UnixAnt @UnixAnt@social.privacytools.io

Actually, my previous toot also applies to your local farmers. Since lockdown first started way back in March, I've bought more produce from local farms than ever before and will continue to do so once we're out of the mess of 2020. If nothing else, we should have each other's backs from a locality point of view. Support your local #farm, support your local #brewery

Just had a phone call from one of the many local #norfolk breweries. He told me "I'm visiting your town tonight and was wondering if I could drop off your order on the way past?"
I love my local #beer scene, and whilst the pubs are closed I cannot recommend supporting your local #brewery highly enough. They need you more than ever this year...

@Domina_tenebris What's this? Another Goth on Mastodon? Hello there! It's fairly quiet from a music point of view, but I'm hoping a bunch of us can get talking at some point...

#goth people of Mastodon. Where are you all?

I get a lot of noise on here, but nothing pertinent to subject matter I'm interested in...

@foghorn@ieji.de *waves* Hello!

#nowplaying Second Still - Second Still. Outstanding band I've loved for several years. They supported She Past Away in London last year and were astonishing. Check them out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=majF-ea6n8U #postpunk

Is anyone still using this by the way? It's the only social media I keep active these days.

Necessity is the mother of invention, apparently. So I modified one of my monitor arms and turned it into a DSLR arm for a better videoconferencing experience

Hoping to get out with this at the weekend and study Betelgeuse. Not had a weekend to myself since the new year... #astronomy

Also, happy #dataprivacyday

Obligatory apps:
OS: OpenBSD & LineageOS
Browser: Dissenter & Bromite
Passwords: Bitwarden
Search: Qwant
Mail: Protonmail
VPN: Protonvpn
Cloud: Tresorit
Messaging: Signal
Notes: crypt.ee

I do like Mastodon, but it has been 6 months since joining and none of my social circle has shown up on here. I see lots of moaning about Facebook & Twitter being awful, but I don't see a mass exodus jumping ship to the Fediverse. Curious...

Not posted on here for a while (largely because not much has happened), so I'm going to return with some dick waving. I've upgraded my USB Podcaster with an XLR Procaster. My word it takes a lot of gain to make it shine, but it sounds great! That is all...

I regret not buying a few more of these now. A GlusterFS cluster is the way forward as a home NAS replacement.

Be careful what you share with Google, or indeed any provider who collects and holds your data: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/28/20836855/reverse-location-search-warrant-dragnet-bank-robbery-fbi

#nowplaying The #postpunk masterpiece that is If Two Worlds Kiss by Pink Turns Blue https://invidio.us/watch?v=SWew34c0lLo

#goth PSA: If you've not been listening to '40 Years of Goth' over at Mixcloud, then what are you waiting for? Head over there and enjoy a trip down memory lane: https://www.mixcloud.com/KittyLectro/

You know what's more trouble than it's worth? External GPU connected via a Thunderbolt 3 port.

Lots of fannying around to get it working and not completely stable once it does finally work. Next time I'm going with a mini ITX setup rather than a NUC + external GPU.

#nowplaying before I leave work, listening to some pretty excellent #coldwave & #postpunk from France:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPqVB6lkujw

Testing the Android app, nothing to see here...

#nowplaying Return of the Empire by Horror Vacui

https://horrorvacuilegion.bandcamp.com/album/return-of-the-empire

In my opinion, this is their finest work. Exceptionally good #postpunk from Italy