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@mwl how is there not a word for this in English?

(oh right, it's because we use a language made by people for whom that was just the default state for their entire lifetime)

I used to think of it as technical support for family and friends, and now I realize it's really more like I'm volunteer technical support team for big corp. I wonder how many anonymous technical support dopes like me there are. 🤔

@bamfic I've been on semaphore for at least five years; it's SO much better

@srol this change hit me a while back and it felt so weird, then later that year I got a new phone that's ridiculously looooong and now I can't reach the top with my thumb, and I get it

it's a software workaround for a hardware bug of "my phone is too long"

@srol if this is just like ... a for-funsies thing, maybe leave it on the SD card until you start to notice crashes, and then spend the time make the switch? just make sure you back up anything you'd be sad to lose

@srol most SD cards are designed for very few writes and lots and lots of reads, because they're typically used for cameras and stuff like that

sometimes write-heavy usage can cause corruption; for example a while back I ran a pleroma (times were different back then) on an SD card and pleroma writes a *ton* to the database, just all the time, constantly

anyway this caused some pretty bad crashes

there are higher-quality "application class" SD cards which aren't as bad as the normal type, but the EMMC will be more reliable in the long run

@srol I distinctly remember when microsd came out it was like "well, this is a bit shit but I understand why they're doing it because now I can put it in my phone so I guess it's worth the hassle"

and then the phone manufacturers remembered that actually they hate us, so they stopped including the slots

@Seirdy CGI

@dozens I voted 5 or more but then on my bike ride this morning I saw 3 cats and I was like "wait ... is there something going on here?

@srol have you played FTL? I felt like that was the most treklike space combat I've played; each crew member has their assigned post, but they still end up running all over the ship to make repairs and fight off intruders

plus you're like ... constantly rerouting auxiliary power to the shields; I never would have thought they could have made rerouting auxiliary power an actually fun game mechanic

@clacke when I grew up in Indonesia this was what red bull was so when I saw people drinking it in the US I was like wtf! didn't learn until later that the recipe was different of course

@enkiv2 @mwl (guy who's only watched 2 john carpenter movies voice) basically the way I see it is that if you're carpenter there's only 2 stories you can tell about post-reagan america; either the protagonist resists and goes out in a blaze of glory or he is inescapably drawn into collaboration with a system he hates and is stripped of all meaningful agency, forced to be a pawn of the powerful in order to survive

@enkiv2 @mwl I guess it's subversive in that Reagan fans will see Snake as being cool as hell and want to be Snake, but Snake hates cops

but he is a cop in the end anyway, so the point ends up being ... that you can't resist them? I'd take Roddy Piper going out in a blaze of glory any day

@enkiv2 @mwl it just seems so utterly ineffectual

like if the person being satirized can watch the film and not get angry at it, what have you really accomplished?

at least with starship troopers the director had the excuse that he was european, he could be forgiven for not understanding how deeply fucked up the US popular conception of the military is

@mwl I was really surprised watching this after my only other Carpenter exposure was They Live, because EFNY kinda leans into the whole "criminals are dangerous degenerates!" reactionary shit; like ... how did this come from the same mind as They Live?

@ben have you seen Hot Dad's video about picking a font for a web site?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73gGwGI8Z7E

@rose people really don't get it, but like ... if an advertiser makes a claim without evidence, (like the claim the 404 article was reporting on) the correct response is to assume it's false

@bremner I've heard this used a few times, but only ever out of admiration

@sherlock_holmes great! here's some links to the authors I mentioned who have fedi accounts: (https links to avoid bothering them by mentions)

Zen Cho (Black Water Sister) https://wandering.shop/@zencho
Leonard Richardson (Situation Normal and Constellation Games): https://botsin.space/@leonardr
Michael W Lucas (git commit murder): https://io.mwl.io/@mwl

@sherlock_holmes @skaeth Broken Earth is a future-fantasy series by NK Jemisin I read a couple years ago; I should have listed that in my recommendations earlier; it's kinda dark but it's a great story