Thank you, friend!

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There is no story. And I haven’t been banned from “everywhere.” Those two posters (and most of Lemmy) are mad because last year I voted third party in the US election.

Back then, many on Lemmy thought that if you didn’t support the Democratic Party, then you were a russian spy working for Trump. People legit accused me of living in Russia, being paid with russian bitcoin (to post on lemmy! WTF?! lol), and trying to get Trump elected. All because I posted news articles about third parties.

Several posters tracked me, one actually wrote a program to track me and the times I posted in order to “prove” I was “russian.” Didn’t work tho, cuz I’m not russian and I don’t live in russia. It was a wild time. lol

Even tho I created and mod several socialist and third party comms: Socialst, Anarchist, Green, etc. :

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/swp@sh.itjust.works

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/msafe

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/swp@lemmy.today

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/msafe

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/greenparty@sh.itjust.works

And I actually voted for a Socialist party. Now, third party is cool, but right before the election, oh hell no! You were a traitor if you mentioned third party. lmao.

My post history and my comment history is public both from on this instance and my former home, .world under this same username. :)

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/UniversalMonk?page=1&sort=New&view=Posts

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/UniversalMonk@lemmy.world

Basically they all swore up and down that I’d disappear right after the election. And blocked me. But I didn’t disappear, and since they blocked me, they don’t see my posts. So they keep going on and on about how I was banned from Lemmy. lol

Now, anytime they see a poster they don’t like, they like to say it’s an “alt of Universal Monk” trying to worship Trump. When you ask them why I would post and create so much Socialist stuff if I was really a Trump voter, they usually then attack you and say that you are an alt of Universal Monk too.

All the while, I’m over here just posting away and doing my thing and posting my fiction writing, socialist articles and anarchy articles. :)

Love this graphic! Thank you!

Affinity is an excellent replacement for Photoshop, Illustrator, and Publisher.

I may have to finally make the switch. I’ve been using photoshop/illustrator for over 25 years now though…

It’s gonna be damn hard to make the switch…

EDIT: Just now uninstalled all my Adobe software, canceled my Adobe subscriptions. Replaced with Affinity. :)

Hi.

Here’s what the beauty looked like:

Yep, I went down the rabbit hole all day yesterday. Decided that we have better, cheaper alternatives by just buying and hacking an older laptop.

It really was a fantastic idea, always hoped it would catch on but alas, the Chromebook took over in education spaces thanks to subsidies from Google for the data collection.

Yep. I do wish they would revisit the whole “water-resistant, rubber/plastic tought as a Tonka truck, drop-resistant, hand crank to charge-up” ideas though!

I feel all powerful. If I could only get the volume to work…

Working on that to see if I can get it to work.

Oh, I’ll look that one up, because I’m not familiar with it. Thanks!

Yeah, and I appreciate the goals it had, and even tho if failed, they tried. I am using mine and trying to figure out to post on Lemmy with it, but the browser is old and doesn’t do https sites, but if I can figure it out, I wanna use it for my lemmy machine. lol

Giving it a listen. Thank you!

Fun concept tho. Especially in 2005:

In late 2005, tech visionary and MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte pulled the cloth cover off a small green computer with a bright yellow crank. The device was the first working prototype for Negroponte’s new nonprofit One Laptop Per Child, dubbed “the green machine” or simply “the $100 laptop.”

The $100 laptop would have all the features of an ordinary computer but require so little electricity that a child could power it with a hand crank. It would be rugged enough for children to use anywhere, instead of being limited to schools.

A Linux-based operating system would give kids total access to the computer — OLPC had reportedly turned down an offer of free Mac OS X licenses from Steve Jobs.

Here’s a nice little intro docu about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLJYWc6NZt0&ab_channel=ThisDoesNotCompute

It just so happens I have one of the first ones from 2005. It’s been in my garage for 20 years. Fired it up as I read this article, and it still works:

Agreed! So much truth, brother.

Love this graphic! It’s inspired me to start MSAFE: Mormon-Satanists Against Fascism and Exploitation.