CJ Shearwood :pmgpurple:

Miniature Wargame Designer and Sculptor, Software Engineer and Space Enthusiast

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2025-07-09 11:09:33 GMT

I am very disappointed with @npub1sv0…rq9x so far. I appreciate that it's out of their control that cityfibre took a month to install the line, but when the 1000/1000 line is running at 30/1 I expect more of a response than "please pay for us to ship you a second router" with no SLA or eta on when they expect to have the issue resolved or escalated.
Maybe I need to temper my expectations, but I very nearly cancelled the contract there and then. If this is how they treat new customers, how do I expect them to treat me in a year, two years etc.

2025-01-14 11:42:34 GMT

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I mean, your average social media user doesn't have the vocabulary to even start thinking about running their own instance. I'm a professional software developer, with friends and contacts who do/have previously run their own instances and the overwhelming consensus is that social issues aside (like knowing to defederate the nazi, porn and abuse instances) it's not a great technical solution either. And frankly I don't want to spent my limited time on earth managing another server when I could be spending it doing something I actually enjoy.

2025-01-14 11:07:33 GMT

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Emily Hunt's replies to that toot are on the mark. It's a question of priorities, but activitypub means that users have to bet on their chosen host surviving long term for everything. But in practice, they don't last and the protocol design makes switching providers difficult (from the migration process not preserving toots, to relying on the host remaining reachable to actually migrate users).
There are real risks with atproto, sure, and its governance is one of them, but for my money it's the one I'm betting on long term because ultimately, it's hard to hope that the instance I picked will still be running in two, three, five years.

2024-10-07 22:59:03 GMT

Gunny Bunnies! From Bad Squiddo's “Friends of Gaslands" range, a lovely treat to paint up as a palate cleanser in the style of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, using the Krautcover grimdark basing set. (Please see alt. text for a full description of the bunnies)
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2024-10-04 22:40:21 GMT

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The Lion is no longer so harmless. He is still headless and shieldless. I was hoping to have him finished tonight, but that wasn't going to happen. Still maybe this weekend.
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2024-10-03 22:57:17 GMT

I’ve been working on this Lion El’Johnson this week to destress from house buying nonsense. The body is almost done, just a few highlights and details left to go.
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2024-09-11 23:32:19 GMT

Almost done with the first two units of my new #TheOldWorld dwarf army. I was hoping to get the two command ranks finished today but there is just a lot more detail on them and time got away from me.
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2024-09-11 00:08:10 GMT

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love Lamenters, you’ve done an excellent job on the pad and chapter symbol

2024-09-07 18:50:41 GMT

Half of one unit of Dwarves painted for #TheOldWorld, still enjoying it but looking forward to basing the entire unit. Talking a break to make some dinner and figure out a solution for movement trays.
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2024-09-06 09:37:57 GMT

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writing stuff down is so useful though. I took the time last night after this test was finished to write down the process for everything but the beard (which I'll switch up for each dwarf/batch of dwarves) so that for the next batch it's just sit down and paint.
That said, I mostly agree with you around mixing, even if here the armour trim is a custom colour (50/50 leadbelcher and brass scorpion, with a 4/1ish mix of stormhost silver and brass scorpion for highlights)

2024-09-06 09:35:39 GMT

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I think for any project where you're going to have to do a lot of them, it's a key aspect, but also figuring out something that lets you splash out on the odd model.

2024-09-05 23:32:59 GMT

Finished painting a test dwarf for #TheOldWorld, painted in the Karak Norn colour scheme. Very happy with how he’s turned out, and it’s simple enough to replicate dozens of times.
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2024-09-01 22:49:53 GMT

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there was a fan written supplement, the balance was definitely not there but it was good enough for a weekend worth of fun with like-minded people

2024-09-01 16:21:39 GMT

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whilst not with the third edition rules, I have occasionally had the same daydream about using modern heresy miniatures to do badab war, and last year me and a bunch of friends did a badab kill team weekend