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Verizon 5G, $35/month for the 300 mbps / 20 up plan (my needs are not huge, this does the TV streaming and the zoom meetings just fine).

Somerville MA. Was previously paying 3x that for crappy Astound service at half the speed.

This whole spectacle is atrocious, but it’s part of a series of atrocious nonsense. Worse streaming series evah.

gigglesnort

Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum*

*yes, I know: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5937294/trivia/

Agree–I’m seeing a lot of what I called ‘quiet quitting’ lately. The regulars are posting a lot less, or not at all. I’m not ready to burn-it-all-down, because I want to be able to lure people over later when this is a bit more mature. But it already feels different there.

Reddit is becoming an unusable garbage site.

'Tis.

I put alt text in my kbin uploads, but then I couldn’t find it later.

I would also like to be able to preview my image as I’m writing the description. I have to keep looking back at my stored one to try to do it well, and I’m failing.

This point struck me too:

Reddit is under no obligation to make its API free. But, it seems, the company has overreached in enforcing the new policy. If its target is the largest AI firms, then it should focus on curbing their parasitic proclivities and not going after beloved and useful software its users and moderators depend on.

This is my feeling. I understand that it could cost something. But the eye-watering rates for the small fish and the speed of the extortion is the issue.

They should have been leaving earlier, the outcome was clear by last year. But when I saw recently that Block Party was going away, I knew that it was going to become hellish and untenable.

Let’s make them welcome here…

My favorite thing was when I grasped what “microblog” was. It follows hashtags related to a community. So I want to see what is going on in #Boston, but it’s too much to have all the random stuff in my feed. But I can check the m/Boston magazine and scroll around what’s up on the microblog to catch up when I feel like it.

And I found out how to push my posts out to Mastodon.

I know it’s still a work in progress, but I think it’s kind of slick, really.

Super–glad to hear that.

Yah, Leaf 2016 model. I got ticketed by the city for parking the wrong direction. I tried to explain to them that they chose to site the charger in a way that caused this problem, but they said they didn’t care and don’t do it…

LOL, same here. Most of the time I knew, but in a rental car or something, I could never remember…

My charging port is in the front center now–and this is causing me problems with some street chargers because I can’t get the cable far enough over. There’s no arrow for that…

I’m wondering if a Co-op model would work for some of these alternatives. Then they would be less reliant on a single owner/developer system, there would be additional support for some of the businessy components, and there would be a built-in groups structure for resolution of issues.

I’ve been watching the formation of a co-op Etsy alternative, and I’m very interested to see how that goes. I think it’s fine to complain about corporatization, but I think it’s also crucial to build and support other models at the same time.

https://artisans.coop/

I am not a member of this Artisan’s Coop, but am considering it.

I will watch anything Alexander Payne does. I think he has such a good grasp of the American zeitgeist. I have been a fan since Citizen Ruth.