cthellis

I like the aim and ethos, but not so much the design (other than interesting modularity) and certain things rub me the wrong way. And the pricing is just very out of line.

In the end, I'll just continue to do what I have been and keep old laptops running as long as possible. Have been using old IT-recycled housings or eBay purchases of "just the right thing" and swapped parts around, rebuilt the OS, etc. That's where much of the fun is anyway, heh.

I do wish the Fairphone were easier to come by in the US, tho.

I used to attend a lot back in the day, along the eastern seaboard. (Starting with Anime East '95 and Katsucon and Otakon in the next years, down as far south as Animazement and as far north as Anime Boston.) Now it's really just Otakon I've been maintaining a yearly with. Occasionally a real-close minor one, if able.

One trip to AX in 2018, but never again! 😝

Originally I was into gophering and staffing (starting with my first con) but got out of that in 2001, and anime in general. A friend brought me back in (to conning, not anime, because Haruhi had already done that) and I picked up steam again but this time for dealer's room and art show purposes. Other than staffing originally, it was the art show/auction that I really loved participating in.

Eventually my reasons for conning turned just to random socializing, and now it's that and panels, and the musical guests. (My first "live concert" was at an Otakon, for Naomi Tamura, a while back. That started my habit.)

Amusingly I kinda feel an obligation towards Otakon somehow? 😝 At any rate, it's still fun, and I'm still going with the same friends. (Though they are artists/dealers so don't see any of the con.)

Only 99%?

I'm in IT and work with normies all day, the number of people to whom even just that will flummox and they'll just not bother is frankly overwhelming. 😝

Has interesting possibilities, to be sure. But a whole lot of the harder sci-fi stuff seem to really fall off a cliff before the end. XD

Daughter weeping over mama's "two week reset" doesn't land quite right for me, tho. I can understand a bit of confusion, but her trade-off is between "dead mama" and "minorly reset mama." And they knew what they were getting into by making the backup to begin with.

Needed a much bigger discrepancy/timeframe involved to sell it. Like, if the backup happened a year+ prior, not merely a couple weeks.

"Exclusively?" No. But obviously its initial appeal was to the more tech-savvy and FOSS-centric sort, and it's byzantine enough to jump in that it dissuades many newcomers who try.

But ActivityPub does seem to look like it will pull in larger services (like Threads) so in the end "protocols over platforms" may win out by default, sorts like WebKit/Blink/Chromium has. Not everyone gonna use Brave or Opera, but the mass of Chrome users will still feed back in some fashion.

Don't you mean... autoMACically?

I am not sure what other alternatives there are? I'm receptive to anything good. Right now this looks like it has promise, so I'll go for the ride.

The only thing I can really suggest is to start culling some of the worst, and introduce some counter-influences like debunkers, in hopes of her feed organically at least introducing some of that to her over time.

I am not sure if she would watch, but there is at least the possibility. Even if you kill her account in some fashion, if she just rejoins and starts looking for the same stuff again...

Reddit basically lost any semblance of respect the community should have for it. You know, the people who give them all their content and do all their moderation for free.

Fuck 'em high.