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FJ Brodie
@FibroJedi@gamepad.club
mastodon 4.7.3💊 #Fibromyalgia Fighter
👨👩👧 Hubby to one, Dad to one
✏️ #Writer of original #fantasy fiction
🖥 Gaming when health allows.
I have a horrendously short attention span and usually live in Survival Mode due to #ChronicPain.
Names/Titles: He/Him/FJ
#fedi22 #writingcommunity #drawing #anxiety #actuallyautistic
336 Followers
224 Following
50 Posts
Joined April 15, 2023
Random Powers:
Fiction Writing, Pencil Drawing, Pyrography, French-speaker
Health Issues:
Fibromyalgia / Chronic Pain, Depression, Seizure-risk, Anxiety
Patreon:
Games Played:
FFXIV, LOTRO, PokemonGo
Well, I didn't get long in #FFXIV, but I'm on the L15 "Envoy" questline. So I'm learning some crafts in Limsa, and will pick up a couple in Gridania when I move onto there.
And I'm starting to like my new Miqo'te. Just need to earn coin to get (from NPCs) or make better outfit items. It's weird not having Marketboard access, but at least I don't get choice overwhelm.
G'night // #StaySafe // #BeKind
Had a couple of hours with wifey watching series one of Good Omens (for the second time).
We needed to refresh our minds on what went before this year's ending movie.
NJ went to sleep by midnight (she still has a couple of weeks left of the summer break) so we could watch the last couple of episodes.
Snatches of shared escapism matter.
Recently, various friends and contacts have had relationship breakdowns.
Prioritising communication and time together matters.
Proofreading my #writing on my phone in the lounge does have a feline advantage over using my PC in my garden office.🐈⬛
The #Finch app said I should "doodle a quick self-portrait" today.
I don't like looking at my face, and I suck at drawing human faces.
So I did... Depictions instead.
#depression #indecision #Fibromyalgia #ChronicPain #doodle #sketch
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@manualdousuario@mastodon.social @micr0@wetdry.world while it's not automated, I have my Dad (who's in his 80s living alone) message me over Signal every day about the same time.
If I haven't heard by 10-11pm, I'm to ring him. If I get no answer, I have two local people who can go to him.
Whatever anyone's "system" is, it puts the vulnerable person in the safest place. If that's an auto ping, then do that. Sounds like a good project.
Hey folks,
This week's attempts to pull my sleep time back have flopped. The two days I managed around 2am, and woke up earlier, I also had really high pain and low energy.
So I got no more done, nor did I feel any better from the earlier days. I haven't given up, and 2 days isn't a trend. But there's no point going to bed in tons of pain either.
So I'm about to continue this #pencilsketch which is getting closer to being finished.
As the UK begins to lurch in the destructive patterns displayed elsewhere in the world, wifey and I voiced a desire to emigrate.
We have another couple of years to decide which planet to live on.
In other news, NJ got me this mini #Lego Mandalorian kit for the #StarWarsDay just gone, so I built it just now.
It might have been added to #Finch recently, or I may have only just noticed it. But you can switch your birbhouse light on and off.
This is also true in the daytime.
And, of course, if you actually have lights. 🐦⬛
I kinda wish you could refine "followed hashtags" on #Mastodon.
Like, I want to have a feed of #FFXIV but excluding NSFW ones. I have the content/picture filter on, but I swear sometimes I'm scrolling past more blanked out screenshots and gross content warning titles to find clean posts.
I ought to be grateful people use the content warnings. But I'd prefer to create a "clean feed" to be honest.
Any tools/platforms or tricks out there to achieve that?
I'm still really prone to headaches, having managed two PC sessions all week. One of those was just writing in a dark mode text editor, and I still got the headache.
But I've managed some writing.
I've also been trying to find a good #android photo editor/tweaker that does not have AI integrated.
I'm mostly using Image Toolbox, though I struggle to edit brightness/contrast.
Other Free(mium), No AI, no cloud upload recommendations?
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Tonight's progress, before having the daylight lamp colour started to hurt my head.
🖍️ the ground is still very rough and scrawly, but has a few colour layers
🖍️ body has a bit more depth of colour
🖍️ first layers of green added on the tails
🖍️ black rings added to its back. Haven't decided on the inner colour yet
🖍️ stones sort of added
🖍️ basic inference of shadows
#drawing #wip #fantasy #ColouredPencils #handdrawn
If you have any contacts who use #Instagram - do tell them they have to opt out of they don't want everyone on Instagram to be able to use AI to make images from their uploaded photos...
I know these are "public photos", but people share them because they want them shared as-is, not to have them warped or altered.
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@Aywren@gamepad.club And before ANY dungeon, I get really worried about screwing up. But I can't complete new dungeons with NPCs because I don't know the mechs, so I just fail hard over and over. But I know the real people will have to carry me, which I feel guilty about, and know I'm going to suck at all the bosses for the first 30 runs. And redoing bosses will be my fault and they'll rage quit.
And I've not queued for it yet...
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@Aywren@gamepad.club ha, most of FFXIV causes social anxiety. I gave up attempting to learn to tank after I finished... HeavensWard ... because I was scared of failing people and being annoyed by them, feeling wrong and an utter failure.
Yeah, I DPS if I'm forced to group.
Rezmage is still sometimes needed.
Hey folks,
Things are still messy. But wifey and I are trying to make them less so with a bit of planning, and more caffeine and food at the start of the day to try and lower my oversleeping.
I'm currently in the process of typing up some #writing and then posting to Patreon and Ko-Fi. Whether I have any energy left to play a game or not, I don't know.
I've not been able to progress any of my own projects consistently for months.
I'm fed up of my mental and physical "health", TBH.
I don't get into politics on social media usually. How you vote is your choice.
