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dougmcarthur

@dougmcarthur@mastodon.social

Singer-songwriter and tech nerd.

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danielpunkass, to random
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Come on Apple sell us a transparent Apple Pencil!

dougmcarthur,
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@danielpunkass ah that would be so slick.

dougmcarthur, to random
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Hey @gruber here’s a word choice question for ya. In the iPad Air announcement they described interacting with something on screen as “a click”, and for iPad Pro they said “a tap”. Are they interchangeable or was this intentional?

dougmcarthur,
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@gruber yea, probably just a mistake, something held over from an earlier version of the script. as it happens I am a tap-to-click person. Pressing down on the trackpad to register a click feels counterintuitive to me when my brain knows that all those haptics are sensory tricks! ;)

marcoarment, to random
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The entire Mac processor and display lineup: "Shit.”

dougmcarthur,
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@marcoarment I think the Macs can rest easy knowing the M4 is stuck in iPadOS jail. 😏

podfeet, to random
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MarsEdit from https://redsweater.com has been a long-time fan favorite app for blogging, but you may not know the work @danielpunkass puts into helping us use alt text for screen readers on our images. If you drag in an image with a descriptive title, MarsEdit automatically adds the title as the alt text. But if the title is worthless like IMG_2365, it does NOT add it as the alt text. How cool is that?

dougmcarthur,
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@podfeet @danielpunkass super cool! Now I’m curious if it could use some of Apple’s APIs to OCR text in an image and pull that into the metadata. Or even some kinda computer vision thing to generate a basic description based on the image contents 🤔

hotdogsladies, to random
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I’m suddenly become obsessed with a 31-minute album from 1973.

Which might be a perfect album.

https://youtu.be/j3O-gL4JQps?si=JY-zt7X5UngNNpBK

dougmcarthur,
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@agiletortoise @hotdogsladies is it good, weird or neutral that I know of John Cale as “one of Rufus Wainwright’s favourite artists”?

snazzyq, to random
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ratgdo is my best 2023 purchase

the fact that one dude made a better smart home garage door opener than any other product on the market and then made it open source is just awesome

dougmcarthur,
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@snazzyq too bad they’re out of stock now. 😞

robb, to random
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Don't talk to me or my many legally distinct happy clean faces ever again

dougmcarthur,
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@robb same thing happened to me on my Logitech MX Keys. Same key, same side. I tend to rest my hand on the command key when I’m not typing.

nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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😉

dougmcarthur,
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@nixCraft it may be kept alive indefinitely, solely by @marcoarment 😊

robb, to random
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“We’re moving our forum to discord”

STOP IT. BAD WEBSITE. 🗞️

dougmcarthur,
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@robb what they’re basically saying is “we’d like to drastically increase the volume of support requests we get, because no one can find the information they need from us on search engines anymore”

snazzyq, to random
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HEY! What are some of your favorite gadgets you got this year? And I'm not talking about an iPhone 15 Pro or whatever... tell me the quirky stuff! Neat products you love and don't think many people know about. :D

dougmcarthur,
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@snazzyq I got a portable monitor for my Steam Deck, put an adhesive magnet on it to make it MagSafe compatible, and mounted it to a gooseneck stand with a ESR MagSafe mounting plate that I had lying around. Got some 180-degree USB-C adapters to keep the cables tidy and attached it to a rolling cart where I keep my keyboard, mouse and controller. Now I have a modern A/V cart that I can use when I’m sitting in my favourite chair! Lately I’ve been using it for YouTube and Dave the Diver.

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agiletortoise, to random
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I take a Apple's Continuity features for granted these days, so much so that I'm sitting here wondering why Safari on my Mac isn't auto-filling an SMS 2FA code - only to eventually realize, "Oh yea, it's because my phone is installing the 17.0.3 update.”

dougmcarthur,
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@agiletortoise that’s a real papercut for me when I’m using Edge (mandatory for work). I have to copy and paste the codes like an animal 😏

agiletortoise, (edited ) to random
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Reaching retirement age, and choosing to spend your new found free time driving the neighborhood to snitch on your neighbors to the HOA, because, I guess, "property values”, is a weird flex.

