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apples_and_pears

@apples_and_pears@mastodon.world

Retired male, social media novice, living just outside of Seattle. Here to discover social media so far it's a universe all it's own. Touch typist with little tolerance for predictive text or automatic spell check.

Also https://calckey.world/@apples_and_pears

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_L1vY_, to tea
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😂
Via U.S. Embassy London
7:41 AM · Jan 24, 2024:

"An important statement on the latest controversy. 🇺🇸🇬🇧"

apples_and_pears,
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@robfrominternet @_L1vY_ That freaked me out, too! Never in the microwave. Everyone knows ya dump it in the perculator to brew it!

danilo, to random
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We really had it all, for a moment

RSS, for a moment, was an invitation for every single website to participate in any sort of application developers could imagine

And they DID it was the thing

Everyone had RSS. News sites. Social platforms. Indie blogs. Government portals.

It enabled a fundamentally new chapter of the web, while simultaneously being invisible, save for a few affordances sprinkled between UI chrome and page content

apples_and_pears,
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@danilo I beg to differ. RSS is alive and thriving. Perhaps not in all circles, but RSS is a primary source of new information. I subscribe to about a hundred and get something from most of the a few times a day, others periodically. There are thousands of active RSS feeds consumed daily.

There is one thing missing -- advertising. A very good reason to subscribe to RSS feeds.

paulrickards, (edited ) to genart
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My first large plot in many months: a new Carousel, about 5 hours in, about 2 hours remaining. Cyan and yellow are down, magenta going down now, and finally black. Python generated and plotted on a vintage HP DraftPro DXL on 24”x36” watercolor paper.

See next post for completed plot!

apples_and_pears,
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@paulrickards I like the color combination VERY much!!! These are colors I prefer to use when I knit a garment. I like the flow of the shapes, the slightly varied direction of the lines...

Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing!

RiversideBryan, to Florida
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apples_and_pears,
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@RiversideBryan Watch for falling aircraft parts!!!

clive, (edited ) to random
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Sometimes, when I'm buying gadgets and technology, I want the best I can afford

Sometimes, I prefer the cheaper stuff

It's intriguing to ponder when and why I actually like the cheaper warez

An essay on "four tools where I buy as cheap as I can": https://clivethompson.medium.com/when-cheap-tech-is-good-enough-a44c31d347cc

A free friend link, in case you don't subscribe to Medium: https://clivethompson.medium.com/when-cheap-tech-is-good-enough-a44c31d347cc?sk=21cf33407e9f4286948034b09241665d

apples_and_pears,
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@clive Expected useful life for it's intended purpose helps determine quality of product I'm willing to pay. Sometimes I want a single use item other times I want something that will still be in use multiple generations from now.

"Quality" is a 4-letter-word to many manufacturers. They prefer to talk about "planned obsolescence."

RiversideBryan, to Florida
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Exploring Jacksonville

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apples_and_pears,
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@RiversideBryan Dentist's advert?

apples_and_pears, to HashtagGames
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Master Sergeant Bilko and Lt. Cmdr. McHale fall asleep on duty,
get woken up on Gilligan's island by the professor wearing only Mr. Howell's underwear.
The professor looks confused.
Gilligan pretends he's Manard G. Krebs and hunts down Dobie Gillis.


Jdreben, to random
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    apples_and_pears,
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    @Jdreben That threshold has already been past by. Ask a senior the last movie they enjoyed or how much television the actually watch v. using the TV as background noise.

    Tastes change over time. Giving too much credit to current demographics data (snooping by social meda) will skew results. Why? because only those spied on are included in that data.

    Meta will read that as, "We need to collect much more data on those that avoid our fishing nets."

    RamenCatholic, to random

    update - I'm naming it

    Hannity was a real bitch this morning, but seems to be calming down.

    apples_and_pears,
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    @RamenCatholic I sympathize. It hurts! It's brutal and there's no way to stop it from hurting. If you don't have pain meds at hand then getting to the doctor and then the pharmacy (along with numerous delays) is pure torture.

    Explaining pain using that silly chart is a joke - my 3 is 8 to another person and 1 to a third person. It's meaningless. I tell them if it has no definition, is meaningless, and to pick their favorite number.

    apples_and_pears,
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    @RamenCatholic I've had them twice (that's 2 times too many). Both times they announced their jouney while I was driving in heavy traffic, no pain meds, and couldn't pull over. I've never known such pain and stress. Fortunately, the pain stopped quickly and I could get home then call my doctor - that was before cell phones were prevalent.

    apples_and_pears,
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    @RamenCatholic They are horrifc things that introduce themselves in the most unwanted ways :/

    apples_and_pears,
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    @RamenCatholic They strike with unannounced mind boggling pain. That pain can subside just as quickly. That cycle will continue until the stone leave the body. Just hope that it doesn't get stuck and block the path forward.

    jkirkendall, to knitting
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    Hey fiber folk, Arne and Carlos have their knitting and crochet patterns on 70% off today! Take a look: https://shop.arnecarlos.com/

    @knitting

    apples_and_pears,
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    @jkirkendall @knitting The site is very popular, busy, and as a result the webpage is slow.

    soc_i_ety, to random
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    Despite the centuries of looking for a third way, are there really only two directions in politics that still remain, left and right?

