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CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2019 06:40:34 UTC 
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Well, ThinkGeek's pretty well dead now. They're being consumed into Gamestop to be their merchandise wing, I guess. A shame; they had a lot of cool stuff back in the olden days.
This does mean, however, that I should probably pick up a new bag. My trusty Bag of Holding Mk 2 has served me very well, but if that wears out, it won't be easy finding a new one. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2019 23:47:21 UTC
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Me, at 7-Eleven just a few minutes ago: "I'm in the mood for something snackish, but I don't know what. Y'know, I've never tried tortilla chips with 'lime' flavor on them, may as well give them a shot."
Me, having tried them: "I am now fully convinced that nobody at Frito-Lay has ever seen a citrus fruit in their lives, let alone a lime." -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2019 06:15:38 UTC
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Having removed the rogue keys from my keyring, I suddenly realized that I only have two actual keys, per se, on it. The rest are keyfobs and Yubikeys. Huh. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2019 18:48:34 UTC
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Ever take a look at your keyring and wonder where a couple of your keys came from? I don't have the slightest clue what these keys are supposed to open. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2019 03:43:40 UTC
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Actually, that thing with the audio drivers not loading at boot was causing other problems, too, so forget that. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2019 23:45:59 UTC
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As much as I tend to prefer LTS releases of *buntu for stability, it turns out KDE develops at a speed faster than "every other April". This not only causes minor irritation when I read about neat new KDE stuff that won't get backported to the current LTS, it starts to get annoying when I need to maintain my own local debs of the Wacom config module (in by default in 19.04, nowhere to be seen in 18.04), or when very ugly Dolphin bugs just won't get fixed (symlinks in sftp directories show up as plain files that go nowhere, rather than, well, actual symlinks like they did in older versions).
So I upgraded to Kubuntu 19.04 (going through 18.10 first). One of the most painless Ubuntu upgrades I've had in a while, apart from the ALSA drivers sometimes needing a force-reload after a fresh boot. Grr. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2019 21:20:28 UTC
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Executive decision time: My desktop gets a RAM upgrade. The system started getting Not Happy™ with the layers on layers on layers of image data Krita had to fight through. It seems juggling blur filter layers sucks down memory. Obvious in hindsight, right?
Interesting fact: In upgrading, I learned I mounted the processor's heat sink cooling fan on the wrong side when I built the thing years ago. I was wondering why it was physically preventing the RAM from fitting in its slot. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2019 18:37:20 UTC
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I figure when Krita is holding onto 9GB of RAM and the base file has shot past 70MB, I may be overdoing what otherwise looks like a standard 6-panel DoM comic. My .kra files rarely breach 10MB. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2019 00:03:52 UTC
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Hello, what's this? It looks like Mastodon instances aren't giving CORS problems with the Atom files? Well, say, mayhaps my widget will retrieve data from them now!
With some tweaking, of course. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2019 21:56:10 UTC
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There we go. Turns out just searching the entire Atom XML output for "author" elements is not what I want if I'm just looking for the author of the feed in question. Searching the entire document also pulls in the author data for anyone I've repeated recently. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2019 21:16:29 UTC
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Huh, odd. My little GNU Social webpage widget freaks out if I repeat someone's posts. Must debug. -
Heather (lunarjade)'s status on Wednesday, 08-May-2019 20:13:27 UTC 
Heather
New Mail Time.
Editing these are a lot of fun for me.
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CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2019 00:29:27 UTC
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Turns out I'm just really not all that experienced at this newfangled paradigm of social media if I don't post new stuff for like a week or more at a time, huh? -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2019 19:26:36 UTC
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*sigh* Of COURSE I can't just tell Mastodon to grab a sendmail-compatible binary from the server for mail purposes. The durn thing was designed to run in a Docker. Arrg.
Now to figure out how my MTA's configuration works again to get it to accept a specific dummy name as a login for SMTP without it being a "real" account on the system. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2019 21:37:59 UTC
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Meanwhile, in Smash Bros land, Bayonetta stands off to the side, frumping over how she had her guns with her since she was introduced in Smash 4, yet this little punk shows up and now everyone's falling over themselves to point out how he has a gun.
Someone NEEDS to make this fanart. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2019 22:50:00 UTC
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Always hilarious when you're writing unit tests for something you wrote weeks after the fact, and those tests prove that thing has actually been somewhat broken this whole time. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2019 21:44:51 UTC
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FUN HINT: If you ever find yourself thinking that the :nth-of-type() CSS selector is a good idea, you're either doing something really super fancy or you're making a grave mistake. Choose wisely. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2019 00:56:59 UTC
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I'm starting to lose all hope that GNU Social will ever actually update, even to the point of any new commits entering their Git repo whatsoever. So if this instance suddenly becomes a Mastodon instance out of the blue, you'll know why and may need to re-add me.
Though I'd have to make sure my GNU Social widget works with Mastodon beforehand. Last I knew, Mastodon blocked script access to a key XML file it needs to read. -
CaptainSpam (captainspam)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2019 20:55:03 UTC
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Y'know, that's one of the problems of having an older monitor. Durn thing's too heavy for cheap monitor stands.
Oh, and as a side note, if your monitor is somewhat heavy, don't count on the Amazon Basics stands to support them. I've tightened the bolt that should compensate for that to the point where it's stripped such that the included allen wrench can't grip it anymore, and it still can't hold a steady tilt.
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