@PurpCat It is possible to set default emoji font family with fontconfig. I think Noto is used by default when it's installed, but I hate it and I've forced it to use Segoe UI Emoji, not the old one, with the black outline, but newer one. It's a bit different, but I like it so much that I have ripped it from Windows 11. There is an about:config var that sets the default emoji font in Firefox and by default it uses Twemoji, which comes with Firefox, but you can set it to whatever you want. And of course websites can use their own fonts, Element for some reason does this and forces Twemoji so I have to do a CSS injection with uBO to reset it back to Segoe UI Emoji😫 @Pawlicker@mint
@Pawlicker Excellent writeup! Some examples feature conservative and furry communities I know relatively little about, but are interesting nonetheless. However it's worth mentioning that there are those, already striving to break the interoperability granted by the AP protocol, not just sabotage it, but break away from it entirely — yes, of course in order to impose more censorship: whitelists (or should we call them accept-lists now?), real identities and all that. E.g.: https://blog.elizafox.space/forget-the-fediverse-lets-build-something-new
@lain They could've married and lived happily, but instead they have wasted time on economics. Libertarians would not have Hayek and everyone else might not have known the stupid inflation-unemployment curve, the world could've been a much better place! :marseysigh:
@kirby@theorytoe I think she's just the type TBH. Chiyo probably would too, but won't be as successful. The rest would become accountants, get married and eventually die of boredom… Okay-okay, I don't remember much about this show. Downloading Azumanga Daioh right now! (Illegally of course :marseysmug2: )
@mint@DemonSixOne@Giganova8@Meemoo@PurpCat@iska@luithe@wan Oh my, I have only just now opened this post in the context of the thread and realized how off topic panoramic cameras, postal services and storage boards in miniature computers are :marseylaughpoundfist:
@mint Yeah, there are converters and they would probably work, but I need it to replace the storage board in Efika MX nettop that I use as a proxy: https://breloma.m0xee.net/notice/AYp6eyVlrbQZzsWcnA This whole thing it tiny, I'm not sure anything but identical board would fit in its thin case. M2 to ZIF-IDE converter look thin enough even with M2 module itself, but you can never be sure until you try. Replacing with identical board would still be preferable, I don't even care if it's used as root partition that is on this board is immutable, all volatile parts: /var, /home, /tmp are on SD card anyway. Somehow it still got fried when the blackout happened. Mostly works, but on reading certain sectors it stops working — it looks as if the board gets disconnected. I know the file that got damaged and I can mark sectors used by it as bad with tune2fs, but I probably still won't be able to do full block device backups. I mean it's not unusable, but if it costs pennies, why not just replace it just to make sure it doesn't get worse? :marseyshrug: @iska@PurpCat@DemonSixOne@wan@Giganova8@Meemoo@luithe
@iska TBH, I've never used intranational deliveries, I've been selling a bass once and one guy literally begged me to send it to another city, but I refused as I've always considered it a hassle. Luckily I set the price low enough to find a person willing to get it off my hands the same day. Now I see this ZIF-IDE solid state drive on sale — these are old and extremely rare. And it's dirt cheap, but it's in another city so I'm still reluctant — so many moving parts, so many thing to worry about and I can get tricked at any stage of this, scary :marseyworried: @mint@Giganova8@Meemoo@DemonSixOne@luithe@PurpCat@wan
@iska I think @mint is right, it just got better in the recent years, in 2010s it had been a complete clusterfuck, I have once received a box that was totally squashed and all the CDs inside smashed :marseygiveup: And of course you might just be lucky :marseyemojismilemoutheyes: @Giganova8@Meemoo@DemonSixOne@luithe@PurpCat@wan
@mint Ali is miles better for some reason — probably priority treatment by the customs. Even US→RU used to be not that bad, EU — just forget about it. UK (then still part of the EU) had been particularly bad, once I've been waiting for a t-shirt for months — as there was no tracking number, I considered it lost and contacted the sender for another one — in a few weeks both arrive! :marseyemojismilemoutheyes: I've also been subscribed to a few British periodics — sometimes they arrive on time, sometimes several issues arrive at the same time, some never arrive — always a gamble :marseyshrug: @iska@PurpCat@DemonSixOne@wan@Giganova8@Meemoo@luithe
@PurpCat > though RU > US shipping is slowish too Russian Postal services are literal snail mail — and customs processing doesn't make it any better. Even in better times, like in 2010s, you could wait for your package for months. Once a parcel arrived to me in 5 (!) months — I have already forgotten about it and considered it long lost :marseylaughpoundfist: @iska@DemonSixOne@wan@mint@Giganova8@Meemoo@luithe
@arcanicanis@mischievoustomato@dcc@PurpCat@sneeden Some people just hate themselves enought to get into abusing relationships with other people — and even with companies, when they are actually paying for services rendered. Who the fuck knows why they do this, but there is now way around it :marseyshrug:
@PurpCat Yeah, OS/2 is a textbook example of this, but when I look back on it today, I think that this wasn't what killed it. It had been fine in Win 3.1x era, but Windows 95 came together with the boom of Web — in Windows 95 setting up a dial-up connection was like: click-click, phone number, click, username-password, click-click — done. With OS/2 it has been a fucking adventure, even getting normal TCP/IP networking running wasn't for the faint of the heart, a PPP-connection? Forget about it! Even using Arachne in DOS wasn't that hard TBH. @mischievoustomato@sneeden@arcanicanis