Probably one of the grayer characters around the interwebs. Been around for about half a century, been furry for around 35 years of that time. Grew up in a small town in western NY, but I've lived in a few different places around the east coast and mid west. Even Alaska for a little while.
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Last Notes npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray Crisco zoologist? Did I hear that right? npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray i've noticed something about my Asvine V800. It writes so wet that you need very ink resistant paper to use it. Otherwise the lines it makes are so broad from ink absorption that they can look like a bold. This on top of Chinese nibs running a bit large anyway sometimes, (which this does, it at best writes like a medium) and it can be very temperamental. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray If only there were a way to do this that didn't involve a ton of red tape and tens of thousands of dollars. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray That's still pretty janky, but now think about trying to explain that to someone that doesn't know how Mastodon works at all. I don't see that going well. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray Yeah, sometimes when I want to look at a post someone else made I get booted out onto a whole other website, and then can't do anything there because I don't have a login for that server. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray Something I honestly would like to know, is why some people seem to have such an awful time with Mastodon while it works pretty much perfectly for everyone else. This isn’t me picking on the people for whom it’s not a good experience, but rather legitimately, wondering what they’re doing or what is happening that is making their experience with Mastodon so much different than most of the rest of us. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray I don't know who else needs to hear this, but it's Okay as an adult to like cute things. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray or just as likely they’re not willing to do anything about it because the lobbyists for those companies are giving them lots of money. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray Google has kind of become the root of all evil when it comes to things tech, and the web anymore. They’re basically the world‘s largest data broker, and they want to make sure that everything that we do or say, and every way in which we can be tracked goes through their servers. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray increasingly they don’t even live in the United States. That’s even more insane. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray To be honest I do some of this just to cut down my own power bills. But it's just wild the difference between the power usage of any individual and these data centers. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray It's kind of wild to think that I use my M series Mac and my Steam Deck instead of my big PC tower here quite a bit because they save on power usage. (Like when gaming I pull about 125W with my Mini and between 450-750W with my PC tower). npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray That moment when your fountain pen starts running dry, and you remember that it's a vac filler and you forgot to unscrew the plunger. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray Apparently we passed a milestone that I wasn't aware of a few months ago. a full half of the internet is now "AI" generated slop. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray For the most part yeah. Though this isn't so much a "run" scenario, I've been wanting to move out of the US since I was 19, that was 32 years ago. It's just never lined up for me. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray It's really frustrating how difficult it is to move out of the United States. I feel genuinely trapped here sometimes. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray Cute little guy. : ) npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray I'm not sure how I feel about Fluxer. Discord used to heavily encourage people to buy Nitro by limiting services like file sharing to ridiculous levels. Fluxer appears to want to go the same direction to encourage users to buy Platinum accounts. It makes me wonder how much else will be paywalled when they release new features. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray This is the first time I've ever heard someone say that word in my 51 years of life. o.o npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray I'm just imagining when you take that off that the wings pop out like “SPROING!" hehehe. :) npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray A little potentially relevant info, I do not have my Mac set to sleep, just shut the screens off. But I do have the audio going through HDMI, so when the screens sleep it does shut that off. I don't know if this is a factor, it doesn't matter to any of my other apps, but I thought it might be relevant here. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray i’m just waiting for them to fix it, making the favorite noise over and over and over again when I wake up my Mac until I favorite something and it stops we’re having it crash out every couple days. I love this software, but it feels like it hasn’t received an update in a very long time. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray OOh, thanks for the heads up! I wonder if that would also work if I swapped it with a Pilot Con 40. Might have to try it since I have some here. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray When I got my Jinhao 20 Press I mentioned I'd beat it up for a few days and talk about it. And I have. I've been using it quite a bit over the last few days, and I can now honestly say it's genuinely a good pen. It punches well above its weight as far as writing feel, very smooth. Though the nib writes a bit larger than it says. Mine's marked as an EF but writes like an EU F or maybe even a Japanese M. And it does dry out kind of quick if you don't use it all the time. I left it for 2 days and it dried up a little, but went back to writing in just a couple strokes. The only other two negative things I could say about it is that even though the pen is transparent, you can't see the ink level inside because the converter / ink cartridges are completely obscured by the pens ink receiver. So you have to either fully disassemble the pen to check, or just wait till it runs out . Or, just make a habit of filling it now and again when you need it to not run out. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray Just realized this said "HOW to send a DM" npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray o/~ It's the Final Count Down! NA na na na! NANANANANA! Na na na na... o/~ Okay I'm sorry I had to! LOL! npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray Today's stats for #MonsterdonSavesChristmas ! npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray regular email is yeah. And some people do use their own email with it, so at that point it's only going to be as secure as their email client I guess. But Delta Chat also has their own Chatmail servers that are supposed to be more secure. I'm not sure on that one. Let's see if they'll weigh in on this themselves. @npub17gp…nrxn npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray Hmm, So SimpleX is ideally beter, but still unreliable as it's got issues that haven't been hammered out yet. (according to the article). I wonder where things like Delta Chat might fit in here. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray I come from an interesting time. People older than my generation mostly lived and died never really being into computers and more modern digital tools. People younger than my generation mostly don't remember the world from before everything happened on a computer or via the internet. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray Okay, so... I tried enabling IPv6 on my router and setting up one of my computers to run with just IPv6 enabled. And nothing worked. npub1aqqkfa8y80wr3m9739247ghhg34kjpglfqng98duws4w38y7pmpsvcrjsa Xoa Gray I kinda just want some of these big enough to put on a house so when somebody does something appropriate, I can just leave it there.
