hagedose68

@hagedose68@social.cologne

I am a daydream dressed like a nightmare

Originally M.A. in German, English and Philosophy, now network admin at Cologne University

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below, to apple German
@below@mastodon.social avatar

„With CarPlay increasing its hooks into the systems of vehicles“: Can someone explain what precisely they are referring to? #apple #carplay #iosdev https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/05/01/gms-carplay-replacement-doesnt-work-well-and-has-a-long-road-ahead-of-it

hagedose68,

@below The next generation of CarPlay is intended to integrate more deeply into a car's systems.

Chris, to random
@Chris@mastodon.social avatar

Tomorrow is my birthday. What kind of dinner should we go out for?

(Other than Korean or sushi since I just had those the other day)

Anybody have suggestions?

hagedose68,

@Chris I love Thai

Chris, to random
@Chris@mastodon.social avatar

I'm trying to decide if I should update my avatar on here. I feel like "guy with sunglasses and a baseball cap" can maybe come off a certain way if I pop into someone's replies.

I had a pretty nice headshot taken at a recent work event. Too serious/boring?

Professional headshot

hagedose68,

@Chris I think changing it is a good idea, but I prefer the composition of the current one. Why don't you take a new selfie without the glasses and the cap?

chockenberry, to random
@chockenberry@mastodon.social avatar

Here's a "fun" thing I discovered: iCloud mail (me.com) can be forwarded to Gmail.

But it won't work now because Apple doesn't adjust the headers so our domain (iconfactory.com) looks like it comes from Apple's IP (17...*) and fails Gmail's SPF/DKIM checks.

If you're forwarding an iCloud email to Gmail, you're going to find this out the hard way.

hagedose68,

@chockenberry I'm "Postmaster" for a large university, and that's just how email works these days. Forwarding is inherently unreliable. I wouldn't blame iCloud for that.

Chris, to random
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I'm starting to look at electric vehicles and seeing ~100 MPGe on quite a few. That's kind of shocking considering you can get like 70 MPG on a Prius these days.

hagedose68,

@Chris I don't drive a car regularly (I actually live in a car-free neighborhood and I am not allowed to own a car), so I don't know how they compare, but I recently drove a Renault Megane E-Tech Electric with CarPlay as a rental, and I liked it a lot.

Chris, to random
@Chris@mastodon.social avatar

My daughter picked up Tears of the Kingdom a few weeks ago, and has completely fallen into the Zelda lore rabbit hole.

She’s been begging me to dig out my Game Cube so she can play Windwaker and the N64 games, which I have on the promo disc, as well as Twilight Princess on the Wii — which I don’t own, so I’d have to get a copy.

However—the TV we got for our basement two or three years ago apparently doesn’t have component video? Don’t worry though, it’s got two sets of standard RCA jacks.

hagedose68,

@Chris The Game Cube was the first console I've ever owned. I bought it used, but I never played it much because I bought the then brand new PS3 shortly after.
I've thought about hooking the Game Cube up again, but I'm not sure I'd actually use it.

MevsMatze, to random German
@MevsMatze@horrorhub.club avatar

Thoughts on the latest #TrueDetective episode?

hagedose68,

@MevsMatze For a while it felt a bit too much like misery porn to me, but ultimately I liked it a lot. I don't see a good way out, but we’ll see.

Chris, to random
@Chris@mastodon.social avatar

Is there a decent sleep tracking app for iOS that’s not constantly trying to sell me things? After 10+ years, I think I’m finally done with Sleep Cycle.

I want to pay for something, preferably outright, but I’d settle for something with a reasonable annual subscription ($40/year is not reasonable).

hagedose68,

@Chris I switched from Sleep Cycle to Autosleep many years ago. I'm generally happy with it, and it's not a subscription:
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/autosleep-schlaftracker/id1164801111

hagedose68,

@Ardvaark @Chris Agreed!

hagedose68,

@Chris @Ardvaark I always sleep with my watch on. I rarely use alarms, but when I do, I use AutoWake. I think I bought a bundle that included both.

Chris, to random
@Chris@mastodon.social avatar

Modern TV shows and movies need two options for subtitles: One with all the lyrics to soundtrack songs and descriptions of sound effects and background music. The other should be the closed captioning and nothing else.

I turn on subtitles because I can’t always hear the actors speaking clearly, not because I can’t hear anything at all.

