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it's crazy how much better the code search in github has become now that microsoft runs it.

the 2 year contract lock in in germany for mobile service is the worst bullshit racket

the canada/mexico iphone i bought (because i need a sim card slot) doesn't speak the 5g bands used in the usa. if i get the one that speaks the 5g bands in the usa, i can't use my german sim card because those don't have sim slots. cool.

i want an expedit/kallax with a 5V usb-c inside each cubby, and one row of 50W PD ports.

it's not required to put cholesterol values on food labels in germany like it is in the USA.

fuck me the vivo x90 has a 517ppi display

like half the friends who have birthdays on my calendar this week are now dead

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"We have removed the Lightning port so now you can plug in your cables which are identified by the lightning bolt icon."

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fat white people on antidepressants saying "primary bedroom"

if there's anything i have learned in my four decades on this planet, it's that you should never, ever mention having a medical problem to festival hippies.

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So following on from that research into why people aren't signing up to the fedi, yesterday I tried a little experiment to remove some of the biggest barriers and help people make the jump.

People complain the process of signing up to mastodon is complicated, and it's hard to find the Good Posts.

So I shared with people who wanted to join two things:
1. An invite link to the server I'm on, to stop them having to choose.
2. My follow list in csv format, to populate the tl with good posts.

should i try to get linux running on my mac IIcx?

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pretty sure i’m going to move to the qoto.org instance. the other instances i tested out (beige.party, indieweb.social, tilde.zone, and of course mastodon.social) all to some degree are “protecting me” from seeing some of the totally normal content of folks i'm already interacting with on other instances. qoto.org seems to show me everything i try to see, so far.

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good day DJs of the fediverse!

what was the last important track/record you played/listened/included in the mix you remember?

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ha russia switched its national anthem after the USSR collapsed, but TIL putin put back the original USSR anthem melody as russian's official anthem in 2000 (without the original words).

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iBook Clamshell Key Lime running @ActionRetro shenanigans. It took some time to get it running, but here it is! #retrocomputing #minecraft #apple

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