Is there any way to get the #FollowRequests blinking dot to go away? I don't have any pending follow requests 😭
Also is there a way to disable all sounds in #HajKey? I tried turning the master volume all the way down but it still plays the alert and it hijacks my audio every single time :(
@jo@ada Someone else suggested setting the sounds to None which I hadn't even noticed was an option. That fixed it for me :) I also use the PWA, I think I've had Blahaj Zone open on my laptop like twice lol
Morning fediverse. It's 8am Thursday here, currently 6°C/43°F in the southwestern outskirts of Sydney. Feeling better to have finally had a good sleep.
Anyone else ever have one of these Compaq rack-mountable keyboards with built-in trackball? I loved mine and used it right up until it was pretty much useless and the trackball would fall out lmao.
Never used it for its intended purpose- I'm not a dev, can't code, not a techy beyond being the person at the small NGOs where I've worked having enough knowledge to troubleshoot a network, run the social media accounts for the boomers. Just loved it for its size and handling. #retrocomputing
@jo I got really lucky and got a 42U rack that was being e-wasted from work, along with that Dell KVM and some old PowerEdge servers that I can't afford to use lol
It's a close call figuring out if my HRT rack or my Dell rack is my favorite 🤣
Oh boy*innen that a doozy! (pardon the gendered Denglisch pun @Sagaliciouzzz ) It's not great, it's a bit better in Dutch (except for the Southern Dutch regiodialects which remain heavily gendered and using declensions that have largely disappeared from the rest of Dutch language just as it did more fully with English).
The Germanic languages section of this article gives a brief introduction, some examples of signage and links to pages that further explain the Gendersternchen, Binnen-I, unterstrich. There's truncated English translations or parallel English equivalencies available for those articles within Wikipedia.
Random Public Service Announcement: The #ActuallyAutistic hashtag means the author of the post containing that hashtag is an actually autistic person, as opposed to a relative, caregiver, or practitioner who is not autistic. It came about because autism-adjacent folks kept speaking over us, and we needed a way to identify when an autistic person was speaking for themself. The hashtag says nothing about whether someone has an official diagnosis, only about whether they identify as autistic. It is not correct for an allistic (non-autistic) person to use the #ActuallyAutistic hashtag to describe an autistic person - #autistic is a perfectly cromulent hashtag for that. @actuallyautistic
@joshsusser@actuallyautistic Ohhhh! Thanks for the info!! I absolutely assumed it was some gatekeepy crap meant for people who have been diagnosed. Thinking back on it now and knowing the general ethos here I probably should have known better 😅
Sometimes it's really really hard to convince myself to keep going when everything feels so hopeless. It seems like nothing will ever really improve in both the micro and macro scale and it makes me wonder what the point is, why bother to continue living if the life I live is just struggle and misery?
(Idk if anyone will see this but if you do don't worry I'm not in danger or anything just trying to get the thoughts out of my head)
@airwhale Thanks for sharing that. That's usually what ends up getting me through those thoughts and feelings but sometimes it's hard to keep that in mind.