast now and that I am just not making the progress I need to to reconfigure my life quick enough and it all just feels like a mess

    5 votes

  19. Comment on Which Linux distro do you use, and why? in ~tech

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    Some people harbor some ill will towards Canonical for the way they've handled a number of things, or ideas that some Linux users don't like that Canonical has tried to make into a thing (snaps,...

    Some people harbor some ill will towards Canonical for the way they've handled a number of things, or ideas that some Linux users don't like that Canonical has tried to make into a thing (snaps, for instance), and I consider myself in that camp (I disabled snaps and dislike some stuff), even as a user of Kubuntu currently. However, whether I used it or not, I'd never turn that ire towards any users and would always be glad to help when people ask.

    The Linux community (as with any, but they are quite vocal in Linux) still has its subset of assholes that judge anyone that doesn't use Arch, or whatever. There are a lot of nice people too. But there's certainly an arrogant subset that acts in a very particular elitist way and Canonical and users of its products probably become an easy target for that gross behavior to aim at. They view what they use as superior and balk at the idea of helping someone that uses something "inferior". Lots of overlap with the reply-guy and "just use <thing>" crowd too

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Which Linux distro do you use, and why? in ~tech

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    Currently main PC is running Kubuntu 24.04 LTS with Cinnamon instead of KDE. Mostly just because I chose it a long time ago, it worked well enough, and now that I've had enough inertia of using it...

    Currently main PC is running Kubuntu 24.04 LTS with Cinnamon instead of KDE. Mostly just because I chose it a long time ago, it worked well enough, and now that I've had enough inertia of using it on my main PC for this long, it's going to be annoying to switch if I decide to do so at some point. I am thinking about trying AwesomeWM on it tho

    Couple of other machines I have (laptop, low-power living room TV pc) are running MX Linux. I like their way of doing things, their built-in MX tools, and I'm at the point where I think I prefer XFCE as a DE. At some point I might go MX on my main PC too.

    I run an OPNSense DIY router, an Unraid server, and a DietPi (very lightweight Debian running on an old Dell micro PC) print server.

    I have another "test" machine that I'm currently trying out CachyOS on also

    I do still have one Win10 box around and that's simply for music production because there are a lot of annoyances/caveats/etc for my particular setup that makes me avoid Linux for that purpose for now

    3 votes