With Rattle and Hiss, the Slither brothers…

I basically read two types of books. One is lit-nerd stuff (Joyce, Pynchon…) where you can read and re-read and still find new things, find communities online of people discussing it, read it with a friend and share what you got out of each chapter, etc. The other type I do is more immersive sci-fi/fantasy (Rothfuss, Stephenson, etc.) which I read for totally different reasons… like you said, an escape into another world.

TV makes me feel like a spoonfed zombie. I’m trying to watch Severance, and it’s good, but I hate the feeling of being hooked, tied to it, and having to sit there and binge it. And they’re doing all the imaginating for me. I much prefer to spend that 50 hours with a good thick book. No judgment on how other people like to do it… I just prefer the quiet of paging through a book!

I keep hearing about this thing. Does it really do all the photoshop things? adjustment layers, masks, dodge+burn, all that stuff? and I guess, does it do it well, with big files?

Yeah, that. Opaque means no transparency. Easier to read/work, or see a picture/video without background stuff mixing in with it. But for my non-focused windows, I’m not actively working on those, so rice it up, transparency all the way! (but still add blur to those, just so I can read them if I need to…)

I have my focused window opaque, the rest transparent+blur.

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Wow, you got right on that, hahaha. Nice. :) I think I’ve seen most of the TNG episodes, TNG is my fave of the ST series, and that might be my most memorable episode because it’s so unlike the others, and just a darn good story. Enjoy the rest!

Whoa, I just listened to the Tool song and it is a trip… thanks for that.

Awesome!! Let me know what you think!

lol, nice. I’ll have to listen to that song… I got into their earlier stuff when it came out.

The flute was a reference to a ST:TNG episode, “Inner Light.” Kind of a classic… I won’t spoil it in case you watch it!

I feel like I’m missing a reference to something…

But here’s one for ya: he came back suddenly knowing how to play the flute.

dang! glad you’re ok!

Awesome, thanks again!

That’s wild! Glad you’re ok though. 😊

Before November, I did it by mainly looking at AP News. During November I was kind of a mess. After November, no news at all. My lemmy feed is comic strips, Linux, photography, and asklemmy, a few other things that are not political. If major shit happens I hear from my partner or friends, but they all know I’m not that interested. My YouTube feed is Buddhist stuff, standup comedy, and hobby rabbit holes. I even filtered out the lefty late night shows (daily show etc). I know the basics of what’s going on, but don’t feel any need to get daily updates on it and I’m feeling pretty sane compared to a few months ago! We donate to Palestinian charities, HRC, etc., are active in other ways, but this daily media crap is not healthy.

This is awesome–thank you!

So, I just picked a server, and created a private space for me and a handful of friends (we have a Discord server that I’d like to move over). Do you recommend turning on encryption for our rooms, or is it enough that our space is private? Will I have to worry about my friends maintaining their keys, or is that handled pretty automatically by the various clients? etc… Thanks!

Ah, dang, I haven’t run into this yet. But I see what you mean. I actually just set this up in Linux, but back in Windows I didn’t run into this problem (maybe I was lucky enough to hit the same port, or maybe I didn’t have it set up entirely correctly, lol).

dang! good for you!

Yes, this is what I do, with Private Internet Access (VPN). You can bind qbittorrent to PIA’s interface, and also to its forwarding port.

chewing tobacco. don’t get me wrong, I love cigarettes (not a “smoker,” I don’t keep a pack around), and pipes, but I got so sick the one time I chewed… and it lasts hours, unlike the cigarette headrush.

whoa! that’s funny – once I turned into a ferris wheel! I thought that was just a me thing, but circus tent sounds poetically close to my experience.

That same time though, my partner had a maybe too-intense time, meeting wise aliens and disappointedly coming back to this stupid life.