Weekly Recap 2025W40

steven 7 October 2025

Welp, my blogging severely slowed this year. I've tried to do a few things to make it more active, which haven't worked out. Going to try again, with a weekly recap. This'll give me 7 days to update as to what happened the prior week. Let's see if it works! I'm going to separate it into Stuff I Did, Stuff I Learned, Stuff I Tried (probably mostly software and distros), Stuff I Found (links and the like), and Stuff I Watched.

Welp, I'm using Pandora again

steven 9 May 2025

A number of years ago I gave up on personalized music streaming services. I had used Pandora for the longest time, but tried to remove reliance from any service that required an account and a proprietary app, in the name of privacy. I opted to use streaming radio stations with open source apps that were privacy friendly. On Android I most recently used Transistor and on Linux I most recently used Shortwave. Both great, simple applications.

Last night's National Call to Action for Faith Communities

steven 3 April 2025
We have to build a new faith narrative. We've got to tell a new story about faith in this country. And it can't always be about what we're against because the problem is that they're telling people what they're for--it's all wrong--but they're telling people what they're for. We have to tell people what God is for. What faith is for. How faith is welcoming, inclusive, how it's building, it's empowering, it's liberating, it's setting people free. How's it's loving on people and not hating on people, which is really what this story is being told. - Bishop Dwayne Royster
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