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My experience with a PinePhone

Posted on February 15, 2023
I’ve had and used1 a PinePhone for quite some time now, and a shiny new blog sounds like a good time to do a review of my experience.

TL;DL: I love it, but my use cases may not be very typical.

While I’ve had a mobile phone since an early time (my parents made me carry one for emergencies before it was usual for my peers) I’ve never used a typical smartphone (android / iPhone / those other proprietary things) because I can’t trust them not to be designed to work against me (data collection, ads, tricking users into micro payments, and other antipatterns of proprietary software design), and bringing them to sanity as most of the people I know do is too much effort for my tastes.

Instead, as a phone I keep using an old nokia featurephone2 which is reliable, only requires charging once a week, and can easily survive falling from hand height to the ground, even if thrown 3.

And then I’ve been carrying a variety of other devices to do other computer-like tasks; earlier it was just a laptop, or a netbook, a Pandora (all of which used a dongle to connect to mobile network internet) then I tried a phone with FirefoxOS (it could have been better) and now the PinePhone has taken their place, at least when I’m not carrying a laptop anyway.

So, the tasks I use the PinePhone for are mostly:

  • sending and receiving xmpp messages, with no need for notifications (when somebody needs to tell me something where urgency is required, they know to use the other phone, either with a call or an sms);
  • tethering an internet connection to the laptop;
  • reading djvu scans of old books while standing in a queue or something;
  • checking something on the internet when I’m not close to a real computer (i.e. one with a keyboard and a big screen);
  • running a timer while heat-setting fabric paint with an iron (and reading a djvu book at the same time — yes, this is a very specific task, but it has happened multiple times already :D );
  • running a calculator with unit conversions;
  • running the odd command line program;
  • taking pictures, especially those that I want to send soon (I often also carry a DSLR camera, but I tend to wait a few days before I download them from the card);
  • map related things.

3 and 5 work perfectly well, no issues there. 1, 2 and 4 usually work just fine, except for the fact that sometimes while the phone is suspended it forgets about being a phone, and needs to be restarted to turn the modem back on. It’s not a big deal while using the phone, I just need to check before I try to use it after a few hours.

For 1, I also had to take care to install dino-im from experimental, as up to now the features required to fit the interface in a mobile screen aren’t available in the official release, but I believe that this has just been fixed.

Somewhat related to 4, I’ve also installed kiwix and the dumps of wiktionary and wikivoyage, but I haven’t had a chance to travel much, so I’m not really using it.

For 6 I’m quite happy with qalculate, the GUI version of qalc (which is what I use on my laptop), even if it has a few minor interface issues, and 7 of course works as well as it can, given the limitations of a small screen and virtual keyboard.

8 is, let us say, problematic. The camera on the PinePhone is peculiar, only works with a specific software, and even there the quality of the pictures is, well, low-fi, vintagey pictures are a look and that’s a specific artistic choice, right? Thanks to the hard work of the megapixels maintainer the quality has improved a lot, and these days it is usable, but there are still limits (no webcam in the browser, no recording of videos).

9 is really bad. A few times I can remember getting a GPS fix. A few times in many months, and now and then I keep trying, to see if a miracle has happened, but usually I only get a vague position from wifi data (which isn’t great, when walking through less densely populated areas).

I’ve seen another PinePhone running gpsd and getting data from an external GPS receiver via bluetooth, and if I really needed it I may seriously consider that solution.

Also, the apps available in mobian aren’t great either, even when compared to running tangogps on an OpenMoko with pre-downloaded maps (I mean! I don’t think my expectations are too high!).

I’ve heard that PureMaps is quite good as a software, but a bit of a PITA to package for Debian, and I really hope that one day there will be a linux-first mobile device with good GPS hardware, so that people will be encouraged to fix the software side.

Thankfully, I don’t usually need GPS and navigation software; when I’m driving into places I don’t know I usually have a human navigator, and when walking into places I can do with just a static map (either printed on paper or on the PinePhone), maybe some pre-calculated route from the OSM website and looking at street names to find out where I am.

Overall, for my use cases the PinePhone works just fine and is an useful addition to the things I always carry with me, and I don’t feel the pressing need to get an android phone. I don’t think it’s ready as a daily driver for everybody, but I think that depending on one’s needs it’s worth asking around (I’d recommend doing so on the fediverse with a #PinePhone and #mobian hashtag), as there is a non-zero chance that it may be a good fit for you.

