This person clearly comes from the Jean-Henri Faber school of entomology

Pretty sure half the Chesco library system patrons get there by bus… This is gonna be a nightmare for them…

I definitely agree lol, that’s why I teach people how in the local library makerspace. We’ve a really nice Mitutoyo accurate down to 0.02mm!

From a big vernier caliper fan, this RULES!! 😍

Damn, I guess just because it worked for me doesn’t really mean it usually does or anything… Sorry to hear that

Lol really up the stakes for them! 😈

I got the runaround too at first and just immediately went grey market. Then later, telling the next doc I was gonna do it with or without them (and in fact already was) seemed to get them off their asses.

It’s definitely been working out for me, for years now. I have two boyfriends, they get along well and also both date other people. There were a few growing pains of course. Overall though, smoother than expected!

I’m also very tired of having to spend SO MUCH time and energy on something that ought to be largely irrelevant to my life, I totally feel that. However, there is one thing that makes me feel a lot better about it. I imagine what I might have been like, as a person, if I didn’t have any kind of marginalized identity.

If I wasn’t like this, my entire worldview would likely have been developed from a fairly privileged position. I would never have experienced this struggle. And while the trans struggle is not identical to the struggles of other marginalized people, it definitely hits a lot of the same notes. So I feel like it has definitely broadened my understanding of other people’s plights, to the point where I don’t think I’d wanna give that up in exchange for being cis. I feel like that me might’ve ended up more of an asshole, you know?

This rules, can’t wait to see how federation works!! It seems like each project shows up in the fediverse as an actor? Like for example this project: @3dc33whtlsnx@3dprint.social

I kind of naively thought they’d show up as posts or something. Maybe what this means is, all the subcontent of the project show up as posts instead? If so, that seems pretty neat! Like potentially the 3d files themselves federate out as posts?

Not sure why I’m wildly speculating when all this is surely documented somewhere lol

You can from Mastodon! Not sure from Pixelfed but it seems probable? With mastodon it’s something like… you just @ mention the community, and have one separate line at the top to become the post title? I think?

It does have groups! And they’re even interoperable with Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin groups. The experience is definitely very Facebook like, and there are themes that make it even more so.

On the other hand, every instance I’ve ever been on has run into serious lag issues and/or collapsed entirely… Hoping that’s not universal or else gets fixed soon.

Whoaa public instance! That’s AMAZING, will definitely be there! ❤

The gui installer was roughly about as simple as any other distro I’ve tried, and stuff generally seemed to work out of the box. There are more packages than one might expect from such a small distro too. Not sure I have any advice specific to Void really, although getting a custom bootloader onto a Chromebook was certainly a trip lol

Does Manyfold support SVGs/etc? It seems awesome but it might be self-host only, not sure there are any public instances.

Void, because it works really well on my super low-resource chromebook!

That’s what my house says too lol

While i definitely agree, none of this is a deal breaker for me. What is a deal breaker is this: I am on my third Friendica account now because the first 2 instances both started struggling and then collapsed. The one I’m on now is suddenly running very slow, just like the first 2 before the end. It seems to me like maybe they’re kinda hard to run?

I’m always soooo excited for native fediverse apps, because PWAs are annoying in a bunch of ways. But then it actually happens, and I remember that none of the cool themes will be in there 😅

This is still AWESOME though!! I think that’s what was holding a lotttttt of people off, waiting for an app

For me it’s always been alcohol and distracting myself with hobbies. I don’t think I’d recommend the first one, but the second one is maybe ok? Think that’s what Peter Wessel Zapffe called “sublimation” and it’s probabblllyyy healthy-ish.