bluewave

@bluewave@vivaldi.net

Puttering around in the garden waiting for the light to fail and taking photos until then.

Be kind.

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bluewave, to Bloomscrolling

Bleeding Heart flowers.

bluewave, to random

The rains sweeping in across the Savannah. Lush and gloomy and exhilarating at the same time (click to expand).

bluewave, to animals

Yes, she's fast asleep. Occasionally making snorty snores.

RiversideBryan, to Florida
@RiversideBryan@pixelfed.social avatar

I feel like there's something here, but I'm not certain if any of it works 🤔🤷‍♂️
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Suggestions?

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Crop 1 Early morning view along a rural dirt road. To the right is a barbed-wire and wood post fence surrounding a large farm with a number of big red barn-like structures, and a farmhouse with internal lighting glowing in the dark fog covering the field. To the left the country road with limited street lamp lighting, lined on both sides by tree canopies, creating a tunnel like view off into the distance. In the center, a gigantic pine tree, towering over the farm and country Road, reaching high into the dark foggy sky.
Original. At the time I was impressed and enamored by the incredibly tall pine which "seems" to reach the moon. Later, I felt the foggy farm was a better focus. Or maybe the illuminated country road. Early morning view along a rural dirt road. To the right is a barbed-wire and wood post fence surrounding a large farm with a number of big red barn-like structures, and a farmhouse with internal lighting glowing in the dark fog covering the field. To the left the country road with limited street lamp lighting, lined on both sides by tree canopies, creating a tunnel like view off into the distance. In the center, a gigantic pine tree, towering over the farm and country Road, reaching high into the dark foggy sky where it meets the glow of the moon.

bluewave,

@RiversideBryan
Maybe a good horror story?

They're all beautiful, but also...unsettling?

jake4480, to random
@jake4480@c.im avatar

My shoes are magic in that no matter how tightly I lace them and double tie them, they STILL come untied. It fucking defies science and logic

bluewave,

@jake4480
Ghost cats.

jake4480, to firefox
@jake4480@c.im avatar

Is there any benefit to Vivaldi over Firefox? Pros/cons?

bluewave,

@jake4480
Vivaldi is definitely worth it for the tab management (with Tab Stacks and Workspaces) if that is needed..

Otherwise Firefox (with uBlock Origin) and Vivaldi (with Block Ads and Trackers enabled) are pretty similar.

I find that Firefox's user interface is easier to use out of the box. Vivaldi can be customised exactly to what you want.

I support both, though I use Vivaldi more. Have I been sufficiently ambivalent for your needs?

bluewave, to Vivaldi

translations are here! Which is cool because a good chunk of the people I follow are from Finland. And Germany. Not languages I know.

Thank ya @Vivaldi for making more of the world reachable.

bluewave,

@dengolius @Vivaldi
Vivaldi's synchronisation works, but it does seem to take its time to sync sometimes. There's this workaround on the Vivaldi forum to force the sync:

If you're syncing from desktop to mobile:

  1. On desktop, go to the link vivaldi://sync . There is a button on page called Trigger GetUpdates. Click on that to get the desktop to sync.

  2. On mobile, open the same link vivaldi://sync and click on the same GetUpdates button.

You're synced. You can reverse steps 1 and 2 to sync from mobile to desktop.

Putting a command to force Vivaldi to sync (a la Firefox) has been a feature request for a while now.

bluewave, to Vivaldi

@jon @Vivaldi
Found in my e-mail. I had purchased version 4.0 of the Opera browser and I stayed until version 12.16. Then I moved to Firefox.

Opera had pioneered all the cool features on browsers. Among other things, I distinctly remember that when Gmail came out, I thought "wow, they're copying Opera Mail and using labels instead of folders".

It's good to be back with you all at . Thanks for the fantastic work you've done and are still doing.

Vivaldi, (edited ) to random
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You people seem to really like this waterfall, so we made it happen! ☃️

Want to get some stickers and one of these 'Winter-net Browsing' postcards signed by the team? 🖊️ (ha, see what we did there?)

Two simple steps:

  1. Boost this post.
  2. Give us your best reason why everyone should try the Vivaldi !👇

until Jan 18th 23:59 UTC, two winners announced Jan 19th.

...and if you're not among the lucky ones, you can always get it from our Store 🙃:
https://store.vivaldi.com/shop/winter-net-browsing-postcard/

bluewave,

@Vivaldi
Best reason to move to Vivaldi. Decent company.