  • which, if I’m not mistaken, is often not implied by the fact of owning it :D↩︎
  • for very low values of feature: it doesn’t have any kind of internet access, and there are only 3 games, one of which is snake.↩︎
  • don’t ask.↩︎

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Cernit Sets for the Royal Game of UR
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Posted on February 13, 2023
Some months ago I stumbled on the video where Irving Finkel teaches Tom Scott how to play the Royal Game of Ur and my takeout was:

  • Irving Finkel is Gandalf or something;
  • the game sounded quite fun!;

so I did the almost sensible thing, quickly drew a board with inkscape, printed it on 160 g/m² paper and used my piecepack pieces to try a few games.

two copies of a game board made of plain squares: a 3 × 4 squares area at the top, a 3 × 2 area at the bottom, connected by a 1 × 2 corridor in the middle.

I say almost sensible, because rather than drawing the rosettes with inkscape I decided to carve a rubber stamp and use that to print them on the board (which is why the svgs on this page are missing them: if you print them you’ll have to add the rosettes in some way).

And if I had been a sensible person, that’s where I would have stopped, since that’s perfectly enough to play games and find out that it actually is quite a fun game, and one of our staples.

As some of you probably know, I’m not a sensible person.

I also have quite a few blocks and half-blocks of cernit, and one day after I’ve had used some, my hands were still moving and accidentally made some pyramidal dice, and a handful of tokens.

Royal game of Ur pieces in marbled grey and white plastic: the tokens are small coins in one colour with a small circle of the other colour in the middle, the dice are tetrahedrons in one colour with two points marked in the other colour.

And after baking and trying them I liked them, but they had not been planned in any way, and they were a bit too small for the board, so the next time I was using cernit I tried to make a new set.

And while I was doing that I tried a new shape for the dice, as coins marked with a dot in the middle of one of the sides, because I don’t really like tetrahedral dice.

A set of red and green tokens, like the ones above, plus tetrahedron dice and four more coins with a dot of a different colour just on one side. Everything is on top of a board that folds up.

And now, I realized this wasn’t going to be my last set, and urgently felt the need for some container to keep them in and avoid missing pieces.

(Yes, in the picture above one piece was already missing. While taking it I didn’t realize it, and neither I did when picking up everything to put it away, getting the missing piece and storing it safely together with the rest of the set. It must have been hiding in plain sight nearby, but I will never know where.)

Anyway, back to Inkscape, and to a board printed on scrap paper that I tried to fold up until I came up with a layout that folded up in a small drawer, and then I added a case to wrap around it to keep it closed.

A white box, about 2.5 cm × 2.5 cm × 7.5 cm; a drawer is sliding out of one small end.

The drawer from the box above, extracted to show it's made of a folded game of Ur board and contains a set with tokens and dice.

I played around with the case until it was big enough to actually slide around the folded board, and this is the result, ready to be printed out on A4 paper, cut, folded and glued. (This takes most of the sheet, and I’m not sure that the case would still fit around the board/drawer if printed with scaling, so if you want to print it on Letter paper I’d recommend to move the pieces around.)

two copies of the game board above, plus two cut / fold / glue boxes

Now, the only problem left was that green isn’t really my colour, and while I did like the stone effect of this set, I wasn’t exactly pleased by the colour scheme. (why did I do it this way in the first place? probably because I was trying to use up old cernit blocks before opening new ones.)

So, the only possible way out was to make yet another set, right?

A set of red and grey tokens, tetrahedron dice, coins with one side marked with a dot that are square-ish rather than circular and four lozenge-shaped coins with each side of a different colour.

I still used stone effect cernit, but this time in a red/grey scheme that knew I would have liked more, and while I was doing it I tried a few improvements on the randomization devices.

The tetrahedral dice are still the same: they work, it’s what they use in the replica sets, so I keep making them even if they’re not my first choice.

I’ve changed the coins to make them almost square for two reasons, however: one is that the round one tended to roll away into inconvenient places when throwing them with emphasis, and the other one is to make it easier to recognise them from the tokens with no need to flip each one around before starting the game.

The lozenges were a bit of a failure, instead. They work fine when thrown, but I don’t think that there is a self-evident way to decide which side should be counted, and the only intuitive way I can think of (count the ones in the player’s colour) would be unbalanced.

