Ariella @ellabellafull@librem.one

@svetzal My favourite curses these days are:

-Does nobody test anymore?

-Was there even a Product Owner, or just a feature checklist to complete?

@svetzal I'd say the same about hardware. Like this new keyboard I got by Microsoft. They put the Lock and Settings keys right above the backspace so that any passionate typing (including upset about MS web apps) that sends the pinky too high to correct a mistake, locks the damn login session.

@svetzal I've always judged software by its experience, or even abstracted as its character. What does it feel like to use, how upset or excited does it make you, does it seem to have a sense of itself where there's a predictable back and forth between inputs and responses.

The other night I was swearing up and down at the Microsoft O365 web app for the People section of Outlook lol. It's such hot trash (of an experience).

@GivMeCoffee Bwahaha! The solution to understanding the prism and human diversity is science in both cases. 😆

@svetzal E.g. Time vs speed: the drive from Sudbury to Sault-Sainte-Marie: it's not far in Km but it takes so many hours because of the two lane hwy 17, trucks, and crossing through towns along the way with speed limits of 50 km/h.

The distance is meaningless. It's a long slow painful drive lol.

@svetzal We're equating distance with the experience of its crossing. It's more socially accessible I find vs. a number like Km, including people too young to drive. It might come from not having a car identity, having less access to car ownership, and valuing our time better?

Like who cares if something is 350 or 600km. I want to know if I'll lose half a day or a whole day to it.

Or maybe it's because we're used to slow speed limits, so again time is more important.

How it started, how it's going. 🕹❤️

Collecting a few portable mini arcade devices is a dream come true for my child self who in 1983 or so saw mini LED arcade games in the SEARS Wish Book and went bananas haha.

Hey kid-me, just wait 40 years, k?

@applebaumian I was able to pick up a FiiO X3 some years ago as the classics were disappearing. It's pretty close to the music enjoyment experience of iPod, but specifically designed for high resolution audio!

I love it!

#Music #lossless #MusicIsLife

It's been so great playing #SpaceEngineers with friends. We're different people with different priorities.

One of my friends prioritized base-building so make the perfect home.

I however kept things barely above metal-shack level just to focus on ships. I was first to travel between bodies.

Another chose Europa and because of the low mining materials diversity has become a master economist and trader. They bought their ship.

We're cross-teaching other in a fun cultural exchange of sorts.

But I've since learned how to make something not jack-of-all-trades and to be light and zippy for dedicated use cases.

"Ferret" was born. It's perfect for quick manual mining runs while I work on a proper mining ship.

So the fleet has begun in earnest...

#SpaceEngineers

There were #Apollo program reminiscent incidents during initial design and flight tests...

The first shot for the moon failed and I fell back to earth sideways because of the gravity.

#SpaceEngineers

My first ship is so derpy! I didn't know anything yet and over-engineered it, but it's a genuine lifeboat capable of anything and everything. I can survive for 20 days in space with it haha!

2x O2/H2 generators for H2 tank and cockpit.
4x batteries.
Too many atmos engines because it heavy.
Too many H2 engines because it heavy.
Cargo box for the ice conversion.
2x H2 to Electricity generators for the batteries.

Since it's so derpy, I named it DERP of course!

#SpaceEngineers

I've become hooked on #SpaceEngineers and got a dedicated server going. I started a base on Earth, my first ship made it to the moon to visit a friend who started a base there, and then I flew home.

His base is more advanced now with the help I provided, but I'm back home and building up my own! Made a fun walkway up a mountain to my windmill farm recently. They were below and too close to my base making it too difficult to park and take-off with my now 2 ships.

Some recent pics:

@mjgardner Ooooh yes! Or a skin on a music player like Winamp?

Your #Spotify and/or #Apple #Music playback experiences aren't #iPod Classic enough. This can help:

https://tannerv.com/ipod/

#music #MusicIsLife

Reminder: #Samsung #DEX is satisfying "wish my phone was a desktop computer" fulfillment. 😍

@shlepcar@sfba.social I could recite song memories all day! Great topic! #MusicIsLife

@shlepcar@sfba.social Punkadiddle, early 1980s, while exploring my parents' 45s as a kid. It was instant love for synth music that I would learn to play for decades.

Pink Floyd Echoes, at a party in 1991 when I was a teen. I was transfixed at the perfect build up to filling the sound space and pulling in the entire room of listeners throughout its duration. Masterpiece.

Alannah Myles, Lover of Mine, 1990. First breakup song hehe. Still enjoying it today but it makes me smile remembering.