Mint chocolate tea is interesting.

Oof, I forgot to use hair conditioner :blobcatgooglytrash:

Got @VictorKoopa ‘s Asus Zephyrus G14 covered in Stek forged carbon wine, cut with a hole for the LED slash with prismatic PPF over that while doing the tint on the M2C.

Starting to understand why folk block Brave users.

Was chatting on the Island about the slopbot attack, mentioned and linked to a great article by a Fedi person about mitigating slopbots, Brave Dude says yo is this article gibberish for anyone else, I say are you using Brave, he says yeah, I […]

I overslept really well

Odin the Newfie frolicking joyously in the park

Odin the Newfie as the biggest, saddest, dampest puppy ever

Someone had an extra-muddy day and paid the extra-damp price. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Gnome top panel with added application menu, weather in the clock pill, CPU/RAM/Swap/Network monitor, Tray and the default system settings icons (where I can enable "caffeine" now, too).

Gnome extensions are written in JavaScript, hmm. Might give that a go eventually if I feel the need to.

(It's a bit hidden, but this desktop environment is quite customisable after all.)

A reminder for folks who care - @hypoidbear and I run the Texas GreyMuzzles Furry Chat - It's on https://www.furry-telegram-groups.net/ if you're interested in joining and are old and crotchety like us.

:boostRequest:

The Windows logo has (mostly) fallen off my tablet and now the keyboard connection is much more stable.

Maybe not a coincidence :blobcatthinkowo:

[just massively improved my fedi experience]

Absolutely no downsides* to separating out boosts, makes you a more attentive Phone Friend and a clearer-headed person. Mastodon web interface can't do this (although you can turn off boosts entirely, click the settings icon right of "Home"), IDK if […]

I finished (the main story of) Death Stranding (1) a few hours ago!

Definitely a solid game. Not a great game maybe, but it felt very appropriate for when the PC port was originally published.

The story pacing seemed too end-heavy though, even within the genre, and and most mandatory battles […]

#ActivityPub is getting its first formal update path since 2018. I wrote about why this matters, how this leads to some strange and funny power dynamics, and about who actually participate

connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report...

Visibility did get noticeably lower due to the smoke and whatnot, but I think it's clearing now.

(Not breathing that. Happy new Year!)

Okay that's genuinely wonderful.

My landline internet connection is fixed!
Finally. I'd run out of mobile data within a day.

I think I'm going to set up VPN at my parents' so that I can opaquely tunnel through a neighbour's guest wifi if this happens again. Doesn't need to be super fast, after all.

I wonder if I can open a […]

Telefoncek.si • How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM NanoKVM is a hardware KVM switch developed by the Chinese company Sipeed. Released last year, it enables remote control of a computer or server using a virtu...

Yet another example of Dan Geer's "Surveillance too cheap to meter":

They didn't need the microphone, it was there in the vendor design they copy&pasted and they left it in, because that was cheaper than removing it.

telefoncek.si/2025/02/2025-02-10-hidde...

I haven't gone to the movies since the pandemic started, so I feel super out of the loop culturally sometimes 🫠

It's more fun to go there with others anyway though and I moved cities around that time.

There's a bit of wall space next to my front door, around 10cm wide, where I'd like to stick some kind of outside temp and weather forecast (and maybe reminders?).

A few difficulties with that:

- I don't have an outlet there.
- How do I do this on the cheap?
- It's far from any windows, so a […]

Backflushed my car's heater core today.

Haven't had heat on the driver's side since I got it. Checked everything else, mixer door, servo, heater core valve, nope it was the heater core like I'd worried it would be (they're cheap but to replace them you gotta take the WHOLE dash off).

Got one […]

be the inexplicable phenomena you want to see in the world

I'm slowly reducing/sorting through my incoming notifications.

Why does Patreon let free members post in group chats anyway? That's such a strange channel and 90% of the time seemingly unmonitored.

Bed… 5:15 AM… comfortable…

Up to a hundred and one now, thankyouthankyouthankyou, if you want to see a riot of colour from When The Internet Was Fun then you can see all the ads in one long list at www.improbableisland.com/hobbysites.php and most of those websites are from the fun side of Fedi, if you […]

Know what else? I serve my ads at the BOTTOM OF THE PAGE. So that people see them when they've already read the page and they're ready to go do something else.

(it's on the special New Day page and nowhere else, players see it maybe a couple times a day, it's a kinda transitional page when […]

LB: remembered that I'm giving away advertising space for free PURELY BECAUSE THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WANT TO CHARGE LOADS OF MONEY FOR IT, please give me your 468x60 pixel non-animated banner for your hobby website or small (small!) business.

Make it colourful and cool looking like […]

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I made a big salad (⁓1kg) :blobcatjustright: