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Say it with me: communities over technologies. (a soapbox) 

If you're using a social technology, you're using it because of the contributions and humanity of your fellow humans. At their cores, every social platform derives its value from its users.

A technologically perfect platform is of no use without users you actually like.

Likewise, people on a technologically bad platform will only go elsewhere if the community at large is there.

Are technologically exciting platforms good and interesting? Yes.

But you should evaluate a social platform the way you would evaluate a friend, and not the way you would evaluate an operating system. Because you don't want a social platform that thinks for you, you want a social platform that helps you belong, shows you cool stuff, and helps you talk to humans you like.

I tried a pomodoro timer shortly today, and so far it seems to just interrupt me when I finally start focussing on something

who the fuck writes software for Windows... having to remotely guide a friend through installing an SSH client + generating a key and it's SO OVERCOMPLICATED. Linux it's literally run ssh-keygen and you're set

look at this fuckery you have to duplicate your desktop shortcut to add a commandline argument to get to the key generator

postmaster.snertsoft.com/index

tfw you email study advisor with a year scheduling question and they mail back with "this would be better in a meeting" and i'm like no thanks

lxsession crashed I guess, which hung the loging process on the totally useless gnome-keyring :|

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woo it only took like, 2 weeks before the microsoft account migration for minecraft totally broke login!!

it just hangs on either a vague error screen or a greyed out screen with a "let's go" button that's unclickable

(because it loads the custom firmware directly from the sd card, this *could* be problematic)

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oh no I committed the Magic Lantern forbidden sin of opening the sd card slot while it was busy
it's all okay tho

it'd be good to take a break and go outside tho, so guess I'll take the dslr instead of quadcopter

imo pretty absurd to have a 30+ km circle of exclusion for even my tiny, plastic, Tinyhawk II. It poses less risk to a plane than a bird

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yikes... the whole city I moved to is in controlled airspace :| so (technically) illegal to fly *any* of my drones here

was getting ready to go to uni before I realised we weren't going to meet for the project today lol

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