FarraigePlaisteaċ @ FarraigePlaisteach @lemmy.world

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Star Trek Voyager. I was never a fan, but it has soft sounds and the volume never gets too loud unlike a lot of other shows. That said, I’m hoping to find new suggestions here :)

Good question. The first step with any endeavour is mindset. So when people ask “where do we go from here?” my first thought is that we should stop the glorification of exploitation. Stop wearing brand logos. Stop showing our new devices to people with enthusiasm. Stop celebrating the “winners” of capitalism.

I don’t think we should despair - that doesn’t scale well. But we should (IMO) buy these things with a sense of regret or realism. We should normalise the discourse. I want us to be as up to date on this as people who follow sports.

Otherwise, not only will we never think of ways to fix this, but we won’t even recognise the solution when it’s in front of us.

We need to become conscious and informed of the dilemma of people who look different to us and consider them our brethren. That does wonders for the exploitative appetites we’ve developed.

I find it difficult to respect the way we exist in society. Most of us in the west enjoy what we have because someone elsewhere is being exploited. The general pride and vanity we have is unjustified and we should be using that power for good instead. We are focused on the right wrong things.

You could say that this opinion isn’t unpopular, but just try bringing it up in conversation. Many don’t want to know.

The island was so small that it was a camp itself, just referred to as Ireland. I can understand how that could be missed in a relative brief search.

It was heavily surveilled, controlled and garrisoned with similar abuse and exploitation that Native Americans faced. So the name and presentation is different maybe, but it’s essentially the same.

Later there were further camps called internment camps and prison camps. You’ll find reference to these around the time of the 1798 rebellion.

Britains first colonial project was Ireland, which began around 1169 and intensified into the 1500s. They still occupy a part of the island and killings of unarmed civilians (sometimes children, sometimes shot in the back) are still being investigated and prosecuted.

And USA learned it from the British.

I tend to not reply because that will just draw more attention to them. I will post a separate top level comment rebutting their statements without referring to them.

I remember when signage with ads had no lighting. Even that would be an improvement so I’d like to see any kind of illumination gone too.

• The Power of Now
• Batman (1989, it was well written for a movie novelisation)

This was definitely true in the 80s where I grew up

I barely use Reddit now. I’ve unfollowed any sub that has an equivalent here.

The main one holding me back is that native speakers of my language are there.

I did one of those ten-day vipassana courses. They're absolutely excellent training if you can handle it. I wouldn't go in there never having tried meditation before, though.

I've definitely read that research shows that meditation can help people with ADHD.

I never knew what it was because I'm a bit desensitised to new apps / app names.

Edit: using https://phtn.app/ has made Lemmy extremely pleasant to use too. I haven't had a better experience on any platform.

I'd need to be able to choose a non-US server too. And even then, all the major tech firms breached EU laws by later transferring data back to the US. But if I had to trust an American company Mozilla would be among the better choices.

I know people, who should know better, that don't know who to believe. This is when faced with both a verifiable source with a track record of accuracy, and an obviously cunning lone wolf with no substance to their argument.

For every genuine source, there is a dishonest one churning out disinformation faster than the genuine sources can because quality takes longer.

macOS comes with quite a few applications that can't be uninstalled. They're quality applications, but many are totally irrelevant to me like Stocks, Chess, Stickies, Home Assistant, AI stuff, Graphs and others).

Let mé elaborate on use cases (and thanks for asking, by the way): Terminal / bash

• wget: I often download stuff this way using wget followed by the URL of something I've copied. It's just quicker on keyboard than using the UI in the web browser.
• ffmpeg: I often convert audio / video formats quickly this way, strip audio tracks from video etc.
• scp: I copy media to and from a server at times and maintain a simple website
• bash: I have some scripts for updating websites and pushing changes to yet another server, however these are run from another machine I ssh into
• nano: I use this a a quick notepad for throwaway stuff

Video Editing:

• iMovie for the overall job
• Handbrake: for cases when ffmpeg commands would be too complicated or I need to do something visual like crop a videos dimensions
• Lossless Cut: Can make cuts from video clips without transcoding (which takes longer and causes quality loss)
• Claquette: Fast screen recordings. macOS does have a built in tool for his too but it doesn't capture system audio like Claquette does.
• Photo Booth: Apple app for making videos of myself or another presenter with webcam.
• Game Capture HD: Records from an Elgato device so I can record video output of other computers.
• Pixelmator Pro: Graphics editing for thumbnails, captions, stationary, merchandise etc. I use GIMP too but currently have it zipped up to see if I can get by with just one application. My fingers remember the GIMP keyboard shortcuts though!
• Color Sync utility, Digital Color Meter,  Image Capture: I never use these but in my (unpaid, voluntary) work I will need them some day.

Audio editing / Music production:

• Logic Pro: Main music production application
• Audacity, MusicBrainz Picard - utilities that do somethings that LP can't do / do as well.
• Podcast Soundboard: Used for live events, although I don't plan on doing any more of those.
• EQ Mac: System audio equaliser

Tech:

• Sublime Text: Helps me get my head around long source-code documents
• Forklift: I mainly use this as an FTP client because Finder drops the connection way to often.
• Publii: Like a simplified Wordpress for quick website development and deployment
• Whisky: Runs windows apps on macOS (frontend for WINE)
• Lagrange: Browser for geminispace. Just for fun.
• VPN & Antivirus

Literature / Study:

• Calibre: for epubs
• Highlights: For PDFS. It summarises parts of PDF I've highlighted and allows me to view them as a document of its own. Good study tool.
• Apple Books: Also allows to export highlights in an ebook as a document of its own.
• Dictionary
• KLib: View all highlights made in ebooks on your kindle device.
• Anytype & Notion

The rest of the apps fall into: entertainment, social media (web apps only), office / communications, system utilities (like disk space visualiser and caffeine which prevents screensaver), LLM clients like DeepSeek and ChatGPT.

Finally I have meditation apps.

I used to love writing (creative, journaling or free-flow) and I keep meaning to get back into it. Thanks for the encouragement there!

Edit: the main reason I stopped was when I realised that I never read what I wrote.

I like them but they organise applications that are already opened. The dock icons stay the same on each workspace and the desktop icons are the same too.

That could help me avoid opening a few apps actually. Thanks. I found this too that does similar https://www.howtogeek.com/208429/make-spotlight-search-actually-useful-with-flashlight-for-mac-os-x/