Update:

It’s not Eraserhead(Lynch), but I’m pretty sure the movie you were talking about is Videodrome(Cronenberg, 1983).

Equally unsettling film. I only watched Videodrome for the first time, last year at a Sunday double with The Thing.

Videodrome is an 80s TV critique, best to be in the right headspace if you plan on watching it.

You made a great choice of distro for media creation.

Some background information and other options are below.

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Ubuntu studio is a distro targeted at creatives(audio, visual).

Ubuntu is touted as a ‘high ease of use’ distro, but as a company, it is a user-data collector and advertising injector.

For a similar audio/visual targeted distro, but one that is free/libre and includes no spyware or tracking, you could try Dynebolic.

Can be booted as a LiveUSB (or LiveDVD) to test.

* NB. Any hardware connected to your PC, that needs proprietary drivers, will probably not work because those drivers are not included in any Libre Distros.

Also NB, Dynebolic is made by friendly, neighborhood, activist, Rastafarians.

Usage video here

Eraserhead vibes.

Hey thanks :v)

This looks and sounds like it could be the one.

It might have been 1997+ when I read it.

Trying to find the author-story list now.

Edit: May not be the same book, not sure yet without reading each story. May have been more blue background on the cover, and seemed more ‘pulp unknowns’ rather than ‘seminal horror anthology’ level. Could have remembered Dread from Books of Blood.

Was it a Barbapapa book.

A short-story compilation, horror book that had a blue cover with the names of all the authors down one side of the cover.

The well-written, but particularly disturbing story was about a girl street waif, who had been found by a man on his doorstep. She had an injury and he nursed her back to health(then the rest of the story happened, which contains spoilers). Very descriptive medical assistance passages.

I kind of think Dread by Clive Barker may have been one of the other stories included, but that is possibly misremembered.

Read circa 1994.

Yes, I’ve run Trisquel on all house devices for 10-12 years, plus libreboot.

Other commenters are correct, plenty of hardware will not function at all without its proprietary blobs. Frustrating at first, but then good riddance once you find libre alternatives.

For new hardware purchases you can follow what hardware various online hardware retailers are using, such as:

minifree.org

vikings.net

thinkpenguin.com

Or trawl through h-node.org to decipher what may work.

This trims out all the proprietary fluff real quick, both software and hardware. Backdoor vectors from obfuscated-blobs are removed.

Trimmed out a ton of games too. No big loss. Initially thinking there was no way to live without X-proprietary game, but there is.

Many people have jobs that are tied to particular proprietary packages. Can run those contained in a virtual-machine or on a box other than your daily.

Proprietary software may or may not be brainrot, make your own conclusions, but I am calmer and sleep better these days.

I’ve met Stallman, Linus, and Wales, and they are shining a light to show a realistic path to a more open future. I support and use that each day.

Skip the FUD and all the best.

Yes!

I was going to go through the Wikimedia stereograms. Thanks for the direct link, and a ton more. (c:

https://lemmy.world/c/autostereograms@lemmy.world

has this one, but needs more!

Enhance your hearing with Radium, today!

WikiTok Bloomscroll through Wikipedia articles

Simon Tatham Puzzles Micro games

yucata.de Online boardgames

librivox.org Free audio-books

Cursed O’Reilly

PiHole

Thought you meant ‘app for Windows’.

Like mentioned here, I usually tap PrintScreen and then annotate elsewhere, usually in Gimp.

Greenshot GPL3

…but also Linux.

Cockeyed

The TV-b-gone.

Was fun to turn off various advertising.

Would transmit 50-100 known IR-off-codes from a range of TV manufacturers.

Yes, Trisquel GNU/Linux on 2 laptops, a desktop, and a HTPC. I’ve been using Trisquel for 15 years(since Awen release), after running Debian with non-free disabled for a while.

The laptops are Thinkpads from minifree.org which provides libreboot and ensures compatibility with libre firmwares.

Trisquel is Ubuntu, with all the non-free software and binary blob firmware removed. Hardware that does not have a fully free driver will not work.

It is an easy install, rock solid when using, and has a knowledgeable and helpful community.

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The other libre distros I think about checking one day are Guix or Parabola. https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html

I recommend everyone to have at least one fully free distro installed, just to experience what the original vision of libre computing is.

You can do it! (c:

The WeeRide models are good for a toddler seat, that is positioned on the crossbar.

For bigger kids, probably need a behind seatpost model.

OK, disregard those phone based ideas.

I read it as if you were looking for content that is outside of most phone based offerings (nasty psychologist created addiction loops etc.)

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Bike riding is excellent for a physical and mental reset. Rear-radars are a thing, beeping when a car is approaching behind from 150m.

Badminton is great too. Portable cheap nets are available with telescopic poles.

Boardgames are great for social mixing.

Probably find something you like from these: Innovation, Inis, Port Royal, Just One, or Scout.