Notices by Tom Casavant (tom@tomkahe.com)

The 'PUCO' people who come to my door once a month asking for my gas bill account number is definitely a scam, right?

Related: I found https://playsearch.kaki87.net/ (by @KaKi87) which lets you filter apps to find ones that don't have ads, so that's cool. Though it's a little disappointing the Play Store doesn't let you do this natively

Weird question, but does anyone know of any non-scammy android apps that will let you clap to find it (you clap and it rings and/or flashes the light)? My Grandma had downloaded several of them and at least one (though likely all) were basically viruses. I looked around for a few but the first couple I tried were immediately filled with ads that if you clicked on would take you to download other less-than-reputable apps

I always get a tiny bit excited when I end up on a random website and it has a link to their fediverse profile on it

I need a mastodon fork that lets me block myself

Hm, the Pixelfed dev blocked me. Which is fine, I encourage everyone to block me so that one day I can achieve my dream of posting into the void.

But, I don't think I've interacted with them ever, so that's a bit odd.

@jnv @killyourfm I'm just glad they're still sticking with physical games

@killyourfm haha- I just assumed it was enlarged to make it the significant part of the image

My collection sits on a shelf next to a bunch of variety sized books, so I don't think I mind it (but the switch box is already too large for what it contains tbh)

@killyourfm Metroid Prime feels a little niche to be the title the switch 2 launches on

@BeAware DMs are off by default on bluesky as well, so 99% of the time they don't even get a message about it

Also, there's a 0% chance of me convincing any larger account to opt in- because (justifiably) most people will not follow a strange account at the request of a stranger with 10 followers

@BeAware @mirabilos @PaxGeoffrey @michael yeah it's still an issue in mastodon as far as I'm aware

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615 this is the pull request that should fix it, but it's still in development over the last few months

@killyourfm finally, music for no one by no one.

@andypiper @BeAware @juergen_hubert i was thinking it'd be cool to have that as the front-end, and make it a follow-able group in the fediverse that shares all the posts from all your accounts

@BeAware @juergen_hubert

I've got my postmarks (link bookmarking) bridged to bluesky and an open pull request to fix it for everyone

@FlashMobOfOne @emarktaylor.bsky.social what can I say 🤷♂️ I have a gift

49-0 Buckeyes

If anyone remembers the weirdest commencement speech that happened at Ohio State last year, here's a small update:

https://www.rooster.info/p/chris-pan-ted-carter-ohio-state-emails

@killyourfm can we assume at this point that nintendo did a big announcement video a few months ago and they just forgot to send out the video link

@killyourfm

I got it from verge https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338028/lenovo-legion-go-s-steam-windows

But the Windows version shipping in January will cost $729.99, with 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. In May, the true experiment will begin when gamers can pick between a $499.99 SteamOS version with 16GB / 512GB, a $599.99 Windows version with 16GB / 1TB, or the Steam Deck and Steam Deck OLED at $399 and $549, respectively.

@killyourfm I said the same thing earlier, I thought it was just the Windows Tax™ that was different.

but apparently the base windows version is 1TB while the base steam os version is 512gb. For some reason.