Holy shit, are we still doing this? Just use whatever phone you want, who gives a shit. People who care deeply about others' phone preference are weird. Signed, an iPhone user.
The America they were forced to come to was vastly different from the one we live in today. How would that be better than where they already lived? How would someone benefit from being ripped from their family and support system and dropped in an undeveloped country to do forced labor?
One possible exception to that, at least so far, seems to be r/nfl. It’s a behemoth on Reddit, but it seems like few made the jump to the fediverse, sadly.
No tabbed browsing. At least not until Firebird, IIRC. Also, "110mb download? Shit, I'm going to have to leave the computer on overnight." Then waking up to find the download failed for some reason.
Write something at first; maybe use one of your partial ideas and really concentrate on making something small, but good. Now, put that away somewhere out of the way, but still accessible.
Now, write something else entirely. Maybe another small project. Keep going. Write more. Do a little writing each day, and in between, read stuff written for different audiences. Read MLK's "Letters from a Birmingham Jail." Read some sci-fi. Read a comic book. Read a boring, dry report about something. Absorb, then write again.
Now, after a month or so, maybe two, pull out the first thing you wrote. It will give you a good gauge of the progress you've made. And you might hate what you wrote, and that's OK, as long as you realize that the first thing you wrote is the floor, and you're only going to get better from that point on. Finally, plan! Sometimes creative genius can come out of the ether, but it's best to plan and not rely on that happening. Give yourself a destination and rough idea of how you'll get there. Then let the wind take you.
If you're looking for podcasts, and you know the ones you are looking for, many have RSS feeds you can subscribe to. I don't know if there is an open-source podcast player with discovery features, but there might be?
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