resource blog

blog created as an archive of posts i would want to save for various reasons

[00ff00dreams]

blog dedicated to categorizing and saving various posts i find helpful. main blog @venomgender ;

newly rbed posts almost definitely won't be tagged, but (in theory) they'll all be tagged within the month

tag explanations below cut:

#piracy - self explanatory. has both piracy tutorials and masterposts of pirated media

#digital privacy - posts dedicated to resources on digital privacy; has things ranging from browser extensions to google product alternatives

#cooking - cooking resources. both general how-tos and actual recipes

#trans - trans resources. more dedicated to transmasc than transfem posts just because im transmasc, but has several generalized posts as well

#art resources - self explanatory. has both tutorials and things like resource packs and stuff

#writing resources - self explanatory

#learning - learning resources, typically dedicated to masterposts about learning a specific "thing" (language, sewing basics, etc)

#media rec - media recommendations

#sewing - sewing resources. has both tutorials and sewing patterns

#tech - technology resources. stuff like removing windows 10 bloatware, switching to linux, improving pc performance

#video game resources - resources centered around making video games

#coding - coding resources. from basic language how-tos to how to make your own websites

#save - any other helpful post i see that doesnt easily fit into the above categories. typically has things that help with "adulting" but i dont like that word so im not making a tag for it.

#megathread - any post containing large amounts of links for different things. contains a variety of categories. mildly depreciated in terms of how often i actually tag things this...

#tutorial - posts that teach you things. normally will also be tagged with a more specific category. also mildly depreciated...

additionally anything tagged 'kinda' means it only sort of falls into the tagged category. i tag these things to in theory go through later and see if theres enough similar items to have them been grouped into a new one

[dykeselfcest]

holy shit okay may have found a game-changer for web searches...with duckduckgo it's easy to turn off the ai features permanently, but regardless of engine there's the increasing problem of the search results themselves leading mostly to ai-generated articles on random ghost websites that say a lot without any information, and then the information they do give is contradictory or otherwise just wrong. this is especially a problem for me when trying to search for, e.g., a current list of the best products in a certain category.

finally searched for a solution and there IS in fact a giant hand-curated list of sites containing this content. it can be imported to ublock origin on desktop or mobile, and even can be used on iOS via the ublacklist extension in the safari app. it's updated regularly, and importing via the link as described should allow those updates to go into effect automatically.

i've only tested it a little bit, but after importing the list and repeating my duckduckgo search for backpack recommendations, my top results now lead to websites that appear to be linked to actual organizations in some form, with an "about us" page and the name of a founder and everything. the text is still often a bit wordy and SEO-optimized, but it now has actual recommendations that are relevant to the query. BIG IF TRUE???

please do not start talking about The Definition Of Art on this post, or Whether Human Creations Have Souls. i am very tired.

[dykeselfcest]

once I added this it took me 15 minutes to find a backpack that met my needs and order it with free shipping. I feel reborn

[life-in-a-monospace-typeface]

I wish they’d made me memorise more

I had a good education, in a school system that had left behind the Bad Old Days, when teachers would hit you with a stick if you didn’t rote-memorise endless facts. I was basically never required to memorise anything by rote. I was never threatened with violence either (at least, not by teachers)^1, and I think those two things may be related. I mean, you do basically need to threaten kids to get them to do rote memorisation - even they can see that there’s no point to it. You can just look things up! What’s the use of stuffing your head full to bursting with a load of dry dusty facts?

Except, that’s not how learning works, is it? The brain doesn’t store knowledge like a hard drive, with a fixed amount of space that you can fill by learning, and if you learn too many things you have to erase other things to make room. The brain stores knowledge like a network, or a graph. You learn new things by connecting them to things you already know. New facts aren’t just inserted into the brain in the next empty space, they’re added to the existing structure, connected up to the surrounding knowledge.

If you come across a fact that has no connection to anything you know, your brain decides (usually correctly) that this fact is not useful to you - you can’t do much with it. A beautiful old stone building you walk past every day has a plaque that says “1667”. Ok, so what? If you don’t know anything else related to that, why would your brain bother to hang on to the number? It’s meaningless. The only way to get that kind of fact to stay in your head, without connecting it to your existing knowledge, is sheer repetition ^2.

