adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

shocked how wide a selection of audiobooks were just added as included with spotify premium. some i’ve been waiting for on libby for months!

but boy, the listening experience is no different than for music. no bookmarking whatsoever!

@freemo nice! i did just notice some qoto accounts (like yours) say “user does not exist” when i click through to the profile on elk.zone, so maybe it’s not entirely compatible yet. fingers crossed these other updates you’re talking about will bring back full functionality!

happy to report that since qoto.org's big instance software updates, elk.zone finally works! finally back using my favourite mastodon web client. still as nice as i remember from back when i was still on ye olde .social

thanks again for your work getting those updates done, @freemo! had a feeling it was some deprecation issue

@mike hah! what’s that from?

@000000005e9dda01479c76c5f4fccbaebe4e7856e02f8e85adba05ad62ad6927 i did not!

winni’s been on my lap most of the day — irritatingly, i get up to move around every hour or so, but then she’s back!

blown away by the first neuralink patient's gushing praise of how their tech is changing his life. had no idea they were this far along! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79VvxBStbWY&list=TLPQMDkwNDIwMjSl8mylRqL5jQ&index=8

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love that AI can take over all these tasks for me! annoying tasks like creating illustrations, making music, writing code, poetry and blog articles! really frees me up for the important stuff, like gruelling, repetitive paperwork

GA4 has been “thresholding” the marketing website analytics of a client of mine for nearly a year, making accurate traffic reporting basically impossible despite my best efforts.

well, they’ve finally removed it, unhamstringing our account! embarrassing how happy this made me.

"wcdonalds" is really what they're calling this new sauce? sounds like an asian knock-off food place that sells phone cases on the side

this week we’re selling a special one-time re-run of band tees and hoodies! doing it as a fundraiser in honour of my friend and bandmate michael who died in december after a long battle with cancer. all proceeds go to his wife and 9-yr-old daughter.

if you’re in canada and are able to support, please place your orders here: https://brantfordapparel.ca/collections/mgn-fundraiser

let my ivory subscription lapse to see if i could get used to using ice cubes all the time. made ice cubes feel quite a bit better by tweaking settings, but something just feels right about ivory that i miss! not sure it feels $20 good though. trying to pinpoint what the things are in ice cubes that make its UX inferior, but it does. the icon set and typographical things are part of it, i think.

anyone else get what i’m talking about?

what’re y’all using for mastodon clients these days?

@levisan synecdoche is a great word of the day!

milestone reached: son rans busted through his first snare head (whiplash-style). luckily we live around the corner from a music shop, so we were able to walk over and grab another (more minimalist?) remo powerstroke between snow squalls

as for the power supply, i ordered the weird 4 pin plug for it off mouser and a bench power supply capable of providing the 28v needed. if those successfully power up the unit, i can look into a more permanent arrangement. fingers crossed!

hoping maybe the snapped display base can be repaired with epoxy? if that’s not strong enough i guess someone in california still sells these bases for ~$200 (woof)

going to see if i can get my dad’s old G4 cube + CRT studio display working. has a burned out power supply (he thinks) and one of the monitor’s stand supports is snapped.

@freemo oh for sure — i’m not discontented at all. i just have an inkling of how much effort can be involved in this stuff and so wanted to express my appreciation 🙂