m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

Some more cool stuff, first this Cirno frog — yeah, who could've come up with such a thing, but here it is: https://social.librem.one/@m0xee/108979101302852075
Most people don't get what's funny about it, but those familiar with Touhou, myself included, have a good laugh.
Then this tiny guy on the photo. He's great as he has a magnet inside and these display have a magnet — this is where iSight cameras are attached. So he doesn't fall off, but my cats have noticed and started stealing him so I had to put him away.
#frogs

And sure I have that frog tea set that is often featured in memes: https://social.librem.one/@m0xee/108803878928099579
Most of it is damaged and stored in the farthest corner of the shelf in the kitchen, but I still have these small cups!
And of course desk lamps, I've already posted one, here it is, next to my monome showing currency exchange rates: https://social.librem.one/@m0xee/110289587954648625
Looking pretty smug, wearing 3D glasses, right? 😄
I have another one, I barely use it nowadays, but here is a photo.

I think I've already posted this cool goldchain guy, but he actually has two frog neighbours where he lives, here they are.
There is more to the plushie on the left — it can sing Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World, but some wire inside got damaged and I stopped putting batteries in it.
I also have a lot of ceramic frog-shaped bells and whistles (literally bells and whistles 😂) — but again, I'm too lazy and paranoid to make proper photos 😅
#frogs

Some of them are fine, some are not, some came from distant parts of our planet, some were bought in a souvenir shop across the street. There are more, but it's pretty messy where they usually reside — it did look good when I just came up with the idea, now — not so much.
And yes, I have a frog painting. I have another one to be honest, but it's not easy to make a good photo of it that I'm comfortable with making now.
#frogs

@metallcorn

It's Wednesday, my dudes. And I have a confession to make: I'm an avid frog collector 🐸
No, not live ones — frog-shaped things.
I'm delivering on my promise to @metallcorn to share my collection. I'm too paranoid to shoot some parts of my place and I'm even more lazy to take all of them out and dust them properly so it's going to be just a low-res tease.
These are usually sitting behind glass in the wooden cabinet that even has light, but it's now littered with other small stuff an unattractive.

@lcruggeri Instagram too — I don't care about either, but it was important for the overall popularity of the platform. I even remember MS doing flashmobs to make Facebook consider it — and it had happened, but it was too late. When MS decided to abandon platform I was surprised as it was still viable, not a market leader, but definitely not beyond salvation, the idea of Universal apps wasn't bad at all, but now it looks like they've abandoned even that.

@lcruggeri I've been daily driving mine till early last year, but even ProtonMail and Hydrogen stopped working in Edge and Matrix and e-mail are basically what I use for communication. It was time from something else and I got myself an Android phone but the one that could also run Ubuntu Touch, SailfishOS and even Droidian — it was good even just to explore my options.
I really miss Windows Mobile though — it was really well designed, unlike those other "market leaders" we have today 😅

@useless_idiot
> In the end we are all delusional, just in different ways.
Yeah, exactly! Another reminder how important it is to stay openminded — no one's asking you to take other person's side, but that shouldn't stop you from listening what he has to say if those are reasonable things.
Nowadays people are just reduced to infighting over things that might be important, but are hardly the most significant and they barely listen to each other because of that, that is very sad indeed 😩

@lcruggeri Wow, I see a live person still daily driving Lumia in 2023!
My 950XL is running desktop Windows 11 now, thanks to WoA project, I can even make phone calls, but I barely use it, I mostly take it out of the box to update it and put it back in.
It's quite usable when connected to a TV, USB kb and mouse, but I just don't have any use for another Windows machine and it doesn't have that level of hardware support to be usable with Linux.

@thelinuxcast
I'd probably call this The Register moment, but this time I think the headline is like that on purpose 😄

@neural_meduza Once again, strong C&C vibes 😅

@yukiame My cat often sits and watches the washing machine work, that is why I sometimes call him the washing machine operator, but he's yet to learn how to dry clothes 😸

@safiuddinkhan But yeah, it's no replacement for antibiotics and more advanced medicine in general.
Herbs can still help inflammation, reduce skin irritation, reduce mild anxiety — for the rest we have more streamlined stuff.
People just often go to extremes about this — some start taking strong stuff against mild fever some try to downplay the seriousness of their condition until it's too late and when it's time to be operated on 🤷

@safiuddinkhan People probably downplay herbal medicine by extension to their distrust for homeopathy — which they are right about, any substance in trace amounts can't have effect, but they are wrong about plants of course — plants to contain active substances that have observable effect, this is where stuff was originally extracted from. Even ephedrine was extracted from leaves, not made in some lab, and it does have very clear effect 🤪

@charlie_root
> There has been a high level of projection on the fedi lately.
Fedi is still better than the rest in this regard, but yeah, people start losing their cool often and make A LOT of assumptions.
Sorry, not being a US citizen don't have anything to say on the main topic 😅

@useless_idiot Yeah, just desperate — not seeing support from their own elites, they turn to whomever says the right words. He did try to play both sides originally, but the Left just handled friend of foe better this time — maybe no one wants to side with the tankies, they look like complete lunatics nowadays, maybe it's China that looks more appealing than modern Russia — that might be the case 🤷

@useless_idiot
> Did you hear anything about that?
No, but they probably crack down on all groups that aren't already infiltrated and controlled and that would include migrants, the guy they have officially responsible for communication with Muslim population is out of touch — not some influental figure in these circles and never was and they are probably trying to change that as overall paranoia increases.

@useless_idiot
> 10% of Russia is Muslim
In Moscow it's probably higher than in Russia overall as migrants usually come from Central Asia and they are mostly Muslims and the come mostly to major cities where they can make money quickly, not to rural areas.

@useless_idiot No, I think people are free to have any beliefs, but we live in a secular society, major streets of the city sholdn't be blocked like that for people to pray and there are muslims who are perfectly fine with that and well integrated into modern society.
If all those people were Christians, I'd probably not be happy about it either.

@useless_idiot What are you talking about, Putin is just preparing to fight the liberal elites! Those are traditional values — just as traditional as values of those Taliban fellas. What can go wrong?
Seriously, I was a bit shocked to discover that some right wing westerners think of a KGB-man who was a member of a Communist Party, who is divorced and is never seen with his family and who has turned Moscow into this as some hope of white Europe 🤦
How fucked up is that?