But if you do have some related knowledge, like, perhaps you know that the Great Fire of London was in 1666, well, now that plaque means something to you. This building was built the year after a huge fire burned down most of the city. I wonder what was there before? Then later, you read in passing that the plague killed like 20% of Londoners in 1665, and again this date might have been meaningless, but now it has things to connect to, so instead of sliding off it, you think “Wow, what an incredibly shitty time to be in London. The vibe while they were putting up that building must have been wild”. And so on. Each thing you know gives more places for new facts to stick to, and those new facts give you yet more possible connection points. The more you know, the easier it is to learn.

And once you know enough, you can connect up the different parts of your knowledge into one huge graph that makes most new facts you come across just automatically stick in your brain without trying. It is a joy to go through life with your understanding of the world effortlessly growing and deepening each day, in a virtuous cycle.

But before you can fly, you have to get up off the floor! If new facts hit your brain one at a time at random, each fact will probably find nothing to connect to, and just fall out again, leaving no purchase for the next one. A few will stick, so eventually you will start to build out from the basic things you started off knowing, but only very slowly, because you’ve haven’t got much surface area for new knowledge to stick to. Most of the information you’re exposed to will bounce off and be wasted.

What you really want, to get this feedback loop kick-started, is a kind of low density ‘scaffolding’ of facts, that covers a wide area, so that new incoming facts of all kinds have a decent chance of finding something nearby to stick to. You could think of it like, you want to spread out a wide area of ‘nucleation points’ for new clusters of knowledge to start growing around.

For example, in order to have dates not just bounce off, you could learn the dates of major historical events: to get full coverage, you probably want to know the boundaries between periods - starts and ends of wars, reigns of the rulers, that kind of thing. To give information about places a chance to stick, you might want to just learn what countries there are, and maybe their capitals.

It doesn’t make sense to go crazy with this, you only want a small fraction of your learning to be this kind of memorisation, since it’s a much harder way to learn any given fact than just slotting it into an existing structure in a way that makes sense. But if you use memorisation efficiently to build a framework skeleton to grow the rest of your knowledge on, it helps enormously.

The problem is, I didn’t realise this kind of thing was a good idea until after my formal education was done, and to be honest I haven’t been very successful at doing it on my own, without external motivation structures. And the worst thing is, now I’ve had years and years of valuable information just bouncing off my brain, where a lot of it might have stuck if I’d only had the structure in place to catch it. I wish the value of memorisation was explained to me early enough to make the most of it.

Footnote 1: I dimly recall that one of my teachers (an older one when I was very young), still kept the stick in the classroom and would talk about how he’s not allowed to use it any more.

Footnote 2: (or mnemonic techniques, which basically all work by artificially inventing connections between the fact and things you already know).

[cungadero]

who wants a list of some of my best videos about video game economic crisis events theyre kind of my favorite subject of all time

[cungadero]

habbo hotel is an anarcho-capitalist gambling and a scam-based economy run by children part 1

part 2 of the habbo hotel analysis centering on types of common financial crime orchestrated on habbo

gaia online’s gold-generating hyperinflation crisis

ffxiv’s housing crisis

the hypixel skyblock exotics 1 trillion coin bubble pop

the ‘cash-based’ mmo where the f2p players literally sell sweat harvested off monsters for pennies

a history of neopets controversies centering largely on the “unconverted” neopet bubble market

“the falador massacre”, an infamous runescape event in which a player was able to pvp kill in non-pvp areas, resulting in thousands of player items and gold being looted from corpses with no possibility of rollback

[edwad]

oh hell yes

[jkottke]

Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from the Internet Archive, images from Wikimedia Commons, & files you’ve uploaded, and create art collages from them. This is great — be sure to check out the gallery.

[a-sip-of-milo]

Hey, you are not an embarrassment for not knowing how to do certain household chores/basic self-care. They do not come naturally to us. A lot of it takes practice! Maybe you had a neglectful guardian. Maybe you had one that was very coddling and never thought to teach you. Maybe you haven't lived in a place where these things were available to you or needed. Doesn't matter. It's okay to not know and far more common than you might realise.

