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mastodon 4.7.3Bikes and old Macs and urban planning and whatever happens to have distracted me.
Lawyer by trade, lives in Canberra Australia.
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This makes me viscerally fucking angry. My $2500 phone and I have to have App Store notifications turned on to manage my kids’ requests and it gives me this shit. Fuck off Apple — the advertising is ruining the experience of using your products.
@likesoldmacs@bitbang.social I remember that neon effect. Loved it.
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk Meh, red lights are car infrastructure. I don’t stop at them when I’m walking or riding if it’s safe not to. If the roads weren’t choked with two-ton kill boxes they wouldn’t need to exist. Stop being a narc and focus on the real problems — unsafe streets, dangerous drivers, and shit infrastructure.
Well, I got a lovely new wheel made for my #Rivendell Hunqapillar. Rode it about 300km then some cranky granddad decided to hit me with his car twice — once accidentally (though negligently), the other deliberately. I messed up his windscreen pretty badly (with my back) and came of largely unscathed, but the lovely new wheel is buckled. Sigh.
Catching a Canberra bus for the first time in a while. The “rapid” 6. What. The. Fuck. How can anyone use this system?
Fucking HomeKit. “The garage door is not responding”. The garage door shows up on the wifi. Open garage door manually: “HomeKit notification “the garage door has been opened”. “Hey siri, close the garage door”. The garage door didn’t respond.
It. Is. A. Piece. Of. Shit.
Apple can’t make software any more.
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Kinda seems like a bunch of terminally online political tragics and activists forget that 98% of the country pays little-to-no attention to politics day-to-day, and forgets that while they’re smart and plugged-in enough to know about restraint in petrol usage, perhaps a big attention-getting address right before school holidays and long weekends might be a good idea, even if it wasn’t entertaining enough for their oh-so-sophisticated-and-worldly selves.
FFS
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The ACT government could learn something from this. But of course they’d need to have any idea that they might not win an election…
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@joe I really like my Butchers and Bicycles Mk3e, which I use for stuff and for kids, but they’re pretty rare and I suspect even used not in your price range. (I got mine for a steal from an odd bloke who used it to transport his Dalmatian). They’re also complex. A mate has an Omnium analogue which he loves. It’s far simpler. It’s very agile, but of course a trike is more stable with a heavy load.
Hi @gruber@mastodon.social — want to read the wrongest take on Tim Cook stepping down as Apple CEO?
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@sister_ratched@toot.community Then don’t call it the rapid! It was a nice drive, I must admit.
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@troberts@theblower.au I mean, as long as the quantity of coffee increases with the quantity of milk, it’s the same drink; but often it doesn’t.
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@herzberg@typo.social Surely you need a screenshot of this as a terminal font or in code?
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@augustusbrown@aus.social This is a really important point, and something that Canberra suffers from badly.
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@sven Thank you — it was a good talk, and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your and everyone’s work on Asahi.
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@sven Thanks for your work. (I understood about 10% of all that, but I use Asahi every day on my M2!)
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@mrbruno@mstdn.social @stux@mstdn.social @rdm@aus.social
HyperTalk
[…] we anticipate this functionality to be incorporated into the next major release.
😢
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@lina@vt.social Ugh, awful situation. Thanks for all your work — my main computer runs Asahi Fedora and I really appreciate it. It’s awful that FOSS communities seem to attract this sort of behaviour.
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@nulleric@mastodon.social @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org That’s a real shame about MacGui. I’ve found things there that were nowhere else.
Here’s the notice:
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@Quasit@kolektiva.social @Lazarou@mastodon.social @Hex@kolektiva.social @TimWardCam@c.im @raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @eunews@mastodon.social @johnelalamo@mcr.wtf Of course it matters who the president is.
Oh AI. I’ve been using ChatGPT for a few nerdy Linux things — it gave me good curly quotes in nvim for example — but it just took me on the biggest wild goose chase trying to get my foot terminal transparent. Do this! Do that! Finally I asked the right question (perhaps?) and it admitted that Foot doesn’t support transparency at all.
Lesson in that. If it’s true.
Update: It wasn’t true! Worked it out the old fashioned way. Turns out
[colors]
alpha=0.75
does the trick.
@crimsonbutterfly@vernissage.photos The Gang Gang cockatoo — emblem of my kids’ school. Don’t see them often. Lovely shot.
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@Strandjunker@mstdn.social Always doing the jobs nobody else wants to do. I’m sure I’m the 409th person to say this, but Mastodon hasn’t replicated the other 408 yet.