Notices by Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands (deathkitten@firetribe.org)

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io We had a random outage last weekend that was a few hours long. I was mostly okay because I had power banks and other things, though hot water for tea was missing and that was disruptive for me.

I may want to invest in a camp stove, just in case. Thank you for making me think of that. I'll need to make a purchase at REI come January to make sure I maintain my "active" membership so I can vote and take actions when the union asks.

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io Oakland doesn't have parks‽ How does one come to that insane conclusion? I mean, I guess having grandparents who lived there and being brought to church there most Sundays when I was a kid, meant I had first hand experience, but it just doesn't parse that anyone could come to that conclusion.

Food, I could understand. Not because I think that the food is bad. (I know it's not.) But food preference is pretty subjective, so it's easier for people to assume "I don't like it" = "this is objectively bad". Wrong, but at least a "logic" process I could understand.

@dnalounge@sfba.social So, I am curious how you came up with the new fine amount. Is that based on inflation from the original $25, or is there another reference or joke I'm missing?

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io I honestly can't function without a car here in the bay area. I have mad respect for you being able to. I did it for years due to a bad overlap of nonsense, and was miserable. If I'd lived somewhere with even a remotely civilized public transit option, I might not have fallen off the grid for a bunch of so called friends when I couldn't get to the places they wanted to go and they could never give me a ride. >.<

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services The reason the group I run wasn't on guppe groups to start with was it doesn't work reliably with any Fedi front end other than masto. I wish they'd fix that.

We need a diversity of group hosting, not just servers. I'm happy with FediGroups, and I hope they consider open sourcing their software so it can have multiple servers as well. Their service works with more than just masto.

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ...is it okay to ask you to spill the tea about this lying sign and what cafe/restaurant has such delusions of grandeur?

So, uh, I've never done anything with #tarot, but after @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io posted about https://www.thepastatarot.com/ my ordained :FSM: Pastafarian :FSM: minister ass was like, I need that. It arrived today. (Along with a hardbound copy of the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster — I already had a paperback copy, but wanted a nicer one too. The :FSM: fates aligned today.)

So, uh, help a n00b out. Those of you who are familiar, what's your favorite resource for tarot?

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io so, not smart home nonsense, but adjacent bullshit with a dude I was dating for a while years back.

He worked in the Apple call center, and thought he knew his shit with computers because he'd crawled his way up to second level support by being very good at using the flowchart. I'd been a full time Linux desktop person for hella long before we even met. Some of the bullshit he pulled on me:

He tried to replace my computer keyboard (an old one that wasn't mechanical but had a membrane stiff enough it almost felt like one) with a cheap af new one just because I'd worn the labels off it and he couldn't touch type. He couldn't use my computer because the keyboard was unlabeled.

He'd get into fights with me about the apple shit he'd gift me that was a nightmare to get to talk to my Linux system. I was happy on Linux, I wasn't an apple person, an iPod was useless to me because I literally had to change its filesystem to get it to talk to my system.

Towards the end of our time dating, he decided he was going to learn Linux by buying a Chromebook, then think he actually knew as much as me, someone who'd been a full time Linux user for probably a decade at that point.

I just can't.

I am one of those people who doesn't even trust my printer. I have a b&w "it's fine, i guess" brother laser, and I know my shit about printers, I worked in a print shop for a decade managing the huge commercial volume color and b&w printers.

@sharkey@sharkey.team Show attributions (fediverse:creator) in link previews, and allow users to set their "attribution domains".Thank you for this one! Can't wait for my admin to have time to upgrade us so I can start using it. <3

@shauna@social.coop It's worth noting that they changed the bylaws in 2022 so that only "active" members can vote. Which they define as someone who made at least a $10 purchase in 2024 or signed up for their co-op membership in 2024.

@travissouthard@jawns.club @shauna@social.coop I was ready to go vote to support the union, but I haven't bought anything in a while. Haven't had a need, and was irritated to find out they were union busters. >.<

I'll probably make a point to buy something this year to ensure I can vote next year if the union calls on us to do it again.

Okay, question for those of you who've already started cutting Google out of your lives: What's the best alternative to Google Maps if you want to store your own locations on top of a real world map? Like, places I've been or want to go, keeping track of where people in a group are located, or even just locations in fictional settings that are set in the real world?

Edit for clarity: I'm looking for something comparable to Google's "My Places" feature, a personal map that I can either keep private or share with others that isn't part of a public collective.

uMap might be what I need, but I need to figure out if 1. I can install it without a fucking docker container, and 2. if my current hosting has enough resources for it. Will investigate, but still open to further suggestions.

@beecycling@romancelandia.club @cstross@wandering.shop Okay, so asking to confirm if I'm remembering correctly:

All color machines do the dots, this is why printers refuse to print if they don't have a working color/yellow cartridge... but fully black and white machines (typically only laser printers, and not color machines set to B&W only) do not do this. Am I remembering that correctly?

@YellowReadis@mathstodon.xyz @donray@mastodon.online @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Oh FSM, the eucalyptus was one of the factors that made the Oakland firestorm in '91 so insane. It's considered an invasive species here, but it is everywhere all around the bay.

I was a little kid at the time, but this wasn't long after my parents had bought a house, and we ended up hosting my Aunt, Uncle, cousin, and their pet pot belly pig, as well as a family they were neighbors with. The neighbor family lost their home, my third grade teacher lost her home. The Aunt, Uncle, and cousin who stayed with us were like a block or so down from the fire line. Another Aunt and Uncle were like three houses down from the fire line elsewhere in the hills, and their neighbor across the street had all their windows opened when they evacuated, so the smoke damage ruined the inside of that house. My grandparents were a couple blocks away from the fire line in another part of the hills.

Fuck, it's crazy to think it's been over thirty years since then. I think Oakland Fire still remembers the lesson from that, but it's probably been long enough that home owners in the hills aren't doing the clearing and maintenance they should be. I wonder how many people who live in the Oakland hills now lived there at the time and remember?

@rasmus91@fosstodon.org @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io We do have a flag on it already. (Assuming we're not still claiming the moon landing was faked...)

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Here's the important question though: which color did they get you? Does it match the rest of the kitchen, or stand out in an exciting way?