[-] beardsley@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago

Thankfully the price of my YT free account is still only the cost of everything I've ever written in email or a web browser so all good πŸ‘

[-] beardsley@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Nonces and muzzies! Terrifying!

[-] beardsley@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this is what pulp fiction was made for.

[-] beardsley@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate these, too. I decided to put a compact computer in our bedroom (already a bad plan, I know) to quickly check the security camera at night (I rolled my own, no phone app). I plugged in a mouse I had laying around. I discovered the first night when this particular mouse does not have its custom drivers installed (gimme a break, this is Raspbian not Windows!), it freaking blinks, and in the dead of night it's as bright as a flashlight. Blink. Blink. All night long. I never noticed before because, wackily enough, I rarely compute in complete darkness.

I also have a USB desk fan I thought I might run at night and yes, it has blinky lights when charging. F that, I bought an old Caframo Dragonfly instead... best compact fan ever made, first produced in the 1950s.

[-] beardsley@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

fire-breathing dragons, they are!

[-] beardsley@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

I think I could get away with this at my office, as long as I didn't bring a shepherd's crook.

[-] beardsley@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

I really enjoyed hearing "enshittification" in the voice of Ian McKellen as Gandalf in my mind πŸ‘πŸ‘

[-] beardsley@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

you live a couple blocks from me, don't you?

[-] beardsley@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago

I am a dull and simple lad, but I've held a belief ever since Musk purchased Twitter he did it to wreck the platform. I'm still undecided if he's just looking to liquidate its assets, or drive off reasonable users so he can turn it into his personal soapbox.

[-] beardsley@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spot on. the placebo effect is powerful and very likely plays a role in both scenarios.

Often I have supposed really expensive cables improve things just because it was time to replace cables already, or the connection was janky to begin with because the budding audiophile is upgrading from bare wire connectors to banana plugs.

[-] beardsley@midwest.social 63 points 1 year ago

Hats off, that's both an argument for the use of third party apps and for eliminating third party apps at the same time...

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