Speaking of balance issues: of course the hand-modelled dice and coins aren’t perfectly balanced but:

  • they don’t feel obviously unbalanced;
  • both players use the same set, so any subtle unbalance isn’t going to affect the chance of winning in an uneven way.

Maybe one day I will find a way to easily roll them a statistically significant number of times, collect data and analyze it to find out how imbalanced they are, but that’s not going to happen with manual data collecting, and I’m not really ready to go down the yak shaving filled road to automatize it.

To wrap up: is it going to be the last set I make for the Royal Game of Ur? lol. Is it going to be the last cernit set I make this month? definitely yes, I now have one I’m happy with, I’m routinely playing with it and I’m currently doing other crafts rather than cernit.

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Comunque, la cosa più faticosa dell'andare a votare è far passare tutte le tasche dei vestiti alla ricerca di cose che ecco, magari non è il caso di portarsi al seggio, dai telefoni ai coltellini svizzeri al calibro (sì, avevo un calibro in tasca, è normale, no?)

Anyway, the biggest hurdle when voting is going through all the pockets in your clothing looking for things that one shouldn't bring with themself to the pooling booth, such as phones, swiss knives, calipers (yes, I had a caliper in one of my pockets, that's perfectly common, right?)

(not exactly FirstWorld Problems, but, yes, FirstWorldProblems)

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

@albertux anything can be used as a weapon with the right amount of ingenuity.

I wouldn't use the expensive metal caliper I inherited from my grandfather for that :)

(also, the one I'm always carrying in my handbag, and had in my pockets this morning, is a simpler and less precise one in mostly plastic with a more compact design. It's also from my grandfather, so I wouldn't use it as a weapon either :) )

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@Abi Sutherland well, of course the top bar has split while I was carving the cutout, the biggest dowel I have for the alternative spool is 10 mm, and I've just barely been able to cut the 6 mm holes in it on my second try, and when all of this was happening I realized I've cut one of the holes for the spool in the wrong position.

The sun is setting, I've decided I'm done for today, and will try to see whether I'll be able to fix everything tomorrow.

But it's all caused by my lack of woodworking practice (even for these simple values of woodworking), the instructions have been quite clear so far.

Also, not seen in the picture above, there is another BEKVÄM still in its package waiting for me to finish doing mistakes on this one, because I know my limits and decided to plan in advance :D

@Abi Sutherland

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I've noticing that lately on Fridays I've tended to gravitate towards working on documentation, mostly because I'm tired and checking that some docs are up to date is easier than, say, debugging stuff that is not working.

However, the more I think about it the more I start to believe that it's actually a good thing, so the only thing that is missing before this can become A Thing is a fancy alliterative name: anybody has ideas? :D

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I enter the Library of Books You Read As A Child.
"Do you have... er. It was green, and there was a girl and a dog, and..."
The librarian nods.
"Of course. Which version do you want?"
"Version?"
"The one you read, with all flaws you didn't notice, or the one you remember loving?"
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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filed under FirstWorldCatastrophe: yesterday evening I've found that the only tobacco shop that sells international stamps in my area is closed until sunday, I only have two stamps for European destinations, and it's the middle of #InCoWriMo :D

yes, there is the post. Do I really want to spend my time waiting for them to go down to the dungeon, feed the crocodiles, disable the killer robots, get some random ugly stamp, come back up, realize they have got the wrong stamps, go back, repeat the procedure, come back up with even more ugly stamps?

Something tells me that this weekend I will send the few postcards I have planned for Italian destinations :D

#InCoWriMo
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If I could have one mundane superpower, it would be to be able to look at any expensive consumer product and instantly know if it’s a Veblen Good or a Vimes Boot. Is it expensive because you can flaunt its expensiveness or is it expensive because it’s the best made one you can get.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_g…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_th…

Luxury good for which the demand increases as the price increases

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Timekeeping nerdery

There hasn’t been a leap second since 2016. Entire production systems and entire codebases have existed and been retired without ever being tested by a leap second. Knowledge of leap seconds will atrophy to only a few grizzled senior staff. The next leap second is going to be hell, especially if it’s a deletion of a second, which has _never_ happened.

