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@joel Hey Joel the comparison chart on the website says that the X4 does NOT have a clock or battery indicator. I can forgive the clock but a device lacking a battery indicator feels like it'd be an issue for me. How has that been for you, do you notice it, do you mind?
@hollie crosspoint and other firmware come with a battery indicator, the comparison is probably the stock OS
Yes the clock is not present at least in vanilla CrossPoint which I use
@joel <clicks on the YouTube video link>
It fits inside a passport size Traveler's Notebook?
I'm swooning a little.
@joel Hey Joel the comparison chart on the website says that the X4 does NOT have a clock or battery indicator. I can forgive the clock but a device lacking a battery indicator feels like it'd be an issue for me. How has that been for you, do you notice it, do you mind?
In other news #SocialCoop mods #suspended an account I want to talk to (and is not a Nazi or clear troll or anything that we have voted is bannable), and asked me to wait more than three weeks before they discuss my appeal and consider moving the account to just limit as I suggested (a corrective action with no downsides as I see it). 44 people out of 1.4k monthly actives are following them and might lose the connection if the suspend is not lifted by end of this month.
IMHO this is not ideal and we should collectively do better. I can't honestly recommend Social.Coop to people anymore until moderation practices improve in response times, transparency and alignment with voted policies.
I plan to update this thread as more comes to pass.
I am disappointed with current Social.coop moderation practices, and would like to see us improve. I hope the mod team does the right thing at the end of this delay or hopefully earlier, and moves to a more transparent model for how they moderate using destructive actions in particular.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hdvysbmehiwc5pfwaghicflu/post/3miypb4bfy5o2
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In other news #SocialCoop mods #suspended an account I want to talk to (and is not a Nazi or clear troll or anything that we have voted is bannable), and asked me to wait more than three weeks before they discuss my appeal and consider moving the account to just limit as I suggested (a corrective action with no downsides as I see it). 44 people out of 1.4k monthly actives are following them and might lose the connection if the suspend is not lifted by end of this month.
IMHO this is not ideal and we should collectively do better. I can't honestly recommend Social.Coop to people anymore until moderation practices improve in response times, transparency and alignment with voted policies.
I plan to update this thread as more comes to pass.
I am disappointed with current Social.coop moderation practices, and would like to see us improve. I hope the mod team does the right thing at the end of this delay or hopefully earlier, and moves to a more transparent model for how they moderate using destructive actions in particular.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hdvysbmehiwc5pfwaghicflu/post/3miypb4bfy5o2
social.coop
On 20 May, #Amazon will cut off #Kindle reading tablets manufactured as recently as 2012 from the Kindle Store. You can still read the books that sit on your device. But if you have to factory reset it, they disappear. You get a discount to buy a new Kindle and retain access.
My Kindle is from 2015, so I guess it'll be cut off in 2029. Amazon just lost me as an e-book customer. I quit buying material things from them years ago.
In other news #SocialCoop mods #suspended an account I want to talk to (and is not a Nazi or clear troll or anything that we have voted is bannable), and asked me to wait more than three weeks before they discuss my appeal and consider moving the account to just limit as I suggested (a corrective action with no downsides as I see it). 44 people out of 1.4k monthly actives are following them and might lose the connection if the suspend is not lifted by end of this month.
IMHO this is not ideal and we should collectively do better. I can't honestly recommend Social.Coop to people anymore until moderation practices improve in response times, transparency and alignment with voted policies.
I plan to update this thread as more comes to pass.
In the meantime I plan to move my main posting to Bluesky or some other Fediverse account and cross-post from there. For all its downsides, Bluesky so far lets me talk to the people I want to talk to and the one time I filed an appeal to a policy humans actually responded to it in a timely manner and were not dismissive of my request.
In other news #SocialCoop mods #suspended an account I want to talk to (and is not a Nazi or clear troll or anything that we have voted is bannable), and asked me to wait more than three weeks before they discuss my appeal and consider moving the account to just limit as I suggested (a corrective action with no downsides as I see it). 44 people out of 1.4k monthly actives are following them and might lose the connection if the suspend is not lifted by end of this month.
IMHO this is not ideal and we should collectively do better. I can't honestly recommend Social.Coop to people anymore until moderation practices improve in response times, transparency and alignment with voted policies.
I plan to update this thread as more comes to pass.
i feel bad constantly fixating on the informational capitalists while there is so much material harm being done in the world, and then simultaneously remind myself that this is literally capitalism's gamble to finally and fully enclose not only the material world but also our minds. If informational reality comes to be owned by 4 megacorporations, then it's all fascism forever baby.
New #Blogpost
Some thoughts after a couple weeks with my #XteinkX4 mini e-ink reader!
A fun device that I've carried with me almost everywhere!
This is day 47 of #100DaysToOffload
@joel <clicks on the YouTube video link>
It fits inside a passport size Traveler's Notebook?
I'm swooning a little.
There is so much snark in the #Fediverse about [[vibe coding]] that you just know people are scared and/or salty.
It is just weird to me that people feel this confident about what's right and allow themselves to be freely and widely dismissive of other people's computing needs and patterns. Why can't we each do what we need and prefer, and respect each other's choices without dismissal and interference?
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When they go low, we sit smiling silently while a microphone floats around in zero gravity.
@hollie Bertie the Boa says Hi!
@rbphotographic Awwww! Hello Bertie!
When they go low, we sit smiling silently while a microphone floats around in zero gravity.
I’ve often wanted to make an ADHD screening test, written by me and other ADHDers (totally a joke yet also totally real), where you give different scenarios and then options for how things will turn out.
Like, oh, say, this one:
You have an amazing convergence of luck and executive function, and realize that a beloved old friend’s birthday is in three weeks (in case she’s reading this: the friendship is old, not you). In another unusual stroke of luck, you get a card, sign it, even remember to have your husband sign it, find that you have the perfect stamp, and address the envelope.
What happens then? Do you:
A) Put it on your desk, intending to mail it in a few days when it will arrive just in time for her birthday? And then...actually do that?
B) Put it on your desk, intending to mail it in a few days, then forget about it, lose it, find it in six months, mail it, after texting her an awkward yet skillful (thanks to years of practice) apology?
D) Throw it away after realising it's been too long, and now it's better she doesn't know it exists.
Please behold my grandlizard, Sebastian, master of poker and imbiber of illicit substances, party goer extraordinaire (all the pets have a conjured fictional life, it’s the tradition).
Here he is resting, back from one of his escapades. (He’s back living with me for the spring/summer, I’ve told him no keggers on my watch)
@hollie Bertie the Boa says Hi!
New #Blogpost
Some thoughts after a couple weeks with my #XteinkX4 mini e-ink reader!
A fun device that I've carried with me almost everywhere!
This is day 47 of #100DaysToOffload
[[Fedisky]] looks very interesting!
https://github.com/msonnb/fedisky
A #PDS extension to run #ActivityPub off your personal data store!
@ntnsndr @mako @Laura @emsquared ^ :)
[[Fedisky]] looks very interesting!
https://github.com/msonnb/fedisky
A #PDS extension to run #ActivityPub off your personal data store!
