I mean, good for them. Now, if anyone has actual mental health issues, please get in touch with a trained, human therapist.
haverholm
I used to make comics. I know that because strangers would look at my work and immediately share their most excruciatingly banal experiences with me:
— that time a motorised wheelchair cut in front of them in the line at the supermarket;
— when the dentist pulled the wrong tooth and they tried to get a discount;
— eating off an apple and finding half a worm in it;
every anecdote rounded of with a triumphant “You should make a comic about that!”
Then I would take my 300 pages graphic novel out of their hands, both of us knowing full well they weren’t going to buy it, and I’d smile politely, “Yeah, sure. Someday.”
“Don’t try to cheat me out of my royalties when you publish it,” they would guffaw and walk away to grant comics creator status onto their next victim.
Nowadays I make work that feels even more truly like comics to me than that almost twenty years old graphic novel. Collage-y, abstract stuff that breaks all the rules just begging to be broken. Linear narrative is ashes settling in my trails, montage stretched thin and warping in new, interesting directions.
I teach comics techniques at a university level based in my current work. I even make an infrequent podcast talking to other avantgarde artists about their work in the same field.
Still, sometimes at night my subconscious whispers the truth in my ear: Nobody ever insists I turn their inane bullshit nonevents into comics these days, and while I am a happier, more balanced person as a result of that, I guess that means I don’t make comics any longer after all.
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5·1 month agoThen you’ll love being able to read a description of Android Authority at the same time.
I’ve only used Newpipe, and I’m quite happy with it. Saved me so many commercials, tracking, and probably rage baiting recommendations as well. TBH I just turn off recommendations and comments, I’m only there to watch the videos.
Anubis makes your browser solve a challenge to verify you’re not a LLM crawler scraping content. It shouldn’t have the effects that OP describes.
That actually sounds interesting, yeah. Thanks for clearing it up, I was obviously out of that particular loop 👍
Okay, I’ll stop (what even is it?)
Edit: if you’re at all concerned about privacy, maybe provide something else than Play Store link for alternatives. Google bad.
While a fully functional version is available on F-Droid, the Play Store edition is subject to Google’s imposed limitations.
I think that’s the cause and solution rolled into one sentence right there. Use F-droid instead of Play Store.
Oh, let me wish 🙂
Upon which, logically, users just stop using Chrome?
31·1 month ago“LOL”, I guess?
While true, doesn’t have anything to do with my comment?
I use markdown for pretty much everything, and I agree with the overall notion of this rundown, but —
Seeing weird characters when you copy-paste from AI? That’s because ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others use Markdown to format their responses.
Yeah, maybe that’s not the gotcha the author thought it would be.
Markdown — so stupid simple even stochastic parrots can figure it out is a slogan that will age like milk.
4·1 month agoYes… In society… What else?
Most of their operations are now running with money as the motivation
Let’s be real, that was always their end goal. They were never “open” except in name. Their free services were only to a) build a user base, and b) use it as unpaid beta testers.
Seeing hos much the update looks like it was made at Fisher-Price, they probably do:
6·1 month agoNoProvider2Push is a good call! Haven’t paid attention to that, thanks!
Yeah, as I said earlier it wasn’t completely clear to me if this was only a question about push notifications or just all-round play services replacement. That is why I also mentioned SunUp which uses UnifiedPush.
“Criticize”? How dare you! 😂 It was only intended as light ribbing as far as I’m concerned, I fully acknowledge the “foolish” part.
1·1 month agoYou mean worse?
Same thing happened to me. If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they’re blocked. Because that part of the Fediverse was built by people who had been harassed and doxxed off other platforms.
Here? Blocking just means you don’t see the troll, but they can continue to inflict all kinds of havoc on your post scores. Ironically, “karma” isn’t a thing on Lemmy like it is on Reddit, but votes are still used to rank your posts.
I guess there are a hundred great folk on here for every preteen edgelord, but that kind of nonsense really spoils the fun of this platform. Sorry to see you get downvoted for a perfectly reasonable post.