Notices by Wes George (wesgeorge@mstdn.social)

@tim "Spicy" is a spectrum so it works, but Lithium-ion = straight horseradish in your eye, or one of those crassly named novelty sauces that are 100% carolina reaper and ghost pepper puree like "Jimbob's Sphincter Lava", while alkaline = a small bite of deseeded jalapeno with a milk chaser.

Happy Thanksgiving?

I'm starting to think I'm going to have to give up on Firefox. my baseline ~35 tabs spread across multiple windows routinely eats 6+GB of memory, and even after going from 16->32GB of RAM, I'm still getting all sorts of UI lag and general unhappiness. I suspect at least part of it is Atlassian's fault (they are likely not testing with Firefox and their stuff is bloated), but given I already have to keep Chrome around for stuff that straight up doesn't work on Firefox, I'm looking at options 1/n

I know I'm not going back to Chrome, but I don't have anything against Chromium-based stuff - I need my browser to *work* and otherwise stay out of my way, thus the crusade against monoculture in browsers isn't a primary concern. So as much as I hate to even ask, is Edge the least worst option right now since it's not encumbered with Google's new spyware or intentionally breaking ublock Origin & friends?
Brave is a no-op for plenty of reasons. Opera sounds similarly sketchy.
Vivaldi? 2/2

Printer problems that for once aren't the printer's doing:
Kid: I need to print this thing from my school laptop
Me: Hm, that's on the guest network (where I put stuff I don't personally manage) so it may not see the printer, but I thought I fixed that.
*Tries to add printer, discovers that's disabled by school IT*
Ok, maybe we can just plug into the printer on USB & Windows will figure it out?
Windows *does nothing*
F it, here's a thumb drive, save it on here & I'll print it from our computer.

I'm not sure why I'm surprised, as this is the same crack IT team that issued what I assume to be thousands of student windows laptops configured for centrally pushing updates but then didn't actually, you know, push updates, instead asking students to periodically run windows update manually, where it says none available until you click "check online for updates" to have it call home instead of whatever server they configured.
This is also why it's on my guest network.

So good news/bad news with the impending birdsite API shutdown -
Bad news- large number of people that are pushing updates from there to here are probably not going to realize that has stopped working and a bunch of accounts are going to go dormant, at least temporarily.
Good news- we'll stop getting retweets and user mentions from those crossposts that we can't filter because Mastodon doesn't support filtering keywords.

@EricCarroll hmm, that'd be great! I thought since they didn't index the full text of posts there'd be no way for keyword mute to work, so I assumed it didn't. Maybe it's being applied directly to the user's stream as it goes past sorta client-side? Like you get the post but your client throws it on the floor so the actual overhead of looking at all text is not on the server?

@EricCarroll confirmed, I am able to make it work on the advanced webUI, but it doesn't appear to exist in Tusky, for example, so it's definitely happening client-side.