That said, this website provides very simple instructions on how to do everyday tasks such as making your bed, using a washing machine, cooking different foods, washing dishes, taking a shower, etc. All you have to do is use the search bar to find the task you're struggling with, and it'll come up with what you need + other related how-to's:)

If you're having trouble navigating it, let me provide you with some examples:

How to clean dishes by hand

How to make your bed (with visual demonstrations of each step!)

How to fold clothes (with visual demonstrations of each step!)

How to take a shower & dry yourself off (also provides ways to shave beards, armpits, legs and genitals)

How to shave legs, armpits, beards, pubic areas, etc. (a more in-depth guide)

How to mop the floor

How to sweep the floor

How to swallow pills

How to make small talk

How to make eye contact in different situations (or how to avoid it while still looking natural)

It's also perfectly okay if these don't help or aren't appealing to you. Unfortunately, nothing helps everyone.

[chompercroncher-deactivated2024]

Also if the reason you don't know is developmental , intelectual or learning disabilities making you struggle even if you've been taught a bunch of times , you are so cool and awesome too :^) [smiley face ]

[topadie-deactivated20260315]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eQx_UiPvEvI4ZZECoPOuRrLhIE_6XbBy

gifs/graphics 2.0k+ - Google Drive

google drive file of 2k+ pixels/gifs, backgrounds, dividers and big images/gifs!! (★ᴗ★) look up colours or keywords for anything you're looking for!!

[sawed-on-shotgun]

i am of the sincere belief that if ur on ur computer a lot you should visually customize it to high hell and back not just for funsies but also because it has literally made me less depressed before. its kind of like how rearranging your bedroom is good for your brain, yknow. i do stuff like this every few months

[sawed-on-shotgun]

and if anyone wants to follow suit

LIVE WALLPAPER: wallpaper engine. only thing on here that costs any money (its like 5 bucks on steam). im sure theres free alternatives but this one has a lot of presets and stuff so its less hassle and its what i use. might be a bad idea for lower end pcs tho

CUSTOM TASKBAR: retrobar on github (lots of different options)

CUSTOM CURSOR: theres a lot of places to find these, but rw-designer open cursor library is a good place to start

DISCORD: betterdiscord, im using the clearvision v7 theme with a custom background

EXTENSIONS (these are for firefox, might or might not exist on other browsers):

tabliss for the new tab theme

stylus for tumblr -> specifically the 'tumblr - custom dashboard pallette' theme for colors + bg, and this for the pre-twitterifcation layout

enhancer for youtube for custom youtube colors

the browser theme is just one i found on the firefox theme 'store'

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Hey someone suggested I use ChatGPT to figure out adulting today, and as I was going through the mental list of places I'd rather look, I realized "beloved strangers on Tumblr dot net" was on that list.

So if you have an aspect of adulting that you're really good at-taxes, budgeting, cooking, insurance, credit, time management, house upkeep, anything-please feel free to reblog with any tips.

[notcruvusmemes]

Not me, but @bitchesgetriches has a lot of great resources for many of these topics on their website.

[bitchesgetriches]

That's us! Professional internet adults, specializing in financial stuff! We recommend starting with our Grand List of All Articles, or one of our Masterposts:

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need To Know About Taxes

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about How to Increase Your Income

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Retirement and How to Retire

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Credit and Credit Cards

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Investing for Beginners

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about How to Pay off Debt

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need To Know About Living Independently for the First Time

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Repairing Our Busted-Ass World

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Self-Care

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Getting a Job, Raise, or Promotion

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Saving Money and Being Frugal

[certifiedceliac]

Gluten Free Mexican Conchas (via Let Them Eat GF Cake)

[certifiedceliac]

Gluten-Free Cinnamon Rolls (Cinnabon Copycat) (via 40Aprons)

[tieflingkisser]

[a-thousand-suns-one-more-light]

If you’re still on windows 10 it’s there as well. Tho it’s under Devices>typing>typing insights.

[forestgreenandgray]

Hey do you know what rumination is?

Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.

Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.

Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.

I'll say it again:

Rumination is a compulsion.

Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.

I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.

And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.

Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.

Like this was genuinely life changing for me.

Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:

Defining Rumination

How to Stop Ruminating

ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination

What to Do When You're Triggered

[specialagentartemis]

An Incomplete List of Gluten Free Recipes I Love

There are a lot of reasons to have a suite of go-to gluten-free recipes. If you or your partner can't eat gluten, if you are going to a potluck/dinner party and want to make sure everyone there can eat Something, if you are on an archaeological project for 3 weeks sharing a house with a rotating cast of 3-5 other people with various dietary restrictions... you want to make sure you know how to make things that everyone can eat that aren't just Salad.

