[-] vext01 69 points 1 month ago

"I could care less" to mean "I could NOT care less"

[-] vext01 64 points 2 months ago

I love the term "AI slop". It really captures how I feel about a lot of AI generated content.

[-] vext01 85 points 2 months ago

I will ramp down my use of amazon prime

[-] vext01 207 points 2 months ago

Recently they threatened to brick HP printers that use third-party cartridges if detected

Simple. Don't buy HP ever again.

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Looking for a portable ortholinear (self.ergomechkeyboards)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by vext01 to c/ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world

Hey,

I'm looking for a portable ortholinear for taking to co-working in my backpack.

For context, I'm a coder. I use neovim all day. At home I use a maltron 3d. It's a fantastic comfortable keyboard (I think kinesis nicked the design?), although it did take getting used to.

It's the only keyboard I've ever been able to touch type on.

So yeah. I'd like to find something similar that is portable. It has to have quiet switches, as it's a shared office. Any suggestions?

So far I've looked at:

Those all look nice, but are too expensive.

How does the ergodox ez hold up these days?

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submitted 3 months ago by vext01 to c/fountainpens@lemmy.world

Hey,

We've recently been discussing the capless clones. Doodlebud just made a video comparing the real deal with the clones.

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submitted 4 months ago by vext01 to c/canterbury@feddit.uk
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submitted 4 months ago by vext01 to c/pics@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/20971587

Dungeness nuclear power station earlier today

Picture taken just before lunch today from the old lighthouse.

Boy was it windy!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeness_nuclear_power_stations

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeness_Lighthouse

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submitted 4 months ago by vext01 to c/kent@feddit.uk

Picture taken just before lunch today from the old lighthouse.

Boy was it windy!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeness_nuclear_power_stations

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeness_Lighthouse

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submitted 4 months ago by vext01 to c/fountainpens@lemmy.world

We talk about writing instruments a lot, but equally important is the paper and related bits.

So tell us, what paper do you use? Do you use any cover/case for your notebook?

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submitted 4 months ago by vext01 to c/canterbury@feddit.uk
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Majohn/moonman A1 (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by vext01 to c/fountainpens@lemmy.world

[Reposting because it failed to federate again]

Picked this up for £11 from Aliexpress and I reckon it's one of the best FPs I own. Great for quick note taking.

Sure, it's a shameless clone of a pilot capless, but I'm never going to spend that kind of money.

Note also: only comes in . Writes like an if you ask me.

Considering buying a few more to gift to friends.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by vext01 to c/support@lemmy.world

Hi,

Several posts I've made to /c/fountainpens have not made it to lemmy.world from the lemmy.sdf.org instance.

If you compare these two urls, you can see that the top post (and several others) are only visible when viewed from sdf:

https://lemmy.world/c/fountainpens https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/fountainpens@lemmy.world

I've looked at the debugging tool and the sdf instance thinks that outbound lemmy.world is up to date, so has lemmy.world rejected the posts somehow?

It seems to happen non-deterministically. Some posts have made it through. This has been ongoing for at least a couple of weeks now.

Any ideas?

Edit: this post did federate... could it be to do with posts with images or something?

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How to debug a federation issue? (self.lemmyfederation)
submitted 4 months ago by vext01 to c/lemmyfederation@lemmy.ml

Hi there,

Hope this is the right place to ask.

Recently I've been posting to a community on lemmy.world from my account on the sdf instance. However I've noticed that the posts sometimes don't make it to lemmy.world.

I can see the post in the community when logged in in my sdf account, but if I go the the lemmy.world url in a browser, the post isn't there hours later.

How can I find out what's going on? Like is it an outbound sdf thing or an inbound lemmy.world thing? Is there a log file i can read somewhere? If I can find out which server is broken, who do I talk to?

(Knowing my luck this post won't federate)

Cheers

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Parkker IM (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 4 months ago by vext01 to c/fountainpens@lemmy.world

[Reposting, as it didn't federate properly last time]

This is a parker IM I've had in my collection a while. I don't usually go for Parker branded pens. I usually find them a bit boring/vanilla. But when I saw this one come up pristine on Ebay, I thought I'd give it a go.

It looks nice, but sadly it doesn't seal well. There's a hole under the clip that lets air in. Why? I guess I could try to cover it.

Bonus device in the background.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by vext01 to c/sdfpubnix

Hi,

I posted twice to a community on lemmy.world and wondered why no one upvoted or replied.

If I go to the the community directly via a web browser my posts don't show.

Is federation broken again?

My posts were 6 and 7 days ago.

[-] vext01 74 points 4 months ago

Please accept the cookie policy before any of that stuff...

[-] vext01 63 points 4 months ago

This takes me back to a simpler time.

A time of playing Total Anihilation and hanging on MSN messenger.

Does anyone remember musicmatch jukebox with the jumping sheep visualisation?

[-] vext01 68 points 5 months ago

It checks for malicious falcons in your system's level 4 aviary cache.

[-] vext01 85 points 7 months ago

What's a "walk in"? What's a "whip it"?

[-] vext01 84 points 10 months ago

Anyone else have AI fatigue?

[-] vext01 78 points 1 year ago
[-] vext01 87 points 1 year ago

Take the battery out if you can to avoid lithium fires.

Old batteries on constant charge... I worry about this kind of thing.

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