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The Half-assed Input Device has been modified. 

Well, not exactly modified, but I did find a way to clear up the wonky mouse-wheel problem.

...by blowing into it like a damn NES cartridge. (Seriously, never do that. It's how you get corroding contacts.) Yeah, it seems that this eight-zillion DPI tournament-ready Elite Gamer Mouse will respond with lightning-fast accuracy and dominate the competition as long as there's no dust. It has allergies.

I'm sure it's improved my reaction time in Adobe InDesign, and I'm crushing nonograms like never before.

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Oh, it stands for Half-assed Input Device! 

I had a nice little Kensington mouse that was comfy, had two thumb-buttons, had a good scroll wheel, and survived at least a decade of heavy use. It was boring and reliable. I only stopped using it because the primary button finally became unreliable through wear.

I replaced it with the only wired two-extra-thumb-buttons mouse I could find, a fancy-ass Corsair "Dark Core RGB Pro SE". It's somewhat uncomfortable (for my kind of grip). It installs some system service that swells to well over a gigabyte of RAM. Within half a year, the scroll wheel has developed an amusing issue where each tick of the scroll wheel will sometimes scroll in the opposite direction, anywhere from once in a while to nearly half the time.

But you know, at least all the lights are controllable! Except the super bright green one right on top.

I really want my boring mouse back.

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~ Ｍａｃｉｎｔｏｓｈ　Ｍｉｎｕｓ ~

Who needs HDMI anyway?

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Way to ruin a 4/20. 

It's bad enough that they stopped carrying weed from one of the few minority-owned farms in Seattle. Now they have one of those accursed "ring" people-trackers at the door and they told me to take my mask off and stare at it before being let in. I am not going back to that shop.

Dockside Cannabis in Shoreline, WA, by the way.

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All right, it's not exactly a lie, but it invites the question, "Valued at what?" I know it's non-zero, since their website doesn't let me turn off advertising emails (savings opportunities!) and it shows ads for Experian credit monitoring so I'm worth at least some ad revenue.

<sarcasm> Gee, if they're having to erode customer trust just to get some extra cash on the side, the health insurance industry but be really struggling to stay profitable. </sarcasm>

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My "health" insurance provider knows my name, so when they send me an e-mail that starts with "Dear Valued Customer," I know they are lying.

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pile of magpies

Reminder to all the Magic players out there that I do in fact make pay what you can art deco style pronoun pins so if you want a period appropriate pronoun pin for drafting or whatever I've got you covered. shop.sevenishmagpies.com/categ

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Fox Thirty Eight 🦊🌹

mexpol 

Mexico has decided to nationalize its lithium supply.

twitter.com/LeeCamp/status/151

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claire, lesbnyans~ 💜⚸

@behold3r in france they say 80 blaze it

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perfectly normal (horse) beast

Okay, now this is cool. @alan_hook@twitter.com has rigged up two fisheye cameras, a mask, and a low-latency RasPi VR rig to allow humans to see the world like horses do, to "help propagate interspecies understanding and empathy". And I just kind of want this, for Reasons.

Vid: youtube.com/watch?v=QAYW7ZkB_Q
Site: equineeyes.co.uk/

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perfectly normal (horse) beast

eye contact, 🐴

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am pony

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MOVED TO vantablack@beach.city

🏴‍☠️

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schratze

horrible linux pun 

Sure, you can put Arch's and Fedora's package managers side by side and argue back and forth about which one is better. I just don't think that's an apt comparison

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halcy​ :icosahedron:

here's the little guy I made for #revision2022 anigif compo :D

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cyborgneticz

Does anyone I know work at a nonprofit foundation?
I'm trying to figure out resume speak for those workplaces

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perfectly normal (horse) beast

The only US history I ever remember is the really unlikely sounding stuff

- San Francisco Egg War
- Boston Molasses Flood
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
- United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat's Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness

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Shy bunny (rar aspect)

GoToSocial, a lightweight Mastodon-compatible server 

I may have to give GoToSocial a spin, just to see how portable and easy it actually is. Still early days, but it seems to be shaping up very well as an alternative to the giant jenga tower of Mastodon.

A couple points from feature list which caught my eye, too:

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GoToSocial offers public/unlisted/friends-only/mutuals-only/and direct posts (slide in DMs! -- with consent).

It also allows you to customize how people interact with your posts:

+ Local-only posts.
+ Rebloggable/boostable toggle.
+ 'Likeable' toggle.
+ 'Replyable' toggle.
+ Customizability for admins

Lots of config options for admins to play around with, including:

Easily-adjustable post length.
Media upload size settings.
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and

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GoToSocial doesn't apply a one-size-fits-all approach to federation. Who your server federates with should be up to you.

+ 'Normal' federation; discover new servers.
+ Allowlist-only federation; choose which servers you talk to.
+ Zero federation; keep your server private.
==

And one feature Mastodon itself will never be able to boast:

"GoToSocial plays nice with lower-powered machines like Raspberry Pi, old laptops and tiny $5/month VPSes."

github.com/superseriousbusines

The latest 0.3 alpha release, Stimky Sloth, just came out, adding profiles:

ondergrond.org/@dumpsterqueer/

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packbat is a social construct

Pushed a quick update to [a circle made of squares] - packbat.itch.io/a-circle-made- - to handle the blinking issue: the current behavior can be selected as an option, but the new default behavior is that bricks are hidden if you cursor over a tile with bricks and hold the [x] button.

This hopefully will be less obnoxious (if more cumbersome) way to see what the arrows are under the bricks.

- 🎒

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Ember :autism:

Questions for alloromantic/allosexual people to consider 

Part of aro/ace erasure is that non- aro/ace people are often unaware of the ways in which society privileges and centers certain experiences of romance and sexual attraction and looks down on aro/ace people.

These questions are intended to help people think about those things and begin to understand how they affect us. I do not need replies answering them, they are for you to consider and answer for yourself, if you’d like

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