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Been watching anime on and off since the 90s and love the amount of content that can be accessed these days. Into all sorts of genres, but currently on a #gundam kick as well as Spy x Family, Buddy Daddies, Kuma kuma kuma bear, etc. So many good shows!

Recently got into #gunpla, and hoping to post a bit about that going forward. Got a giant pile of The Witch From Mercury boxes here waiting to be built!

Trying to learn a little Japanese for the umpteenth time, but this time with #duolingo. If you are also trying that and we have interacted at least a little, feel free to shoot me a DM with your username and I'll add you:)

Also into video games, from  retro  to the latest.


I can code.


He/him

四Nov 8, 2024
Linux can be kinda neat.

That's all.
四May 30, 2024
@chikorita157 Read rumors of Apple "adding" ChatGPT to iOS18. Would be insanely disappointing if that's true. I don't want anything of mine to be sent out and processed, especially without my consent/knowledge.

Damn I miss old Apple:( Not strange that it's very common to see ex-Apple people starting new things here and there.
Show thread四May 29, 2024
@ami_angelwings That can be sung to the tune of "do you want to build a snowman".

Just saying.
四May 27, 2024
So random, now my aux front output on the Linux machine, works. Well I've updated an awful lot since I checked last, but still, neat :)

Doesn't swap over automagically from the other input, but surely nicer than not working at all.
四May 27, 2024
Cosplaying as "chat" is both a great and a terrible idea at the same time.

Just saying.
四Apr 27, 2024
@anianimalsmoe So I checked it out, but I can’t say I understood how the bubble timeline works. Got a TL;DR or a link perhaps?
Show thread四Apr 4, 2024
@chikorita157 @yon @NaraMoore Writing laws are a lot like writing games. You think you thought of everything, and then the dang gamers starts to game the heck out of the meta and find cheese and exploits left and right.

Just it’s a lot easier releasing a patch than it is to fix a law. And this from a person who see regulation as a must for society to function.

I can see how individuals wants side loading, and like the abstract ideas of other stores. But all I see are other big corporate players wanting a way around paying Apple (they aren’t going to make it cheaper for us) and a way around things like Apple limiting tracking. Same reason for wanting another credit card service, so they can sell that data. Not to mention things like stores with pirated software and how incredibly painfully difficult and expensive it is to run a store.

Basically I think individuals hopes doesn’t line up with the money that lobbied for any of these laws.

One example of something I think would benefit us, would be if all hardware manufacturers had to publish how their hardware works (I’m simplifying here).

Similar to how I believe that manufacturers should have to supply replacement parts to individuals and corporations so that their products can be repaired. But I don’t think there should be any laws around how hardware works. As I think it’s far too difficult to write such laws in the end.

Basically I wrote a lot of words trying to say, laws be complicated :)

Also, many feel iPadOS isn’t great. For many reasons. But I’m starting to wonder if it would make sense for manufacturers to start building true normal and pro products. Where normal means “just apps from a vetted store, made for people who just want to use it, etc” and a true pro product that starts to move towards the power and usefulness of a computer.

Because phone plus screen and keyboard can do quite a bit these days. And I wonder if we’ll see a “dumb” AVP that’s very slim in the future that’s always tethered to a phone.

Ok, enough rambling for today. It’s been an odd day.
Show thread四Apr 4, 2024
@chikorita157 @yon @NaraMoore I am very much not a supporter of EU’s “open everything up” type laws. I feel that on a surface level they sound all well and good, but I fear the reason why see them has more to do with the big players not liking not getting access to everyone else’s users (and by that I mean data).

I don’t want interoperability with iMessage, nor the fediverse, etc to the big players. I don’t see everything getting swallowed up as a positive in the end. Because a big rich company with competent developers can eat any small entities unless they are incompetent.

I think the fediverse is better off on its own, to grow in its own ways. There’s still so much potential for something more unique and new. Something more privacy and user centric.
Show thread四Apr 2, 2024
@chikorita157 @yon @[email protected] @fujiwara Yeah it’s not that I’ve got a personal interest in threading it up:) But it is a credible platform, as in there’s credible people building it (the devs). Even if the corporation is what it is.

I know I get back to it. But I think we need algorithms in social media to get through the noise. Algorithmic feeds aren’t bad. It’s just that we should be in charge of them ourselves.
Show thread四Feb 12, 2024
@chikorita157 Funny thing, works just fine 99% of the time with MacOS (even with my sub-hell ISP). IPv6 is really old, it's really time to do this.

And Linux should be the type of software that does it right.