fluffy ✨🍑✨ @fluffy@queer.party

@pandora_parrot good combination

@jplebreton this kind of stuff is why I loved Second Life back when it had boundless possibilities and before it turned into unending casinos and sex shops.

George Washington 🤝 Sir Mix-A-Lot
and cherry trees and big butts

@bstacey It is really useful and I wish it were also visible on the non-web-client view.

@Teryl_Pacieco tea, and fuzzy sweater

@sg yeah I was a heavy user of pwm and it was so good. I had written some simple tools to let me do almost everything from the keyboard, and having pervasive tabs at the WM level was nice. And I didn’t want minimize or maximize buttons and I was glad to not have them! (Instead I had a crap ton of workspaces I flipped between - and it was fast and responsive, unlike “spaces” on macOS.)

I really miss that flexibility.

@sg weird thing is Linux used to be great for accessibility in that you could make the UI behave pretty much any way you wanted. I had a great accessible setup back in the early 2000s. Unfortunately then Gnome happened and pretty much overnight everything in Linux turned into a bad clone of Windows.

Windows is also moving to a signed binary model. “Windows Defender” makes lots of software not run without even worse contortions by the user than on macOS.

@srol needing to pee

Windows got a lot better about this stuff with XP (well, NT in general). While macOS has had a slow steady decline over the past 10 years, and ever since Mojave it's gotten really fragile.

once upon a time, I'd have to reinstall Windows once a year, but macOS would just keep on trucking no matter what. Now it's the other way around, and it's getting so maddening. If only I actually liked using Windows. :P

@notimetoplay oh, sure. and lots of languages provide alternate syntax that's a bit more sensible, like C#'s foo[x,y] syntax (which IIRC Pascal used too?)

@notimetoplay It's also not even a very good idiom in C, because it doesn't do anything to guarantee that the rows are contiguous in memory and the underlying detail of what `a[n]` on its own means can be incredibly variable depending on how it was actually declared. And it's also a minefield of confusion.

Also this is an end of an era for me: I am decommissioning my last remaining FireWire device! You had a good run, IEEE-1394

Finally upgrading my desktop to Catalina, since my new audio interface arrives today. Amazingly enough the installer only detected a single incompatible app, an old version of PICO-8.

@ironfroggy aw shit

also love how while clearing out the storage under the sink I came across what looks quite a lot like mouse droppings, but I see no other signs of mice or any way that mice could be getting in or out

ghost mice I guess

or maybe there's a fun little surprise waiting behind the old cabinets

I mean I know how I got so many and they are ironically from prior workplaces “waste reduction” incentive programs.

Like “we don’t want to keep buying disposable cups so we’re giving everyone a reusable water bottle.” And I am pretty sure I got way more of these water bottles than I ever got disposable cups.

how do I keep on accumulating so many water bottles

they're all nice ones but I don't need, like 20 of them