Maybe go volunteer at the library?

dougmcarthur,
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@agiletortoise weird flex is maybe too kind. Passive agressive suburban terrorism are the words that come to my mind.

danielpunkass, to random
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This greenscreen can't handle Joz's scale. Unusual to see hair halo on an Apple video.

dougmcarthur,
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@danielpunkass I've tried gaming on my iPhone with the Razer Kishi controller. It's okay, but iOS is just not a very gaming-friendly platform. It gets mildly better every year, but still doesn't have that console-like simplicity you get with the Switch or Steam Deck. I yearn for a gaming frontend like Daijisho (an Android app focused on retro game emulation) on the iPhone, but that kind of app would never be allowed on the current App Store.

bigzaphod, to random
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I was reading over some code I wrote a couple years ago and dang it was clean and clever and kinda awesome. I never used it for anything, though. Sigh.

dougmcarthur,
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@louie @bigzaphod reminds me of my large folder of half-finished songs.

jamesthomson, to random
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Finally got ahold of the first ever Hat by PCalc, and it turned out really well. Look at those stitches!

https://cottonbureau.com/p/T9GSGX/hat/hat-by-pcalc

A close-up of the stitched PCalc icon on the hat.

dougmcarthur,
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@jamesthomson dope! And it is doing double duty as a Hitchhiker’s Guide hat. And maybe even triple duty as a Spider-Verse hat.

joesteel, to random
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What if I were to tell you that none of these things that were added to tvOS fix the big problems that tvOS has?

dougmcarthur,
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@joesteel I just want to be able to connect to my non-AirPod headphones with less than four button presses.

dougmcarthur, to random
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Actor, writer, YouTube creator and tech nerd extraordinaire @jef had me as a guest on his podcast Do The Thing, which is out now! We talked about careers, creative spaces and finding the right people to make stuff with. I heaped praise on Rusty Robot and also played a song on the show, so stick around to the end for that! The video is premiering on YouTube later today, or you can listen to the audio-only podcast right now on Assembler.fm.

https://assembler.fm/dothething//do-the-thing-4-musical-guest-doug-mcarthur

dougmcarthur,
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@jef ALSO!!! Thank you to @gruber for linking to Jef's video about Stage Manager for iPad, which was how we connected with each other initially. The internet is a cool place like that sometimes! As it happens, I was wearing my incredibly well-worn DF t-shirt on the show. Honestly that shirt is practically see-through at this point.

joesteel, to random
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Everyone loves baby photos.

A photo of the sculpture installation “Babies” by David Černý which consists of enormous, creepy baby sculptures crawling on the ground and walls of a pit where the old parking garage for the shopping mall used to be.

dougmcarthur,
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@joesteel squid game season 2

louie, to random

L + joystick right

dougmcarthur,
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@louie lift it up and over the fence. Then bring it back. And then hop on top, and recall that baby. Elevator!

chockenberry, to random
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Apple removing Network Locations and fucking up DNS nameserver order in Ventura, is pretty much the perfect storm of WTF.

In summary, if you do your own DNS on an internal network, you have to manually edit the settings each time you leave that network. For a portable device, this is bad.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254321365

dougmcarthur,
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@chockenberry @bynkii it took me FOREVER to figure this out. I need this feature whenever I take my MacBook away from home, so it doesn't try to use my pihole DNS when I'm on a different Wifi network. Still haven't figured out how to get it to switch automatically. The "Automatic" setting never works for me to switch from Home to Away. 🤷

dougmcarthur,
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@bynkii @chockenberry I have to assign it per-device because my crappy ISP-provided router doesn't allow network-wide custom DNS. I'm saving my pennies for a replacement wifi base station so I can put my ISP's dingus in bridge mode and forget about it forever.

dougmcarthur,
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@bynkii @chockenberry pihole has a DHCP server built-in, which you can use as an alternative to setting your router to use pihole's DNS. It almost worked, until it didn't. 24 hours after disabling the ISP router's DHCP and enabling the pihole DHCP, every wifi device on the network went offline. wired devices didn't seem to have a problem.

louie, to random

Alarms are such a horrible way to wake up.

dougmcarthur,
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@louie yea! I feel that. Like what if your alarm was just a wet dog fart in your face every day? That’s worse.

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