maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

i make music: https://maple.pet/music

i make open source tech tools and toys: https://maple.pet/tech

i started the netizen club and the link cache, to help my yearning for a simpler internet: https://links.netizen.club/

i'm looking for work. if you know anyone who needs someone with 8+ years professional experience plumbing nearly any sort of bespoke tech, talk to me.

if you like a post where a person is talking about killing themselves that means that you like that that person wants to kill themselves, there is no other interpretation for the wording x has liked your post that i can infer in good faith and this is why i tell people not to like my negative posts unless they like that i'm in misery because if you want to convey anything else you have 26 letters and punctuation at your disposal

a cross-section diagram of multi-user mastodon instances

society if drawing programs allowed you to undo strokes, create a new layer and then redo those strokes

i search for a way to list all programs that currently have indicator applets registered. i get no relevant results. i conclude there is not one person in the world who knows exactly how desktop linux fully works

i press prtsc. flameshot comes up and lets me crop the area i want to screen shot. this is a good thing. there is now a flameshot indicator applet where there wasn't before. this is ok. the muted volume indicator applet has changed from gray to red and become off-center. this is perplexing

linux is a very good operating system for a headless server that turns into a very bad operating system once you plug a monitor into it and install a desktop environment

the only reason this laptop runs linux is that it's a centrino duo from 2008. linux is lightweight, but that's at the expense of not really being very good

using linux always makes me miss windows, every single time.

coming back to a linux laptop i haven't used in a year or so. i look up at the indicator applet tray in my MATE desktop. there is a prohibited symbol. i click on it. an empty box appears. i right click on it. i get the helpful about box that this is an indicator applet panel. i do not know what the prohibited sign means. i cannot get rid of it without getting rid of all the other applets. this is the reality of using a linux desktop

i apparently don't use many things that rely on us-east-1

bring back megas xlr

sorry toot. i'm new to this mastodon thing

immediately getting 5 favourites on a tweet and feeling like a baseball player who just hit a grand slam on the first pitch looking

they just announced the merriam webster word of the year 2025 and it's roguelike deckbuilder

if you use favourites as a read receipt you have no moral ground to say that words have meaning

i think opus compressed noise that ends up sounding like indiscernible voice chatter is the white noise that works best for my sleep mode