Hawkwinter :firefish:

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I like Art stuff; and Programming Stuff; and Game-Stuff; and niche TTRPG-Stuff; and Wuxia; and Xianxia; and Forgotten Realms.

I'm also Canadian.
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Show threadHawkwinter :firefish:Jul 27, 2023
@Bwee

I've never seen it framed that way before. It makes sense. There's a lot of similarity between that and the people who hate trans people.
Hawkwinter :firefish:Jul 26, 2023
@raccoonformality

You've lost your mind. Mr. Raccoon.

t. Thinks the most important part of the computer is the ability to run every piece of software and use every peripheral I've bought in the past two decades.

You can have my ancient games and weird discontinued peripherals when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.

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RISC architectures are fine. As auxilliary devices.
Show threadHawkwinter :firefish:Jul 25, 2023
@Natsura

You will often know the people you're talking to and can gauge how well they will fit into the instances you like though.

And I would try to keep the list of signup suggestions to less three or fewer. haha
Show threadHawkwinter :firefish:Jul 25, 2023
@Natsura
There are Mastodon servers that are happy to federate with Wrong Site and have no problem with corporations. You should probably be more specific, like telling people to join a particular instance, or giving them a couple of recommended instances.
Show threadHawkwinter :firefish:Jul 25, 2023
@rolle @dansup @pixelfed @simonemargio

When I said small team, I was thinking "1-2 guys, and neither of them has any art/UI skills. haha"
Hawkwinter :firefish:Jul 25, 2023
@simonemargio @rolle

Yeah, its because theyre often very small teams, and dont have a budget for a UI guy or artists, and not everyone is used to doing a bit of everything.
Show threadHawkwinter :firefish:Jul 25, 2023
@rolle

I agree with you about thinking the mastodon UI could use an overhaul. I guess at the end of the day I'm just more of an art guy than a frontend ui designer.

Web 2.0 showed too much text at once, but I liked textures and fonts and gradients and shadows and embossing, and I think the flat minimalistic designs most sites use today look lifeless in comparison.

I've been tinkering with making userstyles for both mastodon and calckey/firefish. The former I've just started recoloring at this point, and the latter (which I have been using more often) I've been pondering other options. I published one to userstyles.world the other day, which brings firefish a bit closer to what I would want, without being a complete redesign. My mastodon one has nothing good enough to share yet.

I know the average user isn't going to know about userstyles. But, I do think having an array of options and picking the one that you like is important. If you dont need those features and need this one and not that UI but a different UI, hopefully there will be one that will work for your needs.

(The UI for friendica.... Is not what I want either. Give me some textured themes and let me pick one (or pick a UI that has one I like). A log cabin. A forest. A field. The ocean. Reasonably large font. 1 column. Header / button fonts with a bit of flare. Big profile pictures. Maybe show me a leaf or a seashell or some other themed image in a buffer between posts to break up the text a bit if we're not an art instance.

I know that for someone who likes current flat minimalistic design trends will likely think everything I just said is wrong. But I would hope both can exist.)
Show threadHawkwinter :firefish:Jul 25, 2023
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @[email protected] and thats before we even look at our hospital and medical care shortage and our shortage of supplies because someone thought it made sense to get a lon of them from the states and guess who didnt want to sell them?

It was a disaster caused by mismanagement and stupid austerity policy.

Our airports should have been closed in january 2020 with mandatory quarantine for anyone coming in from outside the country. We could have skipped it entirely.

- I was taking Covid seriously in January 2020 when the government was acting like it was a big joke.
Show threadHawkwinter :firefish:Jul 25, 2023
@David @kainoa
Yeah, i can see how making an account to report a bug and whatnot is a bit of a barrier to reporting, especially for non-technical types.

I didnt know where to look, but I'll be able to figure it out now that I know where to go.
Show threadHawkwinter :firefish:Jul 25, 2023
@neurovagrant
Ive read signal isnt safe either. I dunno what the right answer is, but signal didnt sound as safe as they claimed.

Certainly safer than mastodon though. This isnt private at all, its a very public space.