I just assumed the labido waned. After experiencing trauma, both myself and partner haven't really been into that. Add the pandemic, and it's a downer. I now have a tumour in the nethers, and that's kind of killed all opportunity. Appreciate it while you have it.
But one thing that annoys me is the thin line between perversion and respectability. And it swings drastically all over the place.
It's normal for people to want sex, fantasize etc. And quite healthy. But express that in the wrong company and you can be castigated.
As for films I barely ever see any kind of believable relationship. Better call Saul and breaking bad did well. And there are few dramas that make the right nods.
Single people make the effort, those in long term relationships not so much. I remember my partner saying something along the lines of, will you still love me when I am old and fat? I hope so. Then I got old and lost my teeth and partner looks at me and sighs. We still love each other.
It's merely an observation. Like comparing TV news with radio. A 30min show seems to carry the same info as five minutes of audio.
Something I noticed when just reading a paragraph of light fiction. Weirdly a Poirot book. TV is incredibly lightweight. Not that I don't enjoy some visualisations/realisations.
I had completely given up on TV but did like the ride of Better Call Saul. Which has restored my faith in the medium.
So that's not to say TV can't be fun or info rich, it's just by and large complete vacuous dross. To the point I could believe it's there to keep people stupid.
I have a long-term plan to use books as poor-mans-but-pretty-or-at-least-unusual sound insulation. As floor to ceiling as possible whilst also being shelved.
Not for a party room, but for a reading room / library / study / peaceful room.
I'm not planning to move house anytime between now and my, hopefully far distant, death.
Agree a load of old crap that could have been achieved in the most part with a better implementation of html frames. Sames sucky problems like publishing barriers, Devs holding sites to ransom. Etc. Etc.
A good open source app for a shop, a church, a school would be a better focus of a million monkeys on MacBooks.
It's great but for the interaction problem. And mixed contexts.
The automated twitter accounts feel like a fire and forget. And you probably want to eavesdrop the conversation.
This could be AI territory, who's mentioning this? Web mention is a flawed system, but reaches for the right target.
I see people drifting back to Twitter from Mastodon as they crave previous circle interaction. They don't like missing conversation, and comment systems per blog can be sucky.
I have mixed feelings about "the conversation" and social networks. Frequently there is no conversation.
There is the perspective that social networks are about connecting people, having deliberations, the town square. And then there is the influencer, marketing communication, discoverability, sales funnel, SEO, push perspective.
The syndication perspective in a way frames social networks mostly as the latter. I think this is a pragmatic, realistic view of what social networks have (mostly become), but it is sad. Not sure if AI (as in summarize, aggregate, "sentiment analytics") has much to offer here that is actually meaningful.
Very true. How many times someone asks for recommendations and then does follows up with the recommendation. It is used, at least on twitter, as away to get engagement without any intention of connection.
> And then there is the influencer, marketing communication, discoverability, sales funnel, SEO, push perspective.
This is the stuff you don't need for the conversation. Maybe once more the IndieWeb and the ActivityPub-based Fediverse should try to meet each other. On the Fediverse conversations and town squares are what you get (to the frustration of some Twitter migrants, I should add).
I dicked about with jellyfin server and an old android phone connected to a stereo for remote play. Almost good, but WiFi and battery save kicked in and play was spurious. Transcoded library to opus, shoved on the memory card. Turned on airplane mode. Jobs a goodun.
I have wasted so much money on music I barely bother with. Lots of stuff is a one play only for me these days and streaming suits that for experimentation. I do pay for ad-hoc streaming but don't get value out of it (time), nevermind the artists. And yet it's still better value than what I used to pay for records.
I'd love to try Jellyfin and Finamp at some point. Last time the biggest issue was how it would not transcode the music from flac to opus in realtime. Plex can do it pretty fast even with a super low power Intel Atom. The provided AAC is quite a bit slower, so I'm still staying with Plex and Plexamp.
But one thing that annoys me is the thin line between perversion and respectability. And it swings drastically all over the place.
It's normal for people to want sex, fantasize etc. And quite healthy. But express that in the wrong company and you can be castigated.
As for films I barely ever see any kind of believable relationship. Better call Saul and breaking bad did well. And there are few dramas that make the right nods.
Single people make the effort, those in long term relationships not so much. I remember my partner saying something along the lines of, will you still love me when I am old and fat? I hope so. Then I got old and lost my teeth and partner looks at me and sighs. We still love each other.