But if you're in a minority, of almost any kind, in the UK, I am concerned for your well-being.
Who runs your local area will directly determine key aspects of your life, especially welfare and healthcare.
If today's England results were a government election...look I'm only in a minority due to health. Many are in one for their very identity as and origin.
Please stay safe.
Happy #StarWarsDay one and all. I don't know if my pain will allow gaming tonight, so here's my #Finch birb instead.
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I'm still undecided on which mobile browser will be my default, but much will hinge on tab groups. I haven't found a #Firefox fork for Android which includes container tabs, so relying on plugins for cookie isolation etc.
While there are more browsers out there, trying to differentiate one fork from another, in terms of privacy has been difficult.
The #Vivaldi / #Waterfox / #Midori combination still has no clear winner.
I am finding it difficult with my health at the moment, in that it's feeling tangibly restricting.
I've been up 13hrs and I'll be heading to bed shortly.
I'm not getting much done, I miss escaping my thoughts by gaming and I kind of feel "purposeless", if that's a real word.
I'm overdue a catch-up with wifey but I'm in a real "what's the point?" phase, at the moment.
Not self-destructing. But why bother having a life goal if you're in too much pain, or too wiped to even get started?
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@Gazimoff@gamepad.club We used to play Catan quite a bit a number of years ago. Glad they're still around.
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@sixumbrellas@toot.berlin @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social oh I'm glad in not the only one to have thought about that song!
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange is there a way of knowing if someone's Samsung TV was targeted and/or used? My 80yo+ father has one, so I'm intrigued.
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@mdrabbles@mastodon.social if huge snakes didn't creep me out a bit, they're beautiful really. Not sure what the cats would make of one though...
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@GothFvck@metalhead.club ah, not one I've tried yet, but I will, thanks.
P. S. I'll private message my Finch friendship code before sleep time :)
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When you need to keep so many features needed in a modern browser, but squashed into a phone screen, it must be tricky figuring out the best places for buttons.
I hadn't noticed that the [] in the bottom right was a button 🤦. Thanks again.
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P.S. Just in case someone points it out, I know Vivaldi isn't a Firefox fork. Which might be why I can't find the feature in question, because it's unfamiliar to me.
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@harrk@gamenook.net this is why kids should be taught languages from a readmit young age. They pick it up naturally. And it helps cultural acceptance, too.
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@mootpoint@convo.casa I'm just about to catch up on the situation. We're in Scotland, so hoping some areas are more sane.
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I've never had all of those components at any point in life. When I had money, I hated the work. When I made my own job, it paid poorly. I've hated myself on/off all my life, and my mum definitely had undiagnosed depression before the Alzheimer's took her.
Dad's almost always been healthy. So, that's a thing.
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@birdpoof@mastodon.world it was released in May, I believe. We're just behind.
Though you've made me question my memory. So I'll need to check!
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@NetscapeNavigator@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net not all people with faith are "religious fanatics".
If you're an atheist, you don't need to be labeled an "atheistic fanatic".
Even Vivaldi said freedom of religion is for everyone (including the right not to have one).
Well, I've drafted 470 words of an experimental "small world" story.
It takes place in my not-small world, but the plot covers a small area, and is largely based around one establishment in one of the smallest woods on my world map.
I've also adopted a lighter writing style for it.
I'll have to see how it fares during editing a few weeks down the line. 🤔
#writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #fantasy
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Oh, one last question, and as I can't find a browser for Android with this feature, I'm not looking for miracles.
In desktop Firefox (not chromium) forks, there's "container tabs" and groups. These allow you to isolate session cookies within the group, so cross-group tracking isn't possible.
Is this sort of function in-built in Vivaldi in general tracker blocking?
Could "cookie containers" be added to tab groups somehow? Thanks for humouring me.
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@astian@mastodon.social for some reason, I can't use that link in the Mastodon app.
Because more information is better, I'll try to figure out why, so I can view that image :)
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@astian@mastodon.social just a fun little exercise. These three #android browsers have the same two tabs open
https://astian.org/midori-browser/compare/
https://astiango.com/?q=midori+vs+waterfox+android&type=web
Waterfox is likely higher due to me experimenting with extensions. But the only ones running in #Midori are uBlock and Dark Reader.
I have dark mode activated in #Vivaldi too. I'm not exactly worrying over 66MB memory! But Vivaldi isn't hogging my resources either.
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Thank you. My phone and OS are the hardest things to "de-Google" (aside from games if I manage to get that far). So I appreciate it.
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@murena@mastodon.social the idea and ideals behind your devices are great, but not everyone (read: me) can afford a few hundred pounds in one transaction or month. I'm not saying I can afford it another way at this point, but do you support spread payments? Just curious, and I did check your FAQs first 😊
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@Mara@hachyderm.io oh, I love the leaf!
But the 'do you think this is still safe to eat?' got me😆
Another year. Level 43 now, but like some games, levelling up doesn't always mean making progress.
But /unlike/ games, I don't get stronger with each new level and my gear certainly doesn't get better.
But I played a cooperative table game with just wifey and NJ tonight, and ate loads of chocolate. So that's good.
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Gthumb or Pix for simple crop / edit. I use Pix a lot for cropping as it's a small, quick so app.
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@britt@mstdn.games does using fidgets help the RA because you're using those joints, or make it worse through repetition?
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@Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net I don't know which search engine you prefer, but AstianGo currently has no LLM features. It sometimes quotes sites that match your query but that's all.
I usually use DDG, but that still sends my query over the Pond. At least you can turn off Search Suggest (LLM summaries).
(For transparency, I do sometimes use duck dot ai, but more for understanding multiple sources, not for content creation. I've been avoiding AI proactively since seeing how little AI co's care about human creators)