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Like the title indicates, I want to try out something new for this community: a (more or less) monthly thread where we can just write what we think.
This can be about something you want to share but did not find a fitting place for it, general chatting about whatever, or feedback about this community.

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[–] Meatwagon@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm so burnt out I don't want to do anything when I get home. Someone I know is very sick and in pain. I wish I could talk about it, but the US government is too psychotic to talk about totally normal things on social media.

[–] green_copper@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

My honest condolences. I wish you that you and the people around you will get better. And if then is some luck left, that you can get out of the US.

[–] german@pawb.social 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Tired, stressed and need a hug

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 3 points 5 days ago

Sorry to hear. The least I can offer is a Unicode hug (っᵔ◡ᵔ)っ

[–] raven@furries.club 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

@green_copper Doing alright! ^^ This week was my first week of university and it's been *incredibly* busy and a difficult adjustment, but I'm sure I'll eventually get used to everything.. On a more positive note I did also manage to finish a couple of songs over the weekend!

I guess to touch on the community feedback thing, I actually really like this one in particular :P I know I don't engage much but I especially love looking at all the art posted here!! I never would have learned of foxburrito if I wasn't in this community, and they have become probably one of my favorite artists haha

[–] TheNokMachine@pawb.social 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh that's so cool ! Will you share some of the songs you made with the community ?

I also didn't know that furries.club did actually allow to follow communities and engage in forums on Lemmy. I thought it was just Mastodon all along (my Mastodon account is on their server lol).

[–] raven@furries.club 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@TheNokMachine Yeah sure, I don't see why not!! Glad you're interested, although I'm not sure they'll live up to your expectations haha. Give me a couple days to find some time to bounce them though, I'll get back to you once I've done that ^^

Oh yeah, I love that about pretty much all Fediverse stuff, things are surprisingly compatible :P what's your Mastodon handle?? I'd love to give you a follow

[–] TheNokMachine@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago

Thank you in advance. I know that some people feel nervous about sharing their songs. I don't want you to feel forced to share them.

It's @TheNokMachine I don't post often recently, cause I use my account for posting my Art. I don't know if it'd be a great idea to share a bit of IRL stuff on it or thoughts on it. But yeah, it's great that things are compatible, it lets other see things that they might not see and interact with them. I know that some people had issues with it, but other than that, it's great, even if I prefer when things are separated from each other.

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This week was my first week of university and it's been incredibly busy and a difficult adjustment, but I'm sure I'll eventually get used to everything..

This is a big step. I hope you will find friends with which you can enjoy your time there (which is likely as you are surrounded by people with similar interest :) )

On a more positive note I did also manage to finish a couple of songs over the weekend!

What genre are they?

I guess to touch on the community feedback thing, I actually really like this one in particular :P I know I don't engage much but I especially love looking at all the art posted here!!

This makes me happy to hear.

I never would have learned of foxburrito if I wasn't in this community, and they have become probably one of my favorite artists haha

Same, I'm always thrilled when they post something new.

[–] raven@furries.club 2 points 3 days ago

@green_copper@kbin.earth @green_copper@pawb.social Yeah I hope so too, admittedly still haven't found anybody to hang with but that's alright xP

I usually make electronic dance-y sort of music, but I would like to record some more pine compositions of mine once I have one on hand ^^

[–] TheNokMachine@pawb.social 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hey there, I'm actually quite tired, still recovering from the party I did last week-end. Other than that, I'm eager for what's to come during this incoming week, and I'm already starting to plan the different event I plan on attending.

I'm gonna try to attend a furry meetup this week, I don't know yet if I'll share photos about it or not. But one thing that I'm happy about is that one of my non-furry friend also wanna come with me just to see how it goes and what happen to them. So I'll probably be draging him with me as this will also be the first furry meet up I'm gonna attend (outside of a convention of course).

Before the next year, I also plan on attending a general convention, there'll be a furry association to it, so I hope I'll be able to meet some new local fur.

I also keep procrastinating making my website, so wish me luck to finish it soon. I recently did a few renders that I'll publish soon in c/fur3d@pawb.social, and I need a bit of motivation to do art. I don't need at the moment to ask for people to share me their refsheet, cause I need to finish a few stickers that are in kemono style, but I'll probably need that once finish (unless I decide to make some stickers for Nadnoi).

On some other note, I'm happy to say that my friends are doing the switch from Winslop to Linux, after multiple years of me ~~spreading propaganda~~ telling them how bad Winslop is and them also feeling it. One of my closest friend did chose to use PikaOS, another one installed Debian and started creating the OS from this base, I chose to use ZorinOS on my more professional / academic laptop while still being on a debloated Winslop while the main apps I'm using are being available on Linux (most of them are now Linux compatible), I'm yet still waiting to see how it runs on Arch cause that's what I'll be using.

