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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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spencerdailey, to random
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i wonder: what will the lack of "political correctness" have to say about bone saws? 🧐

Chancerubbage,
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@siracusa @caseyliss @griffd @spencerdailey

A few interesting aspects around Mercedes Benz level 3.

It only works up to forty miles per hour.

Turquoise safety lights to let human drivers know.

Benz HQ is around Atlanta, a famously traffic dense area, and many areas with more Mercedes owners are probably Urban with a higher level of distracting mind numbing traffic congestion.

If traffic suddenly allows for faster than forty mph does an alarm alert the driver.

Strangers in chaos.

marcoarment, to random
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My favorite thing about tethering is

nothing

nothing is my favorite thing about tethering

Please, cellular Macs already!

(Today's anti-favorite: if the phone loses reception for even a moment — common on trains! — it disconnects tethering and never reconnects. You're just offline until you notice. Then you need to reconnect from the Mac's Wi-Fi menu again, after waiting for the option to become available, a process that's almost as slow as dialing up your ISP with a modem in the 1900s.)

Chancerubbage,
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@marcoarment eh, my carrier won’t even allow use of phone cell signal as wifi hot spot. I think it’s even cheaper to get a standalone hot spot from them.

Cellular is a huge push in my buying an iPad.

davemark, to TeslaMotors
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"Chinese automaker BYD is rolling out cars capable of driving more than 1,300 miles without refueling or recharging"

That's New York to Miami without a recharge. US cars are lucky to get 1/4 that range.

The bar has been set pretty high.

Oh, and they are priced at $13K. Yikes.

https://apple.news/AQV2DtmurQA-tW6Qln_7hPA
#EV #Tesla #Hybrid #Transportation #Cars

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark @flargh

I wish the ‘domestic’ manufacturers would dare be so aggressive.

Also I’m sick of the way miss Yoga Pants parks her 12 foot tall SUV.
They are a safety hazard because you can’t see around them.

I remember when people removed their hats on entering the theater.

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark @flargh

300 mile range for EV seems a bit of a tipping point for me (if only fast charging stations were as common as gas stations.)

I drive 100 miles a day minimum.

I fully expect electrical rates for charging to raise to match gas prices, if that is not already the case.

davemark, to apple
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Went to the Apple Store last night, got to spend some quality time with the M4 iPad Pro.

  • The screen is ridiculous. Delicious. Bright. A pleasure to interact with.

  • It's SO THIN!!! And light!

  • Add in the Magic Keyboard and it becomes SO HEAVY. Like a ship anchor.

  • The Apple Pencil Pro is next level. The shadow detail (shadow shows the pen tip in use, VERY precise) makes you want one.

If it wasn't so 💰 would have walked out with it.

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark I have pent up demand from the the first Apple Pencil announcement.

That and cellular are the reasons I’m giving it priority over a new MacBook, which I am way overdue on updating as well.

And I’ll pull the triggers given no more gotchas.

I think most tech pundits were/are too busy airing their wish list grievances about the OS to actually review what IS there, and if any bugs exist.

Their review: but I wanted a pony!

davemark, to apple
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Heading to the Apple Store. Going to hold that new M4 iPad Pro in my hands.

Try out that new Apple Pencil.

See if I can see that fountain pen shadow for myself.

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark

Have you heard anything more about this memory issue? That memory is there, but iPad OS apparently thinks it isn’t? A thread with multiple chime ins.

https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/112501196259668578

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark @stroughtonsmith

I’m not certain the thread is providing enough info (for me) about exactly what might be happening or how widespread it is. Large files? Files brought over from elsewhere? iCloud conflict? I just find it concerning and a bit under the radar for someone considering a one terabyte model. Especially with how much that Terabyte costs. External storage an option?

hotdogsladies, to random
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Roderick on the Line, Ep. 537: "Cold Breakfast"

The Problem: The first problem is ordinal.

http://www.merlinmann.com/roderick/ep-537-cold-breakfast.html

Chancerubbage,
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@hotdogsladies

davemark, to apple
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😮😐
The more than $600 Mac battery replacement!?!

"top case with battery and keyboard for my MacBook Pro cost $615.12"

And that's if you do it yourself. Is this the new normal?

Details here, laid out by @lapcatsoftware —

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/5/7.html

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark @lapcatsoftware

This is totally tangential but I am curious if it is faster to totally backup let’s say a full terabyte of data with the the new M chip devices. It used to be overnight to 24 hours. It is something I might wish to do right before taking a Mac load iPhone in for repair.

