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

our wife is making a shell for the gizmo (she's better at fusion than we are) and hopefully we'll have a test print tomorrow

not being able to hold it off a table to use thumbs to type has been a major hindrance in actually using it

fediverse is a nicotine patch to the harmful drug that is (anti)social media

techies: this app hasn't been updated in over 30 minutes, it's obsolete and you shouldn't use it anymore!

also techies: i have to re-learn how to interact with my device every time venture captitalists think it's been too long without an update

HUGE step forward

i now have Stefan's basic running on the gizmo with full graphic capabilities of the monochrome 128x64 display and implemented a FatFSUSB driver so i can save files and transfer them to a computer

nobody remembers it's "little a salami as a treat" and not "a little salami"

realtek wants me to download a four hundred megabyte audio driver at twenty-two kilobytes per second

gave up on pybasic on top of circuitpython, have now been porting stefan's tinybasic 2 to the gizmo

some text printing and scrolling is still bad but this is slowly becoming a much more functional basic machine

BASIC is a really nice language to just Get Something Done On The Computer Easy

i think more people should try BASIC dialects