I make a lot of these for myself regularly or For Special Occasions and can vouch for all of them, they're Real Good

Appetizers

Socca (chickpea-flour flatbread)

Vegetarian

Vegan

Dairy-free

Avocado Deviled Eggs

Vegetarian

Dairy-free

Baked Pears with Goat Cheese, Bacon, and Honey

You can remove any of those things but together they are so good

Lunches

Quesadillas on Corn Tortillas

Optionally Vegetarian

Easy, fast, filling, infinitely customizable. All you really need is butter, a tortilla, and cheese; optionally you can include spices like cumin/chili/paprika/pepper, beans, pulled pork, pulled chicken, beef cubes, hatch chiles, green onion… the quesadilla is your oyster.

Shakshouka (Mediterranean poached eggs in tomato sauce)

Vegetarian

Optionally dairy-free

More of a fancy brunch than a lunch, really. Officially it's a breakfast food but who has time to make it for breakfast.

Soups

Butternut Squash Soup

Vegetarian

Vegan

Dairy-free

I made it with these minor alterations (roast the squash first, it brings out the flavor). If you don't want to go through the time it takes to build up vegetable ends, and you can't find certified gluten-free vegetable stock, using water is okay.

Creamy Roasted Mushroom and Brie Soup

Vegetarian

The recipe calls for flour as a thickening agent; you can use gluten-free cornstarch or rice flour, or just omit it entirely, it’s fine.

Dinners

Black Bean and Sweet Potato Enchiladas

Vegetarian

Mchicha (African potato-peanut-spinach curry)

Vegetarian

Optionally vegan and dairy-free but it's a little harder

Faux Madras Lentils

Vegetarian

Again, if you can't find certified gluten-free stock or broth, replacing it with water is okay. This is full of flavor already.

Fall Dal (Apple Squash Lentils)

Vegetarian

Vegan

Dairy-free

Deserts

Peanut Butter Cookies

The three ingredient peanut butter/sugar/egg classic

Almond-Cornmeal Citrus Cake

It's really good!! I made this one with a berry compote on top instead of glaze and it came out great.

[writtenoffantihero]

Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.

This is just another form of censorship, control of what we can/can't see and engage with, and another means of getting our private information.

[monarchofmonsters]

Alternative forks of AOSP (Android Open-Source Project) which are not maintained by Google and will not be affected by this:

LineageOS (I use this one)

Graphene OS

Functionally they are virtually identical to stock Android. Android began as an open-source project, and these versions are built off of that.

Fuck Google.

[mordcore]

[amiibo-king]

for those like me who cannot install alternative android forks on their phone because the phone in question is thoroughly unrootable, I would recommend downloading anyapk on your phone while you still can. In their own words:

anyapk is a lightweight Android application installer that bypasses Google's developer verification requirements by using local ADB (Android Debug Bridge) connections. Smoothly install any APK file on your device without restrictions, gatekeepers, or corporate approval.

If you're reading this after Google's lockdown date and are unable to install anyapk the regular way, there is a method outlined on the github linked above which tells you how to install anyapk on your phone by plugging it into a computer with ADB installed on it. Once you have anyapk on your phone, you will not have to do that ever again (unless you delete anyapk off your phone)

[aromanticbastards]

[Description for the first image:

a tweet by @/Pirat_Nation:

From September 2026, all apps, including those outside the Play Store, must come from verified developers.

No more anonymous sideloads. No quick comebacks for malware gangs.

First: Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand.

end description]

[chromalogue]

[Description for the second image: a post from jrepin that reads:

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware.

--Eugen Rochko of Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115093185284473606]

[tanukipost]

using linux (as a content creator)

i will preface this by saying that im not an it guy, i dont code or anything but i do love linux. after i found a distribution that i liked i found that finding open source alternatives and trouble shooting stuff etc became pretty satisfying. linux is like a puzzle that you can make into whatever you want if you have the right pieces. but i will apologize in advance to it peeps if i dont use the right technical term for something.

to start off with some technical stuff you have the linux kernel, then you have all the distributions based on said kernel that are customized to suit different needs.

