@pro At the moment I really only use it for posting screenshots from closed platforms. I just went back for and looked at it for a bit and it was a miserable experience full of promoted content, suggestions, and other things pushing you towards things they wanted you to look at. I counted about 15 of their content to 4 from people I followed.

@gamingonlinux I've been here, of course I'm thinking about using Twitter more now. ;)

@Zennblack It's not just Shanghai, it's many different places in China right now. Shanghai's just the one with more people with foreign contacts than most of the other places in China that are locked down right now. It's probably even worse in those areas. The reason we can't care as much about that though is there's even less chance for a positive outcome with how tight the controls over China are. I have equal concern for all those stuck under the CCP, like Hong Kong and Shanghai, as Ukraine and Taiwan, but there's still reasonable hope with Ukraine and Taiwan, and there's very little hope left for Hong Kong, Shanghai, and the rest of China.

@union They were hoping to contain the thrashing the country did as it was dying off... now they don't know what will be wrecked as it happens.

@union If Zelensky was doing what the west wanted, Russia would already have most of the country and Ukraine would be in guerilla warfare tying Russia down like Afghanistan in the 80's, and holding it there until its death throes from demographic collapse and all of their technical staff dying off because they stopped educating them long enough ago that the trained engineers on all of their military equipment are hitting the life expectancy age for the country. Ukraine holding them off wasn't what the west wanted or expected.

@felix @requiem It's more that it allows you to pick a time of day and check all the new messages on it, write your post if you want, then just completely ignore it until the next day knowing you're not missing out on anything.

@felix @requiem How about... You can go in at any point, make the post as long or as short as you want, edit it as much as you want... But once per day it takes the post you're working on and shows it to the rest of the users who have subscribed to one of the tags in the post. Then if someone wants to reply, they can add a reply to their post, which will then get exposed to them the next day. Basically, slowing down the conversation and reducing engagement costs.

@requiem I have been using that social network?

@Moon Much better to get North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Alaska, and Texas oil. Too bad it's impossible to completely avoid Iranian/Saudi/Russian oil.

@gamingonlinux That's too bad. If it wasn't for the Intel chipset and the mediocre linux support, the GPD Win 3 is actually a nice looking handheld that I would have considered getting for its more compact size. The pocket with the KVM would have been useful too.

https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1508398726099914756

I think it's a bit like this in China as well, though China has many more prosperous regions, many high tier cities, and even more people in crippling poverty in the countryside.

@tk They look nicer than Soviet era Stack-a-prole buildings at least, but probably aren't that pleasant to live in.

https://youtu.be/ksZJytaqpAY Interesting, especially the bits at the end about him being offended by the bad opsec of the communications.

Been so long since I had my opteron server up. Had it at the old office until they sent us home, and had to move it, but didn't have a suitable rack setup at home. Just finally got the rack up, and network/power run to it. Still so much work to do to get everything moved over to it though, and get everything else up in that rack. A lot of sets of rails to buy for various rack mount cases that are cantilever mounted on the old rack.

@anime If I click on it, it will go through to the image so I can read it.

@stuff @Moon PCs not made by IBM had that plug all the way up to where they switched to ATX cases, for the most part. PS/2 plugs started to appear on ATX motherboards. In fact, the only thing on BabyAT cases that had a dedicated window from the outside of the case to the motherboard was the PC DIN keyboard plug. Everything else was either on a card slot, or a cable up from the motherboard to a plug that screwed into the case.

It was also used for the Atari 8-bit computers, for Monitor (5 pin) and Power (7 pin, even though there was only 1 voltage and a ground, they used the 7 pin to keep you from plugging 5v into the video port.)

@requiem @natecull So, like Redox, Oberon or Haiku? I suppose CollapseOS also isn't written in C.

@avia The costs being both the labor, and the new friction enhancing fluid that the CVT needs to operate.