Tag: macroblog

Bring an extra finger, she said.

Well pain me green and call me a pickle, this is one of the funniest shit I’ve seen with tech (apart from the 500 mile email): my laptop sometimes “forgets” that 1 finger mode (to simply move the cursor) exists, and I need an extra finger for everything: 2 fingers to move the cursor, 3 fingers to scroll, 4 fingers to middle click, etc.

Well, as it turns out, it’s an issue with my filthy greasy fingers (I have a lot of coconut oil on them lately, as i’m trying to rehydrate my skin after 10 days in the 23% humidity aridity of Budapest): 1 greasy finger does not conduct enough, so Wayland does not register it as “touch”. 2 fingers however are OK — for 1 finger’s worth of “touch”. 3 fingers conduct enough for 2 fingers, and so on. Suspend an unsuspend solves the issue by the way (so does apparently anything else that resets the touchpad subsystem/driver of Wayland, like switching out to / back from a tty), so there’s a bug-like element to this, but still, how funny is this. (And yes, I’m thinking if I clean my touchpad it’ll resolve the issue for a long time.)

Pixelfed now supports importing your Insta archive, so I did just that.

Looks like the last time I posted about Pixelfed (the federated photo-microblogging platform) was (*checks notes) in 2020 – time moves quickly when flies have fun!
Since then, Pixelfed gained some more ground, some apps, plenty of finesse, a lot of users, and, for the purpose of this entry, an Instagram import feature. Continue reading Pixelfed now supports importing your Insta archive, so I did just that.

The “good enough” economy.

Looking at all the climate strikes, and the consumer culture we live in, I’ve been thinking lately about the why do we, humans, are programmed to always crave more, and how this conflicts with out current situation where a lot of things will inevitably have to plateau out if we’re to persist as a society.

Because true, innovation takes us forward, and innovation can’t happen without someone wanting more and more, wanting the strongest, the best. On the other hand, our whole western competition culture in its unstoppable spin of more, by now clearly having severe impact to our planet is a lot harder to sustain than it once was. (And so, we are still focusing on the easy part — the growth — without dealing with the hard part — doing it without impact.) Continue reading The “good enough” economy.