Frater Mus @ fratermus @lemmy.sdf.org

Living offgrid in a campervan since 2018 w/ pibble+boxer Muffin.

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What website/app do you use to read ebooks?

Calibre for processing then

• paperwhite: built-in reader
• phone, laptop, table: FBreader

Parental gaslighting/manipulation can distort the child's ability to understand their own emotions, preferences, etc. I'm 50-something and just coming to grips with it. Hopefully you are younger and can work it out with fewer self-sabotaged careers and relationships than I have in my past :-(

Gently and memorably put. My smile for the day.

Working your arse off doesn’t mean you’ll get it either.

When I was 16 my first boss told me "you may love the company but the company will never love you." It took me decades to internalize that.

people don’t usually key cars for no reason

Dashcam video channels (example) have tons of vids showing randos vandalizing cars for no discernible reason. Some people are just antisocial, destructive a-holes.

What is it with the increasing interest in (landing on) the moon?

bread and circuses

Here's a list of some candidate foods, compiled from the experience of people who live in vans and other vehicles without refrigeration.

When desktop opera dropped the image-compresssion proxy I went back to firefox. I still use opera mobile because of the compression.

gender-based dress codes, especially haircuts and earrings. WGAF.

cf Cory Doctorow's theory of Enshittification

I think the last slack install I did was in 1996; from floppies! <-- beatdown

I am not a sportsball fan, but in the 90s worked in a couple (completely unrelated!) places where I met/interacted with a bunch of NFL dudes in a relaxed setting

• Troy Aikman - serious, aloof
• Emmitt Smith - extremely kind, patient with children. The kind of guy you would want dating your sister.
• Daryl Johnston - quiet, private
• Nate Newton - funny and good-natured. Not terribly concerned with the rules. Like standing next to a refrigerator.
• Tony Dorsett - dick, rude, would leave his wife alone so long we used to sit with her to keep her company.
• Jimmy Johnson - helmet-haired dick, belligerent, the law didn't apply to him and he can do whatever the hell he wants. Voted (by me) most likely to ask "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?"

I also once was in a group dinner with Wayne Hussey (Mission era, rather enjoyable, center of attention but didn't demand it, if that makes sense). Met Vince Neil at an EM club in Germany in the 80s (box of rocks and kinda rude).

A recent ad for a "sell your ring" service uses the tagline "Get What You're Worth", which suggests how deeply the diamond brainworms are embedded in American culture.

Eisenhower warned us about the engagement-wedding-kids-mortgage-divorce-childsupport-legal-industrial complex, but did we listen? Noooooooooooo

We're called "people who ask this same question in asklemmy about every 3 days".

I live offgrid in a campervan, which places limits the amount of power and interior space I can devote to computing. So a vanilla laptop for me.

the keyboard and touchpad make me angry

External kb/mice are allowed. :-) Using a mechanical kb with my laptop right now.

There are thoughtful people whose opinions I value regardless of topic. Doesn't mean I agree with them. Right now AFAIK the only {way} to see their content is to look at their profile.

set -o vi does 99% of what I need it to do

"What you want is..."

I want people to stop telling me what I want.

Well, his name was Ferry before he took it to flavortown.

99% Invisible had a mini-episode about movie novelizations. I think the Star Wars novelizations were mentioned in it, and the whole thing was rather interesting. Particularly where the author has limited info and has to guess about what might happen in the movie.