Kickoff at COOL Days 2026 💜🦦 Pizza, drinks, the return of Collabora Quizz, and a new awards night. But we're just getting started. Day 2 begins now with the keynotes and deep-dives!

Have decided to make a Minecraft let's play series for fun. Episode 2 is recorded, and soon to be edited.

Macaques playfighting.

"Hyperfun" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

The word I was looking for several times is peninsula!

00:00 intro

Wrote up the thing that trips up nearly every newcomer to Mastodon:

The server picker page isn't asking you to pick a Mastodon. it's asking you to pick a neighborhood. ActivityPub is the road system — it's open, it's shared, it connects every instance to every other instance that hasn't blocked it. what you're choosing is the community whose timeline, rules, and culture shape your local experience.

Some things worth knowing before you choose:

→ Most major instances are donation-funded, not ad-supported. the funding model is the governance model — chronological feeds, no blue-checkmark monetization, transparent admin posts, no quarterly growth pressure.

→ AI policy is now a real community differentiator. mastodon.art bans AI-generated content. fosstodon requires disclosure. infosec.exchange and hachyderm block AI training on user content. the general-purpose flagships are mostly silent — which is also a position.

→ Regional and language instances aren't lesser versions of mastodon.social. mstdn.jp, mastodon.uno, mastodon.scot — these communities have a center of gravity that the flagship can't credibly provide, and they're fully federated so you lose nothing by being on one.

→ The initial choice is revisable. account portability is built in. your followers move with you.

New piece walking through the full landscape:

→ https://federatedmind.com/mastodon-constellation-of-communities/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=exploring-mastodon-1

Although this post is part of a mini-series called "Exploring Mastodon", I will also be doing a piece on PeerTube which will be part of a different mini-series. All of these mini-series are part of the bigger "Exploring the Fediverse" umbrella series. More on my site.

Hardware Information

Hardware Model: INTEL X99-P4

Software Information

OS Name: Fedora Linux 44 (Silverblue)

Gaming / Wine Setup

Bottles Flatpak

Overlay: Mangojuice + MangoHud (all Flatpak)

Recording Setup

Software: OBS Studio Flatpak (VAAPI h265 16Mbps)

One month exactly til the release of Enigmatic Worlds, getting every lil bit of polish i can, and adding in missing sprites (holy hell i just keep finding more things to do).

Either way, yippee! Have some gameplay. :>

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2558730/Enigmatic_Worlds/

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Bread.coop, ECSA and the EML present a Protocols for Postcapitalist Expression reading group.

Session 3 — Discussing chapter 4: "Production as Performance" and chapter 5: "Stake: The Key to Value" of Protocols for Postcapitalist Expression (2023), the Economic Space Agency's "white paper in book form" by Dick Bryan, Jorge Lopez and Akseli Virtanen.

There’s a built-in SSD fix already inside Windows—but most users have no idea it even exists. It’s not a new download, not a third-party tool, and not something Microsoft clearly points out. Yet, it can have a real impact on your system’s performance and storage health.

At first, your SSD seems fine. But over time, performance can drop, speeds can fluctuate, and background processes can affect how efficiently your drive operates. The surprising part? Windows already includes tools and settings designed to help—you just need to know where to look.

In this video, I’ll show you the hidden SSD-related feature built into Windows, how it works, and how to make sure it’s properly enabled and optimized on your system.

What you’ll learn in this video:

• The built-in Windows SSD feature most users miss

If you’re using an SSD, this is something you’ll want to check—it’s already on your system, just waiting to be used properly.

#Windows11 #Windows10 #SSD #PCPerformance #TechTips #StorageOptimization #ComputerTips #TechGuide #PCMaintenance #SpeedUpPC

Nobody waned to play castle crashers, so I played alone.