MusketeerX

Got stuck in hospital for a few weeks recently and used the opportunity to finally learn Affinity.

I’m now really liking it. Takes a few tries to get into it though.

I particularly like it on the iPad with the Apple pencil. A bit less so on my windows laptop.

I wondered the same thing.

It’s definitely the best one after Sync.

Nice. I’ll participate whenever I have some time.

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

In terms of blocking ads, I run Adguard (lifetime sub), which blocks ads system wide - even in apps.

Synced bookmarks could be good though.

I have been with idrive since 2009. At the time they were the only ones that allowed backups of network attached storage on their cheaper personal plans. Everyone else saw that as an “enterprise” feature which required a business plan. Which was bullsh*t, because lots of home NAS devices were being sold.

Anyway, I haven’t done a recent comparison of services, but I remain happy with idrive.

Thesedays I no longer backup on a computer with a mapped drive, but directly from my NAS which runs the idrive software.

I had a catastrophic dual drive failure a few years ago, one failed and another failed during the raid rebuild! I was able to restore about 1tb of data and didn’t lose anything important.

They also offer backup and restore by shipping a drive to you if you want to avoid the huge initial backup or a total restore, but I haven’t used that feature.

They do also have a mobile app, but last time I tried it, it wasn’t great.

Wait - this changes everything!!

On desktop it’s mainly Firefox, on mobile it’s mainly the stock Samsung browser.

But I’ve started using Edge a bit more on mobile lately since I discovered its reading mode, which makes for a very clean readable format to read articles.

Nah, 3-6 days max.

How are you doing that?

Do you mean just manually copying a link, switching into the Mastodon app and pasting it in, or is there a better method?

Thanks, that’s great 🙂

To never make any resolutions ever again.

So far it’s going well 👍🏻

How do you filter for English?

I sometimes get a bunch of Dutch and German posts. They seem to come in waves. My high school German from years ago is not up to the task so I’d rather filter them out!

OK, so I’ve known a number of Scottish people and I’ve been there a couple of times and generally had no issue understanding them.

However, when working in London years ago, I had to talk to someone based in Scotland on the phone and her accent was just insane.

Honestly it was exactly like this post, she’d say something, I’d say sorry what and this repeated 3 times then…we both burst out laughing. The most insane Scottish accent ever!

Yeah exactly.

I’ve stayed in apartments a lot when travelling, but I’ve never used AirBNB. Not because of any reason against them, but I’ve just tended to use other online services/sites.

Why?

Posts should have the ability to be promoted or buried, to help highlight interesting stuff.

But why people? I don’t get it. Isn’t this place more like a forum than a social network?

Leave that crap for Facebook etc…