Time to pay VAT motherfuckers.

I had to learn to remember this within the dream and to forcibly wake myself up from it to stop this happening. Which I think is quite an accomplishment, if I may say so myself.

I suspect it goes back to wearing nappies/diapers as a baby. Babies naturally try to wait until they are unclothed to relieve themselves; they essentially have to learn how to go in a nappy, or else let it happen because they can’t hold it in any longer. Then they have unlearn this with potty training. It’s crazy really.

It’s all fucking tire kickers anyway.

I had an instance recently where it was faster and easier to literally make an item with my bare hands than to coordinate a purchase of one via marketplace.

It’s a strong tradition in France that when you get pissed off with a company you take its CEO hostage.

It seems to be really effective.

Great idea!

There is some good reading to be had that explains the specific roles that different groups of former Soviet elites were allowed to fill within the corrupt power vacuum that followed the collapse.

Can you recommend any good books? I haven’t studied Russia much but recently read Killer In The Kremlin and would like to read more.

OK, apology accepted. And I do agree that commodified/appropriated speech is annoying to hear by the way.

How about a deal; you make more of an effort to be nice, and I make more of an effort to avoid corporate language?

Woah, shame on me for not getting my thesaurus out for you. I’ll be more careful next time…

There’s no need to be rude and swear at me. Be polite, offer a correction. If you’re against corporations (like I am) then maybe leave their culture of antagonism at the door and help keep the Fediverse pleasant, helpful and cooperative.

This is fantastic news, I’m so glad to hear this is being looked at.

When I’ve thought about this is in the past I’ve concluded that my expectations of Linux are actually higher than Windows or Mac. It’s given me the expectation that if something doesn’t work the way I want it then it will be possible to make it do that, whereas with other operating systems I have been more inclined to just accept a limitation and move on.

What’s happened now?

OK, I’m guessing that term has some extra baggage around here which I’m not privy to… I spent too many years chopping wood and growing corn, so someone will have to fill me in!

I thought I’d just slip it in and see what happened! I like making things in GIMP as well

Amazing, thank you so much :)

What’s that? GIMP?

You’re not doing it wrong. It’s just a bit like that at the moment.

What Peertube needs is for other Fediverse platforms to build in a filter so only posts which contain video are displayed.

Peertube posts do federate but because there are way less videos produced than text and image posts (for obvious reasons) they are drowned out. Filtering by content type seems like the obvious solution. This is how Pixelfed works (but for still images), so it’s clearly possible.

My feeling is that we’re still in the first iteration of the Fediverse, where it’s mostly trying to replace the functionality of corporate platforms. Which I think has mostly been achieved now. Hopefully it will start leaning into its unique strengths now and become really innovative.

Of course there is also the issue of adoption and Peertube has had less publicity than Mastodon and Lemmy, so it’s understandable that there is less content. If you can, contact your favourite youtubers and ask them to start a Peertube channel. If enough of us do this it starts to become a thing :)

lol

Found it! I’d missed that - thanks!

I’ve been ricing my GNOME DE.

Only joking. I had a bit of fun in GIMP for to illustrate this post. You’re welcome to use it if you want :)

Russia?