gom (they/them) @hider@sonomu.club

The amazing and friendly @greyor offered to publish this little #text / #guide / #list that I've put together, about reasonably #private and #secure #alternatives to #zoom.

One thing I already know I want to add, is info about the number of participants each app can handle. That, and some other things, will be seen in future updates. But please let me know if you have suggestions, want to help, or anything else. Because #cooperation is the key, now more than ever.

https://adikos.net/blog/zooming-out

#Introduction:

I came to mastodon/the fediverse because I believe in cooperation, learning and mutual support. Being a musician (of sorts), I also wanted to be a part of a musical community, and that's why I joined sonomu.

Last year I started a netlabel/project called Gömmaren/Gømmaren. Not sure what it will end up being, but the main focus, musically, is slow-moving music. A web site is on its way, but for now there's a BC page: https://gommarenrecords.bandcamp.com

misc: neurodivergent, cat parent.

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I've been absent in so many different ways lately, it's making me dizzy. The remedies: wash the hands, do the laundry, write the beautiful, hug the cat kids, feel the soil, support the ones in need, apologize, log in to masto and feel grateful.

I mustn't forget.

And if anyone wonders:

- No, I don't use this device for _everything_ to do with my day job, only things like writing, reading, and making presentations.

- And no, that's not my real name on the home directory tab (or the actual username).

So a while back I started using #elementary for my day job. Primarily because it's a distro I feel can be recommended to mostly any newcomer to GNU/Linux, and so I want to get to know it as much as I can. To that end, I've done as few tweaks as possible, and most of them via #dconf-editor.

All in all, it's been a good experience. Some things bug me, like the lack of support for tray icons for 3rd party apps, but that can/will be fixed, I suppose.

Brief message/note to selves:

- Pause
- Breath
- Accept
- Persevere
- Do

(And on occasion: Go deep into the woods.)

I don't claim to have any final answers; I want to listen, digest, learn, evolve.

I don't care about being right; I care about dialogue and cooperation towards common goals.

I don't think I'm "superior" or "better" or anything remotely like that; I try to think about _us_ and what _we_ can do.

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I do know this: in order to be productive, creative, and contribute, I can't face conversations plagued by dogmatism, uncalled-for rage, or sarcastic insults. No matter what, they'll have to go.

Okay, so something seems to be off with the reply function, _perhaps_ a #bug.

Sometimes when I post replies to messages (public as well as DMs), the reply becomes a regular toot - i.e. w/out the @ When I do a "Delete and re-draft", I notice I've exceeded the character limit, even though that wasn't visible when writing the reply in the first place.

During the 2000s, I regularly used to go out dancing by myself, and this track is the one I associate the most with those nights. Didn't speak with anyone, just wanted to dance (and get as drunk as possible [am sober now]). So I did, all through the night.

Those nights have become one of the sources inside of me where I constantly go to gain strength. To remind myself of the simple, yet incomprehensible, fact that we are all produced by, and producers of, this world.

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=3vjxMJ3bNeA

"Anxiety is the sense of how bad the future will be", someone once said to me.

In itself, that doesn't help. Like, at all. But maybe it isn't supposed to help. Maybe it's supposed to point out that anxiety can make the nightmares of the future real, and thus fuel resistance.

Yes, that's it.

Still can't sleep, though.