@samvarma@fosstodon.orgAlright so I don't know why I feel I have to justify it, but Avatar was absolutely staggering. Saw it in 3D on the biggest screen in my area, and it's fair to say I think I'll remember this experience forever.
You can quibble with the story or the cultural treatment, but it's a quantum leap in the cinematic experience. Easily among if not the best action adventure film ever made *in this form*.
Absolutely unique filmmaking. (1/4)
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems> As a long-time Arch user all I can say is that (at least in my experience) #Gentoo requires so little maintenance compared to Arch and if I have a problem there is a wiki page for everything (literally).
#ArchLinux is much more demanding. And now I hide…
@al3x@hachyderm.ioMy recent experience with #VSCode started very badly.
Since, it improved immensely. Now I have a couple of days of coding on some small Go projects that felt good.
I am still struggling with shortcuts. In particular `F12` and `Ctrl- -`. I am sticking with the defaults for now.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBoxer Xander Zayas on being part of Bad Bunny halftime: 'Greatest experience of my entire life' https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/47891151/xander-zayas-bad-bunny-super-bowl-lx-half-show
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.comA buddy of mine is looking for work! Hit me up if you’re interested in a great developer and leader
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caVery proud and excited to vote in the NDP leadership race today!!
This is not the first time I've voted in a Federal leadership race... more on that later but first, my choices! I considered only voting for two people, but I ended up filling in all 5 choices.
#1: Tanille Johnston @…
#2: Avi Lewis @…
#3: Heather McPherson
#4: Tony McQuail
#5: Rob Ashton
Why?
You might ask why I would publicize my choices. I don’t expect others to of course. It is a privilege and a right in Canada to exercise your democratic choice freely and privately, but I also think there is value in knowing how others voted.
#1 why Tanille? #electoralReform and proportional representation myself, I didn't just want to pick my top two. I wanted to make a statement on each of these candidates an influence each one.
To be blunt, Heather is #3 because she is the middle-of-the-road candidate. She is an excellent representative as MP and has gathered the support of other MPs including my own, but while I would be OK with her leadership, I would see her as a continuation of the status quo, and that is not what the NDP needs as a party, nor is it what Canada needs as a country.
We desperately need a vigorous and clear alternative to the Centre-but-mostly-Right Liberals, and the MAGA-wannabe Conservatives. The only way to do that is to catch the attention of Canadians and inspire them. I am not sure that Heather has the ability to do that, and if we continue with the same leadership crew in the NDP, I am not confident that the policy choices will be strong enough to inspire and attract Canadians.
That is why Tanille and Avi are far better options.
#4 Why Tony:
Tony is the real deal. Honestly, I would have loved to rank him higher. He represents the true life blood of rural, socially progressive, environmentally aware, Canadians. You should go check out his platform. I am so glad that he was able to participate fully in the race and we need his voice in the NDP.
#5 Why not Rob?
I have been an active member in my Union for more than 10 years. Unionism is The Way. Rob is representing a division within the union movement that claims that working people can't have jobs if the environment is put first. This is a lie.
We need union leaders that look to the future and speak honestly to people. We need union leaders who are genuinely progressive, not ready to do the bidding of corporate masters to the benefit of a few.
Working people need honesty, and when an industry is on decline, a clear path to new, excellent, union, jobs!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Liberal #CPC #Canada #Democracy #NDP
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euWho needs 32GB of system memory anyway? 🧐
I couldn't resist installing #CachyOS back on my main PC, on a separate SSD, alongside Windows. AMD is a first-class experience in Linux. I just downloaded The Alters, and FSR 4 simply works with my poor RX 7800 XT - without Optiscaler or any kind of manual DLL swaps.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng#ThrowbackThursday to attending and interviewing LTJ Bukem during the Logical Progression tour in Berlin back in '96 — my first proper DnB clubnight, mind-altering experience and one more reason to move London back then (the year after), where I became a regular at Goldie's Metalheadz @ Blue Note in Shoreditch...
