Mastodawn

RomM is a self-hosted ROM manager that lets you organize, browse, and play your game collection from a web interface.
Supports metadata fetching, artwork, achievements, and even browser-based emulation.

⚠️ Legal tool — how you source game files is your responsibility.

👉 https://github.com/rommapp/romm
👉Discover more at: https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Gaming #Emulation #Privacy #DigitalMinimalism

Steve Zabka 1d ago

Doing some serious cleanup! 🔥

Facebook is gone — nothing of value lost. GitHub projects moved to Codeberg — works just fine without a corporate middleman. Instagram is next — won’t miss the pointless ads or the algorithm. ♟️

Step by step, moving away from platforms that were never built for us. ✂️

#digitalminimalism #fediverse #opensource #privacy #decentralization #takecontrol

Dallin 2d ago

I can't believe I didn't think of this before, but I added a handful of Subreddits to my RSS reader.

Just add .rss to the end of the subreddit name in the URL.

Now I'll check them along with my other carefully curated RSS feeds only once a day instead of navigating to the website sometimes multiple times a day and getting sucked in.

#reddit #intentionism #mindfulness #RSS #digitalMinimalism #minimalism

DigitalEscapeTools 2d ago

Calibre is a powerful open-source e-book manager that lets you view, convert, edit, and organize books in most major formats.

It can fetch metadata, manage large libraries, and sync books to e-readers like Kindle.

GitHub: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre

Explore more tools that help you escape Big Tech: https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/

#OpenSource #FOSS #Ebooks #DigitalLibrary #Privacy #DigitalMinimalism

3d ago

Over the past few days and weeks, I’ve decided to downsize my digital and tech collection. I own so many computers, laptops, smartphones, smartwatches, accessories, and so on—I can never really use it all. I bought a lot of it just to own the latest “hot stuff.”

That’s why I’ve gotten rid of most of it—either giving it away or selling it for very little. And I’ve kept only the bare essentials. Often not even the newest or best.

For example: I now only use my Peladn Mini-PC with an old Ryzen 5 5500U as my computer; I don’t even use the newer, faster ones to their full potential, so I gave them away. I’ve now reinstalled Debian Stable on it, with an absolute minimum of programs—just the bare essentials: browser, LibreOffice, Tuta, Signal, VLC, Nextcloud, Localsend, Rustdesk.

I’ve moved away from Fedora because: Fedora = Red Hat = IBM = US Big Tech = US MAGA fascists.

I’m also saying goodbye to Proton and will only use Tuta and Posteo from now on.

All my new smartphones like the S25 Ultra, Pixel 10 Pro XL, etc., are gone; I’ve kept the cute Pixel 8a in beautiful blue, very compact, running GrapheneOS. That’s more than enough—it lasts almost 3 days, and here too, I’ve installed only the absolute essentials.

#linux #unix #opensource #freesoftware #debian #bigtech #surveillance #grapheneos #minimalism #digitaldetox #digitalminimalism #usa #trump #fedora #redhat #tuta #proton

Ethan Black 3d ago

It is easy for computer programmers to get lost in the complexity of the software stack they're working with, and introduce bugs. It is possible, obviously, to make big mistakes when working with a simple stack. As a matter of fact, if the stack is too simple, errors can be encouraged. But, there's a sweet spot between too simple and too complex which is missed in modern stacks, I believe.

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#techStack #softwareEngineering #digitalMinimalism