bhtooefr @bhtooefr@mastodon.social

Things that I'm happy to CW:

* Politics (including Fedi politics)
* Religion/spirituality
* Common traumatic events
* Discussion of bigotry
* Intoxicants
* Lewd content
* Some controversial figures/organizations

If there's something not in the list below you'd like me to CW, or I forgot to CW something, please ask.

Things that I will not CW:

* Food
* Tech (except for tech pol)
* Swearing

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FYI, if you're following me for discussion of retro technology, you'll probably want to follow me over at @bhtooefr, as I've moved my retro posting over there.

https://cathoderay.tube is a cozy little Pleroma instance run by @dr1ft, and when I saw the domain name, I had to sign up.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Mastodon, is in fact, the ecosystem of ActivityPub-compliant servers, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Fediverse.

Ridiculous engine of the day (British, because fuck America): the Napier Deltic.

Opposed-piston 2-stroke diesel with three crankshafts (opposed piston engines have a minimum of two crankshafts, but through clever reuse of crankshafts, a second and third bank of cylinders could be added with only one additional crankshaft).

I'm not a fan of term limits.

Sure, they guarantee that a bad politician is forced out of office. But, it also forces good politicians (yes, they exist) out of office.

Also, IMO, the allergy to career politicians that I see is actually really harmful. Governance and politics are skills that have to be honed, and career politicians can also have reduced influence from private sector lobbying (not being in the revolving door).

What if all windows of a workspace stayed on screen, and Alt/Cmd-Tab switched between workspaces (window groups), and Alt/Cmd-` switched between windows within a group?

So, a workspace behaves like a macOS application (except windows can come from any application), in this model.

I think I could get along with workspaces if they worked like this.

oh shit

I think I just figured out how to get me to use workspaces.

My big problem with workspaces is that I tend to like to be able to see what I'm switching to, or get it on a keyboard shortcut quickly. They never mesh with what I do.

So, I end up Alt-Tabbing through a horrendously long list of all of my open windows, which is awful.

On macOS, I Cmd-Tab to the application, then Cmd-` to the window if there's multiple windows.

The big drawback is, for an OSS project, you wouldn't be able to do any early releasing, unless you dual-licensed the project, and only provided a closed source license to early buyers.

In short... a patronage model that releases the software for everyone when a certain amount of payment has been received, including updates to that software.

This may mean that feature updates for a lesser-used program don't get released until, say, a security update causes people to start paying to unlock the backlog of updates, and it does break the whole open beta testing model (unless paying to access the updates, or contributing code gives you access?)

While some of our economic excesses of the post-war era were simply the result of the war machinery being retargeted to consumer goods, there was demand driving that too.

And, fundamentally, I think European settler American culture is deeply reactionary, and has been for its entire existence. So, in that framework, 1950s excess was at least partially a cultural backlash against 1930s-1940s austerity (imposed by the Great Depression, and then the war effort).

To be honest, that little 1.0T is probably part of why it's so inefficient, too, it's probably always in boost enrichment.

"But crossovers are barely less efficient than cars," you say.

Eat my ass, an automatic 1.0T Focus gets 27/38. Same engine. Bigger platform.