Feels like the setup to a round of "Name that dystopian sci-fi novel!"

Never noticed/thought about this, is Lady having coffee out of that saucer?

A lot of people can get used to it. I actually can't sleep without it now, and I use the full face model. It's almost comforting now. That said, some people truly cannot get used to a full face mask. If it's an option, they do make nasal masks (only covers your nose) and nasal pillows (kind of just rests under your nose.)

I've heard there are even more cutting edge options out there but I never looked into them since I'm fine with what I have, but it's definitely worth doing some research about. Quality sleep really can be life changing if it's achievable.

I think it did but after I went back to check on the shop recently (someone posted a link to it during the early days of everything), Etsy took the shop down.

Beep boop, newsletter ingested. Thank you admin for this tasty data meal.

This is by design; it's difficult to demonize "the others" if you have even a drop of compassion.

Very thought out write-up! I generally use Freetube, as I'm primarily a desktop user, but since it's been down, I learned how to use yt-dlp, and picked up some GUIs that sit on it to try out. It's been a little surreal watching everything as a self contained file, but almost nostalgic in a way too.

That said, I look forward to when things get patched up on the Freetube front.

I remember MUDs! I played Achaea!

Between that, this, and Disney+ cancellation page "accidentally" going down during that fiasco, this is exactly why I've switched to using only virtual cards for subscriptions. Pause/Cancel the virtual card, voila, no more subscription.

When I was a young teen, I loved collecting MIDIs because I didn't have a good way of getting music in other formats--I still had dial up, and didn't know about other methods. Plus I mostly enjoyed songs from video games. There was one I found that had a very enchanting melody and I loved it to death. Kept it on its own special floppy disk. Inevitably, it got lost and I never could remember the name of the song or what game it came from. I did search but not knowing either of those things, and it being only a melody with no lyrics, made it difficult to find. Then, one day, while listening on Spotify, it just magically appeared.

Sora from Escaflowne :)