Open source software for the win! You're free now (in your workflow, hopefully). Blender is such an awesome success story of an open source tool that has become popular in the industry its meant for. In so doing, it protects its artists from future exploitation by a company! I hope it continues ...

Yo, I can absolutely imagine that happening! I have to try that on a day I have the house to myself.

What keeps my from using my phone while driving is the knowledge that doing so makes death by car accident the most likely way I will die outside of disease. And even then I cheat

I like to think that me using Linux at all is a flex, but the people around me don't give me credit for using Linux, so I need to one day install Arch to get the cool points from the Linux community. lol

It's possible to get rid of many of the social media apps that run like this, but I think it would be hard for me to find an in-between. Either I am glued to a service or I am not really using it at all. If you run apps through a browser sometimes the experience is more limited than the native app ...

My main computer is a ThinkPad T480s with Aurora, a custom image of Fedora Kinoite. It's working well but I'm thinking about upgrading to a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 or a Framework 13. Unsure which way I'll do right now.

That sounds really nice. I'm thinking about how to do something like that soon, but it's tough. What I have done in the past, intentionally or unintentionally, is ghost services that are causing me anxiety. Like, when a certain social media platform or community is becoming too much for me, I just ...

Aww, heck yeah! W for @rejectconvenience!

Sometimes when you're trying to kick one habit you end up compensating with another way to get a similar feeling. Sometimes that can feel like a disappointing loss, but I like to think that if there is more friction to the new thing you're switching to then it's a good step in the right direction.

How in the world is this real? How? I love this so much. I want to return.