FYI for newbies
Twitter has algorithms to get you engaged. Mastodon does not. So in order to enjoy Mastodon you have to take some time to reach out and find content and follow folks that you enjoy. Don't expect Mastodon to send you random popular posts to keep you engaged, you have to curate your own feed. But this is good! It gives you control.
i installed OpenWRT on it last night (10.03, which is the latest that'll run on the 54GL--i didn't realize i should have bought the 54GS)
i've never messed with OpenWRT before. it's something
i need to figure out how to do MAC address whitelisting, and figure out why clients won't connect to it in WEP mode (or at least my primary laptop won't)
the only way i could possibly top this is by tracking down a VisorPhone (same idea as this, but it's not WiFi, it's GSM), and picking up a HackRF or similar to run my own GPRS cell. VisorPhones are like hens' teeth, though, even moreso than these Xircom boys
such as:
theeeeese! i've had these Handspring Visors since 2014 (silver one) and 2017 (blue one), and this Xircom SpringPort 802.11b module since also 2017. i could never quite get the wifi boy to play nice, but i figured out a few nights ago that i wasn't configuring the Palm's network settings correctly. it works fine now
getting a monochrome Palm OS handheld on the internet was a dream of mine for years and years. there are Brynns of various ages (8, 14, 17) that i've made very happy by doing this
i need to figure out how to make font hacks work. 160x160 isn't a very high resolution for IRC, but upIRC explicitly supports alternate fonts w/ the appropriate hack
join ##megastar on Libera, we're cool, tell them Brynn/L200bps sent u
does anyone here know a good solution for automatically crossposting from masto to birdsite?
a lot of the stuff that goes there is probably too Mysterious and Ironically Detached to fit the people/vibe i've curated here, but i've been blogging plenty of stuff (*gestures vaguely*) over there that i wish had gone here too
annoyed
Discogs started using webp for images instead of jpeg, which means i can't get album art from there as part of my ingest workflow anymore. or i guess i *could,* but opening a new terminal window to run imagemagick is too irritating
it doesn't help that every site sends webp with a .jpg file extension
trans, getting letters
A list of mental health professionals in the United States who will provide a letter of support for transgender services on first visit
(as given to me by one of the professionals on the list)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mQo2vls2x1FeCihQmQ0FftY9x5jEvbHykZUWEijSRYQ/edit
Boosts very okay
nsfw + fandom + drug ment
last night on edibles i spent a few hours re-reading 30k words of smutfic in my ao3 bookmarks (which go back a long way)
about half that time was spent w/ this specific 5k word junerezi fic i really love, "penny in a bed of flowers." it's this, really gentle depiction of transfem intimacy and vulnerability and catharsis. i feel a lot of feelings with it
really good night