    Everything else seems just a matter of how extreme or how indifferent we can be.

    :mastodon:

    apples_and_pears,
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    @TimWardCam @sepfeiffer @soc_i_ety Extremes in any direction may force dramatic change, but it also introduces unexpected consequences -- too often in the form of disasters.

    Dodo_sipping, to knitting
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    My knitted sweater has arrived and fits. My son is happy. @knitting

    apples_and_pears,
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    @Dodo_sipping @knitting I like that design!! I've never seen a sweater like that before. Is the pattern available for purchase online somewhere?

    RiversideBryan, to Bloomscrolling
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    with the flowers of Jacksonville on Belvedere Avenue

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    apples_and_pears,
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    @RiversideBryan You've got some vibrant flowers today! Very uplifting!

    Today is a cold, drizzly, gray, and gloomy Winter day in Seattle.

    Proton Annual Survey: Gentle reminder to kindly ask for a Linux Client for Drive, now. (www.youtube.com)

    The link right here goes to 40:02 of Proton’ boss on the TLE channel about Linux support, where a Drive Client is deemed so difficult to achieve that they don’t even have a roadmap for it. Nor is the word “Linux” featured anywhere on proton’s pages about Drive....

    apples_and_pears,
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    @pathief I don't think I would hold MS up as a baseline minimum standard to match.

    Proton does improve their products; even in the Linux world. There is room for improvement. Which company has reached the mountaintop where there is no room for improvement? None of them.

    The best users can do is keep asking. To fail to do that is an indicator that better Linux support doesn't matter. It does matter - very much.

    apples_and_pears,
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    @reallyzen I did. I've been added to the list. One day we'll learn which list.

    apples_and_pears,
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    @reallyzen @pathief I'm a Proton paying customer and have Proton Drive access. I'm also an exclusive Linux user (some Android - an intrusive flavor of Linux).

    I want Proton Drive on Linux. It ain't there yet. Limited resources limit services. Rather than dragging Proton down (chasing potential customers away) try bringing more customers in.

    ProtonMail is free. ProtonVPN is free. Try before you decide whether or not to buy. Free use of VPN by way of openVPN ain't half bad.

    apples_and_pears,
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    @pathief Ask Proton.

    Is wireguard itself still beta? It's been a while since I considered it so I''m not up on it.

    IP6 is freaky. Everyone is yelling for IP6 - few have done more than dip a toe into that pool. No one wants to support both IP4 and IP6 and many are waiting to be forced to shift from 4 to 6. Expect chaos when that day finally comes.

    apples_and_pears,
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    @pathief It seems Wireguard has reached v1 https://www.wireguard.com/install/ Available on MacOs, BSD, various Linux distros, Androd, IOS, and Windows.

    Ask Proton if they are working on Wirguard for Linux.

    apples_and_pears,
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    @reallyzen Relunctantly, I have to agree, but we only know one side of this story. Companies tend not to reveal reasoning in any detail when defending themselves. Sometimes they even deliberately mislead. As a result, it's not likely anyone will know how truthful any response would be - all we can do is ask the question.

    apples_and_pears,
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    @pathief @reallyzen "Catering" only to Ubuntu is a path, but is it a path that most Proton VPN paid subscribers take? I doubt that Proton has asked it's Proton VPN users - I know I've never been asked.

    Many vendors offer a DEB solution and a RPM solution. Why do vendors prefer to arbitrarily drop DEB and RPM and switch exclusively to Canonical? Especially when many Linux users lump Canonical in with Microsoft? Is it possible that Proton VPN is unaware of this? I don't think so.

    GW, to Texas
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    Supreme Court has put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a .

    Texas Supreme Court on Friday night put on hold a judge's ruling that approved an abortion for a whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis, throwing into limbo an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the #U.S.

    "Another Old White Man deciding what a Woman Can and Can't do with her own body"

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-abortion-texas_n_6573e471e4b0fca7ad20d39b

    apples_and_pears,
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    @GW If it's against the law to practice medicine without a license then why is it not against the law for the legal system to practice medicine (making abortion virtually impossible)?

    RiversideBryan, to Bloomscrolling
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    with the flowers of Jacksonville at San Jose Boulevard

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    apples_and_pears,
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    @RiversideBryan My grandmother used to grow these :)

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