adam king @sabbatical@social.cleverlibre.org

@levisan @freemo thanks for forwarding. it's crazy to me that your reply is the only one! although i'm sure most qoto users have no idea this new "fork" exists, i am having trouble believing it's this dead

@levisan yep. i wonder if this is really solidly back up as a qoto replacement or if this is just a window to get accounts transferred out.

@levisan yeah i'm not actually bothered by it, just giving you a hard time! i guess i should use winky faces and such ;)

i see @freemo boosted a couple of your new posts — you didn't get notifications when he did that?

@levisan you've been back on here since oct 6 and didnt tell me?? dude. i thought we were fedifriends!

anyway, happy i can finally access my fediverse folks feeds again. hello if you're seeing this! it's probably been half a year or more since my instance went down?

and my profile posts are back! albeit the most recent one that made it across the migration is from feb 2024. so that's too bad. better than nothing though.

oh! it's finally working? qoto migrated to new domain? why though? i liked the simplicity of the old domain—this one is a mouthful.

milestone reached: son rans busted through his first snare head (whiplash-style). luckily we live around the corner from a music shop, so we were able to walk over and grab another (more minimalist?) remo powerstroke between snow squalls

as for the power supply, i ordered the weird 4 pin plug for it off mouser and a bench power supply capable of providing the 28v needed. if those successfully power up the unit, i can look into a more permanent arrangement. fingers crossed!

hoping maybe the snapped display base can be repaired with epoxy? if that’s not strong enough i guess someone in california still sells these bases for ~$200 (woof)

going to see if i can get my dad’s old G4 cube + CRT studio display working. has a burned out power supply (he thinks) and one of the monitor’s stand supports is snapped.

@freemo oh for sure — i’m not discontented at all. i just have an inkling of how much effort can be involved in this stuff and so wanted to express my appreciation 🙂

@freemo thanks for the work on this. looking forward to seeing what’s on its way!

you could take this two ways, and they’re probably both true

From: @alfiekohn
https://sciences.social/@alfiekohn/111850690746502895

eb even took the time to alphabetically sort the word library for this thing. having teens is great!

new conspiracy theory just dropped (on our fridge)

@mike @levisan one cool thing about ice cubes is that you can subscribe to other local timelines besides just your own. seemed like they brought in quote-posts earlier than others too — development is very active. UI doesn’t feel quite as polished as ivory though, but it’s getting better

i’m at the end of knife of dreams if anyone’s curious. that’s the one where mat fulfills prophecy by marrying a girl he barely knows

re-reading the wheel of time book series, and robert jordan sure mentions women reacting to things by “smoothing their skirts” a lot. i’m not sure i’ve ever seen a woman do this in real life

but maybe that’s why the genre for these books is “fantasy”

@elk kudos! wish i could still use elk.zone, but get an error every time i try to log in since switching instances!