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Header for chris: Photo of a cluttered desk, with game controllers, various wires, USB thumb drives, a rechargeable battery, etc.
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Christopher Snowhill
Username
@chris@losnoco.net
Role
admin

About chris

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website
https://kode54.net
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@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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possible ableism mention, ice cream person
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So, I don't know where this came from, but someone in my extended family had picked up and/or started some tradition of referring to the roving ice cream trucks that patrol around cities with music playing, as "the village idiot". I can find no mention of this on the Googles, so it must be a very localized thing.

Please stop trying to meddle in my relationships. It won't change anything how you are expecting.

We got chased out of another community today because people just can't leave well enough alone. I guess people expect me to just dump my boyfriend for whatever reason they've cooked up for it, and get tired of us behaving the way we do. Oh well, guess we'll just burn more bridges.

Facebook mention, @highlight spam
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Cool, I found a new reason to hate Facebook. Apparently, if you post (at sign) and click on "highlight", it will spam a link to the comment to every one of your friends, including by email immediately after you do it.

What you don't know about this, as someone who has received this notification, is that most of the people who are still doing this shit heard about it via some "hack" that claims you can use this function to "hack" Facebook and find out who is "stalking" your profile without leaving likes or reactions.

Thanks for the extra engagement bullcrap, Zuck.

Cool, I love our water delivery company. They were supposed to deliver on Monday the 4th. They emailed us at 7:01a on Saturday the 2nd to announce they were delivering on that Saturday. Then a minute later, they emailed "Sorry, we have changed your order date to Saturday the 2nd." They delivered within 30 minutes of the email. And because we didn't know in advance and don't usually get up until like 11:00a, they left our current default order of two 5g bottles and two 24ct flats of 500ml bottles. We were definitely not in need of 500ml bottles this week. Maybe it's time to look into a different company, or in-home reverse osmosis system.

Is there no place I can go to spread my suffering to others? I can’t seem to figure out how to stop following sources of suffering, so I need to constantly vent about it, and nobody seems to want me to kill their precious vibe.

My oldest brother is clearly a boomer, since he knows our dad has an email address, yet he sent photos to us. By mail. In a media mailer. Not a one of them labeled. Sure, we recognize him, and we can guess which one of them is his new squeeze and the child she is adopting, but we have no clue who the rest of them are. And he doesn't mention any of them in the single sheet letter he sent with the photos. I guess he has forgotten how to operate a Sharpie.

Cool, so I'm such a big dipstick, I didn't know that for some reason, Arch doesn't do auto resume of balancing of btrfs partitions on boot if you're using Dracut? And I also didn't know that you're supposed to resume balancing with btrfs balance resume and instead ran btrfs balance start which means I get to let my drives sit through another 24 hours of what they already spent the last 24 hours doing, in an estimated 48 hour balance job.

Neat, Privacy.com started charging foreign transaction fees, to the tune of 3% or a minimum of $0.50, in November of 2023. No notice was sent that they were starting this. Guess I'll eat $1 in monthly charges, because there's no way I'm upgrading myself to a paid plan for $10 to save $1.

Nice one, Bing. In today's email blast, the links to the first two answers, "Balkan Mountains" and "Bavarian Alps", are switched, so clicking the correct answer nets you a wrong answer. Not that it matters much.

 Today's Bing Daily for the US, Tuesday, December 5, 2023. Asks: "The castles of Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau sit in the foothills of which mountain range?" It provides answer buttons for "Balkan Mountains", "Bavarian Alps", and "Pyrenees Mountains."

Whee, found an old post about Ryujinx on orange site, and saw some dipstick vehemently defending Nintendo from the “obvious majority” of emulator users who pirate games. Said something about how “Piracy is unethical. It’s like freeriding.” Well I’d love to argue the positive ethics of freeriding and turnstile jumping, but I don’t want to ever have an account on orange site. Or get into arguments with corpo bootlickers.

Needless to say, piracy isn’t really a problem, because it will never be a thing that the overwhelming majority of people will partake of. Corpos will always get a huge wad of cash, artists will collect pocket change, and poors will just do without or pirate.