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark @lapcatsoftware

Sometimes I wonder if the airplane safety rules nudged decisions against changeable batteries in a hard case towards something in a flexible casing, that might leak before it overheats and ignites.?

christianselig, to random
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Need the EU to step in and standardize 18V power tool batteries

Chancerubbage,
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@christianselig the other voltages too (for portable power tools and gardening items)

Chancerubbage, to random
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Question about how Mastodon works from a Twitter refugee using the most Twitter like mobile client he found.

Used to be, on the Ecch, if (at) screename headed a post, it would not show publicly, only that person and their followers would see it, if the first character was an at sign.

A period before the at, or screename deeper in the message, all your followers might see. For example tagging someone at end of message, @mastodonmigration

Understand my question?

arstechnica, to random
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Fracking wastewater has “shocking” amount of clean-energy mineral lithium

40% of US need for lithium could be covered by Pennsylvania's fracking byproduct.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/fracking-wastewater-has-shocking-amount-of-clean-energy-mineral-lithium/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Chancerubbage,
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@arstechnica

As long as this research wasn’t funded/faked by the oil industry. They simply can’t be trusted. They lie.

davemark, to music
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Type in your favorite musical band/artist, Music Map will show you a tree of related artists.

Some great music discovery here.

I went with some really obscure artists (Brian Protheroe, anyone?) and Music Map had them all.

Spend a few minutes. Fun! 🤩

https://www.music-map.com

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark these have been around for awhile with different ways of showing the web of connections, but the most remarkable thing about them is how they seem to ‘vanish’. As if they were posted as a proof of concept, perhaps as a way to grab some backend popularity data, and then… gone for years.

Great to see one surface again. I’m wondering how it is going to display its results? Going to go see.

Chancerubbage, to random
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My home feed is in media only mode. How do I change that to see text only toots as well? Using @ivory as a client. Not sure which drawer in which cabinet behind which door this particular secret sauce is hidden, no time for scavenger hunts with 3+ microblogging platforms to manage now.

Chancerubbage, to random
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Anyone ever use one of those ‘exercise machines’ which was basically a belt on some cams which jostled and vibrated your mid section?

What was the principle behind that?

Chancerubbage, to random
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Oh… kay….?

Chancerubbage, to random
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Had my first Toot unable to post because horrible signal bandwidth and image size I imagine, and I am unsure where @ivory app stores failed drafts to try again later.

davemark, to apple
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From @gruber on Apple / OpenAI deal:

"OpenAI is — according to multiple reports — not only looking to create its own personal computing devices, they’re considering partnering with Jony Ive and LoveFrom to do it. They’re setting themselves up to be frenemies with Apple before the first partnership is even announced."

Google went down this "frenemies" path before Android existed. Interesting take on OpenAI as the new frenemy. I buy it.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/30/information-altman-apple
#Apple #AI #OpenAI

Chancerubbage,
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@davemark @gruber

Altman is problematic enough on multiple fronts I would not be surprised if the deal falls through. Nor would I necessarily mind.

Chancerubbage, to random
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@ivory

Ivory users:

How do I switch my home feed to see messages without attached media?

I see that is the mode it is in, but I would like to make visible random toots into the void without illustration or links.

Chancerubbage, to random
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@ivory

I see boosts in great monolithic groups.

Are people working offline, then dumping them all at once?

Is that the way they are presented to Ivory via API?

Is it a side effect of federation?

Is mastodon NOT real time?

Chancerubbage, to random
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I think I may have signed up for Threads the day it opened just as a name grab, I haven’t looked at it even once, posted or searched for anyone.

Tonight Facebook showed me all my brand new friends I have never met. They are all of the ‘Love You Long Time’ school.

I bet they have an incredible amount of ‘non-users’

Chancerubbage, to random
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48 hours to go to raise $ 9000
On the Kickstarter of How Comics were made

You don’t have to be a nerd into creative workflow and industrial process and the history of an art form and old school graphic arts techniques, but it can’t hurt.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made

Chancerubbage, to random
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@nighthawk

Interested in Longplay, particularly internal playback tracking. For instance, I would love to be able to discover how many (or which) tracks I may have decided to skip, when digging through an artists less familiar repertoire on a long road trip. Creating a playlist from this behavior might be beyond the intended scope of the app.

But there are entire decades of careers I’d like to re-examine.

Chancerubbage, to random
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How might I search my own Toots that have posted images?

Involves some sort of syntax, regex like code to narrow it down

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