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printer rant, cursing 

@silvermoon82@tech.lgbt @00Ni FWIW, laser printers seem to fare *way* better on both reliability, lifespan, and consumable cost, even the cheapo tiny monochrome ones. They tend to cost more than inkjets in purchase price, though.

(I have one of the more expensive options to desperately try and buy my way out of printer misery, a Brother DCP-L8410CDW, and to my surprise it's been *basically* trouble-free since!)

printer rant, cursing 

printer and everything around them make me irrationally mad. why the fuck do you only want ink from your company, when other ink works, too? why does my ink cartridge needs a chip? why do all these different companies need different methods to put fucking ink in their shitty ink spitters? i know the answer is capitalism, but i am still irrationally mad and want to do unspekable things to the designers of these abominations.

food (requesting cooking recipes). :boost_request:​ 

@kescher Oh no, hope you get better soon! :heart_nb:

How about zuurkoolstamppot? eg. ohmydish.com/recipe/zuurkoolst (err on the side of too much pepper rather than too little!)

Not 100% sure whether milk/butter substitutes have the same effect as regular milk/butter, but worst case you can just leave them out (it'll just be drier). Personally I prefer to undercook the sauerkraut a bit, for a more sour-ish taste. If you leave out the bacon (and/or substitutes), definitely add *something* else oily to it, or it'll become super dry!

Gamers will complain about pride flags in Spider-Man and have a PC that looks like this

Sod it, at the risk of doxxing myself, do you do accessibility?
Do you want to work with me?

I'm recruiting for an "Accessibility Consultant"
Has to be in the UK (sadly)
Very varied stuff, almost all of it is good for the environment, and all of it helps people (in theory)
DM me if you want to know more.

#fediHired

Love how the design rationale behind Vulkan seems to boil down to "none of these vendors can be trusted to read a fucking spec, so let's make it as low-level as possible so that they just *can't* fuck it up even if they tried"

@kescher @maia I love how people talk about 'ad fraud' as if the entire concept of ads isn't fraudulent in and of itself

Imagine how much better the world would be if everybody just learned three things:
1. Don't propose replacing or abolishing a solution until you understand what led to its creation
2. ... but don't assume that traditional/widespread solutions *or* people with more experience are automatically correct, either!
3. Discussions should be like a collaborative project, not like a competitive debate

@Dee @maia @maddiefuzz You joke, but that is commonly how shell companies are constructed

France is facing massive droughts, but golf greens have been exempted from water restrictions; so climate activists went to golf courses and filled the holes with concrete! #StopGolf

@viv @zkat IIRC there's two different fans being used depending on batch, one quiet and one loud

@luci @crashglasshouses@kolektiva.social Totally possible to maintain this as a separate 'overlay' yeah, depending on jurisdiction you may even be able to host it legally

parents be like: “hmm my child hates that, i think they should just try to not hate it”

femboy fred flinstone 

yabba dabba uwu

I wish Matrix was active enough and well-known enough that I could get local communities of non-tech people to switch.

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Discord's "it's your lucky day, there's a new version" dialog is actually means "welp, guess I'm not logging in today" to NixOS users.

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