i on and off look into what ladybird is up to, keeping an eye on it. its a new browser thats meant to be in alpha in 2026.

what i find great about it is that its building its own open source browser engine. not to hammer it home but chromium is just way too dominant and yes we got gecko and webkit and im glad we do more choice is better.

also the browser itself will be open source so thats also cool.

i find myself often questioning myself and stopping whether my critique of tiktok or social media or apple or google or what have you is reactionary because its easy to go into a mode of "things were better before" "we must return to the golden age"

i often romanticize older things, physical media, personal websites, offline mp3 players, digital cameras, vinyl, cds, a world before smartphones but nostalgia is a powerful thing and despite the fact that i enjoy these things and think aspects of them are better than things are now (lack of ownerships, streaming, addictive smartphones) not only is the era im referring to not better but in many ways its worse.

unless of course you were a straight white male during that time, ya know 2000-2010, a rather dudebro era of raunchy comedies, tv hosts openly admitting to wanting to bang underage starlets like hillary duff and the olson twins, games where the guy game on ps2 (which featured inappropriate images of a minor and had to be recalled) or biker xxx were prominent, not to mention all the post-9/11 paranoia, iraq war and leadup to the 2008 banking crisis.

it wasnt a better time just because i was too young to grasp it, but aspects of it were better in specific areas of ownership and mindful consumption of content. Although even that wasnt perfect, as i remember when i was 13 it was seen as cool to find the grossest sites imaginable of like things that would scar a developing mind and share it with everyone around. things like 2 girls 1 cup and lemon party and what not.

there were less guardrails but i think there should be some kind of middle ground between free for all and social media dominating the zeitgeist and killing individuality in lieu of algorithmic consumption.

this is one of my rants but the gist is that be careful being too nostalgic for days gone by because the past being this golden age is a reactionary talking point and that mindset can lead you down slippery slopes of right wing radicalization. be mindful of longing for the past.

you are not immune to propaganda as they say

This is how I feel about the current streaming landscape

[ID: Image of a meme format from the tv show spongebob squarepants. In panel one, Mr. Krabs is is angry. The subtitle reads: "all of you, get out!" the cartoon fish citizens have been altered to have logos of streaming services over their faces, namely prime video, peacock, netflix, max and disney plus. In the second panel all the fish are gone except a clown with the logo for the streaming service tubi tv added onto its face. Mr. Krabs points at the clown. The subtitle reads: "Except you, you stay!" and then a third panel of the clown looking happy with a glow behind them, this time zoomed in on the clown with the tubi tv logo now bigger on where its face would be. END ID]

ive noticed a trend where theres some bullshit people hate and that isnt necessary and then people come up with alternatives that are only slightly better but also just normalize the practice as something people want.

sure its better than the spyware pcs that microsoft is making but like, this just acts like AI and CoPilot specifically is something we all want and its just the spyware stuff thats over the line. idk, i dont like it because thats how bullshit gets normalized, two steps forward, one step back

ever feel like youre just being gaslit by your computer when something that should work just refuses to

we need to go back to the old ways but not in the social policy ways or the fascist way. i mean we need to go back to tech lasting longer than a few years, things not being connected to the internet if they dont need to and of course...transparent shells

This guy is working on getting PCI hardware to work the Raspberry Pi CM4 compute module, he’s even trying to get graphics cards to work but no success so far with graphics cards but other things like network cards and stuff work c:

one comment on this video “ finally someone who shares my love of trying to get pointless things working even though there are much simpler alternatives“

With the Raspberry Pi the answer to “why are you trying to get this to work?” is “to see if i can”

Thats how i feel with a lot of my switch tinkering with linux and android. I do own a raspberry pi its just currently not very useful as i lack a case for it.

As I grow older, I’ve become more appreciative of Apple’s products. They aren’t the greatest or anything altho they do a lot of great things but they certainly aren’t the villains people portray them as.

A more streamlined refined phone environment with custom in-house chipsets can be great in many use cases and their more privacy minded approach is something I do admire as Google’s datahoarding is worrysome and uncomfortable.