beardsley @ beardsley @midwest.social

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Thankfully the price of my YT free account is still only the cost of everything I've ever written in email or a web browser so all good 👍

Nonces and muzzies! Terrifying!

this is what pulp fiction was made for.

I hate these, too. I decided to put a compact computer in our bedroom (already a bad plan, I know) to quickly check the security camera at night (I rolled my own, no phone app). I plugged in a mouse I had laying around. I discovered the first night when this particular mouse does not have its custom drivers installed (gimme a break, this is Raspbian not Windows!), it freaking blinks, and in the dead of night it's as bright as a flashlight. Blink. Blink. All night long. I never noticed before because, wackily enough, I rarely compute in complete darkness.

I also have a USB desk fan I thought I might run at night and yes, it has blinky lights when charging. F that, I bought an old Caframo Dragonfly instead... best compact fan ever made, first produced in the 1950s.

fire-breathing dragons, they are!

I think I could get away with this at my office, as long as I didn't bring a shepherd's crook.

I really enjoyed hearing "enshittification" in the voice of Ian McKellen as Gandalf in my mind 👏👏

Hats off, that's both an argument for the use of third party apps and for eliminating third party apps at the same time...