Rather than abolish leap seconds entirely as some are proposing, I propose that we adopt the Let’s Encrypt philosophy (“If it happens every three months, sysadmins will automate it”), and mandate gratuitous leap seconds: +1 every March and −1 every September (leaving June and December for the astronomically necessary ones). Kind of a mini “spring forward, fall back”, if you will.

It’ll only take one or two airline groundings for everyone to get up to speed.

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ShadSterling

Timekeeping nerdery

I still think we should have two clocks, an absolute clock with no particular relationship to days, and a scheduling clock which works the familiar way. The former would tick once per second with no leaps and the latter would have predictable values for arbitrary dates. Leap seconds would adjust the mapping between them, so we can track real time and keep scheduling convenient

We have those two clocks now, it’s baffling that we don’t use them that way

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How To Verify Debian's ARM Installer Images

Posted on February 2, 2023
Thanks to Vagrant on the debian-arm mailing list I’ve found that there is a chain of verifiability for the images usually used to install Debian on ARM devices.

It’s not trivial, so I’m writing it down for future reference when I’ll need it again.

  • Download the images from ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bu… (choose either hd-media or netboot, then SD-card-images and download the firmware.* file for your board as well as partition.img.gz).
  • Download the checksums file ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bu…
  • Download the Release file from ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bu… ; for convenience the InRelease
  • Verify the Release file: 
    gpg --no-default-keyring \
    --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-bullseye-stable.gpg \
    --verify InRelease
  • Verify the checksums file: 
    awk '/installer-armhf\/current\/images\/SHA256SUMS/ {print $1 "
SHA256SUMS"}' InRelease | tail -n 1 | sha256sum -c

    (I know, I probably can use awk instead of that tail, but it’s getting late and I want to publish this).
  • Verify the actual files, for hd-media: 
    grep hd-media SHA256SUMS \
| sed 's#hd-media/SD-card-images/##' \
| sha256sum -c \
| grep -v "No such file or directory" \
| grep -v "FAILED open or read" 2> /dev/null

    and for netboot:
    grep netboot SHA256SUMS \
| sed 's#netboot/SD-card-images/##' \
| sha256sum -c \
| grep -v "No such file or directory" \
| grep -v "FAILED open or read" 2> /dev/null

    and check that all of the files you wanted are there with an OK; of course change hd-media with netboot as needed.

And I fully agree that fewer steps would be nice, but this is definitely better than nothing!

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Hello World!

Posted on January 29, 2023
Welcome to my new blog!

Or rather, strictly speaking, welcome to my first blog!

Back when everybody had a blog, I had an old-fashioned personal website where pages were organized by topic rather than by date, so now that blogs are dead (or so they say), I guess it’s time for me to have one :) .

The old website is still online, but updating it is getting harder, both for organizational reasons and because the static generator I’ve used is no longer supported and requires python 2; lately I’ve started publish some specific categories of material such as sewing patterns into their own website (you can find a list in the about page), but I was missing a place to post about the history and experiences of the things I publish elsewhere, as well as more uncategorized things.

Of course I’ve chosen to use a static site generator, but since I’m picky I’ve discarded most of the common ones mostly because they enforce assumptions I don’t agree with.

On the other hand, one day I wouldn’t mind learning a bit of Haskell, so I decided to look for trouble and use Hakyll, hoping that nobody will add a level 20 wandering monster to it.

Right now I’m using mostly the default theme, because I know that if I start fiddling with it I’m not going to start posting content ever; maybe one day I’ll decide to completely change the look.

As for contents, on the bits side of things you can expect me to talk about Debian, the Fediverse, Python, my inventory manging program and a bit of arduino-level electronics; on the atom side you should definitely expect sewing, modern and mostly historically inspired, some fiber crafts (spinning, knitting, crochet), maybe some bad attempts at painting (watercolours and acrilics), printing (screen and linocut), things that are written on paper and, well, any other craft I will happen to collect.

Before the blog gets too full I plan to add tag management to help people who are only interested in some of these contents.

This being a blog, of course it has an atom feed you can add to your favourite (and ideally self-hosted) rss reader, and since this is a personal blog there will be no periodicity, posts will happen when I’ll have something to say on some topic.

Until next time

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Soooooo, I haz a blog!

Valhalla's Things

with a working atom feed and everything!

And if everything is going as it's supposed to be, friendica should be posting everything that appears on that feed as a post from my user.

