Six

Just a fun-loving adventurous little kid / otter :)

NB/GF, He/She/They, depending on mood for the day

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Cubhub: https://cubhub.social/@CrinkleSix
BlueSky (Bridged): https://bsky.app/profile/crinklesix.cubhub.social
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2026-05-12 17:43:43 UTC

Hey @npub15vh…eqxv, don't you have thoughts on cross-network clients?
It sounds like an ok idea in theory, but also, I don't actually *have* a bsky account. I have a bridgy pseudo-account, but that's not something I can log into and actually access bsky with...
Which is often annoying, because most ABDLs on bsky have their profiles set to private, so I can't see them without logging in!
(Except that bsky doesn't actually have privacy at the network level, so you just open the link in skyview.social... but it's still a pain!)
I guess what I'm really saying is can I turn my @crinklesix.cubhub.social bridgy fed pseudo-account into a real account with that address?
https://mastodon.social/@soapboxsoftware/116561962778038207

2026-04-26 04:44:50 UTC

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what are you crazy kids up to that you feel constrained by the immutable OSes? I have like 4 packages layered in rpm-ostree on my Bazzite desktop, it seems pretty reasonable! xD
It helps that I'm running Bazzite-dx so all the tricky dev tools are already included... but the fact that I could rebase from standard to dx in a single command was super cool and fun!
Maybe I'm just boring and don't do anything fancy anymore, but I haven't run into any issues with trying to do anything on it!

2026-04-25 22:20:15 UTC

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Yeah I had some ancient git-based dotfiles framework that's probably similar to the other one that was linked but also completely different, because that's just how those things go >.<
Anyway after the initial push to mostly-set up a new machine, I never actually maintain it or sync anything beyond that and they gradually drift apart.
But I did at least make a half-hearted effort to have the end of my .zshrc reference a ".local.zsh" that has the, well, local stuff, that's not committed to the repo.

2026-04-19 05:43:26 UTC

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I'd say I'm always ABDL as a primary thing, and then other secondary things get added on top of that, and those cycle around. But the bab part is always there as the base for everything else!

2026-03-14 02:56:52 UTC

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yeah, just my thought was that most of this talk of switching to Linux is to get away from the Microslop enshittification of Windows, and if you end up installing and running Windows anyway, that sorta defeats the purpose. It's all still there, even if some of it is hidden.
Does your WinBoat still want you to sign in with a Microsoft Account and turn on OneDrive and bug you about Copilot and using Edge?

2026-03-14 00:29:29 UTC

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It looks to me like WinBoat is just a wrapper to install windows in a VM, which seems to defeat the purpose of “not running Windows”, is it not?
Basically reverse-WSL…

2026-03-12 17:19:20 UTC

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why? That's basically your whole brand now :p

2026-01-27 03:39:34 UTC

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counterpoint: the kids these days barely even know what a computer is, they grew up on phones and tablets. So not being able to mess with the OS and only getting apps from the App Store is what they're used to!
/s, but only partly...

2026-01-26 16:49:15 UTC

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weirdly, as someone who mostly prefers MacOS and dislikes Windows, I dont follow the adage of "KDE is for Windows users and GNOME is Mac-like", because I also find KDE far superior to GNOME xD

2026-01-26 16:47:38 UTC

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my experience with Bazzite has been that it occupies a weird space on either end of the spectrum, but not so great in the middle.
What I mean is that it can work pretty well for a beginner who doesn't need or want to touch anything under the hood. The atomic system and containerization of everything can help keep users from breaking things, as long as their needs don't extend beyond what's available in flatpak, brew or distrobox. Which honestly for most people is fine.
Where it falls down is the middle, "power user" space. The ones who would want to tweak a few things here and there, but can't. And who aren't really dedicated Linux nerds to the point of wanting to learn how it really works enough to get around it. They just want to be able to do the thing and not deal with jumping through hoops. Hi, I'm thinking of you @npub17yw…wx0a :3
But then on the other end of the spectrum, if you really *are* a Linux nerds, then digging into the gritty details of exactly how an atomic image with composed overlay FS layers works is kinda fun! But if you want your OS to be a project in and of itself, then you're probably running Arch already anyway :p

2026-01-11 06:13:31 UTC

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Yeah, Bazzite was certainly a novel experience. Not only have I not used any Fedora or RPM-based distro before, I hadn't really dealt with Flatpaks and AppImages and all the modern containerized formats that are required on an Atomic base system.
I'm getting a decent sense for how to use all those layers of the stack tho, so it's been fun to play around with and learn.
KDE Plasma seems to give me all the desktop and window manager UI customization I want, not sure what else I'd get out of any of the "more customizable" distros from a theming perspective. Garuda does sound nifty overall, if you're a cool Arch kid ;)
At the end of the day, what you come to learn is that all Linux distros are more alike than different, and they're mostly just tweaking some settings around the edges with defaults you can set yourself anyway.

