#AskFedi #HiveMind I am trying to identify two short (under 30 minutes) movies I saw on amazon about 5-10 years ago. They were both dystopian speculative fiction, not quite #SciFi but I think that’s the search term that fed them to me.

First was I think from northern UK, and it featured an orphanage school for special children who were kept isolated from the rest of society. They seemed normative, but the public viewed them as creepy aberrations. For Christmas they got a donated load of broken toys and other old cast off junk, and each year they looked forward to “a bumper crop” of that. “I hear it’s a bumper crop!” The children were being raised for a shocking purpose.

Next one featured a post-apocalyptic society of hunter gatherers, living in the jungle and hunting with spears made from old industrial parts. Every month a drone flew over and dropped a shipping crate of consumer goods like sneakers. One day a brave heroic girl decides to catch a ride on the drone to see where it comes from, and why they keep delivering these shipments.

Extreme #AskFedi long shot, I’m thinking of a Young Adult novel published some time in the 1980s.

It’s a portal fantasy set in what appears to be mid-C20 rural UK. A young boy is telekinetic and learns that using his power causes a dimension slip. He teaches the skill to a girl. Together they slip to a place where they find the wreck of a legendary lost wartime fighter plane that had dimension slipped when the pilot (an ancestor or uncle?) desperately tried to telekinetically control his crippled aircraft. There was some kind of evil overlady who tasks the protagonists with something involving an endless stairway into the sky. I think it was titled “the roof of the world” but i’ve found no evidence of its existence and also every rich dickhead who ever paid some nepalese to carry them up a mountain has used that title for their inevitable ghostwritten autobiography. #bookstodon

Yo #nerdfriends,

Is there any way to make Linux wait longer for an HDMI monitor to wake back up?

What happens a lot of times is that my laptop monitor will wake up, HDMI monitor will start to wake up, but by the time it actually becomes fully available, the desktop has given up on it and re-sized all of my windows to fit within the smaller resolution of the laptop monitor.

It's... annoying.

KDE Plasma 5.27 on X11 on Debian 12.

How do you deal with uncertainty about death? I'm a medium, I see spirits, but there's still the nagging fear. I suppose it's just the mercury retrograde, but it feels a lot more crushing this month. I occasionally come up on this and forget about it just as quickly, but I still wonder.

Mediums, and other people of Mastodon, how do you deal with the idea of a fleeting existence?

Hey I’ve been off Mastodon for a while. Are there any new useful tools for bulk-managing one’s followings, lists, filters, etc.?

Posts with content warnings and/or blurred media should be able to trend.

There are things that should reach people, but might be triggering to some, and the current setup incentivizes subjecting those individuals to harm in exchange for reach.

Do you agree?

Hey #AskFedi , is there an alternative for writers to Amazon's KDP/library program?

SendMyBag is no longer usable for me after they have claimed that a jar of olives was "perishable" and "plant matter" - which means next time they might decide a cotton shirt is plant matter.

Does anybody have a recommendation for a care package shipping service from IT to DE (beside dealing directly with DHL etc which wouldn't be my first choice)?

Two queries for you, fedi friends #askfedi

1) Do any of those "erase your data from the #Internet" tools the YouTube creators are always advertising actually help? I feel like the spam texts are getting oddly specific, and also I have talked my fair share of shit about the Cheeto-in-Charge online which is seeming more dangerous by the day

2) Also, I unfortunately used my real last name when I jumped on Mastodon. Is there any way to change screen name? I know I looked awhile back and the answer seemed to be no but thought I'd ask again

Thanks friends!
#advice #privacy

I’m looking for a small, water-proof-ish device which I can use in the bathroom to access a web page and enter my weight after I step on the scale every morning. Only needs to be minimally waterproof in that it may be operated with wet fingers. The touchscreen on my iPhone SE 2020 is bad at this, and I don’t WANT this device connecting to iCloud, which is hard with an iPhone. Is there some cheap box that will work? Old eReader? An RPi with touchscreen seems excessive. #AskFedi

If you click on a link in a Bluesky post, it is now automatically redirected via the domain go.bsky.app before it actually goes to the link in the post. There is no way to stop this or know that it is happening as the redirect only flickers on the screen for a fraction of a second.

Presumably this means Bluesky can now track all link clicking on their platform, including IP addresses, destinations etc?

Or have I misunderstood?

Bluesky is spinning it as a tool for publishers to track referrals, but going beyond the spin it seems to be giving Bluesky access to people's online activity?

What’s something good that has happened to you recently?

Where in Madrid can one buy cheap second hand laptops ?

Pocket friends, can you share with me a good granny square cardigan crochet pattern please? I have some cute DK yarn that would be perfect for this kind of project! Thank you
@fiberarts @crochet
#crochet #GrannySquare #cardigan #Pattern #CrochetPattern #AskFedi

Bon, le #AskFedi, j'ai une question pour vous : j'avais 2 barettes de 8Go (DDR4) dans ma machine, pour un total de 16Go. J'ai acheté 2 barettes supplémentaires, 4*8 = 32, n'est-ce pas ?
Alors... Oui et non...
Le BIOS voit 4 barettes, les identifie correctement etc, et dit "32GB installed".

Mais Linux dit 16Go, et même memtest86 dit 16Go !

dmidecode aussi, il voit bien les barettes...

La carte mère support 128GB

Alors ! ILS SONT OÙ LES GIGAS ?!

CPU: Ryzen 7 1700X
MB: ASRock B450 pro4

is there a linux program, with a reasonable UI, that can just dump the (video + audio) streams from a webcam? all programs i found seem to insist on re-encoding and my laptop is not powerful enough for that. i suppose i could script something with ffmpeg or VLC or so, but i'd rather have an easy to understand GUI.

#AskFedi #Linux #V4L #Webcam ​​

On the subject of deGoogling, what are folks' favorite PeerTube channels?

Share a link and the reason why.

Anybody have recommendations for what filters to use for Corsi Rosenthal boxes? We need to replace the filters on ours and I just wondered if anyone with allergies/asthma or knowledge of brands would have suggestions here. Our air quality isn't awful but we have So Much Pollen it's absurd, and our doors get opened a lot due to dog things. #askFedi

QUESTION: With everything going on, should we stop using queer dating apps?
They're great for community and i dont want to lose that, but I dont know who owns them and im not tech savvy enough to know the risks. Thoughts?
#lgbtq #infosec #privacy #queer #askfedi

Short video of #pollinator ~ name that #bee (?)
#AskFedi