mastodon 4.7.3Photographer, writer, poet. Web developer, coder and help author for survival purposes only. Functionally stateless person of Irish Greek extraction, adoptive country Germany. Inception date 1955. When I eat at home I lick the plate. I have been known to eat nacho chips with cold butter. ⚧️
French Fry enjoying Spring in the long grass. He’s 23 now, so he takes things easy.
#FotoVorschlag 'Verbindungen' / ‘Connections’
Dandelion seed caught on a flower bud
#photography #macro #flowers #nature
‘Ziemlich schräg‘ #Fotovorschlag #potography
#FotoVorschlag ‘Einsamkeit’ ‘Loneliness’
#photography #street #people
A group of local residents recently prettied up all the public trash cans in our neighbourhood. This one reads, “Just DO it. It could be good.”
#civics101 #photography #street
RE: @csilverman@mastodon.social
Love this. Art that makes you make up,your own story.
@elilla@transmom.love
Next year is the year of Linux on the desktop.
@atpfm@mastodon.social
Apple Keyboard Rant:
My M3 Max MacBook Pro, for which I paid over €5,500, has developed sticky keys that often only work on the second press. Compressed air doesn’t help. I bought this laptop, among other things, specifically because Butterfly Gate was behind us and Everything Is Good Now.
To be clear: I do not care what the cause is. Not even a tiny bit.I have a 15-year old Lenovo laptop that probably has more crumbs mass than key switches under the key caps and the keyboard is still perfect. It has never ever not typed a letter when the key was pressed. Never. Functioning Laptop Keyboards Are Possible. Also: The key caps on the Lenovo keyboard can easily be removed for cleaning and replaced without permanently destroying key switch mechanisms that are apparently made of gossamer, tissue paper and butterfly wings.
Also: The keyboard on my MacBook Pro also sucks as a keyboard. It’s mushy, cheap, the keys are flat and the typing feel is no better than a €20 grab bin keyboard from the supermarket. This is what behaves like a €20 keyboard in a €5,500 laptop.
How in the ever loving world is a multi trillion dollar company unable or, more likely, unwilling, to make a high-quality and functioning keyboard, in the face of so many examples of keyboards that not only work without failure for decades, but also actually function accepably for the purpose which they exist?
I’ve been using Apple computers since the Apple II. Dammit, I was even at Reed at the same time as Steve Jobs and met him a couple of times in the dorm there. I don’t want to stop using MacOS. I like it and prefer it, even though I work for a Windows company and have to jump through a lot of hoops to keep using it. But dammit, a laptop with a usable, reliable and even pleasant to use keyboard is really beginning to look pretty fracking attractive, even when the price for that means moving back to fracking Windows.
Ugh. I have spoken.
Please stop using ‘palpable’. It has the indelible stink of thesaurus on it now, no matter how erudite it feels when you type it. #writing