2026-01-10 17:29:11 UTC

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*shakes cane*
Look here ya young whippersnapper! I was running Ubuntu back in 8.04 when Compiz was the shiny new thing! Dual booting school library computers! :p
My only problems with Bazzite are the ones I cause myself, like changing the default login shell to zsh which they explicitly tell you not to, and then getting shocked Pikachu face when environment variables like XDG_DATA_DIRS break and all my flatpak apps disappear xD
(The solution is just put 'source /etc/profile' into '~/.zprofile' to let it inherit all the system bash stuff)

2026-01-10 08:25:55 UTC

It's been a week since I installed Bazzite on my gaming PC, and I haven't booted Windows since.
@npub15vh…eqxv are you proud of me? :3

2025-12-18 03:15:43 UTC

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maybe it'll be one of those really annoying ghost networking issues where the presence of one of your devices literally is what makes it work properly, and it'll break again when you leave xD

2025-10-28 01:31:58 UTC

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have you considered 'git pull' and 'git commit' and 'git push' instead?

2025-10-25 17:39:18 UTC

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I'm having a hard time picturing you as big enough to carry a mast. You're no macro corgi! :p

2025-10-25 17:09:59 UTC

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Again, that's ironically what I hear most people complain about with Apple Misic compared to Spotify, is that it's not discovery-recommendation focused *enough*. It largely is focused on your library, and still clearly shows its iTunes roots. Which is why I like it! But weirdly lots of people say they prefer Spotify's more algorithmic approach...

2025-10-25 16:46:54 UTC

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As someone with a Plex server with exactly one album on it because I can't be bothered to know what music I want ahead of time to go get it and put it on before listening, I understand.
To answer the actual question Gale, I'd say Apple Music is the least enshittified streaming platform, and while they're not perfect, Apple is overall probably the least unethical tech company still...

2025-09-26 14:54:45 UTC

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meanwhile I was just put in a cage that's not so good at that, and so even after being a big kid and keeping my pull-up dry, the dribbles on my pants from where I missed the potty meant I got put back in diapers anyway! >.<

2025-09-26 14:50:11 UTC

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oh you too eh? I got this gem >.>
https://media.cubhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/271/152/902/311/324/original/a80491b4b6ccb48f.png

2025-09-25 16:10:26 UTC

The bump in activity recently on CubHub is noticeable, I'm having trouble keeping up with my timeline each day!

2025-09-22 05:40:05 UTC

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you know, the more I think about it, the more the "forum" part speaks to me. I haven't run a forum since IPB in 2005, but that was a thing I did! Maybe I'll hafta look into it...

2025-09-22 05:36:35 UTC

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my Proxmox server mostly gets used for Plex these days, and it's pushing 20 TB. I need to tell Sonarr to stop getting Blu-ray rips of TV shows that are 10GB per episode...
I like good quality but even so that's a bit excessive for all but the most prestige content!
I keep thinking I'll put the file server NAS container side of things to good use like archiving bab content, but then I just never get around to actually doing it!
But anyway yes hi, I have a Proxmox server rack on a symmetric gigabit fiber connection, and I'm not afraid to use it!

2025-09-21 16:20:51 UTC

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That's a thing I always worry about being a problem with a cage too, but then when I go and try it, it's actually fine xD
So give it a try, you might find out it's not a big deal too! ^_^

2025-09-20 04:22:49 UTC

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Lol, I'm gonna be a brat and say just going by those 3 pics, I'm gonna assume you don't actually own any pants at all! ;)

2025-08-28 17:12:41 UTC

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Yeah no. See, that's too many for me to remember to use! How should I know which one I want at any given time? I might as well just type out the flags at that point.
The reason 'll' works for me is it's the *only* one I use, so I can actually remember it!

2025-08-28 07:38:17 UTC

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I was never the kind of terminal greybeard that has my shell config super customized or anything...
But I do always add at least one mandatory alias to my environment. "ll='ls -la'". It's the most correct way of displaying files, and I almost never use regular ls. ll is more fun to type too! ^_^

2025-08-25 18:53:53 UTC

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just get changed in the back of the car like a puppy should be anyway! ;)

2025-07-20 14:51:40 UTC

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No it did work! It tagged you here while *also* staying threaded there! Dats what I meant xD

2025-07-20 01:29:10 UTC

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(also did that work? Can I change which @ I'm replying to in a bridged post and keep the thread?)

