Notices by Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)

@hellomiakoda @realn2s @stullekovski 🥹

with slightly more seriousness, I think probably because it required too much ongoing maintenance effort; too much time dinking with it rather than using it. also by that point being more of a mac user and the arch system being mostly a server, and rolling-upgrades on a server is silly, especially when the point of more frequent upgrades is to catch desktop environment developments.

@hellomiakoda @realn2s @stullekovski yes, I have in the past. I’m sure there was a reason why I stopped 😅

@realn2s @hellomiakoda @stullekovski and besides which being downstream of Ubuntu doesn’t really feel like rejecting Ubuntu.

I guess it’s finally time to grow up and use Debian directly 😅 not sure I can bear to stick to one version of gnome for two years though, always was an upgrade junkie…

today i are mostly looking for reasons why i should *not* use #Proton Mail (probably Unlimited plan for VPN and Drive too; possibly Duo if my sister's still using her address on my domain too, which I don't think she is)

Existing mail: Gmail
Existing calender: iCloud
Existing VPN: None (but in UK so 🤬)
Existing drive: iCloud, Nextcloud (would keep both anyway)
Existing passwords: 1Password
Existing authenticator: Google

#DeGoogle

@YourNetworkIsHaunted probably the reason they think anyone's jobs can be replace by LLMs is that in their hearts they know theirs can, and that's after a lifetime of thinking they're the smartest people in the room.

@e8d79 @o7___o7 starting to think the job most easily replaceable with an LLM is the CEO.

@goatsarah finally a use case for AI: watch this shit for me and tell me if he ever gets to the point (and what it is, if coherent). Problem is that it might drive the AI mad as well and we end up in the robot uprising

@mattl @Dianora @joeyh i wonder sometimes if it might be better if they actually just *sold* it. I don’t mean, to some other organisation, i mean, as a product to end users. Pay a license and get it guaranteed without any of that invasive shit.

I mean, I pay for ivory here, i pay for mimestream, i pay for dash (doc browser), I used to pay for other stuff but i stopped using them. i use firefox way more than any of them…

and it's always open source. you can build it yourself, but most won’t.

@br00t4c @Dianora and i bet every single one of them has been passing anti-trans laws for years.

@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!

@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.

@_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.

@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.

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.

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...

@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.)

@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…

@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…)

@hannah there is, after all, just the one

@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)