i have not. all my raspberry pi projects start with 'i'll definitely finish the project i've set out to do this time', and end with 'ah, oh well'.

happy for you

last chance to save big on jstpst premium

i used to sit at my computer all day before i became skinny. no problem, even while using a wooden dining chair. now i can't even spend two hours straight sitting in a herman miller.

can't have a fair comparison here until you've touched on the "piss bottle situation"

i really hope he delegates the responsibility and keeps his hands off, but knowing him, he'll probably want to be directly involved in development. we've had disagreements before about technological direction, and now he's in a position to just overrule my judgement.

i am going to cook instant "bali noodle soup" on my terrible induction stove, and try not to spend all evening thinking about it

i hope you found it

please shoot me if i ever do apartheid

perhaps they simply wanted to play baseball with you

does this apply to all people named alex jones, or just a particular alex jones?

i think you should not do that

sounds like industrial equipment? chances are they wouldn't sell that to consumers anyway.

something dramatic will happen:

a popup will open, asking you to confirm that you really want to delete the flair

sorry

first thing that comes to mind

i guess if you ate like berries with the stem, then technically you're eating a little bit of wood... maybe. i'm no wood scientist.

hate when that happens

yeah

that's an entirely different show, idk how you could possibly confuse the two.

i don't believe you

the plasma is simply extracted from her blood upon firing the cannon

i order the spiciest food, then watch as the people i'm with get the same food as me and have a hard time coping with it, while i'm perfectly comfortable

the O stands for organic. when the display has reached the end of its usable life, you can simply eat it.

it may seem like the pinnacle of magic

*oled tv owner voice* no

since we're sharing gripes we have with matrix and/or element, i'll share mine:

• editing messages is completely unreliable. i'll send a message on my computer, realise i did a oopsie and edit it out of the message, then later log in with my phone and see the oopsie is still there. i have no idea if the person i messaged sees the edited message or not.

• messages become stuck. i'll infodump on someone, then one of the messages just randomly becomes attached at the end of the log. i have to close element and reopen it, and ultimately i'm left wondering if the message got sent correctly in the first place.

• you have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how to log out. it'll pester you about key backups, and even when you've done that, it'll still warn you that you're about to lose all your messages.

  • the whole encryption thing is of dubious value. the team and leadership don't have the discipline to build a truly secure messaging app, and yet their insistence on pretending to build one hurts usability and causes issues with room states or whatever.

• they added a colourblind mode, which is theoretically good, but there is no non-colourblind mode, and it looks fuckugly. this primarily affects name colours (and not things where colours are used to convey meaning, like red for dangerous actions, etc.), so all they've done is make it look jarring for the rest of us. this feels like it was done to tick off a point on a compliance checklist, rather than to actually improve the user experience for colourblind people. (i'm open to the possibility i'm wrong on this one)

• search is completely broken in encrypted rooms.

• synchronising takes anywhere from a microsecond to several minutes where it just spins and does nothing.

• you cannot ignore invites. i sometimes get messaged by people i don't know, and don't wish to signal that i rejected their invite to, and the invite will just be stuck there, with a notification badge, for all eternity, until i relent and reject it. i wish for the ability to prevent invites on the server-side, which i'm told there is no reason it can't be done.

  • this recently came back to bite the ceo of element when he was invited to a room named 'CHILD PORN' while giving a demo. maybe we'll finally have the option soon.

• rooms get stuck in the 'has unread messages' state for seemingly no reason. i'm in such a room right now, and it still persists in that state even when i click the 'mark all messages as read' button. for some reason it's only stuck like this in the iOS app.

• the IRC bridges only go one way, where you can use matrix to join IRC channels. i want to allow IRC users to join my matrix channel, so they can pester me about postmill without having to sign up for yet another service.

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