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@RL_Dane Looking at pictures of old computers and playing with their software in emulators, I miss these machines I never had the privilege of using.
The lost days when computers were largely to-the-point and ethical... I hate having to worry about rights-violating engineering, updates, vulnerabilities and remote controlling. Ack!

@RL_Dane Looking at pictures of old computers and playing with their software in emulators, I miss these machines I never had the privilege of using.
The lost days when computers were largely to-the-point and ethical... I hate having to worry about rights-violating engineering, updates, vulnerabilities and remote controlling. Ack!

If you have a Mastodon account and follow someone, the follow button will sometimes display a "Follow request sent" message.

Usually this is because the other account has follow approval switched on, which means its owner will manually decide whether to accept your follow request. This kind of account has a padlock ๐Ÿ”’ icon next to it on its profile page.

However... Mastodon also displays this "Follow request sent" message if something has gone wrong with the follow, especially if you're trying to follow someone on a non-Mastodon server.

Partially broken federation often causes Mastodon to display this message, for some reason.

If you see "follow request sent" when you try to follow someone, and they don't have a padlock ๐Ÿ”’ on their profile page, then it's likely that the follow didn't work properly.

If a follow doesn't work properly, try unfollowing them (or cancel the follow request), wait a bit, then click "follow" again.

#Mastodon #Following #FollowRequests

@pixelherodev@fosstodon.org Oh cool, you use Wayland & Sway.

@technicalissues I'm going to go ahead and say that security-minded software should not use SMS as an authentication factor.

@allinone0@fosstodon.org @tw0shoes I have heard that Qwerty is a better layout for phone use / typing with thumbs etc. Maybe this is because it was designed to keep keystrokes physically distant, preventing typewriter bars from colliding back in the day.
Dvorak in some cases (or many maybe) tries to keep keystrokes nearby, and maximize use of the home row (note that the home row has the vowels AOEUI).
I don't know if that's why Qwerty is recommended as a phone keyboard, but fun facts.

@benjaminhollon @allinone0@fosstodon.org Colemak does a good job at that.

@allinone0@fosstodon.org @rudolf Many emoji are a bit off the wall anyway.
I feel like I can't do without basic facial expression emoji though... I do like those.
But I can use emoticons though :)

@rudolf @allinone0@fosstodon.org Huh there are multiple keyboards named Simple Keyboard on F-Droid. I already had one installed, now I'm trying the one you linked โ€” I like it better I think. Seems to work better, but no emojis though
Also no text correction :(

@allinone0@fosstodon.org I do the same thing with the b key

@dusnm I sometimes blame the compiler and libraries for errors that I think I *must* have not made. Someday I'll stop. Or not.

@allinone0@fosstodon.org @redeagle @markusl Glancing at it I thought it was a Bendaroos creation on someone's head.

@tulpa@fosstodon.org @allinone0@fosstodon.org At least on Ubuntu (which PopOS is based on I think), `/snap/bin` (was it? Or `/snap/exports` maybe? I'm away from my PC rn) is in the environment variable "PATH", which you can view with this command: `echo $PATH`.
So you shouldn't have to use the snap command to run it; I suggest `ls`-ing the mentioned snap folder.

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @allinone0@fosstodon.org Sky blue used to be my favorite color, but now I don't really have a favorite, I pretty much like all hues.
Also I've found that the word color is a bit ambiguous; sometimes people mean *hue* and sometimes not ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

info request, atrocities, computer ethics 

I'm not meaning to start a fight BTW ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

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