Notices by Cavyherd (cavyherd@wandering.shop)

@foone @connections

Capacitors are especially exciting if you put them in backwards

(Thinking back the cloud of smoke & paper debris expanding around Fred's workstation when he made that mistake, back in the day. Rest of class: "Okay! I'm awake now!")

(Later coworker enjoyed the amusements of putting them across the leads of an arch welder. With suitable shielding, of course.)

@foone

I've gotten so frustrated. It seems to me that systems are, if anything, *slowing down* in the "modern" age. Even if your keyboard is responsive, it takes an extra beat for keystrokes to register. HOW is this an improvement!?

@nathans

Thank you for this. I hadn't really thought it through, & mostly have felt grumpy at being guilted about "small charitable donation to a worthy cause."

But this is makes it MUCH easier to mentally tell them to fuck off.

Too bad there's not a button for "pay your own damn taxes, jackhole."

@sofia @nathans

Not sure what you mean...?

@sofia @nathans

This is a very excellent clarification. Thank you for it!

I think I will continue with my practice of not doing that donation (& reserve the right to my irritation with the whole process, because it definitely feels like they're trying to guilt me into making a donation—which I freely concede may well be more about me than the corporation.)

@feditips

What's the custom when adding people to a List. Is it customary to ask them first? (Are Lists visible to anyone but the list-maker?)