Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.
Born at 323 ppm. Living at the crossroads of the Butlerian Jihad and Idiocracy.
I've been terminally online for ~40 years, long before the big endless scroll. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. 1200 baud modems on fire from Usenet flame wars. I watched c-news servers stutter at the mere mention of Kibo. All those moments will be lost in AI slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.
@ZenHeathen I've become more aware of an interest fade in progress in recent years but no actual awareness of falling off the cliff. Things just get put down one day and never picked up again for months. Clutter blindness means I don't even see them during those first few not using months.
Then I see the thing, and might pick it up again right then or it's the kernel of an idea I should use it again soon-ish that may or may not grow into the yep gonna do this thing again.
Also, not official or self diagnosed ADHD but probably have some of that mixed with also not official or self diagnosed autism spectrum. Just .. Hey I see some of that in me, interesting, ok what's next.
At the start of the pandemic, I had been already working from home for about six years and was very comfortable with the video meetings.
The majority of the company was new to it though, and they were doing video calls for the first time due to offices temporarily closed for the plague. When I attended some meeting outside of my usual group it was a revelation for many that you could have fun with it.
Most didn't know about having custom backgrounds, for instance.
@ZenHeathen I was about 5 at the time, and remember watching it at my grandparents on their fancy colour tv. (b&w at home on the other side of the farm)
I vibe-cooked a pizza from scratch tonight. No, wait. There's no artificial idiocy involved. I meant, I just have a rough recipe in my head and I winged it.
@ZenHeathen It's becoming difficult to tell general outages apart from my isp gateway becoming unreachable for a few minutes every so often. Websites should maybe move to the store-and-forward paradigm of email and activity-pub etc.
I am in a #meshcore pocket universe that very occasionally is able to get a packet out to another pocket on the far side of town across the river. They can usually get messages to me without much trouble due to their repeater's higher tx power.
So, I randomly start whispering strange nonsense into the aether and once in a blue moon those break containment, leading to the other mesh pocket sending confused replies back.
Eventually we'll have some repeaters in-between to fill in the gap and make bidirectional more reliable. For now, I amuse myself like this.
