You mean the thing above it with the cables sticking out? That's actually a patch-bay I made from part of a relay-rack module (the front -- not visible from this angle -- is part of a plexiglas ice-cream store sign in Baton Rouge that blew down during a storm while I was visiting Tigger there in 1990-ish; the phono jacks are from Radio Shack).
@wyatt Yamaha, actually -- but yeah, the style is very similar to a 1980s Technics I have with that same color-scheme (last I remember, there was something wrong with it; I have more inventorying to do...).
This was August 31; I've moved some stuff since then (which probably increased the vineage)...
@bok I suggested Pluma entirely out of a sense of sheer investigative curiosity; it is definitely not a replacement for Kate. :-)
@bok Weird if it's just Kate, too. I didn't know Kate did anything special with mouse-pointer shapes. (Try Pluma, maybe, and see if the shapes are normal?)
@bok It sounds to me like the cursor bitmap got corrupted or something. Does it persist after a reboot?
@JMMaok One of the frequent lines runs on Chapel Hill* Road, which is at the top end of our block -- so, within walking distance for most people who live on this street...
...but also, yeah, what you said: the whole system feels very halfhearted. I could go into multiple rants (the largest one would probably be about Duke stabbing light rail in the back a few years ago)...
...but on a more practical note, the fact that it's based on a spoke-and-hub architecture -- with a lot of space between the spokes -- means that although it's easy enough to get to and from downtown, it can be almost impossible to go much shorter distances around the edges of town. ...like, 1-2 hours vs. a 5-minute drive.
They're improving things, but ye gods the bar was so low already. Public transit is still clearly an afterthought, tolerated reluctantly because of how inconvenient it is for all the real people with cars.
(...and that's part of what I'd want to bring out in any kind of documentarizing. I'm not very good at chatting people up, though I would certainly do my best for whatever level of spoons I happened to have at the time... if I ever have enough spoons to do this at all, in the first place.)
(* belated insert)
I don't suppose anyone on fedi has used the city-bus system here in #DurhamNC ...?
I'm trying to find out whether it's even a practical alternative for when the routes happen to go between where you are and where you're trying to get to/from -- which is the case for at least a couple of common destinations we have, which means that the non-driving members of #HyperttwinManor might be able to use it...
(I also thought it would be faintly amusing to do some video-blogging about it -- kinda like White Person Columbuses Public Transit in The South, or something. >.>)
@gedeonm Why isn't TFG upset that Canada is stealing our name without giving anything back? Clearly we need to become The United States of Ontario in retribution.
@gooba42 @samiamsam @SeanCasten
Normalize guillotines
@rickf I mean, this may sound like sarcasm but all the evidence suggests that it is literally true.
It seems to be a thing with authoritarians that they care far less about truth or reality than they care about group cohesion. (This may even be one of the defining characteristics of authoritarianism.)
...which is a huge part of why everything is so feffed up now. :blobcatupsidedown:
@meatballhat oooh, I see the "URGENT UPDATE, WILL ROBINSON!" alert is gone! Confragulations ^.^ :tootcat:
Fauci runs universes around RFK Jr. when it comes to things your server may lack for interoperability.
Welcome to our fuzzy computing-clowder, @cormacc -- and sorry for the delay! There's been a deluge of spam-signups which made it difficult to spot legitimate requests. :tootcat:
