Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@qoto.org

@westofer@mstdn.social Thanks! Though I've got this issue for years already. I can only hope the new spray is going to be a miracle!

@Untersuchende Apparently you removed your earlier response while I was typing up mine. I decided it was a good enough one to respond with though, so here we go:

There's only one problem: Twitter is not a government-run platform. It's got a commercial company running it and they have the right to point you the door for whatever crazy reason. It's got nothing to do with communism. You want 'freedom to talk about whatever', you're not going to a commercial platform with their own house rules.

If Twitter is a 'threat to democracy' (it wasn't even democratic to begin with..), then simply move on elsewhere. I'm sure the government can have their own state-run information portal. (just like CCP!)

They could always host their own ActivityPub instance I suppose. (and other instances also reserve the right to defederate with them for whatever reason)

@mur2501 Looks nice.

@freemo Lol, so he is kinda your... sorta virtual daddy? 😋

@robflop Well, this one you have got now is a bit 'generic' to the feel. It's not shaped particularly to your hand since it's universally left or right handed.

That's what kinda put me off eventually, since the M570 is better shaped for my hand. The Kensington Expert doesn't look appealing to me either. The orb ring was initially a nice touch (no pun intended) but it's too smooth, I kept overscrolling in the hotbars in games so that wasn't very practical in the end, alas. I don't know what the Expert is like.

The M570 itself has still a fair enough price point. I'd eventually want to try out the Logitech MX ERGO, but it's way too expensive now.

If you want to experiment more after initial tests are likable, and you've got access to this brand, maybe you could take a peek at the ELECOM trackballs. I wouldn't know where to get that brand in my country, but they look appealing and cheap and varied (thumb or index finger balls). And definitely multiple buttons, that's a must for me as well.

If you like trackballs after this one, you can indeed try that Kensington Expert if you like the ambidextrous potential of that trackball. Or if you want one shaped to your (right) hand, the M570 (or maybe even ELECOMs).

You'll have to decide for yourself if you want the balls to be finger operated or thumb operated. The advantage of the latter is that the rest of your fingers are immediately on the buttons, that maybe matters a bit if you do action gaming.

Do /not/ get the Speedlink Aptico though. I've tested that out as well, and it seems to be made for a very misshapen hand. If I kept using it my hand would end up all wonky. :P It was cheap but totally unusable.

Hope this was informative and that I didn't end up rambling too much. ;)

@mur2501 Or cats. Or any pets you love.

@mur2501 Video seemed to end too soon.. did that red car hit them?

@MrMurkrow Welcome to the Fediverse!

Is there a reason your name is 'workrum' backwards or just coincidence? ;)

@robflop I've got that too and used it for a bit. I went back to the Logitech M570 though, more comfortable to me. Hope this suits you better than it did me!

@thomasfuchs

Yeah ok that explains a lot. Gotta fill their coup quota. 😋

@freemo I don't know what an SNL skit is though. ;)

@Untersuchende Why? Risk of violence is extremely plausible at this point, seeing what happened yesterday. For an 'untersuchende' person you're pretty biased. :P

And this is nowhere close to what CCP does.

@mathlover Was it like instances.social or did it show different information?

@mathlover So basically an instances directory?

@freemo How so?

@mathlover Heh, how many domains did he freaking have... that's the same as pleroma.fr and mastodon.host (where I tooted at before it went down), and a bunch of others... :P

Was there something special about fediverse.network?

I have just returned from the hospital where I took an allergy test. I've got bad news and good news.

Bad news: Seems I've got no allergies to the common stuff. So the mystery of my stuffy nose is still not solved. :(

Good news: I'm definitely not allergic to cats (and dogs)! YAY!!

In the meantime I've received a stronger nosespray that hopefully helps.

@shahaan@eldritch.cafe GIANT ICE DIGGERS IT IS!

Besides if we have waterbenders, maybe, just maybe, we can actually hold our 'Elfstedentocht' again. An ice skating competition with a traject along 11 cities. Last time was like 2000 or so. Damn climate change!

@shahaan@eldritch.cafe The metalbending is handy, but I suspect here we have much more use for waterbending. Sure, earthbending could be useful for creating canals and such...

Meh, can't I have both? ;) Half an avatar if you may!

@shahaan@eldritch.cafe You know, if I have to be /practical/ though, it'd probably have to be water. In my low and flat country, being able to control water would be a bigger plus. There ain't a mountain in sight. And during the heat waves I could turn a few things into ice... :P Well, if there's water left.