Diary of an ASD Squirrel. Day 205 , Monday 20/05/2024
Was up till the early hours of this morning with stomach cramps after last nights daring attempt to eat scrambled eggs & beans for tea.
Spent the day getting lots of exercise up & down the stairs to take a pew, if you get my drift.
Attempted to interact on here a couple of times but my brain is apparently on sick leave so it didn’t go exactly to plan 🙄🤦♂️
Hopefully tomorrow will be better !
Final Thoughts.
Is the babel fish truly a fish if it spends most of its life out of water ?
This & other great questions of our age will have to wait until I can think straight!
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
It’s a shame that Thunderbird still doesn’t have true running-in-background and silent startup-in-background features yet. This is definitely something Mozilla needs to get working on for Thunderbird, in my opinion.
Psst @thunderbird you hear me? Maybe some sort of background task that lives in the system tray that continues to check and notify you of new emails or calendar alerts even after the main app has closed, and silently starts up with the OS on logon.
I have just posted basically a complaint to Microsoft's Feedback Hub app about how bad and screwed-up their new Outlook app is. If you are on Windows as well, please head over to my suggestion there and upvote it; make the folks at Microsoft see this, please.
Finally decided to ditch the horrible new Outlook app (which is nothing more than a glorified web app that's painfully slow, bloated, and broken half the time) and switched to Thunderbird. Not going to look back here, Microsoft took a perfectly-good mail/PIM client and destroyed it.
The worst thing about the new Outlook app was how Microsoft stuffed actual ads into it. And not like "hey check out this app that the devs totally didn't pay us to promote! 👀" ads, I mean actual, full-on promoting garbage and junk ads. Worse, they made it look like email messages too. URGH.
With the TBSync and the Exchange ActiveSync Provider extensions updated for the latest Thunderbird versions I can now also access all my Outlook services in Thunderbird too.
Why does it feel like Signal will just fall down the same enshitification hole that Telegram did?
“Free” service…gonna need to make some real money somehow eventually.
It’s got leg up on TG now but really not in the mood of jumping platforms again. (That and I barely use TG anyway, just a few friend groups that aren’t elsewhere).
Feel like I was the last furry using Pidgin for YIM, Gtalk, AIM, MSN, and Skype… avoided TG as long as possible until everyone was there and gone from other services.
Why did Microsoft changed the start menu in Windows 11?
The start menu in Windows 10 isn't too bad to use and it had the ability to pin apps as live tiles, giving you live updates such as new email and weather updates.
@bobpony not only that, but I really preferred the full-screen Start that was available in Windows 10 as well. It’s really a huge shame they removed that option with Windows 11; the full-screen Start menu really made it easier to visually scan and locate the app I’m looking for by making full use of the screen and having larger icons.
@bobpony I have seen the full-screen app launchers on both macOS and Ubuntu, and they are both so much more usable than the Start menu in virtually any version of Windows. No need to go hunting and scrolling through tiny lists or menus of apps after apps with tiny icons, these launchers present everything in grids of large icons that’s usually easier to visually scan through.
@notjustbikes in my city in Spain (Oviedo), after years of doing the bare minimum, the city council is finally doing some more serious bike and pedestrian infrastructure. This one should connect some of the farthest neighbourhoods with the city center in what's essentially a straight line. Quite excited about this.
@gyozaPower@notjustbikes Pretty similar situation here in Singapore as well. After years of putting in pretty bad and half-hearted cycling infrastructure, our country is now finally starting to put in serious cycling infrastructure. For example, in the suburban new town of Ang Mo Kio, they are constructing a new separated cycling road together with expansions works to an existing metro station (which will be a stop on a new metro line).
@gyozaPower@notjustbikes In the pic above, the three viaducts on the left are the existing metro viaducts (the new metro line stopping there will be underground), and the rightmost viaduct will be for the new cycling road that will connect to a new bicycle parking deck being constructed beside the existing station.
