I think the best way to fight RTO is to submit accommodations requests for ergonomics.

Tell your doc you have back pain. Get a doctor's note. If you're in a jurisdiction with accommodation legislation, you should be able to get your own desk fitted to you.

Now get all your coworkers to do this. No more hot desking, and the costs of an office goes up.

#RTO

#writerscoffeeclub Name a poem (or poet!) which has influenced you.

There's too many to list. There's the usual suspects like Khalil Ghibran and May Ziyade who influenced my 19th century Egypt pieces. Lately I've been drawn to the narratives of women and supporting women's wrongs so Abbasid era female poets like Inan, Arib and Faridah are big inspos. He's a man, but also Bai Juyi's Song of Everlasting sorrow which gives a sympathetic look of Yang Guifei.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Revisit our Oct. 2025 story:
propublica.org/article/immigra…

#Immigration #ICE #DHS #USPolitics #News #Trump #Law

Immigration Agents Have Held More Than 170 Americans Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

^ProPublica

RE: mastodon.social/@appleinsider/…

Nice list, but which of these devices would I really want? Mostlikely none. :)

I have a serious question out there for those who like listening to music. How much do you think a musician/creator should get paid when you listen to their music?

I ask because the amount is pitifully small if you stream - for Soundcloud it would take around 400 streams for the musician to make 1 USD and that is one of the better streaming platforms. For Spotify, its thousands of streams - fine for Lady Gaga but not for small creators, often in niche markets.

On the other hand many musicians sell their music for a few dollars for a whole album or less than a dollar a track. Yet few seem to avail themselves of actually buying music.

Streaming is killing music and combined with the AI generated trash that is all over platforms like Spotify one has to wonder how much longer the market for music generated by real people will last.

So please, go seek out your favourite musician and BUY an album or track. Don't stream and certainly don't use Spotify.

Hugs, Sammi

#music

I'm in the middle of recording this big-ass synth album, and all I want to do is play guitar.

Can anyone tell me WTF is wrong with me?

For the last nearly two weeks, almost all of my computing tasks have been done with my iPhone using NVDA Remote RC connected to one of two laptops back home in New York 500 miles away.
It's just so cool to pull out a bluetooth keyboard and connect to a familiar environment from anywhere, but it's even cooler what you can still do without a keyboard if you don't have one, thanks to the custom gestures and presets for them.
If you use Voiceover Announcements instead of AVSPEECH, you can even use a braille display, though it is nowhere as extensive as using a display direct with NVDA. So, if you absolutely rely on using a braille display, this is not the best way to work, but you are not completely without the ability to get an idea of what's going on.

I just did another small editing job remotely using Reaper on my laptop at home, and TeamTalk on a server running on a Raspberry Pi at home connected to Tailscale to connect the audio. Yep, it's an old TeamTalk server. I don't think there are rPi builds of modern ones anymore.
Not the best way to do it, there is some lag, but considering I'm using Airpods Pro, which adds more lag, internet latency, etc. it worked pretty well, all things considered. Sonobus for iOS is, unfortunately, very jittery most of the time, probably because it hasn't been updated since 2023, and iOS has changed around it.

I have still not quite gotten fully comfortable with editing stuff on Reaper under Mac OS, at least with the same speed and efficiency, especially when it comes to envelope automation, and I have some plugins installed on the Windows laptop that I don't have on Mac OS that I need for this small weekly project, so it's nice to just be able to remote in and manipulate that existing environment. The fact that I can do that from my phone from anywhere, provided internet connectivity is good, and latency and jitter is reasonable, is just fantastic.

Right now, I have the second eSIM on my phone using AT&T, and amusingly enough, latency is almost the same to my stuff at home whether I'm using WiFi or AT&T.
Jitter is worse on the mobile connection, but it's still perfectly usable, even for audio editing. I forgot that I had WiFi turned off for three days, didn't really notice.

So, anyway, technology is still cool sometimes.

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