A lot of people might benefit from all that but it’s a distraction for me, and often gives things away. Make it just another language option and everyone wins.

hagedose68,

@Chris Some have that option. I can't remember where I've seen it, but I know for certain that I have.

Chris, to bluesky
@Chris@mastodon.social avatar

Should I bother with #Bluesky for any reason? I’ve had the account forever but I never open the app.

I feel like it’s just a place to consume a steady feed of posts from Big Accounts, not a place of communities like #Mastodon has been for me.

hagedose68,

@Chris I haven't made up my mind yet. I resisted Bluesky until early this year. Now I have basically all the platforms, and each one has a few accounts I wouldn't want to miss. But I don't get any engagement anywhere but here, so that's where I mostly post.

hagedose68,

@Chris It's not only big accounts I would miss. Some of my IRL friends are on Bluesky because they didn't like it here. Most of the accounts I follow have hundreds or low thousands of followers – not small, but also not what I would call big.

jamesthomson, to random
@jamesthomson@mastodon.social avatar

Happy 40th birthday, Macintosh!

To make it about me for a second, the fact that PCalc is 31 years old too is just wild, because it means I’ve been doing all this for a not insignificant chunk of the Mac’s entire existence.

It definitely felt to me like I came late to the Mac, because I didn’t use one until 1990, but in reality it was only 6 years old when I bought a Mac Classic.

Not to mention, I was working at Apple itself when the Mac was only 12.

Now somehow, it’s 40? How does that work?

hagedose68,

@jamesthomson I wouldn't have thought I've been using a Mac longer than you. My parents bought a Mac II in 1987. In Germany it cost an absolute fortune, even with a large educational discount.

straphanger, to random
@straphanger@urbanists.social avatar

STUDY: Drivers of luxury cars found to give pedestrians the right of way 3x less than those driving less expensive vehicles; 4x more likely to cut off other drivers.

Call it the "Audi Effect" ... 🧵

video/mp4

hagedose68,

@straphanger Notably missing from that list: Mercedes. I wonder why that is.

hagedose68, to Amex German

Nach der ersten Fahrt mit einem Elektro-Mietwagen habe ich inzwischen gelernt, dass die Mineralölkonzerne auch bei E-Mobilität abzocken. hatte suggeriert man müsse Recharge verwenden. Ich habe mir wie empfohlen einen Account angelegt und eine Karte für nicht-Shell-Stationen bekommen.
Geladen haben wir damit letztlich bei . Berechnet wurden 66 Cent pro Kilowattstunde. Heute habe ich aus Neugier bei Aldi geschaut und gesehen, dass wir dadurch fast das Doppelte bezahlt haben!

hagedose68,

@Weirdaholic Tut mir Leid, dass das offenbar unklar formuliert war.

hagedose68, to random

@ivory I have a feature request. On the web you can block an entire instance when you are viewing a single post from that instance. In Ivory I can only block the user, not the instance. Could that please be added? Or did I miss it?

mrundkvist, to linguistics Swedish
@mrundkvist@archaeo.social avatar

A fine Scandy expression: "Det är ingen ko på isen", "No cow is on the ice", it's not a matter of pressing concern.

hagedose68,

@mrundkvist In German we say "die Kuh vom Eis holen", "to get the cow off the ice", for resolving a tricky situation. Similar imagery, but definitely a different expression.

hagedose68, to random

Day 7 of

hagedose68, to random

👍🏻🙏🏻👏🏻👌🏻🤞🏻🙌🏻

Spain women’s football team will refuse to play until Rubiales quits https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/25/spain-womens-football-team-will-refuse-to-play-until-rubiales-quits

hagedose68, to random

TIL the word “toothsome”

hagedose68, to random

I use Pocket as read-it-later setting in @ivory, and I just noticed it broke when I made the required switch to a Firefox account. I tried logging in using the new credentials, but that doesn't work either.

hagedose68, to random German

Die Tagesschau redet von "hohen" Immobilienzinsen, dabei sind die immer noch rund einen Prozentpunkt unter dem, was ich mal bezahlt habe. Und damals war das in der Wahrnehmung gar nicht ungewöhnlich hoch. Aber durch die lange Zeit extrem niedriger Zinsen hat sich das offenbar völlig verschoben.

taylorlorenz, to random
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Absolutely wild how it started, how it’s going

Man accused of murdering that girl

hagedose68,

@taylorlorenz A few of his last tweets are retweets of Andrew Tate 💀

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