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PSA: Twitch is going to start limiting people to 100 hours of saved highlights on their stream. If you are over 100 hours, you have until April 19th to export and delete before they start choosing what to delete for you. #twitch

good morning. someone’s still a bit bleary. #dogs #dogsofmastodon

This textbox is a message and part of a system of messages. Java is installed on over three billion devices. Java is found everywhere, even in your car. We thought we were a powerful culture.

the internet demands more Odin, who am I to withhold #dogs #dogsofmastodon

it's an impressive commitment to consistency that Steam, which is a Web Page That Lists Items, runs exactly as incredibly poorly in 2025 on a high-end gaming machine as it did in 2008 on a dying second-hand Dell

me: I'll improve my Chinese by posting photos of Odin to Chinese social media and reading the comments

the comments: cute. baby. big. soft. cute. fluffy. baby. want to hug. big baby!!!

me: well I've got those five words down pat for sure.

if you ever find yourself on bilibili (Chinese youtube) and absolutely blasted by thousands of user comments that are scrolling OVER the video you're trying to see, this is the button (underneath the video) to disable that

#bilibili

my friends were talking about especially bad error messages to spring on a user so I'm reboggling this absolute gem

tbf I'm probably one of the only people in the world to ever get this error, because it involved the extreme edge case of forgetting to finalize a pending OS upgrade and closing the laptop's lid for a month, and the OS doesn't want to install update files that were signed ages ago so that known-buggy updates can't stay in circulation forever; what it SHOULD have said is "The downloaded update files have expired. They will need to be downloaded again."

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what Windows says: We noticed you have unused printers. Shall we delete them?

what Windows means: we see that you have a printer because you have occasional unforeseen critical needs to print something once or twice a year. Would you like to make sure it's a stressful hassle every time?

ingeburgerd status: bought knock-off M&Ms because the real American brand was five euros

I just heard that Head Start's had their funding frozen and it was an absolute gut punch in a very personal way. When I was very young, our family ended up on welfare because my father was direly ill. My two younger siblings were enrolled in a Head Start daycare program. I was slightly too old, but they let me hang out there often anyway. Some of my most positive memories of a broadly unlucky childhood were in that Head Start daycare. It was a haven of stability, kindness and patience for children in impoverished, often chaotic households.

I'm sobbing. I'm safe on the other side of the ocean, but they still find increasingly creative ways to make it personal.

general advice for anyone who finds themselves moving to another country in the near future for whatever reason:

1) it's more expensive than you think. yes, even after you take this into account. Don't be surprised or ashamed if you end up needing to borrow money from friends and family to cover the short-term spike in expenses.

2) get rid of as much Stuff as you possibly can. My employer gave me about $4000 for relocation expenses but that only covered one large shipping crate that fit my clothes, books, etc. It was way cheaper and easier to give away all my furniture and replace it on the other side.

3) That crate took something like nine weeks to arrive, it was absolutely worth it to pay for an extra suitcase on my flight to cram as many necessities into as possible.

@tikend I posted this after recalling that my high school theology teacher said that if a woman needs a medical abortion to survive, then she is morally obligated to die, if that's what you're asking

when I was young, adults with authority over me loved to tell me that I'd agree with them when I was older, but as I approach 40 they're still wrong and I wish I'd picked more fights with them

Turns out that if you copy text from OneNote and paste it into something that can accept either text or images, it decides you must want a bitmap rendering of your text. I pasted the text into this posting box and got the image, then pasted it again into the image's alt text and got text. Incredible. 0/10 ux, principle of least astonishment maximally violated

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@feld every time he's tried that, I firmly tapped him on the hips and said "nee". He quickly figured out it was rude and dialed it back a lot

When you have a year-old puppy larger than the average adult human, they have certain powers of veto. (Filmed by my husband who did not help at all) #dogs #dogsofmastodon

the joke is I have to accept the certificate anyways because this was the only solution IT could find to us being able to still receive mail at our old addresses after the corporate acquisition

Confused about how Chinese characters work? This should clear everything up.