i don't use spotify wrapped anymore, partially because i just hate them as a company & service and partially because i was having trouble opening links in the app (probably because my operating system was out of date for reasons i'm not getting into)
the services i use are: youtube music over ...

librewolf (my primary browser)
waterfox
vivaldi (hard to tell how private they are on account of being partially proprietary but they've come against ai so worth a mention)
ungoogled chromium
firefox esr (not to be confused with regular firefox which has ai)
mullvad browser (based on tor browser but ...

Frutiger Aero I think has gotten a bit too political for it's own good with titles like "The Future We Were Promised" where they use this neat aesthetic to be like "And that's them rubbing in why today sucks and you should feel bad!" Ain't nothing to get upset over, people! It's just a design ...

Belaneura wrote: Mon Dec 22, 2025 10:51 pm

Specifically lakes' site (I probably found it while I was hanging around Melonland). It was linked there, I wouldn't have known about it otherwise.

you found it through me? i'm touched

Kromick wrote: Wed Dec 24, 2025 2:56 am

I've allways used my xbox360 as a dvd player instead of buying one lol

my family uses our ps3 as a dvd player too

ik this is about the clearnet
but i2p still uses web directories
the most popular one is notbob.i2p which looks like this:

aside from nostalgia, i appreciate the amount of effort that goes into the little details
my fav things about frutiger aero other than skeuomorphism are aero glass & the nature wallpapers

i was watching this guy install windows vista on linux and then in the middle he was having trouble so he used chatgpt
which fine whatever
but then he bragged about how wrong people are about the inaccuracy of chatgpt just because it got this 1 thing right and i was like

fr like what side are u on bro,are u aganist the machine or do you use computer normaly what the fuck???????? And using chatgpt is ironic esp for custom UI themes trust me one mistake and thatll make ur pc kaboom


i agree but i think there's a misunderstanding here. the guy was actually ...

look… we don’t like gen AI, but honestly, i’m tired of talking and thinking about it. i don’t want to complain about it anymore, i just want it to go away


that's fair. i'll admit i've been tired of hearing about it too. so i might just mute the word on freetube honestly. but it'll ...