For some reason our culture fetishizes the act of reading fiction. Personally I prefer books that are a little bit engaging, but light reading is not something you shoul feel guilty about. Not every piece of art is a masterpiece, and not all books are deep dives into the human condition
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Sometimes a book leaves no impression on me and I promptly forget I ever read it.
Ah, a shaggy dog story, those are the best.
Rooty@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•A post-American, enshittification-resistant internetEnglish
5·21 days agoI’ve minimized my short form video consumption and reliance on Youtube for entertainment for this very reason. Podcasts are great to listen to when I’m doing chores
Ngl it’s a pretty sweet gig, although lately the het part has been kinda dubious.
Steam is a nice service but good god the glazing needs to stop. On Steam you do not own your games.
Rooty@lemmy.worldto
memes@lemmy.world•I have never once considered this, or seen it written or heard it said.
13·2 months agoNo, you don’t understand, we should lob as much inflamatory rhetoric into a population having a mental crisis as we can muster, there are entire groups of terminally online people that need to feel morally superior.
I know that I buy from resellers, actual farmers have a farm to run and don’t have time to run a stall. The produce is grown by actuall small farmers because the taste is markedly different
Rooty@lemmy.worldto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Why just play on Linux, when you can also play on another Linux
7·2 months agoReplace the steamdeck with a SBC handheld and this is me.
Rooty@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it*English
6·2 months agoHear, hear. If you leech without seeding you are essentially killing the torrent.
This just shows that personal automobiles are bullshit. A bicycle has not changed fundamentally in over 100 years, meanwhile cars are constantly changing for no discernable reason.
Spongebob would be a perfect bottom piggy at an orgy, he is absorbent and has many holes to fill 🥵.
Image is missing cooking cream and basil.
Watches the Max Headroom TV show for the umpteenth time
I vacationed in Venice last year and I had to wade my way through rivers of people, so I can understand the sentiment.
Rooty@lemmy.worldto
memes@lemmy.world•You can shove that lightsaber deep up in your Death Star.
4·3 months agoI don’t care about spinoff X on IPTV service Y.
Linux will never become relevant on the desktop until its has better spyware support.
“But I am more than happy to root around the registry and make changes to obscure variables that will be reverted in the next update”

Haiku OS! Backwards compatible with an OS that was abandoned in the early 2000s and was never popular in the first place! Zero ports! Use it for web browsing or something idduno!