@ajroach42 just got around to loading New Ellijay TV on my Roku, and it's spectacular! I'm already looking forward to being a supporter!
Everyone else reading this, go check out https://newellijay.tv

One of the things most interesting about exploring retrocomputing is exploring how our relationship to computers changed as the technology improved and the computer displaced other aspects of life. 1/

TIL that there is no formula for the exact perimeter of an ellipse, but that you could make an arbitrarily close approximation of a formula for the perimeter of a *given* ellipse, and that such a formula would depend on the sum of an infinite series.

TIL that this is technically how we have a formula for the perimeter of a circle, but don't notice the messiness because the circle's "axes" are of equal length and thus a single sum of an infinite series works. We call it "pi" to keep it unmessy.

Posting selfies over here is a real challenge. Phone cameras tend to record the photo's orientation in the EXIF, which Mastodon doesn't seem to use (and actively seems to strip). And yes, I want to post selfies. I'm in that "I understand why people take selfies now" phase of #gender euphoria. #enby