Art Delano @ardgedee@octodon.social
There are billions of people around the world who don't realize that at this very moment you're reading this profile.
@ardgedee hey i just made a liberapay account: https://en.liberapay.com/CobaltVelvet/
Dr. Doom doesn't play to the haters.
@CobaltVelvet Since Patreon will be chomping roughly half my donation to you starting later this month, are there other tip services you're on?
Update on last week's pince-nez toots: This particular item can't be used to correct astigmatism, so... they're of limited practical value for me.
But! There are types of pince-nez that can be used with astigmatism, so I'm not out of the pince-nez game yet, I just have to keep looking and do more homework.
Hey guys I found the difference.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/The-difference/32839925952.html
Aww yisss... mother fuckin pince nez Show more
GUYS I'VE BEEN AWAY FROM MY COMPUTER FOR A WHILE ARE THERE ANY THINGS BEING SOLD AT A LOWER PRICE THAN THEY OFTEN ARE?
Just remember kids: Don't copy that floppy. Show more
Within the U.S., legit (albeit greymarket) OEM Windows start at $80 on Amazon.
Taobao shows less restraint w/r/t Windows 10 warezing. US$70 buys you an OEM key, but for US$1.50 you can have somebody unlock your Win 10 installation by remote administration.
Google Translate leaves service descriptions ambiguous, so don't put a lot of trust in the above.
Ebay wins for market madness, internat'l sales of Win 10 keys and downloads are a riot of prices. US$3 and up. Mostly via UK and Canada.
It's crazy easy to find warezed copies of Windows 10 on U.S. Amazon ($12 for somebody to burn a DVD of their bittorrent download, $15 to add a key).
By contrast, searches on AliExpress for Windows OS in any form dead-end hard. And it's not for lack of consumer interest either; Enter "Windows" and autocomplete suggests all possible combinations of "Windows", "10", "7", "OEM", "Key", etc.
I hadn't spent too long at this because it was out of idle curiosity rather than desire. YMMV.
Lifehack: Evening travel is much quicker and more efficient when you remember to settle the bar tab before you get halfway home.
Lifehack: Pince-nez reading glasses are totally awesome. You can wear them over your sunglasses when you're outdoors.
Dear Google:
I have vision problems. So fuck off with your "Whoops you missed that flyspeck-sized car in this blurry JPG we ripped from a Street View cam and want you to validate in our CAPTCHA, so you get to plod through your third image-matching game. Better luck this time!"
I mean, seriously now. Would a robot say, "Fuck off with your etc." rather than try to fake its way through?
paging @haineux
this is relevant to your interests:
https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/le-monde-du-funk-1970-1985/
🎶 Hey there! I'd love to connect a bit more via #music! Would you post some of your fav artists and genres as hashtags, so we may find each other and freak out about how awesome they are? Just copy this and add 5-7 musicians and genres! 🎶 Show more
Agree if you fav boost. Boost agree if you fav. If you agree, fav boost. Fav if boost agree you.
Seeing complaints about bots proliferating on Mastodon.
Is there an index of them? A collectively maintained list would be a useful thing to build a subscribable filter on.
2/2 Further info on the WMDRM disablement:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/25975/windows-10-anniversary-update-loss-of-music-and-video
1/2 TIL: "Windows Media Digital Rights Management (WMDRM) will no longer be supported after Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Windows 10, version 1607) is installed. After installing this update, you will no longer be able to play music or video files that were protected by this rights management technology."
To their credit, Microsoft is providing mechanisms to strip the DRM. But it's going to be quite a gotcha to people who don't read the fine print on their involuntary software updates.
Open question for everybody using an IDE or text editor for coding, developing, and similar daily tasks:
What's your favorite color theme or set? I've been using Solarized for a very long time but; these days it's not good for my current vision problems.
