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I think the only thing I miss from Facebook years back was the Terrible Art in Charity Shops group. I was quite please to find good art and surprised to get an instant 'yuk' 🤣

It was just a confused Welshman, the only person I've come across to blame something, blood libel, on Geoffrey of Monmouth that wasn't actually his fault after insulting the painting.

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Been looking at it a little more over the past month or two.

There's a lot of interesting music out there and nice to be able to wander around people's music collections.

I'm not sure on how one should navigate Funkwhale land. I have an account on a pod but don't know how I'm supposed to follow or interact with other pods I have bookmarked, it seems to only mention channels which are a bit useless.

Perhaps I have just misunderstood Funkwhale but it seems like it could be an amazing federated community for music. As it is I think I need an account for each pod or to just use listen not logged in. It seems more like a replacement for jellyfin/navidrome and the like with some fediverse functionality as opposed to a world on federated instances sharing and collaborating.

Wonderful painting, I spotted it in a charity shop a few weeks back and was very tempted to buy it, but the colour was rather washed out.

I sent the pic to my friend who said it's one of his all time favorites, I put the snap on Pixelfed and someone appeared almost instantly to tell me this is in fact terrible art.

I thought Libertarian was just an American thing for people who don't like the Republican candidate but don't want anyone messing with gun or equality laws.

Depends on the tea.

I'm in the UK and if shopping outwith I tend to just buy from China, Japan, India or wherever I want tea from.

Yunnan Sourcing is good value and pretty reliable for Chinese tea.

O-Cha or Ippodo for Japanese tea.

TeaSpring in the US offer most stuff in small sizes and have a flat $3.80 worldwide shipping charge.

I've heard good things about Marriage Freres but have never tried them.

Essense of Tea or Liquid Proust may be worth a look if you like that sort of thing.

Not for a long time.

Simplest imo is to chop/mince/puree it and put into ice-cube trays for easy to dispense flavour.

Ohhh, nice find.

It's still on my bingo card to find in the wild.

I've had Void on my desktop for a few years as I didn't think it could handle Gentoo, 2011 iMac with 4GB ram, I tried Gentoo again a few months back and have been delighted. Between the binary kernel, -bin packages in the main tree, experimental Gentoo binhost and Calculate Linux repos updating or installing new stuff with portage is pretty smooth.

I've been on lvm/luks/ext4 for a long time. zfs looked cool but I prefer to rely on mainline support, btrfs sounded promising and exciting but I don't think they have done the encryption bit yet which, was the bit I was excited about from the start. I'm kinda hoping by the end of the year I can ditch ext4/lvm/luks on my desktop and just have bcachefs doing it all with mainline support.

It's wonderful but I'm on the last pot, will ensure it's not another decade before I have it again.

Is it reasonable to advise someone who is new to this stuff on MacOS to just installl Ubuntu on VirtualBox?

I thought so too but after meeting him I feel comfortable he is gonna take over the world slowly.