misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

"What's your gender?" has taken a meaning rather like the question, "What are you made of?"

"Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, primal fire, smoke, mirrors, dreams, mud, star-stuff, numbers, and sterner stuff yet. And cute animal noises."

". . . ."

"Oh, and trace amounts of heavy metal, heavy metal, and Heavy Metal. And mercury, because I eat a lot of fish—"

Don't bother asking. There isn't a complete answer to be given, and all context does is restrict it until it's even less complete.

Oh, and here's the punchline:

The most recent time? Windows 10 Creators Edition.

Seriously, they are so obsessed with achieving the "perfect UI" that they have increasingly sabotaged the ability for Windows users to alter system fonts, starting with Windows 8. So, yes, I went that far, and that was the result.

I have _opinions_ on this matter. I seriously want to yell in the face of whatever Microsoft employee was responsible for this decision.

Get to know me! Take a "How Keet am I?" quiz. Find out how Keet you are!

How many times have you replaced the system font of a device or system you own....

...with its built-in config UI?

...with a third-party tool?

...by directly editing text-based config files?

...by hex-editing system-critical files?

...and caused a boot loop?

...that required a recovery drive?

...and then a complete system reinstall?

If any of your answers are less than five, GET ON MY LEVEL, SCRUB. 😸

Today's awesome person you've never heard of:

Alberto Jose González
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Jose_Gonz%C3%A1lez

Unless you're European and into videogames, you probably haven't heard his work, but it's good – doubly so when you get to the part about him having _zero_ formal music training. The arc of his career is basically what I kinda wish I could have managed.

Give a quick listen (and please don't be put off by the game's title!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnzHTkRLcE4

So far, I like Mastodon. It's got the breezier aspects of Twitter without the downsides. But I'll miss the jokes about the 140 character lim

Adventures in attention disorders:

"Hey, I feel great! I'm gonna get breakfast, then get to shopping online for a gift for my niece's birthday!"

"Mm, PB&J-on-English-muffin sandwiches. Best breakfast ever!"

"Okay, now it's time to batch-convert screenshots to make album art files for my SNES music collection."

"Whoa, brain! You skipped something there. Isn't that funny? You should toot about that—"

Oh. Ohhhhhhhh.

Though now I kinda wanna commission art of a vampire hedgehog eating pretzels out of a takeout box while riding a flying saucer they bought with Bitcoin.

This is my character. Do not steal.

The Unicode 10.0 spec adds code points for vampires, hedgehogs, pretzels, flying saucers, Chinese-delivery-style takeout boxes, and the Bitcoin currency symbol (which may as well just be the Thai baht symbol)...

...but they still have nothing for cannabis, which has been around far longer than any of these things.

I just don't understand some folks' priorities. I mean, seriously, I challenge any of you to name a single person who smokes hedgehogs. Am I right?

There once was an Electric Keet
Whose limericks were rarely complete
She spent so much time
Devising a rhyme