Marlyn(Moved to glitch.social) @marlyn@witches.town

@gemlog
The particular machine is a laptop - I'm not sure if it being plugged in to the wall outlet counts as "grounded", but it's been having this issue even when plugged into the wall

Computer electronics question:
Occasionally, I'm having issues upon booting up my graphics server that colored lines form on the bottom of my screen, scrolling upward up to a limit, at which point the screen flashes and turns off. I've also noticed this can be directly induced by transmitting with my handheld transceiver next to the screen. Would anyone know what particular mechanism is triggering this event? Does it have to do with some internal capacitor getting overloaded, or something else charge-related? This is an IPS display btw

#question

@MightyPork
the current way toot visibility permissions work, you've got a weird "lit room with one-way glass" thing going on - if you make a followers-only toot, your followers will be able to see your toots, but unless you follow a given follower, they'll be able to see your statements, but you won't be able to see their responses

@MightyPork
Yes, but if your account is locked, you won't be able to have "casual" follows who would like your public posts on their timeline but don't necessarily need to see your personal heart-to-heart conversations that you'd rather keep to yourself and your inner circle of trusted friends

@Sylvhem
sorry about the weird explanation with dumb emoji diagrams, did that make it clearer, or did you mean "I don't understand" as in "why would you bother with that"

@MightyPork
the issue with that is that you'd need to preen people who follow you in order to make that restriction meaningful

@Sylvhem
So, you'd have your "private" main account, represented by 🍪 , and then your "public" account that's a bot that boosts all your public posts, represented by 🤖

The 🍪 account is locked (follows require auth), while the 🤖 account is public

People who wanna see your posts would follow 🤖 , while mutuals would follow 🍪 - that way, people who just want to see your posts would get your posts on their timeline, while you still retain control over who sees your private conversations

🍪 🔒
| (public posts boosted by)
v
🤖 🔓

That way, people are still able to follow your toots, while not needing to see private toots

I wonder if a workaround for mastodon's "people who follow you on mastodon get to see your private toots" thing might be to have some open-follows bot that boosts all your public toots, and then do al your main stuff on a locked account...?

Does anyone know how to get cmake/make to run on a changed file? Would I need to install some intermediary helper to do such a thing?
#question

@brokenfingers
imbibe some dihydrogen monoxide

it does wonders for clearing sinuses

perhaps couple it with tea or smthn idk

@alanz @ghost
Even so, it's still 15 seconds every start-up, that the browser is unresponsive - and this rate scales further, such as my case of (yes, really) 4000 tabs, which took 40 seconds of waiting per boot-up

Factoring in the additional memory footprint savings, this leaves a clear advantage to not have a bajillion tabs open - not to mention that the current means of searching and browsing through many opened tabs is fairly limited, to only the tab slider arrows on the left and right of the toolbar

@Concerned_Catgirl
(uh,)