Notices by kel (kel@mastodon.online), page 2

@HauntedOwlbear

Urgh, get well soon!!!

@chris

Oh, that's so strange, when I looked it up before I got a load of commercial links and I was wondering what it was all about. I have just searched again and it's all FOSS stuff. Search is so broken these days.

Yes, I understand, not easy!!

@chris

I've been thinking about this, is there not a self-hosted thing you can run on a web server? It seems like thee should be?

I STRONGLY advice avoiding purchasing *anything* from paddle.com

I just blocked a network connection from the one item I have from them and next thing I have a Mac OS security alert telling me the app is screenshotting my entire screen - WTAF??? That's a massive privacy violation!

Thankfully I didn't have anything actually private on my screen at the time, but that could have been medical information, a personal email, anything!

Going to wait to see if the app complains about licensing!!

@chris @m2m @jp

Totally fair enough, it's all about priorities isn't it!

For me, the major expense is the investment in the hardware and Ableton + various other music production tools.

I just can't afford to lose that, and they are so desperate to take it!

edit: the thought of an AI infection in my music making - no! Just no!

@botvolution

indeed!

Still, a win is a win, I'd take it! 💯

@chris @m2m @jp

I thought so too, but the latest Apple bombshells are pushing me hard, I can feel each tick of the clock to doomsday like a rod over my back!

Every cell in my body is screaming "NOW, do it now!!! Before it's too late!!"

@m2m @jp

I am on this journey too!

I just put a computer on my credit card, for the princely sum of £72 I have a old 2013 Macbook Air on it's way to me!

It's not anything too powerful, but it will be enough to do email and web with an up to date Linux installation on it.

It will solve a myriad of problems for me, and mean I can take my Macbook Pro offline to keep as a creative machine - it's perfect right now for that so want to preserve it!!

@botvolution

Never mind the fuck-awful artwork -

£2.55 👀 😬

Please tell me that is not the price of sending a letter these days?

@chris

Cool, basically it was much better to eliminate completely rather than try and reduce; sugar is a trigger food, so one means wanting another.

Finding replacements so I still felt like I was treating myself was critical to success. I did posh teas - nice deep dive, loads of flavour and enjoyment to be had for way less than soda can prices per drink - I did the sums and indulged and ended up financially way better off.

Same principle with snacks; nuts, dried fruits are ace!

👍

@chris

Cool!

Good luck and best wishes with them all 👍

Are you interested in my experience giving these things up?

@chris

Windows free!!!

Win 🥳 🎉 🎈

@dalias @alex @neil

Throwing USB cables in the trash is the only sound reliable advice there is when it comes to USB cables! 👍

No way!

A generous soul actually bought my giveaway single today 🥰

Thank you, whomever you are, that's most kind and completely unexpected 🙏

@racingdaily @afewbugs

All seriousness respectfully acknowledged, I live very near a town that floods too so have experienced the devastation first hand, not my own home thankfully - I live high up and it would be a very bad day indeed if I flooded - "Biblical"

...but part of me loves these future UK map:

@botvolution

Yeah - fair!

Whenever something develops a quirk like that, I am always keen to sample it, sometimes those noises are so unusual!

Good luck with it anyway - glad you can get it sorted 👍

@chris

Yeah, I forgot about that bit and just replied again with a p.s. lol

I do't think any time with Numbers and accounting is wasted really, it's the lowest common denominator when it comes to handling numbers in a sensible way.

It even exports to Excel if I remember correctly, not that I ever use that feature 😂

@chris

Oh and Numbers is seamless between phone and laptop so long as you save it in iCloud of course.

@chris

I use spreadsheets!

Zero tie in, extremely powerful!

Takes a bit of work up front, but it is your work, no one else can see it unless you specifically show them.

Export to CSV if needed.

Space to do quick sums if needed.

Automated formula, if needed.

Numbers is pretty good once you get past the simple interface.

I understand people may have more complex needs, but it works for me!

@botvolution

Oh wow!

That is unusual!!

Worth checking what your other pots are, and getting some of them??