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16 hours agoThis is the honest headline we deserve.
haverholm
I used to make comics. I know that because strangers would look at my work and immediately share their most excruciatingly banal experiences with me:
— that time a motorised wheelchair cut in front of them in the line at the supermarket;
— when the dentist pulled the wrong tooth and they tried to get a discount;
— eating off an apple and finding half a worm in it;
every anecdote rounded of with a triumphant “You should make a comic about that!”
Then I would take my 300 pages graphic novel out of their hands, both of us knowing full well they weren’t going to buy it, and I’d smile politely, “Yeah, sure. Someday.”
“Don’t try to cheat me out of my royalties when you publish it,” they would guffaw and walk away to grant comics creator status onto their next victim.
Nowadays I make work that feels even more truly like comics to me than that almost twenty years old graphic novel. Collage-y, abstract stuff that breaks all the rules just begging to be broken. Linear narrative is ashes settling in my trails, montage stretched thin and warping in new, interesting directions.
I teach comics techniques at a university level based in my current work. I even make an infrequent podcast talking to other avantgarde artists about their work in the same field.
Still, sometimes at night my subconscious whispers the truth in my ear: Nobody ever insists I turn their inane bullshit nonevents into comics these days, and while I am a happier, more balanced person as a result of that, I guess that means I don’t make comics any longer after all.
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Meh, I’m just thrifty. 4K is for people with high bandwidth or too much storage space 😉
Konstakang has made a ROM based on LineageOS. I’ve only eyed it myself, but it should be Google-free (unless you install G apps).
Usually I recommend KISS or Kvaesitso, but with the customisation you ask for, maybe Lawnchair?
All of tumblr is being moved to Wordpress software, and Automatic confirmed last month that it will also include federating posts.
3·2 days agoI will give Paramount the benefit of the doubt — though briefly — and expect them to implement an IDIC policy instead. 🖖
If you’re on Android, try Tusky. It supports multiple accounts but focuses on Mastodon and compatible platforms.
It doesn’t handle Pixelfed very well (although that can be down to Pixelfed’s ongoing development), and may not support all of Friendica’s features, but you can definitely sign in from Tusky.
51·3 days agoI don’t know how you define “most” or “core” here, but it’s certainly true that mastodon.social and its ~400K users remain federated with Threads.
A lot of instances did block or limit them though, and I’m not going to sit down and calculate which side is in majority 🤷
Not Lemmy specifically, but the broader fediverse (and probably mostly the microblog part dominated by Mastodon and its forks)
1·3 days agoTake out the fascists but Cletus Got Shot has a few antifascist bangers.
Exactly. See also Gab and Truth Social.
21·4 days agoThey’re both android, but without the Google services tacked on. The question is, how will the Android Open Source project fare if Google is forced to divest from it? And where does that leave the ungoogled ROMs?
2·4 days agoNot with this record 🙂
Same. Thanks to an Mbin glitch “she” even sent me a second message from an account I’d already blocked 🤣
Yeah, there’s not that big a difference between Mbin and Lemmy when it comes down to it. Nicole is the Fediverse Chick, after all.
With servers in Europe, maybe. I’ve seen K&T pop up in search results, but they’re in Florida… But the more to choose from in the Eurozone the better, right?
Edit: There’s also FediMonster with servers in Germany.
I liked that little rant, and I’m not usually one for vlogger op-eds. Well said, Rudy!
Cool project! I hope it takes off.
One question, I know Mastodon has become a sort of market standard for the microblogging fediverse — but for people who just want a single-user/“vanity” instance, wouldn’t it make sense to offer something leaner like GoToSocial?
Because GTS is less resource intensive than Mastodon, that could then also be an environmental argument?
I’m still new at this so I hope more experienced sleeve conservators can chime in if I’m wrong:
First, do you mean an actual split seam, where the fold of the paper has weakened and torn, or just the adhesive drying out and the sleeve coming unglued?
The first one is probably the more complicated to fix, and I’m not sure of the best procedure. To avoid too visible repairs I might try to enforce the sleeve from the inside, but it’s going to be difficult depending on where the split is, relative to the opening.
Ungluing is easier, although I’ve only done this with albums where I don’t care much about the resale value: I’ve stuck a length of double sided scotch tape along the gluing surface to fixate the two sides. It sticks pretty well, and you don’t have to worry about drippy glue seeping out.
I can’t say if either of those approaches pass archival muster, but as far as keeping my own sleeves in somewhat working order, they’ve worked so far.
Edited to add: I dug around the internet and found a really thorough guide to restoring album covers. I sure got some inspiration to clean up some of my own thrift store finds!
Oh, do check out the Indieweb. It probably predates the (term) fediverse, and the ideas that underpin it are well worth looking into!