Resol van Lemmy @ Resol @lemmy.world

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Public Domain Day. It's the day when many works enter the public domain for use without getting permission from the copyright holder, therefore you could do some really interesting takes on the media. This year, Popeye and Tintin entered the public domain. Last year, it's was Steamboat Willie, the iconic first Walt Disney cartoon with Mickey Mouse.

Problem is, Public Domain Day is on 1 January, the same day as New Years Day. People really love to celebrate the latter (not in my country, barely anyone cares about either).

Resol - can mean a number of different things. It's the first 5 letters of the word "resolution". It's also the word "loser" spelled backwards. It's two notes on a keyboard (D and G in Anglo-Saxon music notation). And it just looks and sounds cool in my opinion.

van - the Dutch word meaning "of" or "from". Note that I am not referring to actual vans (the German equivalent being "von", which also appears in a lot of names). Also I prefer spelling that word completely in lowercase.

Lemmy - isn't it obvious? It's this wonderful website.

Put them together, and you get "Resol van Lemmy". It sounds pretty nice, don't you think? Especially since I really hate my real name.

Germany, Bahrain, Belgium, France, and Qatar.

I actually wanna move to Belgium one day, so it's nice that I can get some help and advice from a family member whenever I need it.

I think Blender is a very honorable mention, especially since the team that makes the software has also used it to make some really impressive short films, such as Big Buck Bunny. Who knows, maybe some indie studio can use it to make some truly wonderful stuff (and I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case).

To me, they're a lot like supporting a YouTube creator you like on a funding website like Ko-Fi (or that other one that starts with a P), you don't pay to watch their content, you pay because you enjoy their content and want them to get better at it, and you get some freebies in return that never feel necessary for those who can't afford or don't want to spend money on them.

It's also why on Bandcamp, you can choose to pay more than the asking price for a song/album if you really feel like it. You never need to, but you can because you care about the artist's work.

FOSS can really benefit a lot from voluntary donations, especially since making software (especially good software) and maintaining it costs money. This is especially the case for a website that relies on maintaining servers and instances.

I know the BBC has made a Mastodon instance as a test some time ago. If only other broadcasters did something like that.

I meant that I thought the garbage situation in my country was bad enough, I didn't expect something worse.

Not even Israel is safe for Jews anymore.

I love that ability. I always want greedy billionaires and hateful politicians to be made a fool of. Now I can do it with comedy.

No violence and death, just lots of dookies. Oh this is so fun.

Those Mac vs PC ads need to return.

Friendly reminder: before people liked XP, people hated XP. Much of the criticism that applied to Vista at launch also applied to XP. Guess which one is looked back at more fondly.

And I actually thought Vista was good. Leagues better than XP even. It served me well for 3 years. Now I don't even use Windows anymore.

Genocide is bad, full stop.

I thought it couldn't get any worse.

What a shame. It's almost like the biggest companies make the worst crap or something.

That too is pretty accurate.

No.

Most likely. Since 2013, I've always had the feeling of the year basically getting ruined by the end of it. Pessimistic thoughts have really invaded my brain around this time.

And even though I feel it, I hope it doesn't happen in 2025.

It has been pretty alright. Although I have a feeling something will ruin the year later on. I've had this feeling for a long time.

I hate it when a small handful of people ruin the fun for everyone.

No one cares about other sports in my country so the football hooligans (or soccer hooligans as you call them) only get more attention.

I miss when it was a luxury. Pretty fun times if you ask me.