is the switch overkill for this? yes. but I had an actual plan for it that really fell apart when sam altman decided to make ram cost as much as everything on this desk combined

the homelab

sending all of my energy to the polyproto devs, very hopeful for that

there's also zulip and mattermost I guess. don't know much about them, but now's a good time to learn. separating text and voice into different programs again would be cool too, mumble exists

discord finally did the IPO, huh

alright. so where are we going next? will we make sacrifices to adopt an alternative that has less features but is actually resilient? will we return to older tried and true methods of communication like IRC, email, and forums?

or will nobody listen again as always

I like long fella and their floating face

every time I look at the clock and see 17:00 I think "oh no, the day is almost over" because I never fail to forget that days are actually 24 hours long and not 20

hexagons may be the bestagons, but answer me this

what is a hexagon if not six of the strongest shape, the humble triangle?

you got me there, excellently parried gadderson

capitalism and the church, name a more iconic combo

@fluffy@plush.city @vikxin@beach.city we should kill them with hammers maybe

in minecraft, of course

@fluffy@plush.city @vikxin@beach.city oh, bowker sells UPC codes too on the same site, and it's similarly exorbitant

I was never unfortunate enough to work with a music distributor that charged for a UPC (or ISRC for that matter) but I'm sure it used to be much worse. making all that free just makes sense and is so much fairer for everybody, the industry still gets its money regardless

do I... do I have to give the music industry credit for something? I might be sick

@vikxin@beach.city I don't think there's much, if any, direct ISBN reselling going on, but this is certainly one of the ways vanity presses scam people out of money for nothing. they're probably buying the package of a thousand at once, then when a poor sap signs on to get "published", they charge $30 or something for the ISBN that they got for $1.50

this would also be how the various US-based book distributors like draft2digital and lulu operate, maybe that could kind of be considered reselling

alright, I've loaded up on far too many calories to give myself the best possible chance of succeeding at this

lend me your strength, friends

aside from the absolutely bonkers numbers on display here, as far as I know, getting ISBNs in literally any other country than the US costs you nothing. which is fantastic when you're considering print options, where every single variation needs its own ISBN. I could easily use ten on a single book

I don't like throwing this word around lightly, but this is such a scam, man

it is monday. I haven't written a word of prose in the last few days, but I did write 90% of a plan for the final three chapters

place your bets now on your phones, will I crank out ~10,000 words today and be finished with the book by monday like I said wouldn't happen?