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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
re: linux hot take
@cephie In the end, the 'perfect' environment is going to be a balance between usability and customizability; and most importantly, it matters *where* the customizability is.
GNOME's approach of "just strip everything down even when customizability would be trivial to support" is not that balance, but "always make everything customizable at any cost" also isn't.
And I just don't see *any* desktop environments in the Linux space doing very well at striking this balance; it's always one way or the other. Leaving very little real-world choice despite the apparent landscape of options.
re: linux hot take
@cephie No worries, I understand; that's also why I mentioned that there *are* people who genuinely need customizability; because this isn't a reason to drop customizability entirely either.
It's more criticizing a pattern I've seen in Linux-land where a lot of usability issues are explained away by saying "well, you have options!" as if that justifies it, and I feel that this is at least in part a feedback loop - where the "ensuring customizability" often comes at the cost of being *able* to make things work well.
(This is all entirely separated from what GNOME is doing, which IMO has very little to do with usability, and a lot with Branding(tm). If GNOME actually cared about usability, they wouldn't be hard-coding poor UI font choices, for example. So please don't let that affect your view of 'usability' in general)
re: linux hot take
@cephie To summarize it more bluntly: if desktop environments were good, you wouldn't notice them, and "how to make sure they suit my needs" would not be a thing you'd be thinking about in the first place, it'd just *be there*
re: linux hot take
@cephie I think so - to try and rephrase it in the context of your description, my argument is that "making an environment that suits me in a personal way" would not be such a common requirement if desktop environments actually did a good job of being suitable for a lot of people's needs, but they don't really. And so this is a thing that people end up trying to solve themselves.
And I think that at the root of this is not just "the existing desktop environments don't suit common needs", but also "I do not *trust* that they will, now or in the future" - which is something I feel I also see in your comment about "ever-shrinking customisability"; it speaks of a concern that things will get worse, instead of better.
And I think that applies to a lot of people, and that it would be much less of an issue if desktop environments provided a better experience that suits more people's needs out-of-the-box, and builds their trust better.
This - sometimes bordering on aggressive - drive for total customization in the Linux userbase is, to me, simply a symptom that people's needs are not being met.
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a preschool was having a shutting down sale and I got a bunch of cheap string and paper but also these vintage stickers and a rubber stamp sets
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How the hell do you use the command line
https://highlysuspect.agency/posts/command_line/
linux hot take
(And they are not *wrong* to feel that distrust, even if total customizability is an awkward workaround for this problem at best)
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Microsoft are homophobic prudes
So I’ve been using Microsoft Stream at work to auto-caption videos. Part of my job is quality assurance so I double-check the captions for errors.
One recent annoyance is that the captioning software censors some words, replacing them with asterisks. One word in particular that has been a thorn in my side is the word “nipple”. I have had to work on several BREASTFEEDING videos. Needless to say, I’ve been retyping in the word “nipple” a lot.
Come to today, I’m working on a video about transgender and non-binary folks. The speaker said, “There is no such thing as straight sex and gay sex.” Lo and behold Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided to censor the words “gay sex”. “Straight sex” is uncensored.
I’m fucking livid, but I have no real way to contact Microsoft on this. But, mark it down and spread the word, Microsoft are fucking homophobic prudes.
linux hot take
While there are undoubtedly some people who genuinely need the customizability of an assume-nothing Linux environment on their PC, I think a lot of people who feel they 'need' this mostly just cannot trust any of the existing desktop environments to deliver a good-enough out-of-the-box user experience, and the customizability is an escape hatch for them to compensate for that
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and another esp32 hack, the same board (esp32-c3 super mini) enabling pm2,5 logging from an ikea vindrikting oh and added a 100 and 460 ohm resistor in parallel with eachother and with the fan to actually slow it down and make it quiet (5V, 40mA fan, so should be running at 3.3Vish now)
this sort of soldering is super nightmarishly fiddly with our motor skills, but we managed it, do need to get some more helper clips and the like
hoping the leds aren't too bright for the bedroom
@m04 FWIW, it seems that 3M calls these 'braided straps', maybe that term will help find the right ones?
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Do you know anyone who works in a press office?
Ask them "Why do so many press offices give their exclusives to X? Why not post to X on, like, a 6 hour time delay (or not at all... though this might be too much for them)"
We gotta stop news from "breaking" on there. Break it on blueSky, break it on tumblr I don't even care (though really break it here please and thank u)
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Today’s meeting is canceled because one participant has been asked by their son to go to the park and we all agree that’s more important.
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OH: You see it's labeled for Germans so they don't accidentally buy something spicy
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so is part of the services valve provides as part of taking 30% of my revenue arbitrarily withholding the button that i need to push in order to get it officially steam deck reviewed even though our game is going to likely hit overwhelmingly positive in its first week of launch? 🤔
and yes. you read that right. developers on steam are randomly awarded the magic button that lets us *request* a steam deck compatibility review. so unless you win the steam deck review button lottery, you literally cannot do it
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lol reconnected with a friend from the netherlands. told them i wouldn't be traveling down there anytime soon cause of covid and got the puzzled "covid has been over here for years cause everyone's had 3 shots" response
and this is why i dont reconnect with old friends
@eniko Yep, that's unfortunately an extremely common view over here :(
And I'm constantly seeing news articles trying to invent the most absurd excuses as to why there's staff shortages everywhere, because nobody wants to admit that it's COVID even though all the evidence points that way
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so @inherentlee 's thread asking people to define masculinity the other day had some uhh Interesting answers from (white, straight) cis men vs queer, trans, and nonbinary people. And I knew that cis people probably haven't really thought about this stuff before but some of these answers were kind of scary to be honest.
"The ability to suppress your own feelings is of course dangerous, but... embracing danger is itself masculine."
another one said "masculinity is being a danger to oneself and others"
uhh are you guys okay?
"Masculinity is conflict"
Also a lot of talk about the idea of how noble it is to push through discomfort.
Scientifically/historically dubious:
"Look to nature"
"evolution as hunter/gatherers"
And the cis answers included almost zero joy.
On the trans and queer side, beautiful, delightful answers about gay masculinity, trans masculinity, Black masculinity, an absolute universe of masculinities. And many people who couldn't define it if they looked at it too hard because many traits are shared by femininity, masculinity, and decent people. The divide is a vast chasm.
editing to add link to thread https://strangeobject.space/@inherentlee/112910367754708215
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