Two of my alltime fave tracks from the original Logical Pro…
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotOh dear, one disappointed call centre worker who didn't manage to upsell the insurance that came with the cooker. I know they're probably on commission but in my experience these companies will bend over backwards to wriggle out of paying for repairs so it's not worth it. When the tumble drier conked out a year ago Dad insisted on going through the insurance agreement he had with them and it was dire. After two months of faffing about and several failed repairs we just bought a n…
@cdarwin@c.imNow is a good time for doing crime
Eons ago, in 2012, I had a weird experience.
My iPhone suddenly shut down.
When I restarted it, I found it was totally reset—clean, like a new device.
This was the early days of iOS, so I wasn’t too concerned until I went to connect it to my computer to restore it from a backup.
But when I flipped open the lid of my laptop, it too was mid-restart.
And then, suddenly, the screen went gray. It was being remotely wiped.
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaAn underwhelming experience, my first setup of T2SDE. Technically absolutely something very special and blazingly fast and snappy. But at the moment too many usability gaps (installer, upgrading, documentation) to use it (even in beta) as a daily driver. At least for me. A pity.
@hex@kolektiva.socialAfter the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.
@smurthys@hachyderm.io
@andycarolan@social.lolGiven that my main experience of Christian Bale's acting is in The Dark Knight Trilogy, It always confuses me when I hear him speaking in interviews.
#Batman
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaDevOps has become incredibly powerful, but also incredibly complex. In my latest Southern California Linux Expo speaker interview with Kat Morgan, Tech Lead at Cisco Security, about her upcoming talk: Cloud Taming – A Human Friendly DevOps Experience.
https://www.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioIn my experience interacting with them, CEOs are all over the map as human beings — some incredible jerks, some surprisingly decent, a few truly marvelous people — but on the whole, and increasingly so as the company gets larger, they are some of the most fear-driven people I’ve ever met in my life.
@detondev@social.linux.pizzacame to realize this is at least true for my generation a while back
@Richard@worklifepsych.socialA morning of continuing professional development (CPD) in the office, as I dial in to a professional practice webinar run by one of my favourite psychologists.
Nice to be on the other end of the learning experience for a change!
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaIs MAGA a cult?
Ok, so here's something I don't talk about much. My high school girlfriend, who I married at 18, was a member of the LDS church. She got me involved in it because that was the only way that we could be together. I've been out for years now, but the experience set my life and my maturity back by a lot.
One of my favorite television moments of all time is when Stan asks his Mormon friend incredulously, "You mean you people know this story and you ST…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social“Clawdbot can execute Terminal commands, write scripts on the fly and execute them…”
I don’t even trust myself to do those things before 9am most days!
I just do not think I can be convinced I need a “digital assistant” in my life or on my computers (with elevated permissions, no less). https://mastodon…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialIf you are buying a new computer, there's no need to throw the old one away. I was really surprised last year how many items found another owner.
Nothing to get rich of, but avoid unnecessary e-waste
https://www.locked.de/how-i-gave-my-old-computer-parts-a-s…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Switching from i3 to Sway on Ubuntu 20.04.
https://www.autodidacts.io/switching-to-sway-wayland-from-i3-x11-ubuntu/
saved 2020-08-19
@luana@wetdry.worldSo, with the Discord thing rn I guess teh closest we have to an alternative is like Zulip? Except it's more self-hosted focused.
So, is anyone around here hosting a Zulip (or other real, feature-complete, discord alternative that I don't know yet) instance open to (or even better, focused on) small-ish kink communities?
I have some friends on discord that I really wanted to migrate somewhere else.
I thought about hosting one in my NAS, but even if cgnat wasn't a thing actively moderating porn-focused places seems like a nightmare so I'd want something hosted by someone with a bit more experience on that such as moderating fedi servers or something. I guess some people who host fedi instances probably also host chat rooms right?
@hellotest@ohai.socialI'm Neurodivergent and I'm interested in Neurodiversity and anything else we might learn on the way to improve self-knowledge and knowledge about society.
I'm Neurodivergent and I'll explain how.
I got "diagnosed" in that my brain is wired in a certain way, which psychiatry doesn't understand yet.
Luckily I do! From experience of meeting other neurodivergent folks I figured out what it's all about.