2025-07-20 01:27:55 UTC

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Whatcha talk to Hank Green about? :D

2025-07-12 18:06:01 UTC

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bark!

2025-07-06 23:56:25 UTC

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oh hey, I had a dream a while back that I was at a house party with Elon and was telling him why most of his design decisions were dumb, so he's like "you seem like a good engineer, you run Tesla then!"
Ok, sure!

2025-06-16 02:48:42 UTC

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I still don't have a real Bluesky account, just my bridged CubHub account.
This makes it difficult when I click on Bsky links and they have their profile set to block non-logged in users.
So I've been making heavy use of skyview.social, and got sufficiently tired of copy-pasting URLs into the page that I made a shortcut for my phone:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0dd996a80c7540e3ab28ea8751ac765e

2025-06-01 15:33:44 UTC

@npub15vh…eqxv @npub14u7…t8pt seeing these two posts right next to each other made me giggle, and then wonder:
What do each of you think about the UX of Gnome vs KDE these days? What do you prefer about one or the other?
https://media.cubhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/608/833/848/277/944/original/c0641f7141cd3385.jpeg

2025-05-09 18:20:53 UTC

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The only canon we're violating is like one throwaway episode of Rebels, I think we'll survive >.<

2025-03-26 23:01:09 UTC

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having grown up in Nova Scotia, Canada, and now living in Boston, Massachusetts, I'd say they both have pretty similar vibes, and are effectively part of the same region.
So I'm an Atlantic Northeast New Englander.

2025-01-28 23:06:09 UTC

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if ICE wants to declare war on immigrants, then so be it. Just don't act surprised when they get armed and start shooting back.
That goes for basically every agency of this government and every group they're fighting. If they're that eager for a civil war, might as well give it to them.
The irony of course is the people pushing these policies are the same second amendment supporters who say they need their private arsenals to fight off "the government infringing their rights", but they never expect the *actually* oppressed groups to do the same...

2025-01-19 19:39:09 UTC

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#ANE had their Night Market on Friday only, but it was great too! I almost felt like I was at a kink event, not a general furry con xD

2025-01-18 06:26:57 UTC

My #ANE experience so far:
Hung out with @npub1704…pej5 for a bit, who did my badge back at ANE '19! :3
Went to the AD 18+ Outer Limits Night Market / Nightclub. Was more of a kink-friendly space than I expected at a general furry con. There was a whole pup mosh / play pen area where you could watch drag shows from! ^_^
Why did nobody tell me this is what nightclubs were like, I might actually go to them! xD
Then headed off to a babyfur room party where I somehow knew the majority of the babs there. Did I somehow become popufur at some point? O.o

2025-01-06 16:43:50 UTC

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my problem is actually with the current implementation, namely "We already interpret the 'Discourage apps from showing my account to logged-out users' setting as opting out"
Well guess what, most kink accounts set themselves to Private, probably not really understanding what it does (and doesn't do) >.<

2025-01-02 14:53:33 UTC

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that just sounds like a more roundabout way of saying "treat me like a smol bab" :p

2024-12-05 17:37:36 UTC

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well make sure you post your input on there!

2024-11-26 18:31:00 UTC

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The fact that you did figure that out though *does* qualify you in the upper tier of webmasters / IT techs xD

2024-11-14 21:18:33 UTC

@npub15vh…eqxv what do you think about hosting a CubHub ATproto PDS?

2024-11-01 20:34:48 UTC

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"We're working out some kinks"
*looks around*
Yeah I bet you are ;)

2024-10-26 14:57:09 UTC

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FTT was the first time I discovered what babyfurs were too! And where I first encountered @npub1gge…5lhy's art! ^_^

2024-10-20 16:11:29 UTC

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The only thing I know about that movie is when I was a kid, my A/V Home Theater nerd Dad used it as his calibration benchmark to test out how good a system was xD
Apparently back in the day when "how good was the studio's DVD encode" was a factor, it was considered top tier.

2024-10-11 19:10:34 UTC

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somehow I parsed avatar as meaning name instead of icon, and was looking for a ghost hands emoji in your display name.
Does a ghost hands custom emoji exist? Or maybe it does and you just can't see it cuz they're invisible!

2024-08-11 15:03:09 UTC

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I'm quite enjoying (like literally now ;) ) one of the "Gape Keeper" plugs from Topped Toys
I forget which size I got exactly, but I'm pretty baby with my toys so I think the 55 or 65, the larger ones are spoooooky!
https://toppedtoys.com/collections/gapekeeper