Peter Oliver @mavit@bergamot.social

@rythie ...Although, novelty aside, I don't get the use-case for an e-scooter over an e-bike for most people.

@rythie I wonder what the reason is. Vested interests? A lack of imagination? A desire to save the car industry? Bikes perceived as being for weirdos? A reluctance to admit we should have started building cycle lanes decades ago, or admit that we should be building them at all?

@heydon When charities ask you to tick the gift aid box on their donation forms, they always forget to mention that there'll be an exam on it eighteen months later.

@bigcalm I'm a bit mystified by this. Who has half a day for kneading and rising, but not ten seconds to measure a teaspoon of salt and another of yeast?

@sil Here Comes the Summer by The Fiery Furnaces: take your pick from the last day in May, the 29th of March, or July the 3rd. https://youtube.com/watch?v=n6FDrlOGLzw

It’s feels pretty insulting to see West Midlands Cycle Hire bury the lede of heavy price rises behind dubious claims of “pricing improvements”. If you’re short on cash, or TfWM think the budget would be better spent on buses or whatever, be honest about it. You’re offering a public service, not selling a commercial product, so you don’t need the sales bullshit.

My typical journeys are now three to four times more expensive. The sad reality is I’ll probably drive more.

@sil "Switching your main computer", like it's a big complicated operation? I'm surprised Ubuntu doesn't let you choose each time you log in.

You know how people say, “My wife was talking about stepladders near my phone, and now whenever I go online I get all these adverts for stepladders”?

(I never believed it, but, whatever, use an ad-blocker)

Well, anyway, the other day I was listening to Black Country, New Road in the car, and the satnav on my phone diverted me down the Black Country New Road. Spooky.

Given that the combined Twitter/Mastodon client I use is now 50% useless, I should probably switch to something more Mastodon-specific. But... does anyone know of a combined Mastodon/Bluesky client?

@felimwhiteley `export LESSOPEN='|| lesspipe.sh %s'`, and you don't even need the `z`, you can just use `less` all the time.

@woo Have you considered getting it professionally sharpened? http://artisanalpencilsharpening.com/

@alex They'd have to pay _me_ to use that half-baked beta version that surfaced recently.

@woo It depends on your choice of projection, but sometimes, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_model#Cylindrical-coordinate_color_models

@woo The wheel is merely one end of a cylinder.

@sil The kiss at the end tops it off for me.

@sil "No tap, no tap".

@intrbiz If anyone asks, I'm telling them that I switched this weekend in protest (but actually it was because of a Mutter bug).

@mavit Perhaps Threads federating helps crystallise people's choices.

Choosing a Mastodon server isn't like choosing an email provider, because, back when email was new and unfamiliar, you didn't choose. You just got given a mailbox by your university or employer or ISP.

By the time that independent email providers were really taking off, you had clear, concrete reasons for your choice, such as price (Hotmail), brand recognition (Yahoo!), features (GMail). But Mastodon servers all look kind-of the same, so how do you select one?