@mekkaokereke i think some of us that were Assigned Nerd At Birth got used to feeling defensive about it. but dammit I'm not a nerd, I'm a geek!
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 07:19:03 JST Rachel Greenham
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 01:35:34 JST Rachel Greenham
@cstross @bjn my M1Pro MacBook Pros (I ended up with two of them by accident) are now in their fourth year, and it still feels weird how i feel absolutely no pressure to upgrade computers that old, and can't see anything on the horizon that'll bring that pressure. And I always was an eager upgrader.
Apple Silicon seems to have (accidentally?) brought on that market maturity. They can only ruin it by enshittifying services, and there's Asahi Linux for that day.
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 01:22:34 JST Rachel Greenham
@_elena @benhulshof and FWIW Apple (the company) *is* donating to the wildfire relief efforts. i don't know how much, I don't think that information's been given. meanwhile he pays the protection money out of his own pocket. i'm not sure that needle can really be threaded tbh but that does feel like what's going on at apple.
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 06:09:04 JST Rachel Greenham
@skinnylatte I think face blindness is a a different thing. (I am aphantasic but not face blind. No difficulty with faces in front of me but can’t visualise them otherwise except in the metaphorical way we thought everyone did) I don’t suppose there’s any reason why someone can’t have both, but they are different.
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 03:56:14 JST Rachel Greenham
so they’re floating #trump running for a third term on the theory that 22nd amndmnt forbids 3 *consecutive* terms.
if he does that, the obvious person to run against him is Barack Obama (still 17 years younger). there's no argument that could allow trump to do it that doesn’t also allow Obama to.
it won't happen: trump won't be alive in four years, and if he is, 25th amndmnt will probably have been triggered.
but just making that counter-threat ought to shut it down.
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 03:56:00 JST Rachel Greenham
Finally got a round tuit, so here's my #Intro... She/they, #trans-inactivist, got a day job writing #Java and #Groovy, payin' down that technical debt; the better half of me is #Irish, but stuck in that backward conservative country on the other side of the sea. So #remain I think we should raise Doggerland. Tragically between cats right now. I ought to do something about that...
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 03:55:37 JST Rachel Greenham
@bmacDonald94 @Lazarou (leprosy can be cured, but not by some fucker abusing a pair of snakes that should be in the wild. by antibiotics.)
(Some forms of blindness are curable too. Again… no fucking charlatan snake-handler's going to do it though.)
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 01:19:39 JST Rachel Greenham
@cstross @sindarina i mean, Fedora and/or Ubuntu might enshittify - go into any linux forum you'll find people saying it's already happened - but we'll always have Arch…
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 00:55:21 JST Rachel Greenham
@cstross @sindarina same reason I haven't switched [back] to Apple Passwords: Want to keep my Linux bolthole open. Hence 1password (and firefox, and libreoffice…)
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 07:23:13 JST Rachel Greenham
@hannah there is, after all, just the one
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 06:30:04 JST Rachel Greenham
@cstross @cyberspice @paul I can’t recommend the studio Display enough. And that last point pays for it in the end and was always the worst thing about iMacs. I also have a 2019 intel imac; perfectly good screen chained to an obsolete computer. (Now running Linux which can only drive the screen to 4K)
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 04:20:14 JST Rachel Greenham
@br00t4c @DemocracyMattersALot which will be ignored by the republican legislature they voted for.
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 05:26:52 JST Rachel Greenham
@georgetakei that one's going to run on and on.
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 05:03:07 JST Rachel Greenham
@libreoffice have submitted bug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162934
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 05:03:07 JST Rachel Greenham
@libreoffice er, that seems to have introduced a bug: When typing new text at the end of a paragraph that's fully-justified, when the text crosses over the halfway point along the line, it keeps trying to justify the (incomplete, last) line on typing each space.
Excuse typing errors, it's really made me self-conscious how frequent they are, but...
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 04:17:45 JST Rachel Greenham
@sabreW4K3 @GreenSkyOverMe good enough to bang some sticks together then…
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 18:04:35 JST Rachel Greenham
@ColesStreetPothole @mekkaokereke @ddritter @benroyce if that's the behaviour it's also misnamed. Followers only should *mean* followers only.
i want to think it's a bug. because it's mis-named, as if the mismatch between name and function isn't deliberate. Maybe submit it as a simple bug report on that basis. 😅
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 01:42:19 JST Rachel Greenham
@goatsarah i wanted to find, like, a least-impressive snake species to name this. (context: Elite spaceship models, especially in that era at least, have snake-based names). but i couldn't. there's no snake i can think of that deserves the comparison.
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 14:18:04 JST Rachel Greenham
@dgar I’ll give you points for being plucky…
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Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:28:59 JST Rachel Greenham
@siege @Gaelan i know it's an impossibiilty ;-) my "exist in the shadows" wasn't intended as an acceptable outcome...
More to the point, I know it's an impossibility, you know it's an impossibility, but do *they* know it's an impossibility?