Notices by fluffy 💜 (fluffy@plush.city), page 2

Fuckin hell the Touch Bar on my MacBook no longer lights up. Which means i have no way to control the brightness or volume (at least not accurately, it still responds to touch). At least this is one of the models with a physical esc key but still

Previous MacBook had a different stupid Touch Bar failure too and I’m so glad Apple has dropped this stupid idea

anyway this is a 13" M1 MacBook pro (2020), time to see if I can find any repair parts for it or whatever

oh right the volume and brightness control is at least still available from the Control Center on the menu bar, so I'm not totally screwed

hm, replacement touch bars are like $45 and the process doesn't look *too* bad as far as things iFixit labels "difficult" are concerned

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Two+Thunderbolt+Ports+2020+Touchbar+Replacement/142585

I mean all it takes is a complete disassembly including removing the screen from its hinges and a lot of fiddly little connectors that are easy to break and a million specific tiny screws, what could possibly go wrong

omg this is so cool https://hackaday.com/2023/10/22/adobe-scientist-cuts-a-dash-with-lcd-shifting-dress/

oh nice, my spoopy critter variant was selected for spookality! On the very last page, but still

#vrchat

@ajroach42 @djsundog If you want an already-existing really nice (IMO) media encoding and tagging pipeline, you are more than welcome to make use of Bandcrash for that! https://github.com/fluffy-critter/bandcrash

Right now the docs are all focused around the CLI, but I'm working on a standalone desktop GUI right now, and it's 100% ready to be used as the backend on an encoding server as well.

Parsing other sites' opengraph to figure out what to present in an <iframe>: relatively easy

Generating your own opengraph to convince a third-party website to embed your music player in an <iframe>: impossible, apparently

Patreon is now trying to push their own crappy chatroom thing, as if every Patreon doesn't already have an official Discord connected to it

I feel like my blood sugar is out of control again, and I need to make a change. I think I’m going to start intermittent fasting and going cold turkey on sugar again. Also I need to start playing Beat Saber and/or DDR regularly again. I just played Beat Saber for an hour and feel a lot better than I did an hour ago, for example.

I should also use my little exercise bike thing when I watch TV, or get one of those portable treadmills which I think suits me better anyway.

Does anyone have recommendations for a portable walking treadmill that folds up? There’s many to choose from on Amazon but a lot of them seem pretty sketch.

Hm, this gets good reviews and good Fakespot ratings. Downside is there's no collapsible handrails. https://amzn.to/48HyEGp

This one costs a bit more but is still within my price range and does have handrails. https://amzn.to/46kZceV

I should not be allowed to have a credit card.

oh god Songtradr’s takeover of #Bandcamp has ended up being way worse than anyone expected much more quickly. tl;dr: Songtradr isn’t honoring the union, has locked out employees from critical systems, and is basically trying to steamroll everyone in the handoff.

https://twitter.com/ethangach/status/1709588666216018411

At the very least this means this #bandcampfriday might not be so great, and most likely everything about bandcamp is going to shit very rapidly.

oh my god epic resold bandcamp to songtrdr, ugh why can't people just be happy with making a comfortable product in a way that people like

Oh my god it’s even worse now and the damage is spreading

Well anyway this means there’s going to be a whole additional chapter in my blog post

Good news, I misread the poll, and it actually made things better.

To clarify! Everyone votes on every poll! The whole point is that these are open-ended intervals, and not individual floops that you shoop into.