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  • What piece of software is all that you'll need to use?

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  • Obsidian. I can write notes, write papers, organize my time and ideas, and connect them with each other. I can make my workflow as simple or complex as I want. And the fact that every note is just a markdown file makes it even better: it's a guarantee that I'll never be locked in a proprietary ecosystem.

  • What are things that bring you joy?

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  • Books, cats, coffee and drawing/painting. I could also say "working", as my job is reading, learning and being amazed (I'm a biologist).

  • Send newts

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  • What are some of the best films that do not yet have a sequel or remake

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  • The Fifth Element. And I hope it stays tat way.

  • Tastes like enshittification.

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  • Yes, that's true. But my issue is that I need to export my notes before opening them in another app. With Obsidian, I can just edit any of my notes in GNOME Text Editor, or vim, or Windows Notepad, or TextEdit, whenever I want, and when I return to Obsidian, all my edits are there, without that whole export/import process.

  • Tastes like enshittification.

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  • Same. I don't like Joplin for the same reason. I mean, the encryption feature is super good and all, but if I can't edit my notes in any app I want whenever I want, then it's a no-go for me.

  • Sears back then and today

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    • American McGee's Alice
    • Stronghold (the first one)

    I'm not a gamer, but these two games are almost indispensable for me. Yes, there are Madness Returns and other Strongholds, but I've never really played them.

  • What's the worst game you've ever had the misfortune of playing?

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  • I'm not that much of a gamer, but I remember many years ago I bought a Spawn game for the PSOne because I wanted to buy something and Spawn was still somewhat cool (don't know if it still is, really). It was slow, ugly, with awkward controls and whenever you confronted an enemy the game play changed into something like Tekken or Bloody Roar, but with much worse controls. After you defeated the enemy it changed back to a 3rd person perspective. I didn't even make it to the first boss, I simply put it away and went to play Syphon Filter for the 30th time.

  • What video essay did you watch recently that left an impression on you?

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  • Panspermia, by melodysheep. Part of his "Life Beyond" series. Highly recommended if you like science, biology, astrobiology and existential crisis.

  • bad bitch

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  • Are advent wreaths a thing outside of Germany?

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  • Yes, if I recall correctly, the last one is lit on Christmas day, though some people do it on Christmas Eve.

  • Are advent wreaths a thing outside of Germany?

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  • Here in Mexico, a predominantly Catholic country, Advent wreaths (with five candles) are definitely a thing, though I can't say how much the tradition is still followed nowadays (I'm not a religious person). I've seen them in the central and southern regions, but I'm not sure about other parts of the the country. I've seen Advent calendars too, in churches and some houses.

  • What is your choice for a dedicated Linux audio player?

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  • Same. I've tried dozens of music players, but I always return to mpd, though I use Cantata as my front end. And M.A.L.P. allows me to control playback from my Android devices.

    I also quite like QuodLibet, but my computer has a bug where the music randomly pauses when using Gstreamer (which QL uses), so for the most part I use mpd.

  • Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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  • I tried Ironfox for several weeks some months ago. I like the project, but it was painfully slow, mainly because it disables JIT and some other things. (Brave also has a JIT-less mode, but I found it to be faster than Ironfox.)

    Also, it comes with uBlock Origin preinstalled, which is good, but the devs enable by default a ton of lists, which contributes to the slowness. I suppose that if you have a fast device it won't matter, but on a low to mid-range device it becomes unbearable. The best you can do is disable the preinstalled lists and use one of the modes recommended by uBlock.

  • What's your silly little website.

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  • What's a song in a language you don't speak that still gets you dancing and yelling along hyped?

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  • There's this heavy metal Japanese band named Aldious. Many of their songs are real bangers, like "Ground Angel" and "Yozakura", but there are two particular songs that, as you said, get me dancing and yelling, even if they're more "pop-ish" than the others: "Without You" and "Die for You". They put me in a good mood every time I listen to them 😆.

  • Let's get real: What's your favourite Dinosaur? And why?

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  • I have a soft spot for two dinos because of videogames:

    • Giganotosaurus: Because Dino Crisis 2. I mean, I know that its size was greatly exaggerated, but I'll never forget how damn frightening it was when you were about to fight the T. rex and suddenly, bam!, a fucking thing twice it's size appeared and kicked its ass like it was nothing.
    • Utahraptor. Many years ago, there was a little game called "Primal Prey", where you could go back in time and hunt for dinos. I thought (again) that the T. rex would be the most frightening, but when I got to the part where you have to hunt for the Utahraptor, oh boy, I almost pissed myself because this dude appeared behind me out of nowhere and killed me in an instant. Since then I've really liked this species.

  • Anyone else live somewhere that has had people joining in a WiFi naming joke?

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  • All of my WiFi names have been taken from the game American McGee's Alice (the first one): "Pool of Tears", "Skool Daze", "Hollow Hideaway", "Mystifying Madness", etc. Sadly, all of my neighbors are computer illiterate, so they always leave the router's default name.

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    Yahoo does not have AI

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  • Yes, the speed of DDG Lite is amazing. There's also DDG HTML, which is very fast too. I would like Ecosia to have a lite mode as well.