While I'm speaking about Linux, I can talk about hardware too : I recently saw that some economist are predicting the crash of hardware prices by the end of 2027 and expecting the AI bubble to pop out during the same year. The reason for that is that open-source LLM are getting increasingly good and optimised to run on people's hardware (mainly GPU you have in your computer and also some recent CPU), some associations are also starting to encourage gouvernements to take actions in order to limit the price of hardware so people can still maintain and buy computers (especially important when things now require you to have a computer). So I'm happy to know that next year I'll finally be able to upgrade the RAM and the storage of my laptop.

Another that is plan for soon is me starting to share photos. I take a lot of photos, and some furries in my local area are saying that even if taken with a phone, I could still share them. I don't want to call myself a photograph because I yet don't have a camera, but in some way, if people like how my photos are (which I'm surprise they do) why not share some of them. Maybe will it speeds up the process of me getting a camera (will not cause it still cost money).

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm gonna try to attend a furry meetup this week, [...]

This sounds nice ^^

I also keep procrastinating making my website, so wish me luck to finish it soon.

Good luck with your website :D

On some other note, I'm happy to say that my friends are doing the switch from Winslop to Linux, [...]

Great! The downfall of Windows accelerates and maybe other proprietary software will follow.

[...] Arch cause that's what I'll be using

You use Arch btw. Noted :p

I recently saw that some economist are predicting the crash of hardware prices by the end of 2027 [...]

Maybe I can upgrade my SSD too then. I hope all this AI BS will burn brightly.

Another that is plan for soon is me starting to share photos [...]

I'm looking forward to it :)

Thank you for writing such a long response. I appreciate the engagement.

[–] TheNokMachine@pawb.social 2 points 5 days ago

I didn't mean to say this week cause there's no event this week but in the incoming weeks there's around three meet up that I can go to if I really want to (I won't go to all three lel).

I don't use Arch yet, I'm only on Debian at the moment, but I used Arch and I'll use Arch (cause that's basically what I prefered).

Yup, the AI thing is annoying, they should all make open-source LLM models so it's not a proprietary thing anymore and so they can't generate profit on it rather than making it serves humanity purpose.

Well, if you do it now it sure won't cost as much as what it will next month, but it's probably gonna be more than by the end of 2027. Also, I need to remind that it's just predictions, so it might not actually be the case as we can't know the future.

Same, I'm expecting to buy a camera soon enough.

No problem, it's a great idea I think to do something like this. It kind of bring the YouTube checkpoint vibe in this community.

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My two week vacation is ending. It was filled with Eurofurence 30 (as most of you might already know :D ), watching Anime and eeeeeping :3 I had fun and plan to spend my vacation next year the same way (while using the time until EF31 to hopefully work on my shyness so that I will be able to speak to random people); being on a Furry convention and not hugging a single fursuiter was somewhat depressing :/

And even though work is starting tomorrow again, I like what I'm doing so no bad feeling there (well except that Monday will be filled with unread Emails).

[–] TheNokMachine@pawb.social 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How can't you have fursuiters ? 🥺

That's the first thing I did everytime I saw a fursuiter when doing conventions.

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Because I'm too shy and my brain would rather do a 180 and retreat than approaching one and ask for a hug. I have to work on that...

[–] TheNokMachine@pawb.social 3 points 5 days ago

A friend of mine is also scared of approaching a fursuiter and would rather hug a human than a giant walking plushie. Honestly, I'm quite the opposite, I'm too shy to interact with humans but extroverted around furries.

[–] LordAmplifier@pawb.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've finished three drawings this year, and I'm working on two more, one sorta close to done, the other just started. That's not a lot, but it's more than I used to do, and I'm proud of that, especially because they are getting more "proper". All of it is personal stuff that I can't share here, unfortunately, but I still want to draw stuff that I can upload here, too :3

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 2 points 3 days ago

I'm sure most here are proud of you improving your drawing skills, no matter if you share the result or not :)

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Regarding community feedback: anything you don't like, want to see more or less, etc.? Comparing to other online Furry communities, what do you think about this one?

[–] LordAmplifier@pawb.social 2 points 5 days ago

I like this community tbh. The post volume isn't overwhelming, but I still get to see cute furries regularly. Maybe it's a bit quiet compared to r/furry or an FA feed, but I kinda like the slower pace of the fediverse.

[–] TheNokMachine@pawb.social 2 points 5 days ago

Why not, after all this is a general furry community, so why not encourage people to talk in it.