Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

@bombshellbun haha! well, fair

@maple "she's a sarcastic nerd, and SHE's living la vie de boheme. can they make their romance work?! millennial lesbians on the make, in today's Sick Sad World"

btw I would love to make and use a machine that turned some kind of easily available feedstock--like, waste paper and cardboard, or cotton rag--into my own paper towel paper

(bonus: toilet paper)

it's affected how we design things. everything has microcontrollers in it now, doing jobs that can be done by a few discrete components sometimes

centralized approaches to design are favored over aggressive parallelism. like, how we explore space. we should have been putting lots of little probes out, but instead everything gets channelled into a few deluxe missions. we could have a lot more data than we do now

eh, just blue-skying

it's kind of an article of personal faith, you could say, that I think we can have a lot of the same gadgets that we're used to having now, what we think of as "technology", that's built from much simpler units

our manufacturing processes are horrendously circuitous. supply chains get stretched out to ridiculous length because everyone along the way is skimming off some rent. inefficiency is profitable

@JigmeDatse :=(

@wgahnagl oh those are fascinating, you see them as ornamentals around here every once in a while although I dunno how well they like the Seattle climate

@troubleMoney indiglo looks good

@maiia hi! :=3

@adasauce yeah honestly I can't imagine going to a beach myself

@maple gawd

@adasauce oof, sorry :=(

@troubleMoney wtf

@maple what's up, I'm always out of the loop