starless @starless@pixie.town

@thufie cyberia.club runs one. :)

@forestjohnson this is absolute art and I am sad I'm only seeing this just now. 100% made my morning. Top tier goofyposting.

@zigg I tried to set up something similar on windows and had a truly miserable time with a headset device. I'm very glad this worked well for you! I hope these features become standard soon.

@SuricrasiaOnline I suspect this is a ghost listing.

..but I could try to get someone local to confirm, if you'd like. It's only about 200 miles away.

@RussSharek @wmd it does seem very fun...

I did really well at today's!

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Hi fedi friends! I'm looking for music I haven't heard before, can you help?

My fembyfriend and I are planning a lovely romantic dinner for valentine's day, and I was hoping to fill the soundtrack with what folks on mastodon are writing and making. Here's my plan:

1. Ask for track submissions from y'all lovely folx
2. Pay/donate $2 USD per track for submitter's time and trouble (maybe like up to 3 tracks per person?)
3. Screen none of the submissions in any way, just download them and set up a play list
4. Have a lovely dinner with my partner and enjoy the strange, wild, wonderful art of mastodon

All genres are welcome, all instrumentations, etc, no need to try to make it romantic. We're expecting a little adventure. No need for perfect sound, a cellphone microphone in a quiet room is fine quality-- I'm hard of hearing, so my speaker setup isn't terribly high fidelity.

The music/sound does need to be something that you created, or helped create, and that legally, I can download. Happy to give money to mutual aid recipient of your choice if you'd rather. Links to specific tracks of yours on bandcamp etc welcome, but please suggest tracks rather than albums or discographies. 💙

#mastoart #music

@mxbluesky

I've met a few folks who are physically disabled that use them. They don't like, nor support cops, but it was inexpensive and lets them let friends in without needing to spend five minutes trying to get to the front door.

A few queer friends in a rougher area have one, too, presumably because it makes them feel safer to be able to see who's on the front step without getting up.

These things provide real benefits to the humans who use them. 95% of the time, ring cam users are conservative nut jobs, but like.. I dunno, people are human. Sometimes we buy unethically produced t-shirts, sometimes we waste meat, sometimes we use technology to make our lives more pleasant, even if there is a scary cost.

IMO, this is an argument for why legislation is a more effective tool to combat a police state than 'dollar democracy', but I guess maybe that's just me. For the record, I, too, hate ring doorbells. Just, like, idk, careful about generalizing there, cuz like, the important thing is humans, right, and not the tech or its abuse. The abuse only matters because people matter.

Anyways, uh, I'll get down off this soap box. Nice to meet you, I'm Starless. 😅

So we gave up on media over temple, and instead set some wifi (wled) enabled lights and changed them via plan 9. Successfully, eventually. All six of us cheered when we got it.

Layer Zero, our physical space, has craft night tonight. We're all in very good masks, etc, and are up to date on our security patches.

We're working on setting up a media station, but realized we needed an os. Someone had temple downloaded as a joke, but that's all we had. We're trying to get it on the media laptop now, just because.

We are delighted, joyful children in a sandbox and this feels silly and fun.

@alex other, kind of? Had exposure, got very sick, but in March 2020, so no tests available and no loss of taste or smell.