Notices by Stu (tehstu@hachyderm.io)

@mekkaokereke It's wallet voting time. I liked Costco anyway, as I hear they do right by employees, but now they're absolutely getting my business.

@mekkaokereke We're going to need a Team America sequel.

@mekkaokereke I wish I had access to one of these. More actual utility than a massive truck or SUV, and small enough it'll rattle around inside a US-size garage. I'd absolutely be that person who lugged stuff around for people. Save every other vehicle on my street being a full size pickup, anyway.

@mekkaokereke @Rycaut @dusk @clive @hazelnot @teadrinker I'd gladly pay more for a product that lasted. I'm nursing along all my appliances, all ~10y old and now iffy.

When I was a kid my mum used to shred washing machines. Lot of laundry. Repair guy from the manufacturer told her "you're using it too much". Eventually bought an expensive model which looked a bit quaint but lasted until well after I moved out.

Not sure that same resilient thinking goes into any products now, expensive or not.

@mekkaokereke I didn't realize you were there, that makes me reconsider. I'm having the strangest FOMO about it, although ironically deleted the invite from the initial rollout.

I honestly don't know if a big, central place to organize is the way to go (with one eye on the wheels eventually falling off), or stick the course with proper decentralization. It's disheartening to see how some recent PRs were treated by the Mastodon core team. Starting to believe the "yes, slowly" = "no".

@thomasfuchs out of curiosity, and if you don't mind sharing, do you have this turned on?

@mekkaokereke Gah, I found this thread and then somehow completely missed that you'd already answered my question. Sorry about that, and appreciated.

@mekkaokereke This graph by John Burn-Murdoch of the FT is being shared, and his analysis suggests Millennials are the first group not getting more conservative as they age (in US/UK, at least).

I immediately thought of this post you made and so was skeptical of the graph. I trusted John's informative work during the height of the pandemic, so I wonder where this analysis goes wrong.

Appreciate your thoughts, if you have a moment, please.

https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/113448632302017098

@thomasfuchs co-signed, also an immigrant

@thomasfuchs Nice. I think I'd find it really restricting to give up ultra wide. Two widescreens aren't the same.

@thomasfuchs keyboard width ∝ monitor width

@GossiTheDog that would be an easier way to exit the hardware business though, which probably has thin margins, and just eat that sweet, sweet subscription money.

Xbox has got caught up in Microsoft's Make Line Go Up brain worms, rather than something they appear willing to subsidize forever. Surely only a matter of time before it's enshittified beyond the point of use (and they're about to lose their "fastest" claim).

Sony must be running out of cabbages to lol into.

@thomasfuchs I applaud people doing that. When news broke overnight and I went to submit feedback this morning, the replies from the developer inspired no confidence whatsoever. Since then, I had a run-in with an ex-Mozilla worker and, honestly, after using this thing since it was still called Mozilla Firefox, I think I'm finally done.

@GossiTheDog every time a big account surfaces an odious person, I go search for them to block them and find the whole instance is already nuked.

@kims @inthehands yeah, I was really disappointed when I saw that earlier. I specifically joined here, after shopping around as it were, because the rules specifically make this a safe space.

I need to bring it with the team, somehow.

@GossiTheDog the Microsoft Store is proper wild West, Android 2.2 marketplace. Always has been, it's absurd it's referred to as somewhere to get authentic apps

@MissingThePt "mum, I'm trying to establish a dictatorship and they're calling me mean names"

@GossiTheDog I wish this was publicized more. We're a small, slow moving org and don't have this sort of money to piss away while we figure out the efficacy of these things. Still very much on the beginning portion of this rollercoaster.

@thomasfuchs At first I was like "Oh, the PBS series! That was excellent, haven't seen that in ages. Maybe even decades."

So went to look up how I could watch it and realized Pirates of Silicon valley is a film I somehow haven't seen. But then reading up on it, apparently Noah Wyle took the role of Jobs after seeing what I thought you were talking about - the "Triumph of the Nerds" PBS doc.

Anyway, now I need to find both!

@thomasfuchs I don't think so, unfortunately. The left was hounded out of the party, and Starmer the centrist installed. Business interests will still be well served under Labour, as they were under Blair/Brown. I assume they just want the circus put to rest.

Luckily, I have a local choice to avoid either.