DysphoricUnicorn @dysphoricunicorn@cybre.space

Locked my account to have some control over who sees my more personal posts.
Follow requests are always welcome and I’m very likely to approve all of them.

I just hope my app (Toot!) displays the requests properly.

I really liked the idea of refurbishing tech, especially robot vacuums and stuff like that, and selling them under the tagline „adopt don’t shop“..

Guess I’m not starting my refurbished roomba online shop any time soon after all..

A, yes the tree genders

One of our two pack of RAM sticks was broken and in order to get it replaced we had to send both in.

I really hope they won’t just trash both as one is fine but I’m pretty sure they will :/

Why do they even want broken stuff back? It’s of no use to them and only creates cost.

I would’ve happily gotten 8GB of free RAM (or wouldn’t have minded if they just sent me a single stick). I can use it a lot better than a trashcan.

This is not a subtoot at anyone who cares about age. I’m pretty sure you have your reasons and they are absolutely valid.

I‘m just talking about my experiences and what I enjoy about them.

Today I’ve realized that I have almost no idea how old the people I spend the most offline time with are.

I recently learned the age of one of them and was surprised by it but I just moved on without mentioning it again because it’s simply not something I care about.

That’s one of my favorite things of adulthood, it simply doesn’t really matter any more how old people are.

Back in school it was pretty much impossible to be friends with someone who was 1-2 years older for me.

Because I didn’t want to carry our dining table to the living room and building inside the kitchen wouldn’t have worked we decided to use our couch table.

That was a bad idea.

My everything hurts.

I somehow managed to break a toenail at its very start. That’s going to take quite a while to heal.

At least the person in the hardware store where we had to buy new screws was very friendly and helpful.

Let’s hope it’ll work now..

Water cooling is a terrible idea and you should never do it.
It’s a waste of money time and most importantly spoons.

It’s better to just buy good parts, a case with decent airflow and air cool your stuff.

We’re currently moving our server between cases and I am just empty.

Fun fact: putting your watch on your phone so it doesn’t measure the pulse of your night stand (the issues of unintrusive pulse measuring and stuff that happens to be red) is a terrible idea if the back of your watch is conductive.

It sent a call to mailbox this night.

If you’re making speedrun levels, which is great, please don’t make it so that the time is barely enough to finish it.

Attempting to get a good time/ WR is enough motivation to play as fast as possible and with enough time it’s way less frustrating to learn the level.

I‘m kind of tired of reading the same old takes on gab again and again.
I‘m pretty sure at this point everyone on the fediverse either knows what deplatforming is or pretends not to know to uphold their shitty straw man arguments about „free speech“.

I’ve recently seen a YouTube video where someone saved a living gecko out of a very old crt screen that hadn’t been opened for a long time and I wonder how the gecko got in there and how they found food..

Over all this was a lot less expensive than I thought. Didn’t get a gpu yet though because that would be more than all other parts combined.

Why do these things have to be so expensive?

Upgrading the case to one that actually fits all HDDs, the PSU to one that won’t waste tons of energy when the server is under low load and getting some more ram because for some reason it halved in price since April.

The PSU is going to save about as much as it costs in about a year while also being better for the environment, so that one was definitely a good idea.

Time to spend my vacation money on upgrading my server.

It’s not like it’s enough to go on vacation anyways..

Would people be interested in a Mastodon fork that includes google plus style rings for post visibility?
That would mean a ring for local timeline, one for followers etc. you could decide for every single post which rings are allowed to see the post.
That could also be useful for preventing posts from federating to instances that might not honor privacy settings.

I’ve recently watched a video where a Mario Kart AI would just stop driving instead of attempting a difficult jump if it wasn’t sure it would make it because the punishment for failing the jump was way too high.

I remember the differences in behavior between children that had punitive parents and those that had rewarding ones. The ones who were rewarded would always show better behavior.

One super interesting parallel between machine learning and teaching children is that only teaching by punishment is extremely popular while being very ineffective.

In machine learning it might lead to the ai finding out how to crash the game they are playing. With children it will lead to the child being dishonest to prevent adults knowing when they did something bad.

If you reward good behavior you will be getting better results.

Gotta love websites where the highest amount of letters during sign up is larger than the one during sign in.

For some reason Steam seems to have 3 numbers: 1 for sign up, 1 for sign in on the website and another one for sign in in the client. Those are sorted from highest to lowest.

It’s almost as if having multiple teams working on entangled functionality requires them to actually communicate for it to work.