Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Always interesting when doing a task in low spoon mode which goes OK, but then running into unexpected challenge which require flexibility thinking and and making a decision about best option. Then brain just pauses and goes “More spoons needed. Please insert spoons to continue.”. Seems like it shouldn’t be too complicated to solve, but brain just goes “Nope. Please insert spoons to continue.”

Problem solved postponed until later. At least I now know to not push through.

#ActuallyAutistic

🦨Recommendations please🦨

Please boost this out of my echo chamber.

I'm looking for a camera:
- prefer instant print, all in one, printer as part of the unit*
[edit: a non-instant, develop at home option is also a possibility. Not being instant is not a deal breaker, but it does need to be a way I can produce a photo print myself]
- preferably 100% analogue, but just not connecting to the Internet/Bluetooth is okay
- neither the machine nor the consumables can be vastly expensive [prefer to keep the budget around $200-500, willing to save more if there's something significantly better available]
- can be from any era as long as consumables remain available
- It must take a clear picture with good dynamic range, good fine textures
- it doesn't have to capture colour at all, but monochrome film cannot be at a premium either, that's my bulk standard
- all the basic manual controls must be user facing, if any aspect of the process has an 'auto' mode it must be easy to disable
-edit: I'm very open to getting my hands dirty and have lots of laboratory experience. If there's a different analogue system that you love that can be done at a home lab relatively cheaply, please to hit me with that too.

*(eg Polaroid, but not necessarily using Polaroid chemistry or branding)

#Photography #AnalogPhotography

The advantage of using a screen reader, at least in regards to deadnames, is that I can pretty much eliminate it entirely. Just change the pronunciations to make the screen reader think that the deadname is said like the new name, and you've solved a problem. Like yes you deadnamed me, but actually you didn't LOL.

Adding that of course this would only be effective with uncommon names, or at least names with uncommon spellings. But in my case this is possible as mine is not common.

Einen RRReisverschluss!

Lose track

#Photography #Foto #StreetPhotography #Street #NYC #NewYorkCity #Candid

"The wrong Amazon is burning"
Sticker spotted in Anchorage, Alaska

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/741851729773166592
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

me every time I want to boost something, and it doesn't have alt text. ffs

How did we get to a point where it's okay to have a feature that has this disclaimer

I feel like free software advocates don't talk about the painful switching cost of moving from proprietary software.

I feel like it's important to be honest about how much work it is to switch to free software.

I also feel it's important to give people hope. That yes, some parts will be hard, but there is also joy in discovery and finding new community.

I think I need to write a meta blog post on "How to support people trying free software."

The first comments I usually get when explaining my negative user experience is:

- "I think they fixed that, have you tried it again recently?"
- "really? I've never seen that before"
- "here's why they made that design decision" followed by long technical details

UGGH! This does not acknowledge my negative experiences, my feelings, or my usage constraints. It immediately jumps into troubleshooting, problem solving, or software architecture.

Please for the love of your fellow human beings, validate people's negative experiences with free software!

Even a simple, "I'm sorry that you experienced that, it sounds really frustrating," would help.

Did you know that in terms of sorting, the letter 'ö' is treated as a modified 'o' in French, but as a letter completely independent from 'o' (and sorting after 'z') in Swedish?

You can learn this and tons of other random facts about text in "The Character Model for the World Wide Web"

https://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/

When you book your off-peak train tickets a couple of weeks in advance, this can be cheaper than having a paid off-peak discount card (normally € 5,60/month, now € 2,50/month). I’m not sure if I am fond of this idea. Some examples.

Yeah, sounds about right to me.