@Ryszard said in What are you eating?:

I will eat in 15 minutes when the cheese melts.

Is a thread needed - I haven't eaten but how tasty does it look (already)? 👨🍳

Crime scene

Sadly Esperanto as spellcheck Is missing in Chromium core.

For testing websites which need registration, i do use the inbox of a userdefined mail address at muellmail.com (only for incoming mails).

@iqaluit said in Cosmetics I like:

Problem solved !

Are you sure? You don't need:
Detergente Rinfrescante
😉

I still remember that funny dial up noise... Those were the days...

I wish...

Has it been so far ?
29 Jan 2025

https://social.vivaldi.net/@[email protected]

@iqaluit Thankyou. Great advice! I do try. I was fortunate enough to be best friends with my parents. Unfortunately I was naive to think I could nurse them back to health as I did so many times over years, believing they would out live me. Everything i did, I did with one truth. Failing is not an option. Dealing with the now, as difficult at it may be, I must do. They were so proud of me. I'll be ok. They taught me how to be ok. It does hurt though. Alot.

Vivaldi kinda fascinates me. Firefox and Opera are good browsers I got accustomed to. Vivaldi makes me think of me. The black sheep that wasn't suppose to succeed, but overcome all odds and succeeded anyway. 😉 Just my take on it. Thanks for the welcome!

Firefox mainly but lately trying to switch to Vivaldi but I'm having some issues with some extensions.

Black Tea (:

I was successful in removing the tape & excess adhesive by using my Black & Decker Electric Paint Remover Heat Gun.

With just a few passes over the tape, the tape peeled off & shriveled-up.
A few more passes after I removed the tape & I was able to wipe off the excess adhesive cleanly with a dish drying rag.

Harold by Steven Wright. Unexpected and really touching.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62919437-harold

@Arachnid Neither site is blocked for me in the UK. Prices are in US $.

Amazon is much cheaper, even with the discount at MagnaZoom (presumably the OEM’s website).

At a quick glance, they seem to have the same specs.

@rchu From a language point of view, a developer is somehow responsible for a product. If you write some sort of a routine, that's a programmer. If you write an application, that's a developer. Though as many applications (and web sites) are more assembled than coded, you can be a developer without ever being a programmer.

@Arachnid I use and enjoy both. Both have their strengths. My opinion:

Mastodon is actually decentralized and mostly community-driven, not dependent on a single company. But due to this there are some limitations, like never getting the full picture (not seeing all the replies to popualr posts) or being at risk that if your server goes down, so does your profile and data unless you manage to migrate before. BTW Vivaldi instance is pretty cool, no excessive blocking of edgy humor, but still pretty well protects its users from spambots and scambots. Mastodon also has a vibrant community creating custom UIs, plugins and accessory software. My personal favorite is the Phanpy Social UI that makes the site way easier to use, less confusing and IMO more beautiful. Culturally, Mastodon is full of huge nerds. Lots of free software activists, cyberserurity experts, developers etc. The mood over there is pretty anti-corporate and hacker-positive.

Bluesky has open architecture and some decentralized features, but is mostly centralized. Due to this it's less confusing for regular users and a lost profile can be recovered. But this also makes it succeptible to future enshi**ification (they have taken big investments from VC funds and still have not fully revealed their profitability plans). Compared to Twitter, Facebook etc. it allows a great deal of customization of the content you see, there are community created starter packs, blocklists and custom feeds that make the onboarding really easy after migration. Compared to Mastodon it is IMO just way more fun to use and explore. Culturally it's basically the center-left part of Twitter, lots of indie artists, scientists, more and more journalists and comedians.

TL:DR: Mastodon is a very nerdy near-ideal of what a decentralized social network should look like. Bluesky is a fun, left-leaning and customizable Twitter alternative.

BTW the two networks are bridged over by BridgyFed. It's opt-in, so not too many accounts are bridged RN, but those who are, can be followed and interacted with from both sides.