Brewchin

joined 9 months ago
[–] Brewchin 1 points 2 months ago

I'm assuming work and personal?

I've done the same for years, but am thinking of making use of the second SIM slot in my personal phone and using profiles to separate everything. Many phones can also use an eSIM, so that's also an option for multiple numbers.

[–] Brewchin 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yep, with the desktop versions of Signal, Matrix (Element) and Steam chat.

I'm yet to try out gamemode, which may help. But I typically close Signal and Element when I'm gaming, so it's usually not an issue for me.

Edit: I'm on EndeavourOS, KDE, i7, 16GB, Nvidia 2060.

[–] Brewchin 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've had my 920+ for a few years and love it, save for the BTRFS constant disk activity bug in DSM7 that they haven't fixed since day 1. Just don't have it in a quiet room of that kind of thing annoys you.

I don't make use of any "sign into Synology" products or services. There are better ways to do all of it that don't involve their cloud if you have the time, skill and inclination.

Synology Photos is an excellent photo management product (think Google Photos). As is their Drive product, that works on all devices and OSs (think Dropbox). Either will automatically back up photos and screenshots you take on a mobile device.

Backing up to it or backing it up? Very different animals.

[–] Brewchin 6 points 2 months ago

bxActions, probably? Turn the useless button into something you want.

[–] Brewchin 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As the saying goes: capitalism, shareholder value and such things seem as inevitable today as the divine right of kings once did...

[–] Brewchin 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Match of the Day theme where I live. (It's probably playing in your head now, sorry).

It was Greensleeves where I grew up, halfway around the world.

Same result: synchronised yells from nearby houses of "Muuuuum... iiiiiice creeeeeeam!"

[–] Brewchin 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You appear not to have heard of Google Glass.

[–] Brewchin 2 points 2 months ago

As with all my online accounts:

  • Visit a name generator website.
  • Find one that doesn't suck.
  • Check if it's available.
  • Here we are.

And each has a different email address. I hope adtech loves me. 😁

[–] Brewchin 11 points 2 months ago

Sending me news links that are social media posts containing a link to a news article. Especially if it's from Xitter: no way I'm logging into that place just to see replies.

It tells me that they didn't read the article and that they expect me to care what the shit posters reacting to the headline think.

[–] Brewchin 2 points 2 months ago

Likewise. I much prefer the sitting around the table and discussing differences approach to the alternatives.

Life's too short. 😊

[–] Brewchin 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I agree with a lot of what you've said, and am starting to think I may just be being cantankerous about something for no good reason.

I've no issue with shitposts nor trying to get All The Upvotes (nor, I guess, All The Downvotes) here. I think it's just that lazy and transparent "This is a real question?" type of post - repeated over and 'cking over - that makes my teeth itch for some reason. 😅

The web version screenshot you provided was interesting when compared to the Voyager mobile app view of a profile:

It's possible I was being lazy or stupid (they're not mutually exclusive) in misreading the Comment Count metric as something else, like "karma", rating, or whatever. It's definitely not that. Either way, you and others are right in saying there is no karma here (for that I apologise to all). I still have doubts whether the people doing the above kind of posts understand the - literal - pointlessness of doing it for any kind of account cred.

I dunno. Anyway, I've had a day to reflect on it, and I'm wrong. So it goes... 🙂

[–] Brewchin 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Definitely agree. I had zero interest in sculpture until I walked into the Louvre and d'Orsay museums in Paris. I was transfixed by the sculptures there. Specifically the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Rape of Persephone, and the Venus de Milo.

As in staring at each piece for nearly an hour, unable to imagine how the artist got that out of stone. It blew my mind, and the memory of it still does.

I don't care how good your photos are, or whatever visualisation technology you're using, nothing - absolutely nothing - compares to standing in the same room as the real thing.

Conversely, being in the same room as the Mona Lisa was unexpectedly disappointing. It's so small and hard to see with 800 fellow tourists crammed into the viewing room. That probably is better examined online, though seeing it in person is an experience.

The Sistine Chapel is also something worth seeing in person. You can't judge the scale from photos.

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