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*smashes favorite button*

@glyph it's never the thing I need and when I pick it as the closest approximation visibility option it almost always backfires horrifically because i have 7,000 followers who are mostly not mutuals with one another and they can't see eachother's replies

@aeva @glyph Is that what that "Replies from other servers may be missing" thing is about? I do believe Mastodon is adding finished reply fetching soon, so hopefully that will propagate... eventually...

@pendell @aeva my understanding is that fetch-all-replies is landed, but not deployed anywhere yet. It should be on mastodon.social soon, but in order to fully help aeva, it will have to be on *all of her followers’ servers* too, which will take a while

@pendell @aeva actually wait maybe I am wrong about that? Would it just need to be on mastodon.gamedev.place?

@glyph @pendell what I do know is that if I post something, and people see it and think "I will literally die if I do not post a corrective reply right now" what happens is I get essentially the same reply dozens of times from people who seem to be completely unaware of what they're doing, and my mentions become unreadable.

@glyph @pendell so i can't post things like "i'm frustrated my dog shit proprioception means i need a laptop that can withstand being dropped more than three inches and all the ethical-ish options that have enough power seem to be made out of glass and wishes" without 10,000 people telling me I can cure my EDS with meditation and exercise and/or accusing me of being personally responsible for the end of the world

@aeva @pendell fuck. This problem really sucks in general but that specifically sucks even more than usual

@aeva @pendell although I gotta say, some of that seems like fertile ground to farm for a blocklist. people who will tell you to cure your measles with crystal powered magnets or whatever are unlikely to have anything of value to add in the future

@glyph @pendell i mean yes and no. a lot of times it's just that theory of mind is hard. if a friend (parasocial or otherwise) is suffering from a problem that on the surface seems similar to a problem you have a solution for that works for you, it's natural to want to offer the solution when you don't have the benefit of knowing it won't work and it might not be obvious the other person has in fact tried meditation.

@glyph @pendell like, you won't believe the number of kind, intelligent, caring people who have asked me if i've simply tried sleeping to cure my insomnia. i find it's best to try and keep a sense of humor about it. and limiting how much i complain about some things on main

@aeva @pendell this is how I try to conduct myself and on better days I mostly manage to. probably not fair to the meditation and sleeping enthusiasts out there that I'm feeling incredibly impatient and ungenerous at the moment, it's not their fault

@aeva @pendell I laughed pretty hard at this but it was somehow an anguished noise at the same time

@aeva @glyph it's already annoying when people want to question your reasons instead of answering your question, but that's even worse, that's people basically telling you to stop being disabled to fix your issue, jeez. And yeah it's insane how the laptop market used to have so many different options and builds and now everything is either a macbook or a netbook made for grandpas to check email on.

@aeva @glyph framework has so many cool ideas but theyre just making macbooks blended with netbooks. "what if you could replace broken parts" doesn't mean much if you then design the laptop to break as easily and quickly as possible. How much of that thing is held together with magnets and prayers? Most rugged option that really exists are Toshiba Toughbooks but those are like "$12k for 3 year old i5, 128GB mSATA, and 8gb DDR4"

@pendell @aeva wait is "macbook" a metonym for "fragile" here? as the fediverse's resident apple shill I always find this equation confusing since as I understand it the only data ever collected on this topic shows that macbooks are more reliable than their next closest competitor by 50%, and more reliable than the industry average by double that

@pendell @aeva
(Not literally shilling for Apple here. Please do not buy their products, everyone should use Linux, if Apple ever achieves a monoculture in laptops they will lock everything down to the point that I will no longer be able to use them, and I like them quite a bit, only competition keeps them honest.)

@pendell @aeva I ask because I'm really curious though. that data is almost a decade old at this point, it could be wrong, and people who work in repair have told me they see a lot of macbooks and apple has widely known design defects on some models, and they don't see nearly as many PC laptops with problems, but, like, plane-with-bullet-holes.jpg

@glyph it's possible your plane-with-bullet-holes may apply more to that original statistic, that they're more reliable than their competitors. Who sell BILLIONS more laptops than Apple does, targeting vastly wider price brackets. It is true though that a bunch of $200 Walmart specials will probably have more failures than a $3k supercomputer. I worked in a depot repairing Dell Latitudes all day, one should also consider what cheaply made school laptops go through and how those factor in.

@pendell @glyph back in the mid 2000s (decade) when i was still in college, I accidentally slammed my car's trunk down really hard against my thinkpad r60. i had to order a replacement lcd panel but that was it, i was out maybe $50 and back in action in a few days later. that thing had a platter drive lol. that thing still has a platter drive because i haven't thrown it away yet. it's generated less ewaste than my framework to date

@pendell @glyph i want a good laptop that's built like that one nokia candy bar telephone, complete with the built-in flash light (the R60 had a built in flashlight btw)

@aeva @glyph their killer concept is the hot-swappable USB-C based I/O, everything else looks kinda lackluster and weird. I don't want to hold the lack of swappable CPU against them, since I'm sure mobile CPU sockets haven't been done in so long they'd basically have to develop one from scratch which I imagine isn't easy. That's down to Intel and AMD I think. But I look at that keyboard and I shudder to think of what typing on it is like. I look at the pitiful thinness and wonder about thermals.

@mattdm @glyph @pendell no no matt you're doing great btw i don't suppose you have any sway with the framework folks being in charge of an operating system and all ?

@aeva @glyph I'm just curious, I've never actually run across this being a problem, every time I've clicked on the link to load the original post it's never revealed new replies to me or anything. Maybe I'm privileged as someone who does not have 7k followers :p

@pendell @aeva yeah I am juuust at the cusp of where this starts to become a problem and it is definitely hard to see even a tiny bit sub-2k

@glyph @pendell it's like gradually turning into some kind of bizarre fae creature. every 500 followers you get a new random geas which is discovered through trial and error

@sendai @pendell @aeva I really wish there were some kind of visualization of all this, because if you do a followers-only post and I do a followers-only reply does that mean that only the intersection of our followers can see the reply? or do they see a detached thing? will it be on their timeline or hidden somewhere? I'm sure the answers to these things exist somewhere but I am annoyed that I have to go looking rather than having the UI just make it immediately clear

@kojack that was a nice feature

@gkrnours i'm not worried about malicious servers, i can block those