*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@shivain22 Hello Shivain, and welcome to Qoto.

Certainly we are here to help. I just found your post, working my way down the busy Local feed this morning.

Here's a tip I share with all new users:

Enjoy the network and all it has to offer. If you are new to using Mastodon, there's a good guide here: https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235

Any question, just ask, and someone will try and help out.

Have a good day!

@freemo @Rod Love trying new software too. To be best, you would have to beat the speed of one of my favourites - Pinafore.

Give it a try, thank you.

Still speechless on how well and easy the crossposting tools are, to bring content from one network to another.

A little bit of configuration, a couple of trigger hash tags, and zoom, it's here. Love you, MOA!

https://moa.party/

#xp #moa Beautiful Japanese porcelain, stylish #cats decoration. Lovely! #catsofinstagram #CatsOnTwitter #mastocats #meow Thanks Kay! Sending to my Fediverse home and followers too. 🐱🐈
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RT @kaymarchy@twitter.activitypub.actor
@design_RG my favorite rice bowl, maneki neko
https://twitter.com/kaymarchy/status/1201364425325760512

@shibaprasad @Rovine

Just sent Alex a message on birdsite.

https://twitter.com/design_RG/status/1201536480482676736

@shibaprasad
From the digging around I did, looking for the reason, it seems it was Google's miscommunication causing it.

The program name changed from one version to another, the most recent. Sadly it's not on F-Droid either. 😞

WE could try sending some messages in Twitter. https://twitter.com/Waterfoxproject

The developer, Alex, is a single programmer taking on the whole project, and now with two stream releases in desktop versions.

He might just have put it into the back burner, for now.
@Rovine

@freemo @arteteco

Perfect fit for a Linear Growth function. 🤔

@freemo @arteteco

Amazing, I am working my way down the Local posts list and had seen the Users post showing 5,011 already.

Glad there's an Official Commemorative thread, now that I found it.

Welcome all new users, enjoy the instance. It's a good one. 😉

@pschwede Should we do it and get listed on the Front, Yellow Pages style?

Or keep low profile and let people find you via quality posting? 😉

Maybe both, possibly.

@johnlitt @korang My bad, manners.

Welcome to Qoto, Korang!

@johnlitt @korang

Wowa, Nelly. 'T works!

@cowanon @freemo An interesting thread, the dictionary definition is so rich and well crafted.

Wordsmithing is a thing.

@georgia

@users 5,000 Plus already.

QOTO, congratulations! Welcome to our new users.

🎆 🎇 🍾

@_lunawinters what temp? aroudn zero celsius here, light snow dusting.

@Rod It's a good way to look at it.

Think Globally, act locally.

One's life is best place to start.

@freemo @Rod Welcome to Qoto, Rod. 😉

Relax and enjoy. The coffee pot is on, there in the back corner.

@atet " Bristol 400 1947
Origin UK
Engine 1,971 cc, straight-six

Top speed 94 mph (152 km/h) Bristol Aeroplanes entered the car market with a repackaged prewar BMW design, brought back to the UK as “war reparations.” The efficient engine design gave it good
performance and Bristol’s standards of construction—based on aircraft engineering practice—were second to none."

That is a wonderful car, had not heard about it or seen the photos, lovely.

Reminds me of a Bugatti, although smaller and more affordable.

Thanks for the post!

@_lunawinters Sorry to hear that. But maybe it's time to look for a replacement?

11 years in terms of computer tech is 4 generations at least. 2008 vintage. Although there are still some good machines from the era, certainly.

The hard part is how software keeps getting heavier and heavier, as features are added, and everyone wants the newest bells and whistles.

I love vintage computers, do collect examples of quality design and well built hardware -- IBM ThinkPad laptops, HP workstations, some HP laptops too.

Don't have any Apple made computers, but am surprised at the HIGH asking prices for them in the local classifieds market. A 2010 vintage Mac Book Pro still commands hundreds of dollars in there.

Suggestion, Aaditi - look for a replacement from a reseller that specializes in Business class machines, and resells off-lease models.

Here we can get top quality gear from them, usually 3 years old, sometimes more. At affordable prices, and quality levels you will NOT find in consumer grade electronics.

An example of a Canadian reseller like that - they have wonderful stuff including Workstation class desktops, laptops and full servers.

https://www.wintroniccomputers.com/471-0/refurbished

@freemo Yes, I am very fond of silver coinage. Having grown up in a country with constant inflation, rising prices and devaluated currency, the local coinage was quickly overwhelmed by raising prices.

Authorities issued the lowest possible coins, as they would soon be irrelevant anyways. It got so bad as to have aluminum coins, which were ugly, soft, not lasting.

Many years later, living in the northern countries, I am fascinated to know that regular coinage in day to day use here was, until about 1965, minted in silver. US coins used 90% pure silver, and have a very pretty colour, crystalline sound when you jingle a hand full in your pocket. Canadian coins of the same era used 80% silver, and have a bit of yellow tinge as a result, but are still precious.

Real money - no matter what value is stamped on them, silver coins do have an intrinsic value -- their weight in silver never changes.

Gold ones are equally solid, precious metals have been accpted as currency for maybe 5,000 years or more.

I love that. 😄