Having not yet used this service, I can’t comment on the service itself. What I will say is that it sounds interesting, until I realized one VERY important detail…

Content.

This service is designed to bring you all the content that you feed data locations to pull from. Ok, that’s all well and good, but the problem is, there’s such a lack of content on the fediverse that it’s not overwhelming right now to just log into Lemmy, see the 3-10 replies per day. Log into Mastodon, realize you’re following like 6 accounts and 5 of them are bots, with the 6th one barely posting.

This service is like a very useful water pump to pull water out of a body of water, and distribute it to a more convienent tank…and then you place it’s input in the middle of the Nevada desert. Doesn’t mean the water pump is faulty, or not expertly designed. Just means it needs water to pull from.

That seems to be my frustration with the fediverse. There are very few content CREATORS, who don’t revolve around a few basic topics. Politics, Technology…and that’s it. And yes, I’m lumping video games, linux, computers, all that into technology. If it’s something you need a screen for, or connects to something with a screen, that’s lumped into technology.

I mildly care about politics. Under normal circumstances I don’t care at all. I usually say “let other people worry about it.” But these last 8 years have been just a constant barrage of bullshit, that it becomes necissary to care, as everybody is going to get fucked over otherwise.

Technology I have moderate interest in. I wouldn’t call it the most important thing to me, but I wouldn’t say I have zero interest either.

But then what…

Sports talk among locals is practically non-existant here (except for the Baltimore Oriols, who have a surprisingly strong community).

There’s a pro-wrestling community which seemingly has 4 active commentors, including mods, and 2-3 other people who pop in from time to time.

So I try to do my part to write at LEAST one entertaining post per day. Some days I write more. Most days I have half a dozen smaller bite size posts as little jokes or whatever. And then I try to post SOMETHING that people are going to disagree with. I feel like THIS post is that post for the day. Mostly because nobody likes to take responsibility for a community, and nobody likes being called out as being just a consumer, and not a producer of content.

And PeerTube is pathetic. Lemmy at least has some degree of variety. It’s not much, but it tries. Peertube on the otherhand is “EVERYTHING IS A LINUX VIDEO!!! ONLY LINUX EXISTS ON THIS PLATFORM!!!”

I can’t say I produce any video content, but with a linux only content platform, I can’t say I even consume either. It’s a service I want to like, but they make it so damned hard.

And Lemmy is easy to keep track of everything, and I run out of content usually within an hour. Even though I log in several times a day. It’s like drinking water from a shotglass when you want a galllon.

So I don’t see much use for this new thing. Not because it’s not a well made product, again, I have no usage experience, but because the sources it’s pulling from are barron dry.

The only thing I’m trying to install linux on is my Raspberry Pi. Upon googling Bazzite, it doesn’t seem to support Raspberry Pi.

Also, I’ve been trying to learn terminal off and on for 15ish years, with no luck. I’ve been trying to get the fan to work, unsucsessfully on my raspberry pi, for 4 years now. Apperently I have to compile some code…I don’t know what that means…

Quite honestly, back in the 90s I thought it was essential to have a printer. Back then I used to buy a binder, and a bunch of those plastic paper holding sleeves. And I’d print out entire gamefaqs which were sometimes 300 pages.

Then ink started to get expensive. So I stopped. Then now these new printers have DRM. So I just never bought a printer since the 90s.

And I feel I’m not alone. I bet there are millions of people who would be printer customers if printer ink weren’t the most artificially expensive substance on the planet.

If I could go out and buy a printer replacement ink pack for $5.00 and have it last a few months, I’d just buy them regularly. Instead I haven’t paid one dime in close to 25 years. Gee, guess that financial decision paid off for them…

I just buy whichever one is called “gamer computer” and has the prettiest LED lights on the case. Thats how you know it’s the good shit!

So burn it!

Tear them down and build houses. Flood the market of every major city with houses so it becomes unprofitable to buy thousands of houses just to rent.

Then home sales go up, and millenials can ACTUALLY buy houses in their lifetime!

Their sales team aregoing about this all wrong. Just buy the consumer lists from major dispenseries, and then call the stoners.

“Dude! You’re buying a dell!” Whats your credit card info?"

“Dude! No way! I was just looking for a way to masturbate!”

“Yeah man! That’s what this is.”

Boom. Easy sale.

Quick answer to that…you forget everything said off the record.

One time, at band camp…

Build a pc.

Install linux.

Get confused by linux.

What the fuck does linux want from me???

Rip hair out.

Be bald.

People confuse you for skinhead.

Wear wig.

Wig blows off on sunny windy day.

Lose wig.

Be sad.

Something tells me there’s a story here…and something tells me the modlog might tell it.

I want a disney movie where a kids bowling team is going up against the bully bowling team. And they end up breaking one of the kids arms so he can’t bowl anymore.

Thats when they bring in a golden retriever to be their 4th team member. There’s no rule against it in the rulebook…

So despite everyone telling them it’s a bad idea, and it’ll never work, they let it stand officially! The dog is on the team! They rename their team The Underdogs! And then that team gets decimated in the tournament due to dogs lacking opposable thumbs, and have no concept of what bowling even is.

Full size snickers aren’t even full size anymore. Did you know they’re 1/3rd the size they were in 1978? If they shrink anymore, they’ll be the same size that bitesize were in the 90s.

Bitesize used to be the length of your thumb, and full size used to be the length of your dick. Now bitesize is like postage stamp size. And full size are only an inch longer than my thumb. If that.

Hey…I know some of those words! Not all of them…but some!

If this is in one of the reddest counties, then that means NONE of this means anything, other than this movie did a terrible job advertising. Even to their base. Nobody knows the movie exists.

This theater seating arangement pisses me off. Why did they remove 2 seats on all the rows behind the handicap seat row? And why are there 2 seats even further to the right, but X’d off in the back row??? If anything that just shows theres enough space for 4 more seats in EVERY row behind the handicaped row! Is that just empty floor space??? Why is that there??? Like a mini dance floor in the theater???

I find your laugh interesting. It’s like a small bit of the humor hit your brain early. So you let out the innitial ha. Then the full humor hit, and it became more of a full laugh.

Kind of like when you’re holding in a fart at the thanksgiving day dinner table, and you let out a small bit of a fart, but then everyone looks at you, and the jig is up anyways, so you let out an ass ripping fart. Then grandma yells at you.

Lufe…uhhh…finds a way.

Which was actually based on the one developers wife, who was timid and scared when people were around her.

But the second people went away, she became scary and threatening.