Yeah, unfortunately I don’t have much choice at the moment. I refuse support platforms that in my opinion have anti-consumer pricing models, and I want artists to get the most money out of my streams, so it’s a bit of a catch-22.

I stream with Tidal and for my favourite bands I’ll buy their music on 7digital or Bandcamp.

I’d go with Qubuz but they have this whole Qubuz Coin thing that I really don’t like. If they removed that I’d switch immediately.

Despite claims to the contrary ChatGPT is very accurate with its responses when such responses involve web searches. Where it falls apart is complex multi step things like coding questions.

I make heavy use of it to skip past all the clutter of Google search results and end up with clear summaries that answer my questions. That’s all I’d really use it for as anything more than that its output is highly variable in quality.

I’ve had asthma since I was 7. I’ve had periods in my life where I’ve exercised a lot, and periods where I haven’t at all. The one constant? My asthma never changed. It’s always been a pain in my ass regardless.

I used Lutris for anything Windows related that needs installers, etc. You can run that on pretty much anything.

As far as distros go it depends on how hands off you want it to be. If you want a set it and forget it distro I’d go with Fedora or Ubuntu.

If you want something more bleeding edge and customisable I’d go with EndeavourOS, which is basically Arch on rails.

This is more historical as fortunately I was able to work my way up in my industry over the years.

A little over 10 years ago I was living in my first flat by myself. 90% of my income from part time retail went on rent and bills. What I was left with was £4 a week for all groceries, medicine prescription fees, etc. (Travel I considered to be bills because I couldn’t walk to work as it was too far)

I just had to buy the absolute cheapest of everything, bulk deals, etc. Anything I couldn’t immediately afford I’d spread over a few months on my credit card.

Anything health related fell off quickly. I never saw the dentist the entire time I was this poor, and I couldn’t afford healthy food at all. I’m still paying the price for that now. I swear my teeth are 90% glass at this point.

It was an extremely difficult point in my life, but I needed that freedom and independence and would do it all again if I had to.

I’d say charging cables / most kinds of wires.

People are used to and comfortable with wireless charging these days despite it being spotty in terms of availability.

Better charging rates and capacity to power larger appliances might end up with you having a completely wireless home.

I like the concept, but personally I see the decentralised nature of the Fediverse as a benefit rather than a hindrance, and moving all identity functionality to a centralised system would create more problems than it solves.

Suddenly you’ll have a single point of failure for the entire Fediverse. A very appetising target for hackers and DDOS attacks.

An alternative that’s in the spirit of your idea would be to allow for auth delegation, i.e. if you sign in with an Activitypub ID rather than a plain username, redirect to that instance to sign in then redirect back to the instance you started from, auth token in hand.

The nice thing about this approach is it’s basically just OAuth 2. It’s familiar, simple to implement and built in to a lot of web frameworks already. The only extra step would be advertising the server’s auth URL via the nodeinfo endpoint, which is fairly trivial to do.

Oh man I love the partially popped ones. I love finding a cluster of them in the bottom of the bag.

Since desktop mode is basically just KDE but without the ability to install software packages you could try Fedora.

They do a version just like desktop mode that has you install everything through the store, or you can get the regular variety to get a bit more flexibility.

Personally I’d steer clear of anything special as your first Linux install. Go with standard Fedora, then you can experiment and branch out if you’re interested, but you don’t have to if you like what you’ve got.

I think it suits you. Definitely keep.

A week is my usual. I know, I know, but my mental health is a lot worse than my body odour.

I’m glad I switched to Tidal already

Run. Run as far as I can and never stop.

I always picked the castle as a kiddo. Where the fuck did the last 30 years go?!

I used reddit for searching stuff purely out of convenience (which lemmy instance do I choose for the site: query?) but for everyday content it’s exclusively lemmy ever since I went on a mission of deleting all my commercial social media accounts.

You can self host the services you need, but admittedly that’s not feasible for most people.

Thanks for recommending JShelter! I’ll add it to my list

I really wish there was a foolproof way of preventing fingerprinting. Disabling JavaScript unfortunately isn’t really an option, no-one builds websites with progressive enhancement in mind these days.

I sleep with a stuffed animal I’ve had since I was a kid. I don’t think it’s that unusual.