Now, I only need to do things and write posts about them :D

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my mother in law told my mother I was right, that life's too short to baste things, pins are enough (my mother prefers to baste everything, even straigth hems on curtains).

this happened at the same time as I was basting pieces on seam lines that had been marked with tailor's tacks and then basted to the sew-in interface and flatlining :D

(I still claim that life's too short to baste most things :D )

#sewing

#sewing

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I did it! I have a p.o. box!

It *only* took me three attempts, and of course you pay for the full year even if you only manage to get it after almost a month, and no, I'm absolutely not grumpy towards our postal service, why do you ask?

Oh, and I even managed to pay by card, rather than cash as they were trying to make me pay (because of course paying by card required additional hassles, I mean, it's not like they are mainly a money managing place, these days).

No, not grumpy at all!

But I have a p.o. box!

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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

@ModestinoSycamore @LaVi

Un paio di sere fa ho postato questo articolo sulla siccità in #California.

Anche se c'è tanta acqua in superficie le falde sotterranee (quelle che servono quando c'è siccità) non si sono ancora riempite.

mastodon.cisti.org/@GustavinoB…

rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

2023-01-21 00:39:50


«Is #California’s #drought over? Here’s what to know about #rain, #snow, #reservoirs and drought»

eastbayexpress.com/after-the-s…


#california @ModestinoSycamore @LaVi

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Aaaaand I've published another #FreeSoftWear pattern that has been in the almost-ready limbo for a few months.

A woman wearing a bathrobe in grey honeycomb with big triangular lapels, folded up cuffs and a thin black border on all edges. There is no hood, so she's wearing a separate towel on the hairs.

sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…

The finished object picture is from a different item (made in a lighter gray) than the one in the step-by-step pictures, but I've kept the latter a bit overexposed to see the details, so it doesn't really show (also, my camera did odd things with the colour balance, which varies a bit between shots) :D

One day I will learn how to draw proper pattern drawings, but today's not the day.

I still have things in the backlog, but they all require a bit more work than these two.

@FreeSoftWear group #sewing @sewing group

(edit: added the url I had forgotten in the original post)

Low Waste Bathrobe — Valhalla's sewing patterns documentation

sewing-patterns.trueelena.org
#sewing #FreeSoftWear @FreeSoftWear group @sewing group

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please stop reposting art without attribution. I get that many artists aren't on the fediverse yet but the least you can do is link to their site or socials.

they need all the help they can get now that the tech industry is investing billions in suppressing their wages.

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And after sitting on it for something like two months I've published the pattern for my modern (it uses fancy stitches that weren't easily available on victorian age sewing machines such as zig-zag :D ) / vintage (it's based on something from when I was a child :D) nightgown.

The top half of a nightgown with a yoke in filet crochet with a meander pattern in light blue yarn, and rectangular body and sleeves in white linen fabric. The hem on the sleeves is sewn with a decorative stitch in light blue thread.

It's still missing a worn finished object picture, but it's too cold to take it right now, and if I wait for them I will forget about publishing the pattern, so I'll add it later, hopefully in the spring.

sewing-patterns.trueelena.org/…

(Thanks to my mother for crocheting the yoke, I only did the sewing part on this)

#FreeSoftWear @FreeSoftWear group @sewing group #sewing #crochet

Liliana Nightgown — Valhalla's sewing patterns documentation

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#sewing #crochet #FreeSoftWear @FreeSoftWear group @sewing group
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If you get the intonation just right, and tilt your head at the correct angle, when you say "Let me change into something more comfortable", you turn into a cat for a few hours.
Not a lot of people know that.
I would show you how, but it's time for my nap.
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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silly dream

Tonight I was in a comics and games shop with @Diego Roversi when he uncharacteristically got something from one of the gaming shelves (I think it was the RPG shelf, but I'm not even sure) and announced “we're going to play with the protestants”.

My answer was “ok. what are the protestants playing?”, trying to look at what he had just taken.

And then I woke up.

And now I will NEVER know what the protestants are playing, or even WHO these protestants are!!!

@Diego Roversi
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It has occurred to me several times since my Daddy and i have started to explore our #kinky sides that the #kink community has a lot to teach vanillas about safety. The emphasis on enthusiastic #consent, #SafeWords, and knowledge and skills makes having sex so much less fraught, even for those of us already in emotionally safe and loving relationships. These things should be mainstreamed.
#kink #Kinky #consent #safewords

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consumerism ~, deliveries

I strongly believe that amazon and their expectations of next day delivery has ruined the world, that having to plan your purchases in advance helps being mindful of what you buy (even if it also encourages having a stash, whoops) and creates a better environment where shops of all sizes (and with better treatment of their workers) can prosper in.

