Well I do use Linux on various devices and on my Raspberry Pi, it’s just that my laptop is Windows. No, don’t throw rocks at me, I use WSL too.

Also, I’ve somehow yet to post on Mastodon from Emacs. The existence of such Emacs addon didn’t surprise me, because I’ve posted to identica and twitter from Emacs. You know, back in the day.

For me, 90% of the Cool Cyberpunk Stuff is just vibey stuff from 1990s - early 2000s European demoscene

If I go to a prominent government building, and there’s posters of people on row, my first thought would be that these are either candidates or the freshly elected officials.

[looks closer and squints]

Ah, being a foreigner I don’t know much about the details of American politics, but these must be the “Senate”, right? A drug lord here, a kiddy fiddler there.

Me, I’m old, so I just keep using apt-get, because that’s all we had back in the day, and I never bothered to learn what’s the big deal about apt. It’s just a frontend, isn’t it?

I think it wasn’t even an OCR bug per se, it was a bug in the image compression algorithm implementation. “Yeah these squiggles on the paper look basically the same, guess we’ll save space here.”

OCR would have at least been mitigated by the fact that you could see if the text didn’t match the image. And since OCR isn’t perfect anyway, you could even anticipate that. But if the image is screwed up, well, what do you do then?

I remember it so clearly. “Ooh, multiple desktops. It’ll take forever until Windows gets this.” (It was 1996. Newbies should try messing with fvwm. Now that was configurable.)

These days both Twitter and Reddit have wacky UI messages written by completely different teams. One team is all business-like as in “Here’s some stern warnings you’re not going to like.” The other team is all casual and wayyy too friendly and fellow-kidsy, like “Did someone say MEMES?” (to which most reasonable people respond “fuck you Elon/Spez, you’re not funny”)

Joker poster
Fight option

She should don Catwoman costume, gently pummel the dude to submission, and say “How’s this for a BOTTOM TEXT”?

I’m a random amateur fantasy writer. One day, long ago, I was working on an interactive fiction game which was billed as a dating sim where you get to have a night out with one of my characters, who is an alchemist.

Bulk of the game was supposed to involve helping her examine various ingredients on the shelf of her shop and seeing which had gone bad. You know, dating the stuff can be crucial.

It’s a single car company. World economy doesn’t depend on Tesla’s success. Not even the American economy. If Tesla dies, it’s just a canary in the coalmine for much, much bigger economic problems. Like, you know, how they put dipshits in the White House, or something. So it’s kind of interesting that Elon has a moment of lucidity here, because no one around him seems to realise how screwed they are.

In the days of yore, Roman generals, upon conquering new lands for the Empire and receiving highest cheer and adulation from the crowds in Triump, would specifically assign a slave to whisper to their ear, at the height of the ceremony, “remember that you’re but a mortal.”

Spez is like “fuck that nonsense. If I keep kissing enough asses at bigger tech companies, maybe I’ll get a blood donor virgin dude of my own. And then I’ll live forever!”

I left Reddit after the API broke down, and it took me a while to get a client because I first went with Kbin and it didn’t work with Lemmy clients. After I got to Lemmy I kept waiting for Sync to get good. Nah, sadly not. Switched to Connect, and later Voyager, and I think this is where it’s at.

It has! At least on the web, if you view user profiles - but most of the time they’re pretty useless because in the comments they’re scaled down to text size. And the Lemmy clients don’t bother with them at all. Communities do have icons which are at least more widely used and supported.

Mastodon is my go-to “shout in the void about my goings-on” platform.

Pixelfed is where I post my original photography and artwork.

Bookwyrm is for my book nerdery, mostly.

Edit: Oh and I have a Matrix account but despite the fact that I mentioned it to literally all of my friends, nobody uses it. I keep it around in case someone actually wants to send me private messages because Mastodon is kinda badly suited for that.

Welcome to Lemmy. We don’t have collectible avatars on blockchain. Sorry if you were into those. But you can make your own avatars if you want, which I think is even better!

train cars only for women

Good thing nobody can actually suggest that in this day and age. Because that’s a concept that makes everyone immediately go “Ooooh, how delightfully 1800s. Wait, why are we doing this, I thought we were better than that.”

…If someone actually suggests that, have them be detained by a few chimney sweeps until the police arrives by horse carriage.

Notepad had one job. Operate on a damn text file. Operate on the damn text files I choose.

I knew it was going down the drain when I reopened Notepad and it opened the files that were previously open. No. Don’t do that. That’s overly helpful. You were only supposed to operate on the damn files I chose. These files I’m about to work with aren’t necessarily the files I previously worked on. If I want this functionality I might as well open it in vscode.

I’m, like, screw it, might as well keep Emacs running if I need random temporary text editing.

In the past 25 years I’ve used public transport, I think the bus broke down once while I was aboard, and I think it ended up in the newspaper. I think it’s a good thing public transport folks spend a lot of time maintaining the vehicles and especially on regular preventive maintenance.

I can barely fix my bicycle, so I don’t want to tinker with the bus company’s broken stuff. I trust that stuff to the certified mechanics they employ. Doubly so for trains, that’s for some serious mechanics only.

I am definitely going to need my morning coffee. I see the word “Y’all” and I’m somehow thinking “shouldn’t it be Xall if we’re taking about X11? Wait what’s wrong with my brain”

Side note, but:

(Giant cookie popup text wall)

I’m studying French but I don’t speak it that well yet.

Oh wait:

En savoir plus
Vous autorisez : Refuser tout

I feel like I’m learning important day to day phrases here! Why don’t they cover this stuff in language courses in this day and age, I wonder?