Arthur Dent @ArthurDent@unxpnx.farm

My biggest pet peeve is restaurants/gigs/events or venues of any kind which have a social media page instead of a website. I don't have fucking instagram, so I literally can't see your menu/lineup? Even if I had instagram, it's an entirely inaccessible format so would be fucking useless? These platforms are for promotion, not for hosting vital information.

Since I switched to KDE I've been experiencing this weird bug where my whole PC (minus sound stuff, apparently) freezes when I click on certain things on the secondary display.

It only happens sometimes, and mainly it seems to happen when I click on Telegram's title bar. I have no idea what causes it or how to figure out any kind of clue o.o

It also... seems to happen when playing RimWorld most of the time, and moving the mouse out of that and onto the second screen window, if that's relevant in any way

I'm using Arch, KDE and Wayland

So yeah I'm once again asking for computer help 😔

Do it for the environment.

Look I’d love to get a new #RaspberryPi5 - I love playing with this sort of tech. I have a few older ones kicking around still too! But I won’t be buying one because I don’t like to support a company that belittles people for taking an ethical stance against hiring known surveillance police to help support that particular market. It was dismissive, exclusionary, and pushing minority groups out of making spaces. And they still don’t think they’ve done anything wrong.

Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?

Want UblockOrigin for life

Some kinda augmented reality that replaces all display advertising with classical art or gifs from /r/aww

Quote attributed to Banksy put it best:

I wish more people in large orgs understood how much of a burden you put on somebody by sending them a PDF and asking them to fill it out and send it back. The software you are asking people to find and learn is absolutely some of the worst software in the world.

This is absolutely infuriating. Overdrive should lose their contracts and be replaced by a publicly-funded system. https://karawynn.substack.com/p/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries

One of the creepier tech-related incidents I remember was many years ago when I wanted the Sam's Photofacts (a third-party creator of device specs and schematics, etc.) for a very old portable TV. Way out of date, but I was trying to help someone with it.

I mentioned to a friend that I was looking for old Photofacts, but I did not say anything about the TV. He scribbled an address on a scrap of paper, an address locally here in L.A. "Try him," he muttered.

I drive over. It's a small unmarked storefront. I go in, the bell on the door rings. Sitting inside, like the caterpillar in "Alice in Wonderland", is this little guy perched on a stool, with immense stacks of paper surrounding him everywhere. Total mayhem.

I walk up to him -- knowing that this was a waste of time and really wanting to get out of there -- and asked if he had the Sam's Photofacts for that specific very old TV model.

Without saying a word, he reached over to the pile of papers right next to him, took the TOP item off the pile, and silently handed it to me. It was the ancient one I needed. Stunned, I paid him the amount marked on the item, and left with it, not completely sure what had just happened.

When I drove by there a month later that storefront was something else entirely. He was gone.

This is a credible proposal for DRM for websites in general. It would enable unbeatable adblock-blocking. It would prevent user customization for not just convenience but also accessibility.

I do not say this lightly: Enabling the forfeiture of control over the browsing experience is a fundamentally evil idea that must be rejected now, as it has been in the past, and we must remain vigilant against its reemergence in the future.

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

If you really want a Barbie and Oppenheimer crossover, it was made in 1995 and it's called Tank Girl.

Boost if you're old enough to remember ZMODEM.

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I want working mass transit.

just a lil reminder from our pal Garak

Would anybody mind doing me a quick favor? My instance isn't very federated right now.

Please help by boosting if you see this.

Say hi, if you want, as well!

This one is wheelie good. #StarTrek #JellicoTrek

The MiniDisc was a significant advancement in digital audio technology, offering superior sound quality and greater durability than cassette tapes. While the format faced challenges in the marketplace, Sony's continued investment in the technology helped to push the boundaries of portable music players and paved the way for future advancements in digital audio recording and playback.