[wonders idly how @flameReactor has been doing...]

This is some peak cat entertainment

@bthylafh That seems like a useful thing to know about! Thanks.

@riley He Rumsfeld down and went boom.

I need a non-web-based email diagnostic program to tell me why the settings which work on my laptop and @Harena's phone aren't working on my phone (same app). >.<

(I could also wish that diagnostics were more standard in email apps -- but even those that are pretty good otherwise seem to eschew anything beyond vaguely-informative error messages.)

#softwareWish

@riley ...Rumsfeld? He's still around? [checks...] Wpedia says he's dead... but I'm pretty sure we can still tirritate his ghost (which was probably already spinning around in his grave because of how incompetently the right-wing self-coup, which I'm sure he dreamed of and helped with for many years, is being handled). :ghost_pip:

@rnd I used to run Ubuntu on... 2GB, I think? Definitely 3, at one point... but as with software in general, it has generally increased its hardware needs over time.

(Who Remembers?™: Windows 98 being super-fast with a whopping 256 MB)

@brooke (Kermit WAS WRONG!! 🚫🐸🚫)

P.S. Why does VLC's snapshot feature now make everything green?? I hope they're working on that (...speaking of OSes).

I want this OS.

(Waiter, I'll have what they're having...)

So many chores on our list.
Summer suggested that we write them on paper crunch them in a ball with a treat inside and hide them around the house. She says that we can tackle each job as she finds them and entertain her pal in the process.
I am thinking about it while we break down the cardboard to recycle. She probably doesn't need more treats.
So warm outside Summer wants to stick with jobs she can do in the shade with a bowl of cool water nearby.
We won't deliver the cardboard to the transfer station until Monday but we are ready to go.
She gets frustrated when the boxes try to escape before they are flat.
She tells me that nothing is easy, right?
#Summer #DogsOfMastodon

@idlestate :blobcathalo:

@Quenby
I'm only it for the anatomy.

@skye ...because one of its sides is both the same? </insightful>

RE: https://toad.social/@KimPerales/116346846816522463

chickens unexpectedly return to roost, at least a little bit

(see also: AWS in the Middle East)

@malcircuit

I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind.

...and yet he reads Heinlein... oh, right, you pointed that out, @Feral_3D.

I may disagree with him, but I don't really see how this makes him problematic. Everyone has different tastes, and it's not like he's trying to outlaw social commentary.

I also suspect that his definition of "social commentary" is narrower than mine. To my mind, pretty much all SF is social commentary of some kind; it's just that a good author won't let any preconceived agenda take control of the narrative.

Thanks for the link, @redthewizard !

@Feral_3D @malcircuit

"A lie can travel around the world while the truth is still putting on its boots." ...or something like that.

@Feral_3D @malcircuit

We've been Andy fans for over a decade due largely to his webcomic "Casey and Andy", long before The Martian was ever a thing.

I keep hearing that he has some problematic opinions, but none with receipts -- and I'm not seeing anything in Wikipedia or even RationalWiki.

...which isn't to say that they don't exist, but I am definitely skeptical of sourceless shade. (Also, the views attributed to him seem to contradict what I understand of his views.)

@Xibanya I suggest malicious compliance.

(...not that I have any ideas at the moment; perhaps a reading of the HOA regulations will provide some inspiration.)

@Xibanya Demand she have the deadwood removed from her brain -- clearly some rot is already setting in, and it has become a nuisance.