For me, the ol’ days was yesterday, when I came to terms with the idea that VLemmy wasn’t coming back, and I manually copied over all my subscriptions from a duplicate account.

After 2 years of ignoring the fact that I use a duplicate password in over 100 places, and that password has officially been in breaches, I finally came to terms with the fact that it was time to find a password manager and generate unique passwords. I didn’t do a ton of research and ended up with bitwarden. If I opened this thread to see a bunch of people ragging on bitwarden I was prepared to be VERY upset.

Is it true that if you download from the GitHub you won’t automatically get updates? Does the app update itself internally?

I’ve heard so much praise for Thunder but I don’t see it in the Google play store or f-droid, and I don’t trust myself to keep it up to date manually.

I was kinda oblivious to the world of FOSS until simultaneously switching to Lemmy and also resuscitating an old computer by installing Linux. It took a long time for me to wrap my head around the fact that people are just cranking out parts of OS’s, or pw managers, or file zip utilities for shits and giggles in their free time, and not even charging for it. A game or two as a passion project I could understand, but who sits down after work and plods through a zip utility?

After years and years of “if the service is free, you’re the product” it really takes some time to rewire my brain. It’s almost enough to make me wish I went into software instead of mechanical, so I could pitch in on something.

Oh thanks, I shall.

Yowzers! I assumed 5%was “has ever experienced long COVID” or it would be heavily weighted toward older people or something. No, the numbers are a lot more evenly spread than I would’ve guessed, and the National average for CURRENTLY experiencing long COVID is like 6% or something… Wow…

It surprises me because I can’t think of anybody I know that complains of symptoms of long COVID, and I’m 38. It’s s not like my friends and family are all young , fit people who are too stubborn to show weakness. This data kinda shocks me.

Everybody that is currently in a bath/shower.

I guess technically, it’s still accurate to say, “if I can’t choose water…”

Good thing you CAN choose water though.

Thanks a bunch for all that!

Subsurface

Its dive planning and dive logging software. It’s also the only software I’m aware of that can actually pull the data from my dive computer, which uses some crappy proprietary cable and software. The fact that subsurface exists and is automatically in Linux repositories is what finally allowed me wipe out my aging and barely functioning computer, and revive it with Linux.