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Chancerubbage

@Chancerubbage@mastodon.social

Fifteen years at the other place. Post Punk tech Luddite. First toot June 2 2023.

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davemark, to apple
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On M4 iPad Pro "bend protection":

"Apple's senior VP John Ternus reveals that Apple has added a new protective "cowling" over main logic board...not only helps with heat dissipation, but also "effectively creates a central rib that runs through the whole thing and tremendously improves the stiffness"

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/14/ipad-pro-structural-design-avoid-bendgate/
#Apple #iPad #iPadPro #M4

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark going ‘thin’ seemed a stupid move. Not sure anyone cares, but I guess there will be possible fatigue handholding the 13 inch. Or wanting to sell cases. Who knows.

Chancerubbage, to random
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Facebook trying to get my goat again, showing idiots giving some beautiful natural wood paneling and furniture some sort of jackass paint job.

grillchen, to random
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This supermarket is wild even for German standards.

At the cashier line instead of sweets there are pregnancy tests, condoms, wodka, mixed wodka with energy drinks, cigarettes and pokemon cards.

All a man needs

Chancerubbage,
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@grillchen @Binder that’s a convenience store point of sale line up, supermarkets in the states aren’t so crass. They might dip into pokeman cards and energy drinks maybe.

And fucking is outlawed in 24 states.

davemark, to cooking
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Anyone out there a fan of air fryers?

Went to a dinner last night, folks were raving about their air fryers. This something worth exploring? A fad?

I'm particularly interested in cooking veggies, like broccoli, zucchini, etc. This better than roasting in an oven?

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark they seem to be a fave of people trying to avoid deep frying (people hate handling and storing oil). 90% of the people I know that use them are eating chicken wings and frozen french fries.

trinitybat, to random
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The ad breaks on YouTube are getting ridiculous...I can't even watch a 40 second video without being interrupted....

Chancerubbage,
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@trinitybat @Binder

It used to be hilarious when a 3 minute vid would have some 45 minute preroll ad placement some poor fool had paid for. Of course I skipped it, at least you could then.

You want your ads seen? Make them short and to the point. They will still work with your target audience without alienating the possible converts.

davemark, to TierraSapiens
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Fantastic alternative to a tripod.

Follow link, scroll down to the GIFs to get a sense of this thing.

Pricy, but if video/photography is your thing, this is 🔥

https://edelkrone.com/products/standplus

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark those are great tripods, a bit aspirational for me however. All their stuff looks well designed, if somewhat frail possibly. Be great to have, pricy to own unless you needed it daily.

Chancerubbage, to random
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Whenever I see Betty and Veronica fighting over Archie, I think, “He must be hung like a horse!”

Da_Gut, to books
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How many people still buy and use physical calendars? Whether wall, or desk? And how old are you?

Chancerubbage,
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@Da_Gut @Binder

Still use physical calendars.

It’s about granularity and what I can glance at at once. I do not need a daily (hour, minute) schedule which is the default on many ‘computer calendars’, my needs are more like week, month, year.

I go to computer calendars
most often when determining what year June 17th fell on a Saturday, that sort of thing.

siracusa, (edited ) to random
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First, it’s great that @MichaelWhelan is on Mastodon. What an amazing artist.

Second, his recent post featured a spherical alien that I instantly recognized from my childhood. https://mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/112428886103083708

It’s from this book, published in 1980, which had a cover image that is also burned into my brain.

Chancerubbage,
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@siracusa I haven’t found confirmation that John Berkey was also a Matte Painter for the movies, but I think he was. He had a way of choosing the right colors and suggesting more detail than was in the painting with a few parallel and perpendicular marks suggesting realistic highlights. I had the movie poster for Delaurentus King Kong that he did, you could get lost in the cityscape that ‘wasn’t’ there.

Of course many space ships on paperbacks with all sorts of radio antennas poking out of them

gedeonm, to random
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Checking out at the grocery store and item needs a price check. Teen cashier calls over the manager (also a teen) who instead of running into the aisles to find the item whips out her iPhone and looks the item up on the store’s website to check the price. DONE.

SO SMART!