It's not a disease. It's not…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzWow, serious rite of passage: my younger son playing his first lp... On our turntable unused for a decade or two, with a just-replaced cartridge... These speakers are also getting their first airing despite me having had them for years (gifted by a mate as excess to requirements)...
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toI bought a thing a month ago from a local retailer. I bought online and picked it up in person.
To this day, they keep sending me emails like "Be sure to rate your experience!" or "Tell us how we did!".. DAILY.
Mitch Hedberg in my head is going "I do not NEED to rate my experience. I gave you money, you gave me a donut. End of transaction. Survey Monkey does not enter into this. Like I need to proove to that skeptical friend, I enjoyed Canadian Tire. Se…
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… The European-in-America experience is the exact inverse :)
Every time I get in a bed other than my own, I’m angrily confused by the amount of god damned linens in my bed!?!
@gfriend@mas.toPosted 55 weeks ago, and always relevant. Especially on calls with three coaching clients today.
tl;dr—
Moods are always tangled with assessments (opinions/interpretations). When you want to shift (or nurture) a mood, you can examine the assessments associated with it… See if they’re grounded or not… See if their actions you can take about them or not.
In my experience that simple process reliably moves moods.
(Want to know more? Let me know!)
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… I completely understand (and largely agree). And in my experience there is nothing remotely close to Dragon on Linux or MacOS.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#WritersCoffeeClub Jan 19: Talk about something from your own life which made it onto the page
Many, many experiences from my own life make it into my stories, though usually not exactly as it happened. But to name one example, in my other life I used to work with decontamination equipment for laboratories. I certainly drew from that experience when describing other characters be…
@trochee@dair-community.social> for a large share of actual product work, the person who can say "here is what done looks like, prove it without seeing my rubric" is more valuable than the person who can write the code.
> Implementation is what AI is getting good at. Knowing whether the result actually solves the real problem is not an engineering judgment call, it is a domain judgment call.
Reposting to call out those two quotes and agree that this matches my experience as a staff developer…
@aardrian@toot.cafeRemember, using a native HTML `<fieldset>` / `<legend>` gets you better results in SRs than its ARIA equivalent:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/07/use-legend-and-fieldset.html
My post deals with the inverse of the others I shared — unstyling the nat…
@whitequark@mastodon.socialpeople call the UK "TERF island" and while not exactly _wrong_ this doesn't reflect my experience of the day to day reality of living here
in my experience, nobody 'on the ground' gives a shit. cops, landlords, nurses, doctors, all of these had plenty of opportunity to be transphobic or interphobic and if they actually did it was rather well concealed
it's true that it is systemically and politically transphobic and GRCs are awful, but as someone who doe…
@timbray@cosocial.caIn which Claude Opus invades my open-source hobby project. The experience was… surprising.
Fairly raw anecdata here, analysis and reactions still to come: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/06/Q-Plus-C-Ch1
@grumpybozo@toad.socialLockdown Mode is a backstop for people who either do dangerous things or are specifically targeted by high-resource threat actors. Almost no one can *actually* benefit from it but people who need it really need it.
I don’t need it. However, I have it enabled in part to understand what it does to the UX. It interferes with a minority of sites. It forces me to think about whether I REALLY trust the site I’m interacting with & how valuable my interaction really is.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/116043212772197701
In my experience, people who care about accessibility are usually good folks. So if you’re looking for a good Mastodon instance to join, this is likely a good guide.
@paulbusch@mstdn.caI mentioned previously that my son-in-law's sister and her husband are working on the new Cadillac #F1 team that will compete for the first time in 2026. The couple are both engineers who met over a decade ago while working for a racing team in Europe. That experience was why they were recruited and became one of a handful of rare Canadians working on the project team.
I'm not really a #Formula1 race fan but I am following this team because of the connection. They were recently at the auto show in Toronto where the race car was displayed. They shared a photo of them pointing to their names on the chassis, along with the names of the entire team. Track testing is now underway and it will be interesting to see how they stack up against the legendary manufacturers in this sport.
https://youtu.be/d7BDA7JGamk
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaA 'full' life in my experience is usually full only of other people's demands.
@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blueMy buddy, Waffles, took a photo with Santa today. He's a shelter adoption, and this is probably his first Christmas experience.
