Do you know Robbie? 📖🐝 @Alamantus@cybre.space

Maybe to help my mindset with this flare-up issue I have, I need to start being ok with the term "alternative" for something different that someone *could* use *instead* rather than think in terms of them being a *replacement*. I'm looking for (and trying to build) a GoodReads *replacement* rather than just an alternative.

Even if other GoodReads alternatives out there can start adding just the core GoodReads features I mentioned before, then they can go much further as replacements, but until then, they add single bits and pieces of GoodReads functionality that must be recreated piecemeal without interaction between the platforms and that's annoying and not useful...

There's always those tiny things that send you into an absolute frenzy of almost-righteous fury with hardly any provocation, isn't there...

It drives me crazy when I see various app developers saying their app is an alternative to GoodReads when the app in question is wildly different than GoodReads and doesn't have nearly half of what GoodReads does.

Y'all, it's FINE! Your app is awesome and does great things and provides a fantastic service, but it is NOT a GoodReads alternative!

GoodReads allows you to:
1) Search for books,
2) Categorize them for yourself (whether you own it or not),
3) Record & share your thoughts about and progress on those books, and
4) See & interact with other peoples' thoughts

At the VERY LEAST!

Challenges, forum-like conversation hubs, book recommendations, support for non-book content, and author/creator announcement hubs are great additions, but if you're missing the core, you don't have a GoodReads alternative!

Fuck I definitely meant to put that in a CW

@guiltyparties There doesn't need to be a philosophical meaning, but if that's true then the majority of people following me here don't live in the US!

@hummingrain Good luck! You may still have to go back in and use gparted to make the partitions fill your new hard drive!

I know this isn't your situation, but if you needed to transfer to a smaller hard drive (like I did when switching to an SSD), you need to use gparted to shrink your partition to fit the smaller drive first before using clonezilla! Just a pro tip because it caused me a bit of trouble when I did it.

@schrofi But that's up to you

@schrofi Most likely, assuming you already walked the path to get to this crossroads!

I haven't played a lot of it yet, but Hypnospace Outlaw makes me feel some crazy nostalgia for the internet I never experienced.

@xj9 This implies that you do choose one of the two paths at least! Lol

You see two paths before you, both unmarked and seemingly identical. You've heard both paths lead to the same place in roughly the same amount of time—only the fact that you choose it makes one more important to you than the other.

Which path do you choose?

Ooo it feels so good to have my game development experience return to my memory. I've got basic player movement, camera positioning, and some interactive physics objects in Unity! Having those basics in place is making all sorts of stuff cascade into place.

All of my close friends have accounts on my NextCloud server, but they don't like it because NextCloud isn't nearly as convenient as Google, so that's a bummer that I couldn't free them from Google. But at least I'm mostly unshackled!

I know I could technically install a mail server on my server and use that, but those tend to get blocked by Google and the big email providers, and that's a bummer. So I'm not sure what to do to get all the way free. I pay for a web host that hosts Lexiconga and handles its emails, but those tend to get marked spam too.

Also, NextCloud Talk kinda sucks? I've tried everything I can do and it just doesn't work reliably with more than 2 people. And the chat is really lacking in features. And whenever there's an update to the app in iOS, it crashes and only works again if it's reinstalled from scratch...

I finally fixed my personal google photos export problem and got everything organized and on my NextCloud server. I'm very glad that my server is just an old laptop because it took moving my photos to an external hard drive and copying them directly to my NextCloud folder to finally get it to work.

Previously I tried uploading everything through the WebDAV and the web interface but something always ended up going wrong, so I'm glad I installed a desktop environment to work with...

Now the only time I use Google is for my emails and Google Drive collaboration... which is still not good, but my personal emails are pretty deeply tied to gmail. My family address is even managed through Google by a cousin of mine, so that'll be impossible to switch from. Someday I'll get something better, but for now it's essential.

I'm using Yandex for a different email address, but I have no idea if they're realistically any "better" than Google. 🤷‍♂️

@dustin Data Pile
Data Pyre
Data House
Data Home

Palm Springs on Hulu is a pretty great movie! And it's hilarious and a bit morbid but great!

Dang, I just remembered GameSprout, where you could post a video game idea and like get together with devs and designers and stuff to collaborate and vote on game ideas you like and stuff. It was a fun idea, but it shut down a while ago.

I got a trial of Disney Plus again and holy shit there's a lot of garbage on here. Disney has produced sooo much garbage.

WandaVision is is fun so far though. It give major Don't Hug Me I'm Scared vibes.