I have an Omega Molecule joke, but we’re not allowed to talk about it.

And the trend of that same design trickling down to FOSS projects because “that’s what people want, apparently” is also (mildly) infuriating.

As a current web developer I’m with you except for the tables. I hate tables with a burning, fiery passion.

I do like responsive design to account for mobile, tablet, and desktop so I try to blend that with classic “just works / just here for the data” layouts and generally minimize the flash in favor of the content. In other words, my projects go to a lot of work to look that simple lol.

No one seems to know exactly what “modern” means when it comes to “modern design”. If you ask ten different developers, you get 11 different answers.

My rule of thumb when I see “modern design” touted as a feature is that the developer chose form over function at every turn.

Haven’t made it to the store this week, so using what I’ve got: Whipped cream vodka and Strawberry-Watermelon Mio.

And the auto-submitting TOTP entry form where you’re apparently not allowed to make a typo. And obscuring the TOTP number like it’s a password or state secret.

Lol, exactly that.

Lol, I was about to reply to the main post and make the same joke.

🤚totally guilty there.

I wish there was a way to mute or turn off replies, and I might post more. Sometimes / often I’ll want to post something but definitely do not want to be bombarded with the comments it would generate. Other times, I’ll like the community but not be involved enough in whatever hobby to post anything but still enjoy seeing other people’s work (e.g. HAM radio, sewing, etc).

I used to buy their stuff and use tuya-convert to flash Tasmota onto them. But they kept updating the firmware to lock that out, and I ended up returning a batch of 15 smart plugs because none of them would flash. They were too much of a PITA to try to crack open and flash the ESP8266 manually so I returned the whole batch as defective, left a scathing review, and blackballed the whole brand.

Nice. I’ve got the Anker version but it’s half the capacity at 1 KWh. It charges exclusively from 800W of PV input (though it can only handle 600W input) and can push out 2,000 W continuous and 3000 peak.

I’ve got a splitter from the PV that goes to both the Anker and a DC-DC converter which then goes to a few 12v -> USB power delivery adapters. Those can use the excess from the PV to charge power banks, phones, laptops, etc while the rest goes to the Anker (doesn’t seem to affect the MPPT unless there’s basically just no sunlight at all). Without the splitter, anything above 600W is wasted until I expand my setup later this spring.

All I can say for it is that it absolutely rocks! On sunny days, I run my entire homelab from it, my work-from-home office, charge all my devices, and run my refrigerator from it if I feel like running an extension cord). It’s setup downstairs, so I also plug my washing machine into it and can get a few loads of laundry done as well.

All from its solar input.

Personally, I love that layout.

I’m always at a loss for what to put up as wall decorations, and I hate rats nests of cables. Win-win!

Loops finally seems usable now. I tried the beta a while back and it was kinda “Meh” but it’s improved significantly since. And you can browse on the website now, too. I’m not into short form videos, but credit where it’s due.

Well, I do like short form videos, but I hate panning for the gems and just let my friends send me the ones that rise to top.

It’s so common for “anti-censorship” to be code for “Nazi-friendly” that I’m immediately suspicious of any platform that uses that as a selling point.

I’m similarly suspicious, but it’s not just code for “nazi-friendly” but also crackpots, maladaptives, etc. Rational people who read and say “anti-censorship” in this context know it means that it’s not beholden to corporate or government interests. But everyone else seems to want to interpret that as “I can say whatever I want! How dare you mod anything I say?! Freeze-peach, y’all!”

I wish they’d pick a different term for these non-corporate alternatives, but I don’t have a better suggestion to offer right now.

Lol, touche. Also:

In order and in character:

1. [Chidi]: No, that would be highly unethical
2. [Eleanor] Of course. How else would you do it?
3. [Eleanor] Obviously they had it coming so no harm no foul.
4. [Jason] Nah, Pill-Boi said it was fine.
5. [Tahani] My heavens, no. I would never want to upset my friend Ray. Charles. Ray Charles was my friend.
6. [Jason] In Jacksonville we’re legally required to.
7. [Chidi] Given the ethical implications of restraining user freedom but also providing safety for the majority of people, we have to take into account several factors [ pulls out a blackboard, stomach ache intensifies ]…

I mean, it might if you did all 4 of those with the same post. lol. The Judge would invent “The Super Bad Place” for that.

Just seeing that is giving me a horrible flashback to Reddit and not being able to block “Superstonks”. By the time they eventually rolled out the ability to mute subs, I’d already learned there was a 1,000 user limit on the number of people you could block b/c I started blocking anyone who posted there lol.

The irony of Lennart “let’s change everything about Linux because I know better” Poettering creating a company called Amutable is not lost on me.

But also, that tracks because now it’s “I know better so now you can’t change anything” which is pretty on brand.

Over half of USA’s population voted for this.

False. Just over half of the voting population voted for this guy (and not necessarily any of what he’s done for the last year).

The orange turd won with 77,302,580 votes. I don’t have the number of registered voters in 2024 handy, but using the population of 348,320,255, that’s 22% of the total population who supported this guy. And even some of that 22% is starting to sour because things have gone so far off the rails, so I’d further estimate that 19% of the population are the true die hards who will follow him to the end.

This isn’t even factoring in those who would have voted one way or the other but were ineligible to vote or didn’t bother to vote. It also doesn’t factor in the Electoral College or people who didn’t understand how the Electoral College works and threw their vote away on a 3rd party or abstained.

You’re judge and jurying us all over the actions/behavior of maybe 19% of the population. If discovered a new species of bird and 1 out of 5 were red while the other 4 were brown, we wouldn’t classify the species as red birds.