did you know gnutls has a startup function that causes anything linking to it to take a very long time to start (200ms on my laptop)?

i woke up and there's pudding

imagine if the transporters in star trek had to route via cogent

60% chance your crew would arrive horribly mangled and not always enough to die on the spot

btw if your desktop CPU isn’t boosting particularly high for thermal reasons, you should check what your mainboard is doing to the voltage

not to get better performance but because most mainboard vendors have extremely aggressive defaults that will shorten your CPU’s lifespan, which given the market situation is probably something you want to avoid

wow asstodon still only shows one video per post

and then it doesn’t play half the time

🇩🇪

old people have only one purpose in life: non-stop loud coughing in public places

you need webpush
messengers that keep connections open and cannot distinguish between important and unimportant messages will drain your batterythey’re lying to you. i have an irc client open 24/7 on sailfish OS, i’m in a few relatively active channels and connected to multiple networks, and it makes zero difference. if it’s just sitting there with notifications enabled the battery level drops by about 4-5% per day (it’s 5 years old and i always fast-charge to 100%)

never ever give anyone total control over your comms and electronics no matter how much you trust them. so many people get screwed by partners that turn out to be abusive pieces of shit all the time you have no idea

my AI policy is arbitrary decisions based on vibes and gut feeling

i ain’t playing their games