Hi! I'm Jim Salter, aka mercenary_sysadmin, aka "the biggest ZFS stan on the planet."
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Last Notes npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Fuck systemd. Seriously. FUCK THAT SHIT. I am so goddamn tired of it getting its nasty, poorly-coded, bug-ridden fingers into EVERYTHING like some kind of goddamn Microsoft library would. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter This is very true. The problem is that the pockets of the assholes pushing AI are a *lot* deeper than the pockets of the IT workers that companies are determinedly attempting to replace with AI. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…gwwy maybe his Clawdbot agent reads the calendar and fires up the jiggler for him. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Seen on facebook: "we have this pretty stereotypical vibe coder on our team, and he apparently doesn't know we can all see each other's calendars." npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…ynd9 thanks, and right back atcha. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…4stm so you're saying it's not like American politics, it's more like American politics, then? :) npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Let's not pretend this is ONLY about Apple, of course... npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter You're a transparent shill, Mack. A "full self driving" system that has to be stopped from wrecking you twice in only 145 miles of travel IS NOT COMPETENT. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Amazon Prime offered me a "Livestream" of classic SNL episodes. With ads. No fast forward, no pause, no rewind. How is this "streaming" again? But fuck it. Classic SNL. Sounds good, let's go. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…4stm I ran one of those R7-4700u Swift 3 laptops for years. Definitely an undersung microbudget hero IMO. Was when it was new, still can be today. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter If you ever need to tow with a Tesla... Don't expect more than 1mi to 1% battery, if you stay at or below 65mph RELIGIOUSLY npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…t0hh you can be quote boosted, I just checked. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Welcome to Anno Domini 2025, can't WAIT to see what miracles 2026 has in store for us... npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Healthy life coach type shit right here npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter context is for losers. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Some of y'all want to yell at me right now for not just saying "don't use them at all" and going through the entire laundry list why not. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter If you've asked LLMs hard questions you don't know the answers to WITHOUT first quizzing it on things you understand very well, you're doing it wrong. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Spotted about twenty minutes into the return trip home from the largest free and open source software conference on the East Coast: npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Yesterday, I warned conference attendees repeatedly that consumer M.2 drives were not to be trusted. Specifically, I emphasize their tendency to cook themselves in their own waste heat. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Well that was fun--my laptop's M.2 drive coughed up a hairball something like thirty minutes into my (storage!) talk at #ato2025 . npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter So I'm a... punk goth? npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Today, I had to dig into a senior executive's email to find out why the hell "Otter dot AI" was suddenly invited to every Teams meeting the company had, and was emailing people snippets from what was said, still images of them from the call, etc. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter An open letter to a billionaire. (Note: might be easier to read from the ALT tag than the image.) #meta #facebook #algorithmicfeeds npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…85tn @nprofile…g7cz hi Doc, IT guy here. I don't know if it makes you feel ANY better, but believe me, it's not just your profession. I don't really want to dive into the "but WHY when it's so OBVIOUSLY stupid" rabbit hole right now, but our current crop of oligarchs are positively DROOLING to force everybody into using this garbage no matter how inappropriate it is. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…z3we nah, my black shirts have obvious enough designs on them. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…z3we well I'll be damned, I could have sworn that's Linux only. Maybe it's a not-FreeBSD thing, instead of a Linux-only thing? npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…z3we I'm comfortable in colors, I just LIKE black (and dark grey). npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…z3we nope, zed is OpenZFS only. Not a part of oracle's version. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…z3we zed is the ZFS Event Daemon, dammit! 🤣 npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…rak3 nah, they're been doing this for more than ten years, I just didn't realize I had my VPN up. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…z3we ADHD wolf is fighting at a disadvantage in mine, at least in this particular battle... but it's recently started making some headway. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Growing up, my heroes were steely eyed, laconic, hyper-competent people who Got The Needful Done. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…q5wq @nprofile…xdcd these days I'm having to do regedits to get around bugginess with how office 365 manages the TPM *extremely* frequently. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter The #FSF wanted to know why I'd cancelled recurring billing immediately after my membership auto-renewed. So I told them. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…pp8p "I love doing it" and "it takes less than an hour to get through the process" are two entirely separate statements. