pootriarch

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I'm still on Pop!_OS 22.04, the last release version. My applications are getting very out of date from being tied to the jammy package repo.

It looks like Pop.next is still in alpha, which suggests it could be 2026 before it's RC. I don't actually like any other distro — I built a new laptop on Mint, which I only tolerate. But I'm getting nervous, and the UIs for enough apps have evolved sufficiently that it's creating some cognitive load to remember how to use both versions (LibreOffice and Evolution stand out).

What have people chosen to do?

 

the year is 2008. taylor effortlessly uses the singular they in a hook, at a time when probably none of us would have thought of it, in a song about hetero high-school heartbreak.

now they're lighting the world on fire over pronouns. this isn't hollywood. this is a hellmouth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

the jmp support bot lists an 'lnp' option for porting in — so they support it in principle — but it's worth engaging jmp support once you're signed up, as they've probably been through this and could save you some hassles. i had a skype number (two actually) but left them both behind as jmp could assign me numbers i liked better.

if you haven't gotten a referral code yet, PM me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

yes, you're right on both counts. i lose today :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

the pictured streetcar is a half-block from the railway museum, just out of frame to the right. they even have a 'field guide' for spotters: https://ramblingreaders.org/book/374078/s/on-track

 

Sam on Mastodon (linked post) grumbles about the profanity filters on jmp.chat (presumably from upstream providers) and getting messages rejected. I've experienced the same, including having my account blocked if I mistakenly send it twice.

When I inquired, support said they were working on improved "routes" (upstream providers) and that I would be waitlisted for the beta of the new routes. That was months ago and I've heard nothing since.

Has anyone gotten into the beta program, and does it improve the situation? Because sometimes you just don't have two fucks to give.

I might need to switch my phone provider. As much as I've loved having all my messages delivered via #XMPP, jmp.chat's upstream providers decency filter is killing me. I constantly get text messages rejected for using swear words. If you ask they insist that all phone providers do this, but if I copy the same message over to my other provider it sends fine.

Are there any other good VoIP providers (not necessarily with XMPP compatibility, but that would be great) that aren't puritanical?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I have the Multiling keyboard. I don't recommend it to others as it's rather long in the tooth and still has quirks I haven't fully sorted. I keep it precisely because it does multi-language support with separate dictionaries; I switch it between U.S. English and French Canadian and autocorrect follows. It's massively customizable but I don't understand it and am more likely to render it unusable than to make it better.

 

What is the default chat retention period in Snikket instances provided by JMP? Is it configurable in the admin panel for an instance?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

'taylor swift inspired' anything is a warning label, not an enticement. i'd feel this way whether i were a lover, a hater, or a very casual fan making accidental references

 

There's a lot of consternation about the number of services that refuse to register against a JMP number. At the core I suspect it's about information sharing — your carrier will happily give your details to third parties, where JMP doesn't have that information to begin with.

I dealt with this differently. I stopped thinking of my mobile as my 'real' number, but instead as my public one. All personal contacts have my personal JMP number, Signal is registered against my JMP number. Cellular SMS has notifications silenced. When an SMS is important, like when logging into a bank, I know it's coming. No unexpected SMS is welcome.

This works for me because my friends don't use voice, so JMP having metered talk time doesn't matter. But mainly, I don't think of either number as 'real'. I pay for both, and each has its use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

same as it ever was — this is not to criticize the article, as it's entertaining, but anyone with a history in san francisco remembers the seagull mafia at the 'stick as well. it seems to have taken them a little while to figure out the move, but theyyy're heeere.

what i haven't seen return are the hot dog wrapper twisters, where a section's worth of paper and foil would assemble into an impromptu tornado in the outfield come the 8th inning.

if giants brass really wanted to be rid of the scavengers, they'd need to change how we package and how easy it is to dispose of it properly. we don't have a culture of everyone bringing their cups and wrappers upstairs, and if everyone decided to do that one day, there's nowhere near enough waste receptacle space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

we've normalised the idea that we own celebrities, that they owe us continuous intrusion into their private lives as a condition of fame. there's always a line, a fuzzy one, currently drawn somewhere near paparazzi (they're evil vs they're a necessary evil, how else would we get our pics).

society is built on these lines separating the acceptable from the unacceptable. they change, more quickly than we remember. we don't smoke in restaurants. we do wear seat belts. but the people who fought those battles, not that long ago, were pariahs.

ellen degeneres (before she became 😡 ellen 😡 for different reasons) was blackballed for coming out. chappell roan is kissing women in her videos. if she wants to try to move the privacy line, and risk being a pariah for it, good for her. she's either proven right or wrong over time. she'll either pay or she won't. but she's using her capital for something that's important to her, and that she sees as important to her industry. everyone's entitled to try.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

i'm no expert — consensus sounds like putting disused only on the main tag, and when i've encountered this, i haven't marked anything disused at all. i've only looked at the stop/platform to make sure they weren't in any relation (transit line relations may include the passing way but shouldn't include the disused stop/platform). and i make sure route_ref isn't set on the stop/platform. were the stop to be used again, i figure it would have the same ref/stop id and operator, so i don't remove them. listening for better ideas though

 

I've tried Magic Earth a handful of times, but each time I dumped it because it marked a street as closed or wrong-way, creating a circuitous detour. There's no such issue in OSM; it simply hallucinated something.

I was testing it so I knew where I was going, but I'm reluctant to rely on it when I really need nav. Have I been supremely unlucky?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

since you have another jabber id, just pop into xmpp channel [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

got my tech within the last year, was stunned at how not old-white-guy the class was. all age groups, balanced genders, mixed races. many seemed there for neighborhood emergency teams. the airwaves are dead most of the time i've turned the rig on, except during the net hour. i feared exactly what you've heard but thankfully haven't run into it. yet.

 

i sent out a plea for spanish pop music and this came back. it's exactly what i wanted

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

i had drifted away from sabrina over the years but she just cut me off and slid back into my lane

i am the only person you know who's seen her live. any 'you' 😛

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

aye, sailors, i see. are the bonus tracks purchasable loose, or do they try to make you buy the whole album?

 

whole lotta history 4k remaster just came out. i don't know how soon i'll be able to watch it again, since it ends with sarah walking wistfully along the seine. i hope the girls are able to remember her somehow on the tour.

 

je suis d'une génération désenchantée…

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Global net? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
 

I'm away from home and stumbled onto some kind of global net controlled today by a Scottish guy. It was probably 4pm Chicago time, so 2200 UTC. What is that, how is there a global net? I think they said something about EchoLink but I'm new and really only recognize the name but not how it works.

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