Hi @staff, something's all fucky with the iOS app: it keeps grabbing and releasing the audio stack even when I'm not doing anything that would cause audio to play, meaning that if I'm listening to music or something while using the app, the audio briefly cuts out repeatedly (and then goes back to normal as soon as I close Tumblr). It also means I can't use the app while my AirPods are paired to another device like my desktop computer, because grabbing the audio stack means the AirPods unpair from my computer and switch to the phone.
Was wrestling with whether to go to Bay Area Solstice after vc, balancing fomo versus possibility of burnout. The compromise I came up with was that I'm going to go just to Solstice plus the afterparty and not try to find/attend other events that weekend. See you there!
I think I’m having a pretty hard emotional comedown at the moment. Will probably work through it on paper first and then may or may not share publicly.
lol it just started pouring in Seattle. diegetic-ass weather.
I think I’m having a pretty hard emotional comedown at the moment. Will probably work through it on paper first and then may or may not share publicly.
Vibecamp is over, barring one more night of afterpartying. I want to do an extended post about it but that will have to wait for later. I’m dead on my feet as it is and still have another party, then a short sleep, then a flight back west before I can truly rest (and poast).
I really try not to stereotype, but with a fairly significant sample size I have found that if you see someone reading Deleuze there is a 100% chance that they are certifiably insane.
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Aww, thank you anon. I'm at vibecamp at the moment and while I'm a little out of my wheelhouse here and also very sleep-deprived, I'm having a good time and I think coming here was a good choice.
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My poor Korean girlfriend is tonight discovering that all the “American” classic rock bands she discovered through Supernatural, aren’t. “The Rolling Stones aren’t American?!”, “British.”, “Def Lepperd?!” “British” “AC/DC?!” “… Australian.”
I was today years old when I discovered to my shock that The Killers aren’t British, so I guess what goes around comes around.
isaacsapphire: They're singing about people who have Mexican names and highways and deserts, why would you think they were British?
Blame the Brits! They're the ones who adopted Mr. Brightside as their second national anthem. I just assumed they knew what they were doing and rolled with it.
Catgirls are terrible for the local bird population and are an invasive species, turning them into fuckpets collared to your desk is currently the government recommended disposal method.
Reading @jadagul's Part 3 post and I am once again reminded that the real numbers are actually horrifying, in the Lovecraftian cosmic sense. Whenever I am reminded that almost all the real numbers are uncomputable, it feels like a through-the-keyhole glimpse into the reality of what infinity truly means and that's enough to fill me with terror.
Have you found any more fuckbois recently?
I don't know, @eightyonekilograms do you self identify as a fuckboi?
no!!!! I am a cuddly teddy bear who would never hurt a soul.
do you have any suggestions for FOSS note-tracking or productivity software? I use google keep all the time, but if there's an open source alternative I'd like to try it out
i don't use anything like this but i think @keynes-fetlife-mutual has recommended obsidian as a good note taking tool
cosigned - friendly community, simple and highly extensible base, highly recommended
I also agree Obsidian is very good, and I do use it for organizing digital thoughts/content.
The one issue is that if you want to handwrite stuff with a stylus, it doesn’t support that at all. In fact, there is a serious and surprising hole re: cross-platform stylus-aware apps. There’s OneNote, which IMO is actually better than any Microsoft Office app has any right to be, but it still has major drawbacks and I don’t like it. And there’s just… nothing else, afaik, that’s not tied to a single platform.
Which is part of why I’ve gone back to handwriting for notetaking and journaling purposes, as much of a bummer as it is that this is a blow to searchability and accessibility. But it has advantages as well.
as always, there's a plugin for that! For use on ipad I recommend adding the scribble helper script (tap the gear icon in the upper right on an excalidraw drawing.)
I want to note that Obsidian is closed-source, not FOSS, though pretty aligned with open-source values imo.
Didn’t know this, thanks!
@binary-bluejay possibly relevant to your interests
Ooh I didn't find that when I was looking, thank you dear
Don’t thank me, thank @keynes-fetlife-mutual. Dude is the all-knowing Obsidian wizard and actually contributes to several plugins IIRC.
do you have any suggestions for FOSS note-tracking or productivity software? I use google keep all the time, but if there's an open source alternative I'd like to try it out
i don't use anything like this but i think @keynes-fetlife-mutual has recommended obsidian as a good note taking tool
cosigned - friendly community, simple and highly extensible base, highly recommended
I also agree Obsidian is very good, and I do use it for organizing digital thoughts/content.
The one issue is that if you want to handwrite stuff with a stylus, it doesn’t support that at all. In fact, there is a serious and surprising hole re: cross-platform stylus-aware apps. There’s OneNote, which IMO is actually better than any Microsoft Office app has any right to be, but it still has major drawbacks and I don’t like it. And there’s just… nothing else, afaik, that’s not tied to a single platform.
Which is part of why I’ve gone back to handwriting for notetaking and journaling purposes, as much of a bummer as it is that this is a blow to searchability and accessibility. But it has advantages as well.
as always, there's a plugin for that! For use on ipad I recommend adding the scribble helper script (tap the gear icon in the upper right on an excalidraw drawing.)
I want to note that Obsidian is closed-source, not FOSS, though pretty aligned with open-source values imo.
Didn’t know this, thanks!
@binary-bluejay possibly relevant to your interests
do you have any suggestions for FOSS note-tracking or productivity software? I use google keep all the time, but if there's an open source alternative I'd like to try it out
i don't use anything like this but i think @keynes-fetlife-mutual has recommended obsidian as a good note taking tool
cosigned - friendly community, simple and highly extensible base, highly recommended
I also agree Obsidian is very good, and I do use it for organizing digital thoughts/content.
The one issue is that if you want to handwrite stuff with a stylus, it doesn’t support that at all. In fact, there is a serious and surprising hole re: cross-platform stylus-aware apps. There’s OneNote, which IMO is actually better than any Microsoft Office app has any right to be, but it still has major drawbacks and I don’t like it. And there’s just… nothing else, afaik, that’s not tied to a single platform.
Which is part of why I’ve gone back to handwriting for notetaking and journaling purposes, as much of a bummer as it is that this is a blow to searchability and accessibility. But it has advantages as well.
gateway drugs arent really a think (afaik?) but the term "gateway drug" filled a lexical gap we didnt have in english beforehand! theres "slippery slope" but that describes the whole phenomenon, not the first step. maybe theres some obscure classicist way of referring to this? i think there are for most things. the ancient greeks
This is how I feel about “cargo cult”. Anthropologists always get really picky about that phrase, saying the story of the actual cargo cults in Polynesia is much more complicated than the popular interpretation, and I’m like, bro, I don’t care, it’s a super useful phrase for a real world phenomenon I see constantly.
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