Profile for chris
- Display name
- Christopher Snowhill
- Username
- @chris@losnoco.net
- Role
- admin
About chris
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- website
- https://kode54.net
- 💞
- @kevin
- pronouns
- he/him (they/them okay)
- Discord
- https://discord.gg/4A6mrhtfAz
- Github
- https://github.com/kode54
- age
- 44
Bio
kode54 / kuroshi, primary maintainer of Cog for macOS.
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Why the hell do fruit cups have to be in syrup? If they can make them with noxious non caloric sweeteners / laxatives, why can't they make them without?
Actually, I quite like having zero barriers to reach my eyes and ears. I'll miss my hourly bot posts.
Why are we using scare quotes on "M4" when talking about new Macs? Are we still too terribly pissed that new CPUs are only incremental improvements over last year's models? Who gives a fig, it means we can finally stop lockstep upgrading constantly as technology slows down.
I carved a virtual pumpkin! You can grab this and carve one, too! https://adamgryu.itch.io/pumpkin-carver #halloween #pumpkins
subtoot: why does the same person keep calling some computer a "M4 MB(not really)P" ... is it not really a MacBook? or are they implying they're not really for professionals? ¿Por qué no los dos? I guess I'm not really into Apple hate. Then again, I thought M4 hadn't launched in anything but the iPad Pro, so I guess I don't know, either.
Random fact: I've done about 1.3 TiB worth of WAN traffic in the 6 days 22 hours my router has been up.
Long winded Mastodon client rant
Does anyone know any #mastodon clients other than #tuba or #tokodon for #linux #desktop that can be similar to the #icecubes client for #ios/#iPadOS? These two desktop clients are sort of okay, except they tend to decrease my usage of the services terribly, frequently due to limitations.
Tuba works fine, and picks up all my notifications, but doesn't support more than a single account. Plus its spell checker seems to be going haywire here. It's highlighting the capitalized Tokodon, iPadOS, and in this paragraph, it's underlining the "doesn" of the above contraction. The "Check Spelling" feature also doesn't appear to indicate any idea of what it's offering in correction of the misspelled words, only a red underline to indicate an error.
Meanwhile, Tokodon doesn't have a spelling checker that I know of, but does break notifications in fantastic ways. Any time my boyfriend shows up in my notifications timeline, the timeline ends just above his post. If he's the most recent post, the timeline is empty. Great going, I can't track his posts at all with it, unless I happen to see them go by in the busy normal timeline.
At least both of these clients are better than some of the ones I've used that don't even observe your instance's posting limits and impose the upstream defaults regardless of what the server reports.
What is with #uber always directing drivers to use the freeways? At least where I live, the freeways are constantly bumper to bumper, with a huge number of trucks delivering crap to all the warehouses around here.
Just had a food delivery take a 20 minute detour across a quarter mile of clogged freeway before they got off to take the service roads for another 20 minutes.
politics
Subtoot: "The Tories just changed from blue to red"
Is this some "both sides are obviously the same" bullshit?
Also, fricken #ants are just materializing on me at random. Not crawling onto me from anywhere, just, like, spawning from nothing on my legs. #hellspawn #wereinhell
I will never not spam the enter key when chatting on IRC.
I am literally gasping for breath between thoughts. And also gasping for attention. I cannot think for more than 5 seconds at a time. Don't expect me to form multi-paragraph posts to IRC. Or any instant messenger medium, for that matter.
Cool, the pest control guy showed up at the same time as our garden service, and now the cats' feeding area is infested with ants. They're milling around the carpet in there now. Guess the cats eat at the table now, one of the few places in our house that has never shown signs of ant infestation. #ants #pests #fuckinghellspawn
Must resist urge to communicate with other beings. I know I will never be on their level anyway, so anything I say will just be viewed as instant condescension. I must remember to always phrase my attempts at knowledge in the form of a question, because I am the one who needs confirmation. I picked up this stupid habit of explaining everything I am talking about from television. Thanks, television, for training me to mansplain.
I can't believe
that people don't like
reading IRC chat logs
that look
a lot
like this.
Hey ASSHOLES, the 4th was Last Month! And the backyard fireworks weren't legal then, either!
Cool. R.I.P. #x86 then?
The #intel processors are screwed unless you go 12th gen.
The #amd processors are perpetually vulnerable to any kernel code attacking System Management Mode, and are probably not patchable. Windows is right out the door on these because bunches of games have vulnerable kernel anti-cheat drivers that can readily be attacked to install a rootkit.
Guess the M4 Macs can't come soon enough.
Long winded, overstimulation, principles of CW, mh~
Why am I like this? I see someone trying to remind me not to boost un-CWed politics into their timeline, and I wonder why anyone doesn't want to be overstimulated.
Am I the only potentially #autistic person who receives pleasure from being overstimulated? I love hot pepper foods, the hotter the better. I love all forms of carbonated drinks, and thoroughly enjoy that my rather hyper senses are drenched in a burning sensation as the carbonation goes down. I like combining these two as well, drinking carbonated beverages just after consuming super spicy food. I also find this last step is perhaps the quickest way to eliminate the residual burning.
I also somehow thought that essenced soda water actually had a strong flavor on its own and that the "drove the truck past a fruit orchard" jokes were nonsensical, since surely everyone can taste the almost fruit punch like strength of fruit flavor from the soda water, right?
I wish I could stop immersing myself in social media garbage every time I look at my social media reader apps. I actively click through every content warning prompt, because I don't want to miss anything. When I probably am doing untold psychic damage to myself in the process of reading all this crap.
I really need a media manager to tone down the garbage on my accounts so I can stop seeing this lot, but then I already do a fairly good job by spending multiple days at a time just not paying attention to social media at all. It helped that I switched my fedi usage entirely to client apps, and closed the web tabs I had opened on my desktop, and use a janky ass desktop client for fedi. And for Bluesky, I follow less than 200 people, and my feed doesn't auto refresh, so I barely see anything when I do look at that tab.
Another thing that does psychic damage to me, though, is being exposed to ideas of new electronics I may want. People keep bringing me back to wanting a damn gaming monitor for my desktop, with full P3 color range and high refresh OLED. But I'll never have the money for that. That's a form of stimulation I wish I could get less of, because I'm fairly happy already with what I have now. Stuff like this makes me wish tech would stop advancing incrementally and actually make some leaps and bounds so that the updates would be justifiable purchases.
So I guess I like some forms of hyperstimulation, but could use near zero exposure to other forms of stimulation, due to how they make me feel about life. I feel like I'm living when I'm burining my senses or listening to loud music, but feel like the world sucks when I'm exposed to all the depressing crap I find all too much of. I wish I could strike a balance somewhere, but I find that next to impossible.
Oh well, bed time, maybe I'll feel better again in the morning.
Great, had a pair of Corsair HS55 Wireless headphones break on me within two weeks of purchase, due to a crack through the left side hinge. One half of the hinge is broken, and if they're anything like Kevin's pair, the rest of the hinge will crack off within less than a day of further use.
I've switched to my duct taped Sony WH-1000XM4s, which broke through their right side hinge some time a year ago, well out of warranty, and then ended up taping them together and using a brace I made for a different pair of headphones.
And yet, Apple's metal headphones didn't last me long either, but that pair was a two year old "pristine" condition pair from a reseller, who complained about the yellowing that my two weeks of constant use applied to them. What the heck kind of use could they have seen at all if they didn't break within two years of purchase for them, unless they never used them?