The browser ain't half bad either.

polgeonow, to Venezuela
@polgeonow@mstdn.social avatar

After low-turnout referendum in support, looks to have formally fully annexed (absorbed) the disputed / region, currently controlled by . It had previously labeled it on maps as a special "zone in reclamation".

Venezuela also says it will create new state/province to (theoretically) govern the area, but apparently hasn't done so quite yet.

https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-12-06/venezuela-guyana-dispute-maduro-mobilizes-the-army-and-announces-annexation-of-essequibo.html

@geography

bluewave,

@polgeonow @geography

This is going to be a drawn out mess which no one except Maduro wins, since it's in his interest to distract from the problems in Venezuela and to bolster his chances of reelection in Presidential elections in 2024. He doesn't have to do much, just rattle sabres every now and then to keep it in the news.

The biggest losers are likely to be the Venezuelans who fled to surrounding countries (including Guyana) due to the collapse of the Venezeulan economy, and who are likely to face a backlash of sorts.

Here's a fairly detailed article on the whole situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Guayana_Esequiba_crisis

bluewave, to random

@Vivaldi
Is it likely that Vivaldi.social would be enabling Mastodon translating capabilities?

As an English only speaker, one of the cool features of Mastodon is being able to follow people from all over the world, and I follow a lot of German speakers (and for some reason, Finnish as well. And Czech. And Malaysian).

Translation breaks boundaries beautifully.

jake4480, to random
@jake4480@c.im avatar

This was from earlier. The next couple months are what Arizonans call "winter". It's the only break from the scorching heat we have the rest of the year, and it doesn't happen until end of November now (sigh). It might last til like, April. But it's super mild, and it's one of the few things I really like about Arizona.

Time to get anything done outside I need to 🤣

bluewave,

@jake4480
Meanwhile, here in the Caribbean, Christmas weather means that the daytime humidity drops to 60%. Sometimes even to 45%, which is very nice. Temperature is at 30-33C as usual though.

ryanhoulihan, to random
@ryanhoulihan@mastodon.social avatar

Don’t say someone looks great “for” their age. Say someone looks great “at” their age.

bluewave,

@ryanhoulihan
Or just say "Wow, you look great."
There's no need to add qualifiers.

weirdwriter, to mastodon

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    bluewave,

    @weirdwriter
    It's the best web client on either the desktop. On mobile, the web client is better than most of the Mastodon apps.

    bluewave, to random

    Fantastic beach weather. The sea is warm and the waves gentle.

    billyjoebowers, to random
    @billyjoebowers@mastodon.online avatar

    Watched The Shining in the theater. You guys may not know this, but movies are often better if you watch them in a theater from start to finish instead of bits and pieces on TV out of order with commercial breaks.

    bluewave,

    @jake4480 @billyjoebowers
    Alcohol. The worst of all possible drugs. Nasty high, nasty aftereffects, nasty long term effects. Should have been replaced ages ago.

    bluewave, to animals

    The Martyrdom of St. Mia

    nadsdlonyer, to iOS

    Testing out on
    Also one thing I want to mention is if Vivaldi will change Chrome UI from it’s menus. I’d like to see Vivaldi to make its own UI for future updates. @Vivaldi @vivaldi_browser

    bluewave,

    @Zerush @nadsdlonyer
    You can, and it's super customisable, so yay!! But it's also too much work.

    bluewave, to photography

    Rain yesterday afternoon on the steep hill behind my house. Almost compensates for not getting direct sun in my garden until 8:30 on mornings. Almost.

    bluewave, to animals

    Eyes wide open. Sleeping and snoring. Paws twitching occasionally.

    RiversideBryan, to Florida
    @RiversideBryan@pixelfed.social avatar

    Willowbranch Creek at Saint Johns River

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    bluewave,

    @RiversideBryan
    Gorgeous!

    Tutanota, (edited ) to privacy
    @Tutanota@mastodon.social avatar

    Meta thinks your is for sale.

    Would you pay 160 euros per year to Facebook for respecting your right to privacy?

    Comment below! 👇

    bluewave,

    @Tutanota
    Well, I have chosen to pay $60 / year to support my Mastodon instance. But I chose / can afford only one social media entity, not all of them.

    bluewave, to random

    Too hot to jog. Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun, and I ain't no Englishman. But I did bring the dog.

    bluewave, to Bloomscrolling

    A member of the Costus family - trying to find the species. Not a true ginger, but commonly called one.

    Fast growing, so can be somewhat of a pest. I have been tempted to plant it as a hedge at the front of the yard, but it would be a headache to maintain.

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