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xan spookyhere ⚠

@xan.lol

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xan.lol 🔌🦬 they/he I love skeeting! 🔥 site to be re-made 💖 a.xan.lol/scrobbles 13 interests: adhd, software, indie web, cats, design, photos, firefox (zen), linux (I use Arch btw), a11y, digital independence, privacy, public transit, plant Based ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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xan spookyhere ⚠ @xan.lol · 2d

todo after I wake up:
- poster design
- code website x2
- setup pds on nix

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xan spookyhere ⚠ @xan.lol · 2m

but I'd need to setup NixOS on my NAS before I do backups... (it currently runs a crappy OS)

xan spookyhere ⚠ @xan.lol · 5m

do this and follow listenbrainz.org/user/XanSurn...

ListenBrainz @listenbrainz.org · 12m

Friends don't let friends not track and backup their Spotify listening history with listenbrainz.org!

Owning your own data is not just for nerds. It's only a few clicks and means having control of your past history, future playlist generation, and the ability to change platforms if you need to. -a

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis

xan spookyhere ⚠ @xan.lol · 32m

just completely disabled the home tab on YouTube on all my devices (and recommendations in most places)! Let's see how I do 🙂

xan spookyhere ⚠ @xan.lol · 50m

government should ban infinite scroll!!!

xan spookyhere ⚠ @xan.lol · 54m

I woke up at 7 and woke up again at 10. I should go to sleep 3 hours earlier so I can have 8 hours of sleep and not miss my class 😴

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xan spookyhere ⚠ @xan.lol · 5h

I made a @leaflet.pub doc after watching a video on the Attention Economy www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUtG... from a guy who was studying it before dropping out of a PhD (and noticing I average 6, 7 hours daily on my phone 💀) leaflet.pub/42f4f292-1cd...

Digital Minimalism Lab

Privacy, self-hosting, and adding friction to start spending time on more important things! Starting with this video, by Nathan Laundry:

leaflet.pub

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xan spookyhere ⚠ @xan.lol · 1h

make them customizable @tangled.org gosh dang it!! (what if the background was a gradient of language colors)

business goose🪿 @goose.art · 2h

tangled's new opengraph photos are really cool, but i keep thinking its _actually_ github. it's almost too good. they need a funkier font or a pop of color or something

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clicker @typeshit.online · 2h

chat,,

woah it's loki~! (he/it) @loki.moe · 12h

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xan spookyhere ⚠ @xan.lol · 2h

github.com/YaLTeR/niri is amazing and has good people working on it

GitHub - YaLTeR/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Contribute to YaLTeR/niri development by creating an account on GitHub.

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xan spookyhere ⚠ @xan.lol · 3h

yeahh

xan spookyhere ⚠ @xan.lol · 19h

just as I wiped my server with Coolify to try NixOS 😅

xan spookyhere ⚠ @xan.lol · 4h

i need to set up my PDS so bad 😩 just gotta open the terminal and nix documentation... it could happen in like an hour! 🥺

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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · Apr 29

evergreen

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freyja-lynx.dev @freyja-lynx.dev · 4h

me, lying to myself aspirationally: i should contribute to the project

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xan spookyhere ⚠ @xan.lol · 4h

I'm 95% sure I'm still a cis guy (no amount of blåhajs in my bedroom can change my mind), I was just curious if anyone (oomfs) had actually thought that way.