MusketeerX

joined 2 years ago
[–] MusketeerX 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wow, do both sound great.

I also mostly just search manually, but am looking at setting up something more automated soon.

I used to use all of this stuff many years ago, but less so in recent years.

But the fragmentation and rising costs of paid services and the way every single thing is becoming a subscription is annoying the hell out of me. It's like they are trying to do their best to push me back to this stuff!

Anyway, I see both of the above services are invite only, if anyone can spare one I'd be really grateful!

[–] MusketeerX 1 points 2 years ago

That long slim beak, perfectly designed for urban rummaging!

🤔 Probably why they seem to be booming in this city.

[–] MusketeerX 6 points 2 years ago

I got sick of subscriptions, so I got Affinity Photo 2 for iPad as it was a reasonably priced one time purchase.

I cannot recommend it highly enough. I made a post about it here:

https://lemmy.world/post/1402700

[–] MusketeerX 4 points 2 years ago
[–] MusketeerX 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Most things I do on it can be done as well or better elsewhere.

However, I really like Photo editing on my iPad Pro using the Apple pencil.

It's now my preferred platform for that.

[–] MusketeerX 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What I would find useful is a way to follow specific Lemmy users on Mastodon.

[–] MusketeerX 3 points 2 years ago

Nice. I'll participate whenever I have some time.

[–] MusketeerX 35 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm spending way more time!

I didn't really like the community in Reddit that much. I used it more like a news feed. So I never read 'all', I just read my subs for a few minutes here and there, but I didn't post and comment much.

Since coming here I post and comment a lot more. There seems to be more proper discussion here, despite being much smaller and quieter.

[–] MusketeerX 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks, I'll check it out.

In terms of blocking ads, I run Adguard (lifetime sub), which blocks ads system wide - even in apps.

Synced bookmarks could be good though.

[–] MusketeerX 1 points 2 years ago

I have been with idrive since 2009. At the time they were the only ones that allowed backups of network attached storage on their cheaper personal plans. Everyone else saw that as an "enterprise" feature which required a business plan. Which was bullsh*t, because lots of home NAS devices were being sold.

Anyway, I haven't done a recent comparison of services, but I remain happy with idrive.

Thesedays I no longer backup on a computer with a mapped drive, but directly from my NAS which runs the idrive software.

I had a catastrophic dual drive failure a few years ago, one failed and another failed during the raid rebuild! I was able to restore about 1tb of data and didn't lose anything important.

They also offer backup and restore by shipping a drive to you if you want to avoid the huge initial backup or a total restore, but I haven't used that feature.

They do also have a mobile app, but last time I tried it, it wasn't great.

[–] MusketeerX 5 points 2 years ago

Wait - this changes everything!!

[–] MusketeerX 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

On desktop it's mainly Firefox, on mobile it's mainly the stock Samsung browser.

But I've started using Edge a bit more on mobile lately since I discovered its reading mode, which makes for a very clean readable format to read articles.

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Ballet Dancer (lemmy.world)
 

Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.

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Marbled (lemmy.world)
 

Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.

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Stealthy Cat (lemmy.world)
 

Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.

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Black Cat (lemmy.world)
 

Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.

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Golden Wave (lemmy.world)
 

Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.

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Neon Tree (lemmy.world)
 

Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.

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Dark Mountain (lemmy.world)
 

Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.

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Above the Earth (lemmy.world)
 

Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.

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Planet (lemmy.world)
 

Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.

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submitted 2 years ago by MusketeerX to c/fediverse
 

I'm one of the people who has very recently tried Lemmy and decided to drop Reddit. Initially because I will no longer be able to use SyncForReddit, but now also because I just like the vibe a lot more here than Reddit.

I'm not a massively technical person, but I understood the broad concept of federation - different instances/servers that sync to form a big conversation/forum of sorts.

I heard a lot of people joining and saying positive things about lemmy.world, so I signed up there.....and that's it.

But, am I using it right? Is the idea to sign up in one place and use it to participate across the LemmyVerse/FediVerse? Or should I be seeking out lots of niche instances of interest?

I hear lemmy.world is the biggest instance. What if most people end up here, does that defeat the purpose? Is this inevitable?

You need a critical mass of users, so a quiet instance with few posts is not attractive. If I search for Xbox, there are lots of empty places or places with 3 posts. If there's one big one (often ends up being in lemmy.world) that's where I'm subscribing.

How are you using Lemmy, are you participating in a bunch of instances or just one?

 

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