mei 🌒& @ckie@pixie.town
- pronouns
- she, /[mM]ew?i/
- body is
- 19
- 🏳️⚧️♾️✨
- It's never too late to fall in love.
- awoo?
- mreowmroarmwormewromawm
WARNING: warranty for this mei& expired 2004-01-10T14:37:04Z. please contact [EXPUNGED] for extensions and out-of-warranty servicing.
I gave my map away, but it's time to push and pull, change and ~~kill your past~~. Oh... To know the catharsis of loving again reminds us of how much we bled. This heart wasn't made for loving anyone, but now I know where I am. I make my own path.
~~~
if i unfollowed you and you're at least vaguely queer please feel free to ask why. the follower management UI is bad and it might've been accidental!
if you're under 18 please don't open any posts CW'd as lewd.
Joined Apr 2022
@joepie91 mm that sounds like a nice job,, :3
mei 🌒&
boosted
International Women's Day, showing some love for trans women in technical spaces
Happy international women's day.
About half the #women I interact with in an average week are #trans. Trans women make my life and the spaces I hang out in online immeasurably better. They've rounded sharp corners and added a sense of emotional availability that men just tend not to do. They bring an air of femininity to a space that helps me feel like I don't need to do extra social work to balance things out myself.
It's really wonderful.
Last week, at the local hackerspace, I had a great chat about ethical alternative clothing shops with knowledge and nuance. These conversations rarely happen when I talk to men-- not because they don't care, but just because the topic is more complicated for feminine clothing than masculine. There's deeper changes to manufacturing processes than men's clothing silhouettes seem to feel, so less nuance (and digging) is necessary to achieve a pretty reasonable effect in comparison. Anyways, it was great, and it just felt very 'normal'. But I've also never had such a good fashion conversation in a technical space before, which is interesting because fashion is a highly technical art. This was, in a small way, revolutionary.
When spaces make femininity a comfortable thing to bring, they make everyone else feel more comfortable being a wider breadth of themselves. You see wider ranges of expression from everyone. Making women feel more comfortable often helps everyone feel more comfortable.
When spaces restrict those energies, everyone feels it. When I'd been in technical spaces without women, I used the phrase "caustic culture" a lot. The feeling of this pervasive, inescapable, slow ooze that just eats away at you little by little. Since then, I've spent a lot more time in spaces without that energy. I can't think of a single online technical space that doesn't feel caustic that hasn't had trans women in it. As a professor of mine once said, correlationdoes not imply causation, but it does often waggle its eyebrows at it.
So, happy international women's day to all the women everywhere, and especially to the trans women that've helped make the spaces I've been in so comfy. So many of you are leaders, and you are all wonderful and beautiful beings capable of immense gentility and soft strength. Celebrate yourself a bit today. 💙
@reese sending hugs
computer++! (embedded dev)
omg i just found out i can program the little cp2102 usb serial interface with this cute lil program,, yay!! 🌷🥹
computer & 🥺
google translate's read source text thing reads emojis out.. ask me how i know dfigjiodfgj
(i was talking to someone with it and typed in a 🥺 expecting not to see it)
@elilla (i have tried it now it seems okay except adding a feed is a bit manual)
@elilla (i haven't tried it but i know jes)
mei 🌒&
boosted
just posting..
im just posting im just posting im just posting i swear..
@joepie91 i already have a lot of what I want UX wise to be comfortable, but an underlying philosophy I don't like is The Application: it is It's Own Thing though maybe it has some Apis, File Formats or Addons for you to hook into.
The Application cannot be scripted in a language I already enjoy, I cannot write a macro for it that does the weird thing I want (unless it's a text editor, then *maybe*)
i wish for an OS, a bit like TempleOS, where i can pop a terminal and do some esoteric thing. an OS where I can hook into my Element install easily and make it copy my stickers or whatnot from some other program's API with a bit of work.
i dont want to be a known usecase, i want to craft my own experience that suits me, but currently that takes hours or days of work and very specialized expertise. i've patched or configured just about every piece of software i regularly use where it was possible in a reasonable amount of effort, but we have no system-wide *Inspect Element* and it's a real shame for quite a few reasons.
bad
goated with the eepy
nixos/nixpkgs dev, slight frustration but its funny
Oh no! 💥 💔 💥
Oh no! 💥
👩💻🎆LGTM✅
i think it'd be neat if i had an IME that autocompleted my (english) words and reshuffled the words in sentences
i often type "maybe at joes better" (fake shop name) since the additional qualifiers feel obvious and i'm only going to be adding them to Important Things where there isn't enough context already visible to me.
so i end up with "maybe at joes better^W←←better←it'd be" (i.e. having edited it to "maybe it'd be better at joes") and those ctrl-←'s are a lot of wasted effort imo
mei 🌒&
boosted
does anyone onhere have phone recommendations?
I'm looking for something that
runs android 12 or newer
has a reasonably good camera
has a 3.5mm jack
is not horrible to root
has fingerprint unlock and nfc
has a usable default rom (so something close-ish to stock android, no adware and not horribly laggy)
has 64gb or more storage
supports dual physical sim
has decent battery
I don't play games or do anything resource-heavy, mostly just take photos, talk with people and look at fedi, so it doesn't need to be incredibly high end. The one I found so far that fits the requirement is Asus Zenfone 9 but I would rather not pay /that/ much for A Phone
notes:
dual sim is a hard requirement, both also must be physical. I have an old ukrainian sim and a german one and I need both at the same time
please don't suggest phones that have bad stock roms but can be made better with custom roms. that's exactly what I've been using for the last 3 years and I no longer feel like the cost of "taking photos is a pain + notifications randomly break all the time + random crashes" is worth it for me
notes 2:
please do not suggest phones without dual physical sim support. by "hard requirement" I mean "if this phone does not have it, I cannot buy it"
actually just, no pixel phones please. every single person recommends them and they're always missing things from the requirements list
lyricposting (derivative of blissom stupid art)
as an artist drowned in meaning
change the message but
not the meaning
@artemis excellent!! wobwobwobowobwbowobwobowowobowobowobowobowobwob
@artemis pray tell, at what frequency does the wobwob wob?
@artemis what's a wob?
- pronouns
- she, /[mM]ew?i/
- body is
- 19
- 🏳️⚧️♾️✨
- It's never too late to fall in love.
- awoo?
- mreowmroarmwormewromawm
WARNING: warranty for this mei& expired 2004-01-10T14:37:04Z. please contact [EXPUNGED] for extensions and out-of-warranty servicing.
I gave my map away, but it's time to push and pull, change and ~~kill your past~~. Oh... To know the catharsis of loving again reminds us of how much we bled. This heart wasn't made for loving anyone, but now I know where I am. I make my own path.
~~~
if i unfollowed you and you're at least vaguely queer please feel free to ask why. the follower management UI is bad and it might've been accidental!
if you're under 18 please don't open any posts CW'd as lewd.
Joined Apr 2022