But the label “fast delivery” on something whose delivery is planned for THREE WEEKS after it has been bought is a joke, right? (and no, it's not an international delivery, it's from a huge multinational chain with 3 shops less than 100 km from where I live and the main nationwide warehouse less than 150 km from here)

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Need to entertain a child (or yourself)?

All 22 of Beatrix Potter's animal tales are public domain and available in beautifully formatted ebooks on Standard Ebooks:

standardebooks.org/ebooks/beat…

🐰

#OpenSource #OpenAccess #PublicDomain #ebook

#OpenSource #publicdomain #ebook #openaccess
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I really think we need to reject the term "content creator."

That phrase is used by people who aim to Monetize™ us without needing to care about what it is we create. A "content creator" is there to make the stuff that attracts people so they can be fed advertising.

Call us what we are. Artists. Essayists. Film makers. Authors. Photographers. And so many others. We are creators, yes, but what we create has so much value beyond filling otherwise empty space on a website.

#MakeArtNotContent

#makeartnotcontent
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So I finally published the Instructable on my spice rack loom: https://www.instructables.com/DIY-Weaving-Loom-From-IKEA-BEKVÄM-Spice-Rack/

DIY Weaving Loom From IKEA BEKVÄM Spice Rack

DIY Weaving Loom From IKEA BEKVÄM Spice Rack: This project shows you how to build a small loom for band weaving. It can be used with a rigid heddle or with tablets.
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Sooooooo, I may have

rectangular paper box, a drawer-like part is just a bit out of an outer sleeve

accidentally

the drawer is completely out, and it's unfolding out in a peculiar shape; inside there are game pieces in mottled green and red

a new game of Ur set

the drawer has unfolded completely in a game of Ur board, and there are 7 + 6 (uooops) game pieces plus four pyramidal dice and four additional tokens with one side marked

and uooops, while taking the photo one of the green pieces was misplaced, but I've played the game afterwards and it was there :D

I'm experimenting a bit with alternate shapes for the dice, the coin-like ones work decently, but they get mistaken for the main game pieces when getting the game out of the box, and they also roll around quite a bit.

#royalGameOfUr #polymerClay #boardGame

#boardGame #polymerclay #royalGameOfUr

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friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale
lamentele su poste italiane (ranting about the italian “post” service, in italian)

e oggi la giornata è iniziata in #posta, dove devo essere felice che mi abbiano detto subito che non potevano fare la pratica perché mancava l'impiegato che se ne occupa, anziché tenermi allo sportello per mezz'ora per poi dirmi di tornare alla mattina quando c'è l'impiegato che se ne occupa, come era successo settimana scorsa.

vogliamo scommettere che settimana prossima, quando mi han garantito che rientra, in realtà non sarà rientrato perché durante le ferie si è ammalato?

#posta
in reply to diorama ١٣١٢ (hänet/demm/ihn)

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Elena ``of Valhalla''

lamentele su poste italiane (ranting about the italian “post” service, in italian)
@diorama ١٣١٢ (demm/ihn) no, no, il dirigente è impegnato a rifilare investimenti capestro ai clienti, per queste cose... postali... se ne occupa un impiegato. uno solo, eh, mica che si sprechino risorse per cose di scarsa importanza!
@diorama ١٣١٢ (hänet/demm/ihn)

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Paolo Redaelli

Poste italiane si disinteressa del servizio postale da oltre un decennio. Vedi per esempio la chiusura delle caselle su poste.it ventilata nel 2011 ed attuata nel 2019 monodes.com/predaelli/2020/02/…
Avvilente. Meritano l'estinzione.😢

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friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

sooooo, some time ago my mother bought a cut of silk satin fabric for a shawl/scarf/foulard and afterwards discovered it had some elastane in it, which makes it pretty hell to work with.

Of course I had to cut it to size, because she sews but is afraid to cut things, and that's fine, I knew it was going to happen.

But why is that cut of fabric currently in my lap, being hemmed by hand?

And while I like it, it's not really my style, so I'm probably not even going to steal it after it's finished.

#sewing

#sewing

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