Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

It's still absolutely wild to me that I can kitbash something together in Blender in less than a day, put it on a little wafer of Flash memory, and have a tiny robot 3D print it for me in a matter of hours.

Being able to make and print tiny 3D dragons and costume parts from my own designs is the future I actually want.

So I wrote a long post about my thoughts on Bsky being where the party atmosphere is right now, then stowed it because it condenses to this:

Modeling your entire online existence around a single website is terrible, no matter how good the vibes are today. While the vibes in a new places are high, we should carry them with us to smaller communities. And when they sour, we should become comfortable with being digital nomads. That way, when Bsky follows the trajectory of Twitter (or certain Masto instances go dark, etc etc), we can continue to exist and thrive.

Also, let's never repeat the era in which Twitter was too big to fail but no alternatives readily existed. That really fucking sucked.

Folks at the time specifically harped on Nintendo for its online perspective being naive and outdated, and to be fair, it was!

But in a world in which an always-on internet connection with vendor software updates means ever more elaborate ways to sneak in ads, rent you your own data, and exfiltrate your data to soulless content farms, a device with community updates, simple tools, the ability to post, and the ability to stay fully offline is the absolute best thing.

So far, my antidote to commercial software trying to sell me on increasingly more dubious AI has been to go back to creative software I enjoyed a decade ago. Which specifically means I've been spending a lot more time on my 2DS XL messing around with Colors! 3D and Pokemon Art Academy again. (I also plan to mess with Flipnote again at some point.)

I'm also very amused that Pretendo Miiverse is absolutely thriving, including and especially around the community for Splatoon 1.