adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

if your USB-C cables keep burning out, you probably just need one that can handle higher voltage, right? a friend of mine uses android auto to take calls for hours a day while driving, and his phone burns through cable after cable. i said he should try a thunderbolt 4 cable. good idea? any better ones?

@levisan yeah, i wish someone more knowledgeable would chime in about how this could be. is it because i have inferior USB-C adaptors or is this an actual flaw in the USB-C spec design or maybe its macOS implementation?

finally got my copy of the sibley guide to trees!

it was recommended by a forest scientist (over on bsky) when i asked how i could educate myself and be able to ID trees while i'm out and about.

@khird surprisingly good for me too!

apparently if you type https://cooked.wiki/ before the http of any recipe webpage, it will load a stripped-down, ad-free version

last night i spent HOURS troubleshooting this zoom L-20 mixer/audio interface’s logic input setup (on M1 mac). then first thing this morning, i tried turning the USB-C adaptor upside down and plugging it back in… and presto! now it all works. (happy/angry)

@vmstan ok, was about to mute all the terms having to do with this US election cycle, but i’m glad i caught this!

@corruptian well it was a junta in bangladesh, just not an extremely oppressive one (as long as you weren’t a journalist or socialist and had money for bribes you were prob ok). i was a kid during the student uprising that brought down gen. ershad, and i remember watching a street gun battle between political party supporters from the roof of our church building in chittagong. and a house across the street from ours was burned around the same time bc a naval officer connected to the gov lived there. it was a more relaxed time for us though since there was less chance of foreigners/christians being lynched (vs during iraq war just before)

and went into having just discovered him tonight via this youtube mini-doc on him. an unusual story! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB0mHcC-dxI

@corruptian you thought of sanders as close to communism? "we should be more like scandinavia in some ways" doesn't really count to me. he seems less authoritarian minded than trump or clinton from where i see it. (though i've never been under communist dictatorship, as a kid i did live in bangladesh during their pro-western military dictatorship and it was still much better than communist countries were at the time, i'd say.)

loving this tiny desk set by fred again.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iQmPv_dTI0

@corruptian i try not to say so too loudly since i don’t want to be that guy, but i bet bernie would’ve won against trump and ended up a super impactful and popular president

@corruptian to me it felt more like personality differences (and maybe campaign design differences) than real policy differences, but it’s been a while

@corruptian huh, clinton eh? i would’ve thought she’d be similar to him in terms of that

@corruptian yeah, that's the generous version of what i said... haha. i think there were other candidates who couldve claimed that too, but as you hinted at, he had also been VP for one of the most popular presidents ever.

did yall know the prefix on medication just means the manufacturer? so "apo-methylphenidate" for example is methylphenidate (ritalin) made by apotex, inc.

@alan what data centres would these be?

@corruptian and i think he was squarely in the old school camp that the main groups of democratic party elites knew was safe for their interests, vs sanders or warren for example

@corruptian i think the US could do way better than biden (he was at/near the bottom of the candidate pool for me when he won the primaries), but this doesn’t seem like a promising upgrade

obviously my mutes around american politics need some updating, but i couldnt help but get wind of kamala's new "he's just plain weird" messaging tactic. does no one else find it bizarre? isnt this the same lady mainly known for quaaluudesque word salad and weird affectations?