Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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
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When assembling my new Kallax was part-way done, I had had enough of assembling stuff so I started filling it with the stuff I wanted to put in it. Which is also partly done now. Oh well. To becontinued. Rome wasn't built in a day either!
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Also, do you have #ADHD and feel bad about having a bunch of unfinished projects, abandoned hobbies, unread books, etc.?
Yeah, you should stop that.
You have a neurological bias toward novelty and poor executive function. You're probably using up all your self-control to do the things you need to get done like work, chores, and errands.
As long as you aren't digging yourself into a financial hole, cut yourself some slack with the stuff you do for fun. It's gonna be messy, and that's okay.
I wonder if part of why Nix usability is so bad, is just because the only usability bar it's ever had to meet originally is "better than C++ package and build systems"
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https://catgirl.ai/log/year-of-the-desktop/ wrote a blog post about an OS that seems to be popular these days that I just couldn't get into :/
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ACAB
i opened a seafood-themed gym called Muscles & Mussels, but business tanked, i got crabby reviews, and now i'm just floundering
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remember when Firefox displayed the remaining time for your download right in the status bar? you didn't have to click on it!! omg
The problem seems to go away if I disable window previews on hover, but those same window previews used to work fine before, with no lag...
#AskFedi: In KDE Plasma, if I move over the taskbar/switcher rapidly with my mouse, it takes longer and longer to re-render the taskbar and its highlighted application, to the point of eventually taking several seconds per render.
Anyone have any idea what might be causing this, or how to fix it? Am on NixOS.
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I don't want to be on the blockchain. I don't want to mint NFTs, I don't want to vibe code. I don't want to beg you to hit the 'subscribe' button and ring the bell. I don't want to game the algorithm for your likes or your views or your shares or to be on the first page of results or to get recommended. I don't want you to gift Nitro to my server. I don't want the thumbnails of my videos to have a red circle and question mark next to a faked expression of surprise, I don't want to pay for items that give me an advantage over other players. I don't want you to take a moment to hear about today's sponsor. I don't want to pump a meme coin, I don't want to craft prompts, I don't want to influence. I don't want you to watch me react to watching a video.
I'm seriously sick of this shit. All of it.
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Instead of a mens and womens section for clothing it should just be "pockets" or "fake pockets".
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I just realized that I instinctively and regularly hiss at frustrating software or Awful code I need to touch at work, and now wonder, what my coworkers think. They haven’t brought it up yet.
Ship stuck
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Some traditions when “Snelbus ipv Trein”
* The white sorting tent
* Doe kort voor uw vertrek de reisplanner-check!
* Movable OV poles with wrong station
* Plan uw reis in de app!
food (vegan)
A bad picture of an excellent, cheap-and-easy-but-healthy snack: home-pickled carrot. Or at least, it's easy if you have an electric grater!
Ingredients are grated carrot, about 1/5th vinegar, 4/5th water, a few crushed 'sugar' cubes (actually stevia/erythritol cubes), some chili pepper flakes and miscellaneous green herbs (chives and basil, this time). Total cost is like, 1.50 EUR? For a batch that'll last me for 5-10 of the pictured servings.
Mix into food storage container (one of those glass IKEA things with a plastic lid with silicone seal ring, in my case), let sit in fridge for a few hours, done!
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An issue I have with Germany is how its bureaucracy takes away agency from people like me. I live off of gigs, I live off of quickly snatching opportunities. A system that scares me into not doing things because I need to go through piles of paperwork and various officials to get anything interesting done is horrible.
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here’s my first swing at using darktable for editing, what do you think?
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Am fops? 
I'm remembering back to a hilarious jank 'fix' we had to do for some Microsoft Surface tablets that ended up in a stuck state. The devices would be totally unresponsive to any button combinations, and charging wouldn't help.
So my coworkers at the repair shop came up with an idea, and put it into practice. They found a looping disc tray eject script (all the machines we built had disc drives just in case), and they would prop up and mount the surface in front of the disc tray such that the tray would push on the tablet's sleep/wake/power button over and over. The next day we would try plugging in a charger and turning it on. If it didn't turn on, it would go through the cycle for another day.
Most of the time when these Surface devices were undamaged and otherwise looked fine, this stupid little fix would actually bring devices in this state back to life after a day or two. My theory is that the SMC gets a brain freeze, and it needs the battery to be TOTALLY drained before it gets kicked out of that stuck state.
We would generally see this on Surface models between 3rd and 7th gen.
So my coworkers at the repair shop came up with an idea, and put it into practice. They found a looping disc tray eject script (all the machines we built had disc drives just in case), and they would prop up and mount the surface in front of the disc tray such that the tray would push on the tablet's sleep/wake/power button over and over. The next day we would try plugging in a charger and turning it on. If it didn't turn on, it would go through the cycle for another day.
Most of the time when these Surface devices were undamaged and otherwise looked fine, this stupid little fix would actually bring devices in this state back to life after a day or two. My theory is that the SMC gets a brain freeze, and it needs the battery to be TOTALLY drained before it gets kicked out of that stuck state.
We would generally see this on Surface models between 3rd and 7th gen.
Also feel free to respond if you *used to* use something like Patreon, but don't anymore!
If you use something like Patreon to fund your projects (whether art, technical, or otherwise), or any other form of "regular donations by individual people for the stuff you do", I want to hear from you:
What is it like for you? Do you prefer it over a salaried job? Why or why not? What are the stress factors, and are they better or worse than the other options you have available for income?
(Please answer also if you don't get enough donations to replace other forms of income, including if you have a salaried job *in addition to* your donations! I just want to get a feel for how folks experience the differences)
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
