irmadlad

@irmadlad@lemmy.world · Joined ⁨Mar⁩ ⁨2025⁩

Incessant tinkerer since the 70’s. Staunch privacy advocate. SelfHoster. Musician of mediocre talent. soundcloud.com/hood-poet-608190196

Replying to @⁨arisunz@lemmy.blahaj.zone⁩

My own art gallery

What kind of art? Do you paint, create pottery, etc. My lady friend is a self taught painter, and does some mind blowing stuff. Hell, I can’t even put paint on a wall or draw stick figures. LOL She tells me I am biased, but I respond that I know good art when I see it. I always wanted to get into pottery. That seems like it would be super cool.

Replying to @⁨SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone⁩

I host a lot of things I use daily, but as far as really enjoyable, Navidrome. Like @BruisedMoose@piefed.social, I have a large physical collection of music that dates back to 1937 starting with a song by Lucille Bogan called 'Shave ‘em Dry’ and 'Till the Cows Come Home (WARNING: Very NSFW). I’ve been collecting for decades and everything is converted out to flac and resides on a NAS. I’m a mediocre musician on my very best day, but I’ve had a life long love affair with music, so Navidrome fits right in.

Replying to @⁨SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone⁩

Is this really what it’s like now?

Dude, it felt like it took 15 minutes to watch a maybe a 2 minute video. It was horrible. And like I said, Vicks Vapo Rub? Who on earth, who owns a set of twigs n’ berries, would even contemplate this? Sometimes my friends will call me over to look at some problem with their computer. It’s 99.999% Windows 11. OMG! I just want to rage quit the whole scene. Ads on Windows itself. Ads on webpages. Popups. Here an ad, there and ad, everywhere an ad, ad. The whole scene would be complete if they had 5 toolbars in Explorer like it was popular to do back in the day. And I’m like ‘How do you all do this?’. At the very, very least install Ublock Origin ffs. But what happens is that Ublock will sometimes just block everything. Out of the box it’s generally good. But you have to adjust it sometimes per site and those adjustments carry over to the next time you’re on the site. That’s where everyone disables it and goes back to ads everywhere. I’m like ‘Didn’t we just have an hour long training session about this last time I was over here?’

While I still use Windows 10, it’s very stripped down and there’s no way I’m moving to Windows 11. For all you Linux purists, yes, I also use Linux and Mac. Settle down! LOL