@skippy I'm liking it pretty well so far!

Read 75 issues of The Sandman comic on it and that was a good experience, did very well out in the sun (ironic for a dark comic).

Been using it nearly every morning for my breakfast / morning pages writing routine. Good for connecting to a bluetooth speaker for music, running Obsidian for to-dos & planning, and the handwritten notes app is not too shabby. Also got the keyboard case, and used that to type up some docs for work rather enjoyably

It's got a bit of android jank here & there, along with not the greatest custom software, but I'm overall pleased with how it's working out

@skippy Oh, and the handwriting recognition absolutely fails for me, so there's at least one deficiency - but then I've never found that to be a thing that works for me on any platform so far.

Also got a thread of pictures over here from last month. Found a neat Lamy stylus that works with it, too

https://hackers.town/@lmorchard/110516471028390014

@Macross @skippy yaaaas, this. Apparently there is a grafiti keyboard for android, but it blows goats.

The closest I can get is with a floating keyboard in swipe mode - that's sorta grafiti, insofar as I scribble between letters on the keyboard with the stylus and it's fairly speedy

@voltur I really liked the Lone Wolf books from the 80s, like choose-your-own-adventure but with dice combat and ability checks determining some of the page choices. Haven't really played any other solo TTRPGs besides those though (if those even count)

@tchambers @chipotle The "activitypub is open and should be open" take keeps coming up, but:

ActivityPub is an open protocol, which means it's a tool for lots of people to use to build the communities and networks they want to build.

That doesn't mean that any software installation supporting the protocol is obliged to federate with any other software installation. Not even a little or in spirit.

@tchambers @chipotle

It's messy, but we should act as participants here. Not as customers presuming a fungible, neutral, distant service relationship. Or, worse, as the hapless eyeball-livestock role we've learned to inhabit on most sites. That's the real toxic idea, to me.

Users should come to know their instance's administrators and their inclinations - maybe even offer to pitch in, if you can. Also helps to know your neighborhood in the fediverse. Try out a few instances, move a few times.

I know many folks don't want to be bothered with all this. That's fine. That might make this kind of social media unsuitable for many folks and limit the network's growth.

It may also make it the only social media suitable for some folks when the "open" networks mean open to all-against-all channels of stress & abuse.

@tchambers @chipotle But to rotate that scenario, the users of that 3rd de-federating server are also participants in their server and should be onboard with that de-federation or go elsewhere. The social graph is an agreement in both directions.

Like, this isn't unknowable distant entities causing natural disasters, these are folks entering into and falling out of agreements with each other

@tchambers @chipotle But that's what I'm saying: There is no third-party here - and there are no direct relationships either.

This is a shared system that manages indirect connections agreed-upon by many participants in the federation path - the graph is user to admin to admin to user. Each participant in that path has a bit of control and should be aware of each other.

i.e. you may have used a system I'm offering to follow someone on another system. But, your chosen relationship puts rows in my database and causes my system to send rows over to someone else's database - and I've got opinions about that. It'd be best if you, me, someone else, and your follow were all actively on the same page.

If this were more like a p2p system - or used an architecture where servers were simple store-and-forward nodes for encrypted blobs - there could be more of a direct and more easily portable relationship. And maybe admins who are happy just keeping black-box network services and hard drives spinning. But that's not the texture of this network.

@ElleGray

(thinks of the big picture)
...
(stands up and disappears into the forest)

apparently a watched backup never finishes

my cat just activated my yubikey, surely someone's considered this attack vector

@yojimbo @mookie It was somehow both!