"A kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating system that always has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel is also responsible for preventing and mitigating conflicts between different processes. It is the portion of the operating system code that is always resident in memory and facilitates interactions between hardware and software components."

tbh i think of it like ice cream flavors. each distro is a different flavor but theyre all ice cream. so while anything that i say here is geared towards my distro of choice, cachyos, it would work on other distros, you would just want to find a tutorial to see the differences.

i have tried other linux distros, but cachy has blown me away by how well and fast everything works. i honestly think that if youre gaming or doing any kind of content creation its the way to go. for the sake of this post not getting stupid long im going to assume you have linux installed. if not here is a tutorial: "How to Install Linux."

starting out

thinking of content creators you would usually go to streamers, digital artists, photographers, gamers etc. so thats what this post (kind of guide?) is geared towards. so. if youre on your fresh cachyos install you can navigate to cachyos hello.

i have cachyos hello launch at start as its an easy way to update your computer.

go to apps/tweaks and click install gaming packages. thatll prompt it to download stuff that makes gaming easier on linux. also in cachyos hello go to install apps, which will open the gui (graphical user interface) of the package manager and you can install the heavy hitters, discord, obs and steam, pretty close to how you would on windows by clicking through the prompts. i also downloaded krita, libreoffice (awesome microsoft office alternative), and vlc (my preferred media player). theres also some cool stuff like opentoonz (2d animation), blender and darktable (RAW photo editing) in there.

when you download programs from your package manager (through the terminal or with the gui), youre installing them natively. there is something called a flatpak, which runs a sandboxed version of the program. its in the name of security so its sectioned off from the other stuff on your computer and so that a company can make one version, the flatpak, and it should work on all linux distros without issue. well get more into flatpaks later.

discord: finding json files

once you have all of that installed these are some tweaks that i did. sometimes the cachyos update of discord is a little behind the official discord update (usually less than a day tbh but if youre planning to log into a call not being able to before a collab stream would be bad) so you can navigate to the json of discord (basically just the settings txt file) and turn off that discord checks for updates before launching.

you will want to go here: ~/.config/discord/settings.json

and add this line somewhere in the file: "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true

it should look something like this. you can still update whenever its rolled out but youll be able to use discord uninterrupted while youre waiting.

obs: git, the aur and yay

obs almost works the same as on windows. the plugin structure is a little different but its not too bad once you know what to look for. you have the easy ones like this closed captions plugin. where all you have to do is download the linux zip, extract it and put it in this folder in your file directory: ~/.config/obs-studio/plugins.

then there are the harder ones like the move plugin. where you have to clone and build the plugin yourself from github. or the aitum multistream plugin where cloning and building it myself resulted in a cmake error so the best bet is to navigate to the aur and download it that way.

which sounds like A LOT. so let me explain.

something that makes linux so cool is how easy it is to just grab cool shit from github. but to do that well need to start talking about the terminal which seems to scare people.

so background, cachyos is based on another flavor of linux, arch. its super lightweight and customizable! but when you dont know what youre doing it can be scary. since cachyos is based on arch it used the same package manager and the same commands to navigate through the terminal.

you can follow this tutorial here: "How to Install Git on Arch," and just follow to first steps to install and verify that you installed it. ill be honest i havent actually needed to configure it as it works just fine without doing so.

after youve done that you can install all the cool stuff youve seen on github. going back to the obs move plugin you would type the following in the terminal to clone (download all the necessary files from github): git clone <repository link>

which is https://github.com/exeldro/obs-move-transition

still in the terminal, you want to navigate to where it downloaded by typing: cd <folder name in file directory>

which is usually the name of the program obs-move-transition

most github pages have instructions on how to actually build the thing. for the move plugin you would type: cmake -S . -B build -DBUILD_OUT_OF_TREE=On && cmake --build build

(i realized that i already had cmake installed when i wrote this but if you dont youll want to before try to set up the move plugin. you can install it with the command “sudo pacman -S cmake” then check that it’s installed with “cmake —version”)

youll see a bunch of stuff pop up in the terminal and once its done, you should be able to see the folder for it in your file directory.

