tojikomori

This got me to look up iFixit’s guide to Switch battery replacement. It’s better than some of my devices, but as soon as a replacement involves spludgers and adhesive it crosses a “yuck” line for me, going from something that looks kinda fun to sort of dreading that I’ll break it.

For contrast, past Nintendo handhelds made this a doddle, even in the post-AA era: here’s the New 3DS battery replacement guide. The DS Lite even had a little battery door.

threadiverse

I like this. I keep seeing and saying “Lemmy/Kbin” which is awkward in all sorts of ways.

“Threadiverse” has a good denim feel to it.

We have https://kbin.social/m/mechanicalkeyboards on kbin.

If you’re on a Lemmy instance then the best way to add it is to paste the full URL into search while logged in. It won’t show up right away, but if you wait a few seconds then it’ll appear in the search results. Every now and then it gets stubborn and you have to refresh the search results page to see it.

You can! To subscribe to something on another instance just go to the general search and type <community name>@<hostname>

For example here’s a search for ffxiv@possumpat.io

I’ve not had this issue myself. I’m using Firefox on desktop and Mobile Safari on iOS, and I’ve remained logged in to kbin.social for a few days now. Maybe it’s an overzealous cookie blocker or something in your browser?

Starfield backgrounds were obligatory! I remember spending hours in Paint Shop Pro’s pattern mode trying to make sure my white and grey pixels repeated nicely: not so busy as to look like noise, but dense and random enough to hide the repetition.

The first time I stumbled into superbad.com and it clicked with me immediately like art sometimes does. Total recognition in an ineffable language. It’s my first memory of a distinctly internet culture.

alt.fan.pratchett and specifically the sprawling, unending hedgehog song that exhausted every rhyme there is to be made about bestiality. (That man really earned his knighthood.)

The Star Wars Cantina. I hadn’t even seen all the Star Wars films, but I somehow fell into this clunky HTML chat room, and managed to role-play along just well enough to feel part of a community.

Finding music. Discovering bands on mp3.com when that was a thing. Typing odd combinations of words into Napster to discover songs and artists I’d never have been exposed to otherwise and still love today. Buying digital albums for the first time and feeling something so personal and special about not having to go to a store and rely on what they have in stock or order from a website to have shipped in several weeks. Reading eMusic editorials and putting my credits to obscure reissues and international releases I couldn’t possibly have found out about any other way. (Now it feels like every service wants me to listen to music that sounds like music I’ve already listened to. Bandcamp’s editorials are my last oasis.)