If you’re on Android, get on Fdroid and use Drip. It’s simple, does it’s job, can give you alerts if you want them, and can be locked so the gov isn’t tracking when you were possibly pregnant. Also tracks symptoms and body temp and shit for those who want to get pregnant.

Or if on GrapheneOS turn internet off for you period tracker app (but at that point just use FOSS)

VMs are a good way to dip your toes, but honestly, doesn’t hurt to boot from a USB and try that way too. That’s how I checked of Fedora, which I stuck with and now dual boot with. I rarely go to my Windows partition unless there’s something I have to do that can’t be done on Linux.

I don’t touch terminal often, and I use Fedora Silverblue, which is immutable, making it harder for me to fuck up my system somehow. I have used the rollback feature due to updates with the kernel breaking bluetooth, so there’s the bright side of rollback distros.

Felt that. I definitely miss having a kana flick keyboard on my phone, I prefer it to qwerty conversion. I especially needed a good keyboard cause I was using FOSS apps to do my Wanikani reviews on my phone (Smouldering Durtles).

If someone does make something good, I’ll try to notify you, or make a notice in the Japanese learning communities on Lemmy 😉

Not OP lol

Looked it up, and it’s not truly OSS, but you can actually look at and modify the source code by executing the game as a zip instead.

Oh cool didn’t realize it was OSS (not free obvs)

I get it, Windows is trash, but at least using Windows and Android got me to care about what my device does and can do, eventually leading to me getting Fedora.

The point is that I have experience with having to fix the occasional issue and know basic computer skills due to using Windows.

Thank you, I literally switched over to my Windows partition just to try to prove that (but you gotta pay to download it anyway…)

Anyone got a FOSS keyboard that doesn’t suck AND can type in Japanese? I was using Gboard with wifi off for almost a year, but switched recently to Fctix + Anthy (didn’t even know Fctix had Android keyboards!) but the typing kinda sucks (click suggestion and doesn’t add a space after the word, accidentally slide on space so I start typing within a word) and it doesn’t do autocorrect.

Mozc is so old it literally doesn’t work on newer Android versions.

I checked Floris and Heliboard, and neither support it 🙁

I am that generation, but I was blessed enough (not dirt poor) to have a family Windows PC at home, and my mom got me a HP laptop later because she knew I was gonna be going to a tech school program in my Junior year, and knew that Chromebooks were dogshit.

My tech teacher would constantly complain about the kids who had like zero Windows knowledge, and couldn’t do shit like open a PDF in word, or simply find the terminal. I knew this shit would happen when I was in school, I literally told my mom that anyone who can’t afford a windows device at home is fucked in the work environment. Compounded by the fact most teens are iPhone purists and make fun of Android, they’re just too used to “shit just works”

God why does this not have more upvotes and why isn’t it the first comment. I literally was screaming how someone could be on here and not possibly know of the various ways to get around shitty ads.

YT music with ReVanced is a fucking dream, I love it. Spotify is probably also great. Didn’t even know about the iOS and Windows apps, but I hated iPhone and finally ditched Windows for Fedora so I don’t keep track of those as much.

But seriously they have so many options, especially on Android. Like there’s a FOSS app or patched option for literally everything on there.

My ass repeatedly reset games I had beaten or got close to beating, especially if I was stuck. I was especially guilty of this with Pokemon games, where I would just reset if I couldn’t get past a certain point (didn’t find the strength TM in BW so couldn’t fight Team Plasma), I beat PMD Gates to Infinity like 4 times lol. I grinded so hard on Platinum Victory Road in an attempt to beat the elite 4, that I found my first ever shiny from ruining the local Rydon population.

I’m far too tired to do that shit now, I felt depressed going from Octopath I to Octopath II because I have to grind again and I’m broke 😅

Gonna add Kingdom Hearts to this (cause Sqenix), because I was playing 1 as a preteen, beat Cerebus, got in the Gummi ship, and promptly got lost on where to go after. Bonus for stopping the game for months, picking up again, and being lost so I just never beat it. I plan to finish KH1 this summer after beating Metaphor Re:Fantazio, but I probably will reset to get that full experience factor 😅

I stopped using Pinterest about two or so years ago due to how dogshit the service is. I was only on there to look at art and anime shit anyway, but the ads got fucking obnoxious. I’m talking like a page full of ads and content with links to shops or sponsored products, and then have only one real post that isn’t trying to sell me something. They frequently emailed me about content not meeting the ToS, even though none of the pins were posted by me, and they usually banned random shit too.

And then AI art started flooding the posts so I would see a page of ads, sponsored content, shops, ai slop, and finally a real post.

I fucked off after that…

Ohhhh man I love the Chocobo Theme, and have also played like zero FF games besides XV, which was dogshit. But one of the teammates sings this cute little in-game ad jingle that uses the Chocobo theme, so I hear him singing it in my head every now and then.

Maybe I have shit humor but I love this. I need to see more crop complaint memes.

My mom is the one who got me into gaming, especially my love for JRPGs as she has played FFVI through FFXIII. She has told me several times how much she hates Cactuar because of the thousand needle attack or whatever.

Unfortunately the backlog of games is so high that I haven’t played a FF game besides 15 (which was ass lol). But I do wanna play the FFVII and FFX remakes real bad. I think her favorite is one of those two, don’t remember which.

Holy shit, I knew Mango existed but didn’t know it was free like that. I probably won’t use it cause I already have learned a lot of Japanese from other resources I use, but that’s nice. I’ll try to recommend it more now.

Sorry but “any combination of ‘tuah’ and ‘hawk’” has me fucking rolling. Since every now and then my mom and I will do that exact thing spontaneously while talking.

Like she’ll be talking about Cactuar and my brain will be like “Cactuah”

Just saw We Love Katamari + DLC around ~80% off and immediately used a birthday gift card from a friend the moment I saw it. No hesitation, knowing full well I wouldn’t be able to play it until finals season ends like 3 weeks later. But I’m damn ready when it does end. Also knowing full well I have so many games to fucking beat this break 😭