I use both and much prefer Mastodon. As others have said, it's more mature and the apps (of which there are many) are more polished. Bluesky is a bit glitchy and less feature rich. In fact, you still can't mute phrases on Bluesky, which is a deal breaker for me.

Mastodon is harder to find people due to the federated nature, although some mobile apps such as Megalodon on Android and Ice Cubes on iOS do pull follower and following lists from remote instances which makes it easier to find people.

Bluesky is more like old Twitter, and many people who I've followed for years are on there. Trying to out quip each other. Mastodon is more friendly and I've found lots of interesting people to follow.

No luck catching them swans then?

I realise it's little consolation, but having not seen the before it looks great. I've had a beard for, like 20/30 years and rarely last more than a couple of months before getting annoyed with it, lopping the whole thing off and starting from scratch.

I'm a LibreTube person myself, but only because I can't figure out how to access a YT channel's playlists in NewPipe. A couple of my subscriptions have unlisted videos that are in playlists (for example MLIG live streams). LibreTube isn't perfect though. I cannot fully disable the "Home" page.

Also

AntennaPod (Podcatcher), Imagepipe (Image manipulation esp exifdata), Tusky (mastodon client)

Personally I'm an oat milk man. Primarily because I kept getting confused since Aldi's soya milk (yum) and almond milk (boak) have nearly identical red colour packaging, while the oat is totally different.

But... If I had to do cow juice, it's true blue baby. All the rest is water.

"The malware files were found pbundled with a legitimate installer file of super-mario-forever-v702e"

These people have a very different concept of the word "legitimate" than I do.

Not a win for me, but our eldest finishes primary school today (school holiday starts in Scotland). I'm not sure how 7 years have gone by so quickly. But he's done brilliantly and is really looking forward to high school.

Both kids have their sports day. Smallest in the morning, biggest in the afternoon. I must be a bad parent because... urgh... really? When I was young, parents never went to school sports days. Wtf happened? So that's my day. Standing around waiting for the 20 second bursts when my child does something in between inevitable rain showers. I'll have to seek out my camping chair and prepare a flask of strong coffee.

I'm also not OP but I have one of these. Also using GarlicOS. Took a bit of tweaking the get things set up, but loving it. I'd definitely recommend, but you may need to fiddle to get it working exactly right. Struggles with some PS1 titles, but otherwise excellent.

Someone with more recent experience can probably answer better. But I went a good number of years ago, only because I was driving to Bournemouth and it was ok the way (sort of). It was BUSY and both inspiring and disappointing. Would I go again? Maybe, but probably not at the height of tourist season. Also it's about 100 miles from London, so it will take a good chunk of your day. I think you'd need to be in London for 5 days to a week to justify the day trip. But, that's just me!

I moaned a few weeks ago that I'd kicked off a trial for Paramount+ so that I could watch Star Trek Discovery during food and snack breaks while WFH, but bounced off it. In the end, I sort of got into it and now I'm about halfway through the final episode, which I'm saving for this mornings coffee break. Would I recommend it? Hmm... I mean probably not. Unless you're a bit of a Star Trek nerd like me. Of course, I wasn't able to binge it during the trial. That's how they get you! Make mediocre shows that you can't quite watch in a week.

I got myself one of these little RG35XX handheld emulation devices for £60 and stuck on some custom firmware. I've been having blast. About halfway through a bug fixed Final Fantasy VI ROM hack, also playing some Zelda Oracle of Seasons and Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga.

I honestly cannot remember when I last watched a movie. However, in the last week I've binged two seasons of Star Trek Discovery.

Does this answer your question?

My getting old moan is that my hands barely function when I wake. I used to think it was because I lie on them, but apparently it's a form of arthritis. No doubt brought on my 30 years of work in videogames development. Luckily my SO has brought me a cup of tea to wrap my creaking hands around to warm them up and get them moving again.

Cassette Beasts requires a controller on game pass, sadly

Luckily for him he is relatively self sufficient.

Yeah, I got it on a bit of a whim and wasn't expecting much. The stock firmware is poor, but GarlicOS is great. A wee bit of mucking about to get things nicely scaled, but I wholeheartedly recommend it.

So guess what. I walked passed it again today and it is indeed cityfibre.

I felt the same a year or two ago an have used DuckDuckGo almost exclusively since. I believe DDG is a private frontend for Bing, but I may be wrong.