I haven't posted here in a while, mostly because it suddenly became a lot harder to.
A few months ago I ordered the framework laptop, and I'm loving it! I took the new laptop as an oppourtunity to finally switch to Linux 24/7! I chose Manjaro KDE and I have no regrets. In general most things work as expected, some things are a little bit trickier and some things are much easier! I'm super content!
but one thing i struggled with, and still have not figured out, is how to connect to the yesterweb server via WebDav. On windows I used WinFTP and it worked great! Connected no problem, very smooth sailing. Manjaro not so much. Not going to go over the details of the issue here but that small amount of friction was enough to turn me away from writing on my gemlog and instead write elsewhere.
right now I'm just writing this post in Kate (a text editor) and I think I will upload it via titan? unsure.
I exist on a lot of places on the web. I regretably have instagram for people who know me irl; can't seem to escape that one. I have Twitter and use it less and less these days! I started using mastodon pretty consistently, I'm hosting my own server now! I'll link it below. I got a bunch of my friends to sign up and we're just shit posting back and forth and its so fun, I hope I can get more of my friends on over time and it doesn't stagnate.
mastodon server, torontodiy.xyz!
I have an account on Cohost just in case it blew up, but i've heard some iffy things about the mod team so I think i will probably stop using that all together. I'm on rym and letterboxd, im on bandcamp, i'm on spotify, i'm on last fm. we have so many accounts these days! You could learn everything there is to know about me if you tried hard enough. I'm a pretty open induvidual. I value my privacy to some extent but also I just cannot help but share! It's in my nature. I can only hope that the people who stumble onto me are good people and won't take advantage of my trust.
But yea these days we are in social media limbo. I both love and hate social media. I love being social! i love talking to my friends and sharing what im up to and what im thinking; but i hate being spoon fed algorythmic content. but also my brain needs something going on at all times. It's a problem. I've talked about this before but my relationship with social media is similar to what David Foster Wallace said about tv. if it's there I'm gonna waste time on it, I don't have the self control.
i've been thinking about getting rid of my smart phone but I think that might be a privilaged take. On the one hand i really like being "off the grid", i feel so much more present in my life when im not on my phone all the time. I like my laptop cause I have to sit at my desk and conciously choose to use it, but a phone is always on me and its easy to pull out and just watch the pretty colours for hours. But it is useful. Its tough.
this post is kinda meta and im sorry, i know gemini needs more actual content and not just people talking about the best way to share content. but I cannot help myself.