@wwwgem@social.linux.pizza
@UP8@mastodon.socialLogged into Google using Chrome at work and found it's become a Kakfa-esque experience where I had to log in five times before I realized what was going on with "profiles" I've never asked for. Reminds me of the time I did a shoot-out of ten visual recognition APIs and I got demos of the others done in 20 minutes each but Google Cloud Compute took two hours because it trashed my Python #google
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialEvery year for 10yrs, I went to "Quark's Bar" in Las Vegas during COMDEX & had a "Liquid Latinum" for my birthday... until they closed. 😢
▶️ Did you ever visit Quark’s Bar at Star Trek: The Experience?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OhDA0ri4ntc&a…
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgAfter a recent *terrible* first attempt at using matrix as communication platform for our rather big measurement campaign in summer, I just tried selfhosting Mattermost, and boy is it a smoother experience. It's as if it was made for team collaboration, funny eh 😅
Also my first time trying out nixos-containers, very nice to encapsulate or group services together independently of your host NixOS.
#Matrix
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialA friend who is a teacher claimed that LLMs can write consistent plots now and are allegedly used for stories in textbooks or course material in language learning classes.
I find that quite hard to believe because in my limited experience, what information the #LLM will "remember" is quite random and it will just make stuff up if it "forgot", i.e. it doesn't matter if I…
@ToneMilazzo@mastodon.cloudBeen running CachyOS as my daily driver for 2 weeks now & enjoying the experience. As a fan of stability I've been reluctant to go with a rolling release, but this is nicely tuned for hardware.
Playing Rimworld in Linux amuses me. Hoping the support for modded Fallout 4 comes along soon.
https://cachyos.org/
@Speckdaene@nrw.social @philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… Thank you for sharing.
I see some similarities with my own experience of American Christmas, being raised in a Scandinavian culture where Jul (Yule) is a very different tradition.
The consumerism, the self-centrism, all feels very gross and not at all what I connect the holiday with.
@3sframe@social.linux.pizzaDear Fediverse,
Any tips on finding a job out of state? Trying to relocate across the US.
All of my job experience (IT Sysadmin) is local to the state I'm in. I don't think it's wise to move without a job. I reached out to recruiters there but didn't hear back from any of them.
#Fedihire
@gideonstar@mastodon.gideonstar.deFairphone is really losing points with me right now. I received an email with a survey from bazaarvoice-cgc.com, which was actually commissioned by Fairphone to conduct these surveys via email. On their website, they even lie to your face:
"Is Bazaarvoice spam?
This email from Bazaarvoice is not spam or a phishing attempt; it is a genuine request to share your experience with the product you purchased with Fairphone."
Go to hell and rot in my blacklist.
@luana@wetdry.worldReminder that iSH.app is a must-have for anyone trying to deal with large quantities of files in iOS. iOS is awful at dealing with large quantities (200 ) of files (or even a very large single file), using iSH for moving, transfering with rsync or even comrpressing them is a way better experience than trying to use Files App or any of the native stuff for this.
Just mount -t ios /mnt /mnt and choose the iCloud Drive folder you want to mount.
(Note that rsyncing the files and then compressing them in the destination will be way quicker than thew other way around due to the lack of JIT or actual virtualization, but either way iSH will be way better than Files App because it actually works instead of just failing, freezing and crashing all the time with no error message)
The iPad would be a really great device if they just let you unlock it and install an OS that actually works. My dream device for college would be an iPad with Apple Pencil but running postmarketOS or NixOS or something, plus Rnote or whatever for notes.
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.orgWhen #teaching #Rstats / #statistics courses, I (and several colleagues of mine) made the experience that it is indeed pretty hard for a lot of students to cope with the file system on their computer. They have questions like: How do I know the "path" of a file? How do I control in which directory something is saved? WHY DO I NEED THIS?!?
I don't want to make fun of these students because I know that this could be because operating systems are increasingly obscuring file/directory systems from their users.
But if I want to teach students to use a scripting/ #programming language independently, that's a real problem!
So my questions to you are: Do you have the same impression when teaching? And if so: How do you deal with this from a teaching perspective? To be honest, I don't want to use precious course time to teach the absolute basics of computers' file systems in the first session(s).