youll navigate to /home/*your username*/obs-move-transition/build/ and there should be the actual plugin move-transition.so. thats what youll put in your obs plugin folder from earlier. youll might have to make a few new folders but it should be nested like this: /home/*your username*/.config/obs-studio/plugins/move-transition/bin/64bit/

git is cool but theres another really cool thing that cachy has because of being based on arch. and thats the aur, the arch user repository. it hosts packages made by the community. in order to install these packages i personally use yay. and heres a tutorial for how to install it here, i followed option 1: "How to Install yay on Arch Linux."

but going back up to the obs plugin example, its similar to what we did earlier. first youd have to find the aur version of the aitum multistream plugin then you would type: git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/obs-aitum-multistream-bin

then: cd obs-aitum-multistream-bin

the difference is that someone already built the plugin for us so you just have to type: makepkg -si

it should once again appear in your home directory and you can go digging for the .so. for me it was in /home/*your username*/obs-aitum-multistream-bin/pkg/obs-aitum-multistream-bin/usr/lib/obs-plugins/. and youll nest it the same way we did earlier with the move plugin.

since i linked what we needed for the multistream plugin we didnt need to use yay very much but the tutorial i linked earlier shows the other ways that you can use it!

once youre done collecting all the plugins you want you can start obs, connect your twitch/youtube account and start streaming the same way you would on windows.

steam: proton, wine and flatpaks

moving onto steam... honestly... a lot of steam games should just work. steam comes with proton, which is basically a compatibility layer that lets window games run on linux. its something that we actually downloaded earlier when we installed the gaming packages. if you want to check before hand what games work you can visit ProtonDB. what is pretty much a guarantee NOT to work are games that use kernel level anticheat, like apex legends, sorry. i dont play any games like that anyways because that seems like an invasion of privacy. but you do you.

if theres something that you want to play that isnt on steam you can use wine instead, or the wine manager bottles to do so. wine is another compatibility layer, its actually partially what proton is based off of. if you want to check and see if something specific runs through wine you can check WineHQ.

if you want to use bottles (which is my preference it keeps everything neat), well be rounding back to flatpaks! to get flatpaks set up youll need to install it by typing in the terminal: sudo pacman -S flatpak

sudo means your acting as the "superuser," itll prompt you to type in your password to verify that you actually want to do what youre doing and that your authorized to do it. you wont see your password as your typing. it looks blank for security purposes but if you type your password and hit enter it will work as long as it was typed correctly. pacman is the name of the package manager for arch. heres some more about the commands you can use in pacman: "pacman."

now with flatpak installed you can install anything from the flathub! but were specifically looking for bottles right now. if you go to the bottles page on flathub the install button will give you what to put into the terminal: "Flathub- Bottles"

getting started with veadotube

veadotube is a good place to start if you want to try out streaming. its an easy to learn program for pngtubers specifically. mini is available for free and once the full version is released i can only imagine that it would be installed the same way.

honestly this is the easiest thing to install out of everything weve talked about. all you need to do is go to the veadotube website and download the zip file for mini. you extract it and inside is an exe file like youd be familiar with if you use windows.

i moved the extracted veadotube mini folder to my home folder for easy access. i will admit im not sure if theres a better place but this works for me. once you launch it, veadotube should work pretty much the same as how it does on windows. i havent run into an issues yet but just in case ill leave the docs for veadotube here: LINK

closing thoughts and links

those are honestly the biggest things that i can think of right now. just walking through how to setup/tweak discord, obs, steam and bottles walks you through everything that ive needed to learn in order to get streaming working comparably to how i used to stream and game with windows. everything that i use can be installed with once you know how to use pacman, git or yay.

something that might be helpful is wget... but honestly i wouldnt worry about it unless its needed for something you want. theres no need to have it if you dont use it.

some other useful things:

a general how to doc for streaming on linux, with a bunch of programs i didnt mention: LINK

streamer.bot for managing streams: LINK

what i used to get csp working. my fiance noticed lag while drawing, but its worth a try if you dont want to use krita or other drawing programs with linux versions: LINK

or you can set csp up in a bottle: LINK

opendeck, to use the elgato streamdeck: LINK

this is a plugin for opendeck to use the fifine steam deck, which is what i have: LINK

slime2 is just a neat chatbox for obs, it doesnt say anything about linux but because of how its built it works: LINK

the obspluginbuilding page for if you want to look more into how plugins work: LINK

prism launcher, to play minecraft, i just used pacman but theres other ways to install it listed on the downloads page: LINK

cachyos wiki: LINK

arch linux wiki, if you run into problems that you cant find in the cachyos wiki the solution is probably somewhere in here: LINK

ill sign this off by saying linux, especially distributions like cachyos, are constantly improving. make sure you update often (the easiest way to do so is using cachyos hello) and keep your files clean so you know where everything is if you run into problems!

pre-linux i didnt have a super extravagant streaming set up so theres not too too much here but i hope it at least gets you started and gives you resources to figure out the rest!

[hobbies306540111]

women should lift weights because it prevents osteoporosis in old age and makes you a more capable person in everyday life please shut up about butts and waists and hourglasses i'm going to fucking kill

[endangeredlove]

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[mothric]

genuine question from someone who would rather chew their arm off than go to a public gym, and also doesnt have a lot of money: how do you safely get into strength training? are there youtube channels, apps (android), etc anyone recommends that makes it approachable and don't lean into diet culture / body shaming?

also the biggest thing that keeps me from working out is that I already have joint and spinal issues and moving the wrong way can fuck up a knee or a shoulder or my spine for days. I really don't want to injure myself, and have unwittingly done so before. resources that are extremely clear on exactly how to move and offer gentler / alternative ways to move for people with limited range are vital.

[feenyxblue]

Okay, so this may not technically be strength training, but muscles are dumber than bricks and cannot tell the difference between your own bodyweight and actual weights.

So, may I recommend:

Hybrid Calisthenics

Hey everyone! My name is Hampton and my brand is Hybrid Calisthenics. You can find me by that name pretty much everywhere on social media.

He runs a YouTube channel where he goes over how to work your way up to more complex exercises (for instance, his pull-ups videos start with using a door jamb and moving your weight back and forth) so it's good for easing yourself into things.

[bundibird]

You also don't have to fork out for expensive weights and such if you don't want to/can't. Substitute with stuff you either already have at home or can get from the supermarket and build up the weight you can exercise with. 500 gram cans of butter beans then 750 gram bottles of pasta sauce. 1 litre drink bottle then your 1.5 litre milk bottle. 3 litre bulk-buy bottle of laundry detergent. Etc. One of my dogs weighs 13 kilos and I pick her up on the regular (to her delight). One weighs 16 kg and I pick him up too (to his consternation and mild disapproval). You don't have to fit out some fancy home gym before you can start strength training.

[theygender]

I second Hybrid Calisthenics, that's the program I use. It's run by one guy who's taken it upon himself to make exercising more accessible and it's completely free! Each exercise has different variations based on your ability and each variation is further divided into different levels of difficulty so you can work up to where you want to be. If you can't do a single push up for example then this program will help you work up to the point where you can, and if you're a master of push ups then there are more advanced body weight exercises you can tackle so you can keep moving forward in your training without stagnating. The routine offers a full body workout with absolutely no equipment required for the beginning levels. The only reason you would need to buy anything is if you want to work up to a full pull up, at which point you would need actual pull up rings

Here's his actual website which I feel is easier to navigate than the YouTube channel on its own and organizes things in a way that's easy to understand. He explains everything you need to know about the routine and each individual exercise has both a text description and a video tutorial

Hybrid Calisthenics

[peppermintquartz]

I also recommend Yuuka Sagawa's channel. Ignore the clickbaity titles, the movements are gentle and easy and each workout is seldom more than 10min.

Yuuka Sagawa

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Also, check out workouts for seniors, particularly if you have joint issues or you haven't ever really exercised. Exercises for the elderly are gentler and really focus on essentials (balance and strength), and once you've gained more confidence, you can look for other workouts. Think of these as building the habit of moving. If you do something to move every day, you're building the habit that will compound throughout your life.

If money allows, hire a personal trainer for say 8-12 sessions, there's always some kind of promotion somewhere, and have them teach you proper form for basic movements (squats, rows, lunges etc) so that you can do them on your own properly without hurting yourself. Then ask them for a workout plan for home workouts using bodyweight, and they'll help design one just for you.

I've done this myself and now I lift heavy shit in my early 40s after just 1.5 years of regularly exercising, so start anytime!!