I'mma be lazy and just use the one Alby gave me for now!
Seeing everyone's profiles with matching verification links, websites, and lightning wallets while I still can't come up with a good profile name.
Fun Canadian fact:
Canada has two suicide hotlines.
One if you want to be talked out of it, and one if you want to be guided through the process of getting the government to legally suicide you.
I use Openbox right now. Sleek and minimal.
I used i3 and Sway for a long time, but enough applications don't play nice with tiling (i.e. they design for stacking windows) that it's a hassle.
XFCE is pretty slick. Only nitpick I had was I couldn't get apps to start on a given desktop at startup, IIRC.
It's been too long since I used KDE or Gnome so I can't speak to those.
I did the same thing with my cell phone plan. $40 a month just so nobody could call or text me anyway. I know people who pay $80+ and get nothing out of it. I put it towards books instead - best decision I've made recently.
Subscription models are such a scam.
I had Gentoo on my laptop for several years and recently switched to OpenSUSE.
At a certain level it doesn't really matter as long as you're comfortable with the distro's tools.
I'm in a perpetual cycle of Gentoo -> (get sick of compiling) -> pre-compiled distros -> (wish I had control over compile-time package options) -> Gentoo -> …
Living in a small-ish town, I was pleasantly surprised to find we have some #Bitcoin ATMs in the area. Nice!
#crypto
As a Canadian, you and me both.
100%. I was on the Fediverse years back, and I remembering seeing all these things. Truth is that Mastadon and its substitutes were made to create a decentralized Twitter, not a censorship-resistant platform, typically by and for people who felt that Twitter was not censorious enough.
For example, servers could end up on a server-ban list solely through the actions of one person who created a big enough deal on the global timeline. This could result in you being banned from connecting to your friends' servers through no fault of your own, just being on the same server as a nasty troll who took advantage of open signups - the "bad neighbor problem". Sometimes it wasn't even that bad of a troll, just those on the receiving end couldn't handle it.
These server-ban lists were shared among admins and treated as a best-practice for spam-prevention. This led to a tale of two Fediverses, one for the free-speech servers and one for walled-gardens servers.
I think the hardest part about using social media is that I'm just not a very social person.
Celebrated my birthday by changing the oil in the car. Getting something done is more satisfying than a party.
Had a dream about a customer complaining over how I bagged their groceries.
Even my subconscious is stuck at work.
Saw a car with a "Slow the Fuck Down" bumper sticker speeding through traffic today.
Do as I say, not as I do?
Dear customer, please let me finish with the customer ahead of you before waving your points card in my face. Thank you.
The joys of customer service.
I'm a cashier. The amount of people whose bank cards fail for no reason at all (NFT fails, chip failures, random declines) is too darn high. When people say #crypto can't work, I feel like it can't do any worse than fiat.
> Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering
I get a bit of a kick knowing my bachelor's makes me as qualified as he is.
But I never did the comedy circuit afterward, so maybe that's what makes him more authoritative. /s
First post from a nostr newbie.
From what I read I love the sound of it. Let's see if it hooks me.
#nostr