Stringbender @Stringbender@mastodon.cloud

In case mastodon.cloud doesn't recover, Stringbender is now on @Stringbender

Feel free to follow me there if you are so inclined. I've imported all my follows over so will be able to keep up with you again.

Peace and love

The word "Verbing" is so beautifully self-referential.

Glad to have .cloud back and working well 😄

@TheAdmin

Now further strangeness, like my own toots do not show in my home line, but are in my profile. That is when my profile actually appears on request and doesn't show a 500 error as it does just now.
No idea what anyone else is seeing or missing.

Some odd stuff happening on my Mastodon, at least in web client. Replies that don't appear in Notifications, no Home toots for half a day or more at times, images which don't open. Been a few hiccups in .cloud lately.

I'm patiently waiting for it to settle. Really don't want to move instances, but I will need to make an escape route in case of emergency.

Unable to return failed laptop battery because no consumer level carriers will transport Li-Ion batteries where not fitted to a device. Some of them claim legal reasons, although that is mostly air cargo regs when looked up.

Used or malfunctioning ones are even harder to send legally.
Hmmm.

Full refund has been offered on return of failed laptop battery. Good outcome :)

Flaptop battery total failure. Using it the other day, then black screen instant shutdown happened. Won't even start now without adaptor on.
Battery pinouts are hard to find, and presence indicators make it impossible to just put a meter on it and read voltage.
Just have to see if supplier [DTK] will help, as the battery is less than a year old.
It's a reminder of the difference between Reliability and Life of equipment.

Recently acquired my late mum-in-law's sewing machine. I had little idea how they work, and I do not sew.
I'm getting sucked in ...
Turns out to be a desirable top-of-range Singer, the 201k. Have already overhauled the electrics to make it safe(r) and tidy. I've sewed my first seam. Downloaded the service manual. Appreciated the engineering and thought in the design.
Photos show that it can sew leather if the right needle is used.
I had enough interests .. sigh

Scientists have discovered that if you exchange "political office" in place of "guns" or any synonym, in the gun control discussion, it will make much more sense.
[Ok, it was me. How did you know?]

Example from The Guardian:
"Trump had also on Wednesday appeared to endorse aggressive measures to confiscate political office from dangerous people " ...."it might be possible to petition a court to temporarily remove an unstable person’s political office"

The #Vero board must be full of holes.

Sorry, it's my generation speaking.
I'll get my coat ....

Used to get weather forecasts from the #BBC site, and they would remember locations I accessed, probably by cookies I guess, and call up the most useful one for me on entry.

Since they changed the weather page recently they won't remember even one preferred place unless I register an account, giving them my DOB and who knows what other personal data.

No way. You can stick your forecasts where conditions are warm and damp.