Barry Peddycord III @ishara@social.isharacomix.org

tbh i dont even care about joker i just want to hear "last surprise" in every smash battle

Huh, I was only expecting the Finale cycle to be in Grixis colors. Finale of Glory looks like my kind of nonsense. #MTG

https://scryfall.com/search?q=finale+and+s%3Awar&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name

"Hi, this is Fedex! We have a package that requires a specific address!"
"I'm sorry, only the shipper can update the address!"

T_T

feeling cute, might delete later

Today I learned that when my computer isn't plugged into a monitor, its preferred way of expressing its displeasure with that situation is shrieking like a damn banshee. 🤖

It's amazing how much hardware has changed. I got my first computer with an NVMe SSD, and I honestly stared at it with amazement. At first I thought it was soldered onto the motherboard, but I noticed the connector and started doing some research into it.

If you would have told kid me that this was a hard drive, I would have laughed you out of the room.

After a shower I realized that this nostalgia is ill-advised since it's just another vector for telemarketers to harass me and I'm already on record as saying that phone numbers need to die anyway.

Maybe I'm weird but I'm nostalgic for a home phone. I'd need to do some research, but it'd be awesome to be able to plug a sip phone into my router and connect it to some hosted server or whatever.

I'm amazed that I can get a phone that can call over wifi with no limits for $5/mo but AT&T will charge me $20/mo just to tack on 200-minute-per-month phone number onto my internet service.

I think I'd be quite happy if XMPP supplanted text messaging for me. It all depends on how the tech usage within my social network evolves.

And while I don't see Matrix as a better Signal/Whatsapp, I do see it as a pathway off of Slack and Discord before those platforms degrade to the point of unusability. I don't see anything in XMPP's ecosystem being usable for group and community management.

I think it also hearkens back to the difference in paradigm of microblogging like Tumblr/Twitter/Mastodon and "friend" networks like Myspace/Facebook.

Most people don't join Facebook to meet new people: they connect with people they know offline who are likely to have an account. Twitter, on the other hand, is all about talking to strangers.

This is what I think led to Mastodon picking up traction so rapidly compared to Diaspora. It facilitates meeting new people.

I think part of the appeal of IRC, Discord, Slack, and Matrix is that when you make an account there, the idea is that there are already people there that you can talk to and engage with.

Joining Discord is like going to the mall, and you might bump into some people you are acquainted with or make new acquaintances.

XMPP feels like a much more personal space, where I might be caught quite off-guard getting an unsolicited chat request from anyone in the fediverse.

So given the Matrix outage, I went and made an XMPP account.

People like to talk down flagship servers in the federated ecosystem, but honestly hunting down an xmpp server as a host with was a pretty needless exercise. I went with xmpp.is. Are they any good? No idea!

It didn't help that out of the pro-XMPP posts boosted into my TL, not one of them recommended a particular instance to set up an account. Without recommendations, I default to wanting something authoritative.

we got polls on social.isharacomix.org