@mxbck what in tarnation
@miah @thegibson merrily crop dusting silly valley
@solder_on @vantablack it is indeed a deadly laser
How do people, like, actually keep in touch? With my ADHD, I think I've come to accept that I basically have a lack of social object permanence. Out of sight, out of mind.
Over the past literal decades, I've sometimes tried setting up a list of contacts and a scheduling system - but ADHD also means I get bored / annoyed with that and either never get it working or stop using it after awhile.
There's also the thing where I imagine someone on the receiving end of a scheduled communication from me going :flan_eyeroll: "there's the fortnightly ping from lmorchard again"
@deadbeefmonster @Rob_T_Firefly I fascinated my wife with cheese and she's never left, so I think that's good advice
Huh, this makes me even happier about our Tern e-bikes. They have a few quirks, but my recent trip to the shop for basic wear & tear replacements used all non-exotic parts and wasn't too expensive.
Certainly not afraid of the bike being unusable if Tern ever went away? Which makes me highly favorable to the idea of buying another bike from them, someday
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792143/vanmoof-e-bike-payment-suspension-bankruptcy-sale.
@soypunk We've got a pair of Tern HSD P9 bikes.
I'm not a massive cyclist, but I have managed to put about 2000 miles on them over the past couple of years. We were totally car-less for awhile, but in a city with conveniently close things.
When we had not much room for storage, they folded up pretty nicely into a cubby in our house's entryway.
Lots of grocery trips and 15-20 mile cruises around town on nice days. (Ab)used them a few times to bring home things like 10 gallons of house paint (possible but not recommended).
If I had it to do over again, I might go for a belt drive over a traditional chain. (The chain is apparently extra-long, which sometimes causes it to drop off the gears.) But pretty solid machines in any case
Thinking about things I've hauled around on my cargo e-bike, I will say you haven't lived until you've been dumb enough to try ferrying home a 5-gallon bucket of white primer paint in the front basket and 5 more 1-gallon cans strapped down to the back.
This was a year or two ago. I made it home without mishap, but a) super glad the front basket was attached to the frame and not the handlebars, b) low-traffic roads and patience were essential.
@soypunk whew, i am only an egg 😅
@joshua Sorta similarly, I got cut off by a minivan and panic-clutched the front brake at 20mph. Went over the handlebars and landed on my elbow. Didn't break it, but pretty sure there's no funny-bone left in there now. Only un-funny-bone
@joshua Maybe he's a secret agent now and the dislocatable shoulder comes in handy for getting out of jams
@chimerror @fluffy I, for one, would rather have fursonas walking around town than blipverts, that's for sure
Hmm, maybe if it's hot enough in my office that my laptop is CPU throttling with fans full-blast and nothing much running, maybe my brain is hot enough to be CPU throttling too 🤔
@eri if the nails on your other hand were more of a peach color, then we'd know you're a pro-gamer
@danhon I haven't stopped putting stickers on things since I was 8 years old in total
@jessica @venya @NegativeOhio @indiedee sweet dang that rocks
@danhon I just stick down a layer of clear shelf liner first, so then I can always pull all the stickers off when the call of the void comes for me
@mhoye AI but with tactical grips
bsky meta
Apparently bluesky users are complaining about the platform to investors on linked-in because harassment & racism are on the rise? I'll just move that "re-read AT protocol docs" item a lil lower on my to-do list 🤔
re: bsky meta
I mean, don't get me wrong: taking the beef to LinkedIn is a pretty great development.
It's just, I don't think it's a different federation protocol that's going to solve the problem.
re: bsky meta
Like, I keep thinking, let's see what problems crop up once they release the federation kraken over there - except they're having this angst on a single invite-only instance.
Maybe we should just spin up a new invite-only social network every 3 months with a different constellation of people and just delete it as soon as it stops being fun. I've probably tooted this before (on a since-deleted account)
If I were a billionaire and didn't care about server costs or lawyers or whatever, I would actually do this until my ADHD made me wander away from it
@w8emv Oh hey! I just noticed your issues on my repos! Thanks for trying my very pre-alpha garbage software 😅 Someday I should write some docs.
I am still using that masto-recall thing, but mainly as a way to generate a list of top links over the past 3 days for myself.
I'm moderately more active on that fossilizer thing as a site generator for mastodon exports. Hoping to make that a bit more robust and documented. Next steps there are to make it easy, post-import, to pull incremental updates from a live account. Also to make it easier to use custom templates for the site generation
Oh yeah, and I intend to configure some github actions jobs to build downloadable release binaries so that you don't have to build it yourself with cargo. It should ultimately be usable as a standalone thing, even with customizations to templates and web assets
What if we ran limited-lifespan social networks like virtual music festivals or something? They pop up, people camp out, weird shit happens, then another one intentionally pops up to replace it.
Because what I'm getting here is not that the tech is particularly good or interesting, it's the crowd that shows up
@Macross I would simply solve this by only inviting cool people, it's a fool-proof plan