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Why is setting up a new phone such a dystopian fucking nightmare, EVERY DAMN TIME? npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Google's "Gemini" assistant broke into another conversation of mine to comment on a phrase I used in that conversation, still unsummoned. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter I've spent the better part of half a century trying to look clean-cut and conventional, but in my old age, I'm finally starting to let my inner punk out of the closet. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter This is the best take on Fermi's Paradox that I've ever seen. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Web comics about emerging technology don't generally age that well, but the passage of a mere decade hasn't blunted this one a bit. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…7s4z Cineco/Zongshen (not sure which, that's kinda like Ford vs Mercury and I've seen claims it's BOTH) E-RT3. Mine was imported by way of CSC, but they stopped importing them shortly after I bought mine. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter TFW you finally start getting serious about figuring out how many miles you REALLY get to a charge on your electric motorcycle: npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Not sure if true story or merely funny parable, but I WANT TO BELIEVE npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter I picked my middle kid up from smart kid summer camp today. Behold his robotics project: which he named "Unfortunate Son" 🤣 npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/745/236/066/546/554/original/bf30a843f42ed30f.png npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter I'm very happy to announce that Practical ZFS is now hosting the "official unofficial" (or is it unofficial official?) support forum for zVault, the community-operated, still-FreeBSD-based fork of the now-discontinued TrueNAS Core! npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter #Amazon just keeps being Amazon when it comes to the algorithmically manipulated reviews. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter If we can't get these shit heels out of office, it really will not take that long to permanently destroy the version of America I signed up to serve. MAYBE twenty years. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…cee8 a friend of mine managed to spot three random right wingers strolling through the grounds. They were wearing "colors" but no signs, no chants, no counter protest attempts: guess they decided to just be tourists, given the rather obvious discrepancy on the ground. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…cee8 maybe the tide has started to seriously shift, I dunno. This is the first protest in Columbia I've EVER attended that didn't have a right-wing faction counter-protesting and trying very directly to intimidate the protesters. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter I guess it was a good day: not one single counter-protester in sight at today's #NOKINGS protest in Columbia, SC. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter A friend of mine, @nprofile…5dsf, came up with a really interesting term: "parasocial media." npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…7s4z @nprofile…vvfe it strikes me as unlikely--not impossible, but unlikely--that a human artist would be that good at capturing the gestalt of the faces so recognizably, with almost picasso-level minimalism of detail, while getting proportions of arms, hands, and legs so desperately wrong. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter When I first came to Mastodon--specifically, on the #Fosstodon instance--I had already abandoned Xitter (the X makes a "sh" sound, like in Mandarin pinyin) for Bluesky, and I didn't think mastodon was ever likely to be my platform of choice--not enough normal people, too techie-focused, likely to be an echo chamber. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…5ek2 I'm starting to wonder if modern next-gen filesystems are approaching an inherent limit of human ability to mentally model and manage complexity. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…843t probably not really available where you are right now, but deep tissue massage would very likely work also. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Oh yeah! I almost forgot. What kind of introduction would this be without a picture? I'm not actually Johnny Five, believe it or not! npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Continuing the introduction: I am a 53yo Southern USA'an bearded veteran CisHetWhiteGuy(tm), and I know a lot of folks have very justified concerns about that demographic. To those folks: I am an ally, first and foremost. I do not and will not tolerate transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, racism, religious bigotry, furry-bullying, or any other *ism I've forgotten to mention. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Hiya Fedifolk--I'm one of the new moderator team for the #Fosstodon instance. Did I say "hi" yet? 🙃 npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter I have rarely felt so brutally attacked. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter The #FreeBSD Foundation just published a short article by Benedict Reuschling on how to use #Sanoid to automate snapshots and backups on FreeBSD. A sample #Ansible playbook is included! npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Sometimes I forget just how shitty #Microsoft has been steadily making #Windows. Then I sit at a client's desk, when that client hasn't done anything to stem the tide of shit on their own. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter I know, I know. "Free Bird" is a joke, it's been a joke for my entire life: lame, basic, overplayed. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter I love my newly-thrifted crustpunk jacket, but I am never going to understand the decision to transliterate "ape kill ape" as "ah-pay kee-roo ay-ee-poo." npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/456/744/790/672/736/original/fd7f483f737b67fd.png npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter This is EXTREMELY relevant to my interests: an ultra minimal <$20K work capable small pickup truck, due to launch next year. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…7s4z @nprofile…65cv @nprofile…kgaw @nprofile…4d9x @nprofile…ftf4 Mike, the VERY FIRST ITEM on your code of conduct reads: npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…hgx6 @nprofile…l6tf no I haven't! npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…l6tf @nprofile…hgx6 it didn't have that ability when I kicked it to the curb, which WAS many years ago (it's been roughly a decade since I could read default typeface size SMS without glasses), nor is that enough to make me want to switch back to it now. 🤠 npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter You may now add me to the list of FOSS folks directly impacted by unethical AI scraping effectively performing Denial of Service attacks. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…wryu "Don't tell the Americans, but it's basically socialism"--nah, my fellow Americanskis can hear that. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…qfh3 "Now each of the two girls has her OWN cup!" 🤠😅🤣 npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…qfh3 4.3 MiB/sec... This is what it sounds like when sectors cry npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…843t @nprofile…wryu I've been getting better and better at packing the various storage options (under seat, luggage box, my backpack) on my motorcycle. It feels like unloading a clown car when I get home with a couple hundred bucks worth of groceries! 😅 npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…wekp @nprofile…843t even if you want to raise objections about not a Windows device, you absolutely CAN rock a Deck as a Windows device. When it launched, a lot of people did exactly that, reflexively, before everybody figured out "this thing is actually great the way it ships." npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…843t another thing I'll point out: "we didn't have benchmarks on hand from similar classes of device" is no excuse. When I had the same issue, I would source widely available benchmarks to put against my own direct benchmarks of the device under test, and cite the sources I pulled from. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…843t I got yelled at by angry turbo gamers a couple of times when I did exactly that while I was at Ars. But it isn't exactly difficult to get yourself yelled at by turbo gamers, IME... npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…843t personally, I'd have benched it against *both*, with text explaining that the laptop was a bit of a joker, but was included to demonstrate the discrepancy between classes of device. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…sw23 that could theoretically give them a pass for using it to train the model--and I am only stipulating it for the sake of argument, not because I think it's an actual winner--but that doesn't change the fact that the BitTorrent protocol itself required them to UPLOAD the same work they were downloading. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter BitTorrenting copyrighted works, if caught, means fines or jail for you and me. Will Zuck face similar consequences for piracy of the exact same works, on a massively larger scale? npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…wryu to be fair, that is not the same byline. Different reporters at the same venue frequently have different takes on the same topic. Look at how differently Musk got covered in the space section vs anywhere else on Ars Technica for a really glaring example. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…wryu Be Best (at grifting) npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…wryu @nprofile…r4y2 thank you for confirming that water is, in fact, wet despite the crowd loudly proclaiming its essential aridity npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @nprofile…sw23 we say "algorithm" but it's AI stuff. Training neural networks is hard. You get a lot of unexpected outcomes even if you actually knew what you were doing in the FIRST place. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Q: has the algorithmic feed manipulation at Xitter increased alarmingly under Musk? npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/963/761/108/531/681/original/3b96775b284d807c.png npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter I don't know which of y'all needs to hear this today, but you can sort IPv4 addresses quickly and easily with newer versions of GNU sort: cat ipaddresses.txt | sort -V will do the trick. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @npub1rsl…lqqt nope. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter I often wonder whether the architect who designed this building knew what they were doing, acoustically speaking, BEFORE it was built. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @npub1rsl…lqqt gee, a whole 114MiB of data. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter If you browse O*Net to look at information about various job roles, it will tell you which "hot technologies"—requirements most frequently included across all employer job postings—are associated with a job description. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter Can any #actuallyautistic folks following me chip in on something? npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @npub1rsl…lqqt SIGH dammit Mozilla... npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @npub1rsl…lqqt *cough* *cough* BREXIT *cough* npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @npub1ugm…f0zl BG3 right now, which is thankfully IMMENSELY better than it was back when I reviewed it in Early Access. npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @npub13w6…479m this is a terrible way to begin the new year 😂 npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @npub1vcl…k6t3 @npub1rsl…lqqt good answer, insufficient reason: because it's AWESOME npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @npub1rsl…lqqt die hard npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @npub1rsl…lqqt @npub1gzl…kk4u probably about time to rebrand to "kill your iHeartRadio" or something, the FM is already pretty fucking dead 🙃 npub19g6wf2p26la98nl662uq0rnzs8g4z6m4v3pcnc7qdm746kat5pfsrfxpgq Jim Salter @npub1rsl…lqqt @npub1v9c…sudu @npub1ecx…yjcq sure, you can, but the context (left) button will still be fucking useless, so what's the point?
