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Taking deep breaths and thinking about a basket of chinchillas with their ears sticking out the top

got 24 cans of expired "black coffee drink, sparkling" for cheap.

they taste alright, just can't find if they contain caffeine or not. something to discover empirically i guess

turns out having the drawing tablet on my desk is great for productivity, because i don't have enough mouse space for playing games

ooh the firefox screenshot tool magically works again!

whoa @gemma, really nice theming of the GoToSocial frontend :D

background: i've been using my Sennheiser HD4.40BT for years now (no anc), and could get a good deal on a Bose QC 35 (with anc)

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for those of you who've used good over-ear headphones with and without active noise cancelling, how much would you say it adds?

vaguely philosophical tech stuff, long-ish 

So there's an interesting problem that Nix has, which is the "curse of knowledge"... once you learn how it works, suddenly everything else in the space starts looking super fragile. I joke about this a lot, but it's a very real thing.

And that has implications for how Nix(OS) folks interact with other communities - they'll often point out, for example, that some problem isn't actually fundamental or inherent because Nix *did* solve it already a decade ago.

And outwardly this looks a lot like "a fanboy pushing their favourite tool on everybody", but it isn't, really - quite often, it's *genuinely* a case of that person seeing issues that most other people have learned to ignore or accept, and not being able to un-see that.

And they are getting *legitimately* frustrated by other people continuing to build more towers of complexity on top of (to them) obviously fragile systems - not because their favourite tool isn't being used, but because of all the wasted effort and time that other people put into needlessly broken systems, that could've been put to so much better use.

I'm not entirely sure where I was going with this toot, but this is something I rarely see being talked about. It's not exclusive to NixOS, either; there's a very similar thing going on with capability-based security, and undoubtedly a number of other topics that I don't know about.

It feels like there should be some sort of broader conversation about this?

the ball head and the legs from my small tripod are kind of nice fidget toys lol

👁️ 👁️ feeling very seen by this after applying rounded corners to every rectangle in CrytpPad 😅
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