Chancerubbage,
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@gedeonm discounts (or not) are frequently local ; online may vary, not be marked down at all. But, time is money.

daringfireball, to random
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Pointless NYT Report Says Apple Plans to Improve Siri
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/10/nyt-siri-story

Chancerubbage,
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@daringfireball

Says far more about the state of journalism than it does about Apple.

verge, to random
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Apple doesn’t understand why you use technology https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/9/24152987/apple-crush-ad-piano-ipad

Chancerubbage, (edited )
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@verge

Being ‘Skinny’ is not an ‘exciting new marketing feature’. It’s a sad throwback to the form over function fiasco of the post Jobs Jonny Ive years, that nearly tanked the notebook line.

sundogplanets, to random
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I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)

Chancerubbage,
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@sundogplanets @mastodonmigration

The bigfoot of military modeling.

Looks like a furry thing was using someone’s toy to scratch its back.

danielpunkass, to random
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Has anybody done a mashup of Apple's "Crushing" and "1984" ads? That's the vibe I get.

Chancerubbage,
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@danielpunkass who is the boogie man this time around?

hotdogsladies, to random
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You learn a lot about a machine from using it wrong.

Conceivably, even more than the people who are using it right.

Chancerubbage,
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@hotdogsladies have you toyed with acetone fume smoothing?

RickiTarr, to random
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What cracks me up is when you go to a restaurant, and they ask if you've been there before, and then they say, "Well, we do things a little different here", and then it's exactly like every other restaurant, but more expensive.

Chancerubbage,
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@RickiTarr @WarnerCrocker

I had one mansplain a creme brûlée to me.

I had to say I know what Creme brûlée is, I ordered it.

I think they just wanted to warn they use vanilla bean so there might be black specks in it, because presumably someone complained about the black specks?

But don’t condescend to your customers by fluffing up your dishes. Be confident in serving as they were in ordering it, let it speak for itself.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Hmmm. I’m sure there are many productive things one can do with their life having a brain compromised by a worm eating a hole in it and poisoned by a love of tuna fish sandwiches, but POTUS isn’t one of them. wtf.

Chancerubbage,
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@StillIRise1963
Googling ‘RFK Brain Parasite Tuna’ was not anything I expected to do today.

You see, No one should be vaccinated, because vaccines use Mercury apparently, and he was eating so much Mercury and parasite laden fish, he just can’t handle any more Mercury, look what it’s done to him

hotdogsladies, to random
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Breathtaking psych-pop bubblegum from The Lemon Twigs.

This is my AM radio childhood in three sweet minutes.

https://youtu.be/Vbppp0j7f5w?si=dDO--0El3AmUFYO6

Chancerubbage,
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@hotdogsladies this elicited me wanting to create a mashup of this with Clarence Carter’s ‘Patches’, a bonafide AM radio hit of its day, because of a similar melodic hook.

Chancerubbage, to random
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Second cicada I’ve seen is a teensy guy, about half the size of the other.

schwa, to random
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    Chancerubbage,
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    @schwa @flargh

    Can you imagine having ‘Gesture Coach’ on your appointment schedule?

    siracusa, to random
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    Someone at Apple has been watching the hydraulic press channel on YouTube.

    Chancerubbage,
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    @siracusa but do you see it too?

    Chancerubbage,
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    @siracusa

    It’s a systemic issue somehow.

    Chancerubbage,
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    @siracusa I’m using Ivory on iPhone . Perhaps it is related to poor cellular bandwidth. But I have seen it with multiple mastodon users posts.

    The URL is intact it is only the ‘link card’ that is generic. And German. ‘Before you go to YouTube’ IIRC.

    gedeonm, to random
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    What I’d like from today’s Apple iPad event:

    • Camera on the long side of the iPad (where it belongs)
    • Longer battery life
    • Faster processor (duh)
    • To not have Sherlocked 🙏
    Chancerubbage,
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    @gedeonm 11 or 13 inch?

    Bought or bespoke?
    I imagine it eliminates camera bump.

    davemark, to apple
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    "'iPhone 17 Slim' Said to Feature 6.55-Inch Display"

    I get that this is a rumor (driven by supply chain suppliers), but I love the idea. Skinny for skinny pockets.

    Is it real? Who knows. 🤔

    https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/06/iphone-17-slim-to-feature-6-55-inch-display/
    #Apple #iPhone

    Chancerubbage, (edited )
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    @davemark if that has a 16:9 ratio of most iPhones- 6.55 diagonal describes an iPhone pro max. Nothing Skinny about it. It is 3.21 inches on its shortest side, wider than iPhone 14 Pro in my hand.

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