Notices by Flaky (flaky@furry.engineer)

@tk Yeah this is a common thing with ADHD. There's stuff I want to do but there's always what feels like this imaginary blocker that feels substantial enough to stop me from doing so (typically effort).

Anyone running Windows VMs on Linux (and if you aren't and want to brag about your microsoft-free life, shut the fuck up) - what's your setup like? I want - er, need - a Windows VM but I find each setup comes with trade-offs.

I'm not going for WinBoat atm since sound gets routed to RDP which is lossy and also has latency compared to the rest.

edit: add "uh, need".

#AskFedi #Linux #Windows #VMware #VirtualBox #KVM

btw the best way to be in the city square on fedi is to just join mastodon.social :blobfox:

I was thinking about how the way Reddit works facilitates the "echo chamber" effect really strongly, similar to old forums and fediverse instances. They allow cultures where new information contrary to their beliefs isn't allowed to come in, and anyone delivering such will get toxicity thrown their way.

It's not even just regular politics either (and I'm using that term in a general sense, not "grrr muh liberals"). You can tell a Linux guy why you need to use Windows and they won't listen. You can tell a Mastodon user why you prefer Bluesky and they'll just shout "CENTRALISED! VENTURE CAPITALISTS!" and screech about Jack Dorsey despite him not being there for like a year or two now.

I like my forums sometimes, but frankly, I think I prefer the city square approach to that nowadays.

God, Reddit fucking sucks actually

Didn't think the Eurovision 2026 list would be leaked on NBC but here we are.

#Eurovision

@sendpaws cars are expensive and people may not want to replace their car lol

people are weird

@tk I'm more interested in the fact Nintendo is reviving EyeToy. But that Donkey Kong game looked so good.

@sendpaws they'll have the same problem on fedi tbh

Okay guys, hear me out...

someone here said the HazBoss fandom is the new Homestuck fandom and yeah I see it now.

if you're going to tell them to join another instance, or that they joined the wrong instance, you're part of the problem. it's frustrating that the Fediverse just doesn't listen to the issues raised by regular people.

it's getting better (thanks in part to Bluesky putting the pressure on as a "competitor" probably) but I think Mastodon and the rest of fedi should stop listening to FOSS hobbyist ideologies, it's holding the network back so much. Best example is this: Mastodon is making a spec for auxiliary services that can handle things like spam detection, so instances don't have to, which seems alright, but then you have shit like this in the issues:

https://github.com/mastodon/fediverse_auxiliary_service_provider_specifications/issues/46

Welp. The Mastodon account of someone in the AWS sphere suddenly stopped existing yesterday.

All the more reason I prefer Bluesky's "centralised app, decentralised profile" approach in the long-run.

https://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3lkqop2diws2v

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky

@sugar damn, end of an era…

@tk I have it on my laptop, getting NVIDIA Optimus to work was just one click lol. It's really good for gaming though for development... eh...

there's a movie about sentient sneakers that seems to just be fetish content and I swear one of them is voiced by the same VA as Husk from Hazbin Hotel.

@soulfirethewolf I like the Honda S2000. Not for any of the specs or anything. I just think they're cute. :)

Essentially, this post can just be boiled down to this skeet from Captain Disillusion:

Oh yeah, just remembered. I had a friend who tried the Fediverse - specifically Mastodon - and wanted the ability to view every reply to a post, including remote ones that haven't federated. This is actually a good idea, it could theoretically curb a lot of the incessant "reply guy" problems this place has. There have been requests for this.

Except, the people in charge of Mastodon didn't want to implement this, apparently the people who asked for this just got "why do you need this feature lmao?" or "use a third party client".

Both not really good solutions. Both very "Linux user" type of responses. And then the same people wonder why people get fed up with this place bounce off to Bluesky.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

@tk well, squawk.social might be worth a look if you're looking for bird people. other than general platforms that artists are on ofc.