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@aeva Ohhh, I thought you meant a wood fireplace! I have no idea about the gas ones.

@aeva Is it an open fireplace? As those are generally not just very (indoors-)air-polluting but also not very efficient heat-wise, compared to closed wood burning thingems

POLL: What's your gender?

ufoi meta 

@triton It appears that at least one instance admin was misled about the UFoI and has since cut ties: stop.voring.me/notes/98iy4aija (but I don't know the details/context)

Why isn't "ethernet" the wireless one.

Pay attention to who is defending Rasberry at this moment.

They are showing you who they are.

welcome to all those beginning to notice the strongly defended ties between (the computing) industry and agents of oppression

other folks came to a similar realization not that long ago when GitHub's ICE contracts became better known

the roots are even deeper than that. You can dig into some of that by reading or listening to, for example, Fred Turner here:

thedigradio.com/podcast/counte

there's a lot more where that came from

It sure seems to me like it's doing an awful lot of detecting filament runout, for a unit which doesn't have filament runout detection

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My new 3D printer which supposedly doesn't have filament runout detection, just beeped a "change filament" screen at me when the filament jammed, and after re-feeding it it continued the print

?????

i continue to wish the post office would sell me a virtual forwarding service

i don't want a PO box. you already come to my home with mail. i want to be able to give people a code to put on the letter so it will come to my home, like an address, but have that code not also tell them where i sleep.

there are probably reasons why this is a no-go but i'm going to sulk anyway

Man, fuck ‘grind culture’ and everybody who glamorizes it.

People need to stop putting value on working so hard they destroy their brains, their bodies, and their relationships.

Just do what you have to do to enjoy what little time you have in this world.

@SigmaOne@toot.party @kim A cascading series of entropic mishaps

re: cw meta, qoto, swearing 

@david@tech.lgbt Have a link?

"Raspberry Pi announced today they had hired internet sensation Milkshake Duck, the duck who loves milkshakes..."

#FreeRadical blog: "We will not join the United Federation of Instances"

The United Federation of Instances is a bad idea, and Free Radical will not participate. The “UFoI” is an organization of fediverse instances making a compact: if an instance enters the compact, and they abide by the group’s Code of Ethics, then all members of the group promise not to [...]

blog.freeradical.zone/post/we-

(posted at Thu, 08 Dec 2022 09:21:00 +0000)

I'll stop being mad about the complete and total lack of any good NB rep in media when I've seen it be handled correctly even once.

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