heavyboots

heavyboots, 6 months ago

Slightly OT, but this is also why we absolutely need ranked voting ASAP. How much better would a candidate like Sanders do if people knew that voting for him as first choice and Biden as second was possible?

heavyboots, 6 months ago

It’s Americanized Mexican, at best. Personally, I cannot stand the taste though, so I’m also not the best judge probably.

heavyboots, 6 months ago

They do have a “Don’t show this again” button, so at most this will enrage the people it does enrage only once.

Eugen seems pretty savvy about making a quality product that works well out of the box. Mostly when things fail on Mastodon it’s because the goals for the feature were different that what a lot of new users coming over from Twitter assume they would be. (And sometimes those goals were good and sometimes they were kind of nonsensical, like the by-design feature of not being able to quote-post.)

heavyboots, 6 months ago

I mean it’s pretty much the same as Twitter? All your posts are public* and anyone can follow you unless you activate the follower approval option. It’s the first thing I did when I created my Mastodon account. (And the first thing I did on Twitter as well.)

• Actually now I think about it, on Twitter I also made my account private immediately.

heavyboots, 6 months ago

In the demo I saw they did an agent spoofing to Chrome and the delay went away, but it didn’t look very extensively tested. As others said, the disappearance on reload could easily be because they thought he was returning to the page and had already seen the ad/been punished for not seeing the ad and so something ad-related disappeared instead.

heavyboots, 6 months ago

I mean… it’s a process? I have a yahoo and a gmail account and I’ve switched like 95% of my stuff away from them to iCloud at this point. It just takes time and patience. As for logins, grab BitWarden and start using it to store passwords instead. Has the side benefit of letting you generate all randomized passwords as you switch to mail-based logins so theres no password duplication or patterns for anyone to analyze if a few different places lose your account credentials.

heavyboots, 6 months ago

Everyone is pretty good at spam detection these days. Also, this is a reason to have at least 2 email accounts—one you only give to close family and friends and one you use for commercial purposes.

And use throwaway/blockable for anything political too. (Apple has Hide My Email that lets you generate random email addresses linked to your primary that you can block with a click if they start to spam you hard immediately after.)

heavyboots, 6 months ago

Really? I rarely get spam at my Yahoo account that gets past the filter. 🤔

heavyboots, 6 months ago

The big box store chain esthetic. Ostensibly about passing value onto the customer (we put a roof over the products, what more do you want?) but probably more about maximizing shareholder value.

heavyboots, 6 months ago

Florence Pugh would be my dream nomination for this role, I think. Although she’s late 20’s already too.

heavyboots, 6 months ago

I mean, he’s not wrong about it IMHO… that was a terrible, nonsensical movie.

heavyboots, 6 months ago

Unfortunately my senator is the traitorous Sinema, so she’s worse than useless. Just got an email from her rationalizing this power grab today after writing her and asking she not support it a few months back. 🙄

heavyboots, 7 months ago

Don’t legislate this! We’ve got it alllll under control!

heavyboots, 7 months ago

And then they’ll kick Thomas out. Right? Right? Guys?

heavyboots, 7 months ago

I did like the first book… will be interesting to see if they actually “get” it at all. They sure didn’t seem to with GoT. Definitely not in the way Villeneuve seems to get sci-fi and be able to translate it well to screen.

heavyboots, 7 months ago

That whole album was so good.

heavyboots, 7 months ago

I will say, it seems like there’s almost unlimited traction driving up road banks and stuff. You can see it when some of those streamers do wall rides on the inside of a steep drop and pop back on the road after the turn.

heavyboots, 7 months ago

If you’re just testing on it you can get away wit pretty much anything as long as it’s Apple Silicon. I would think a used M1 Mini is probably your cheapest bet, and as a bonus you can use it as a media serve for Plex of something when you’re not testing on it.

If it’s got to be a laptop form factor, then yes, an MBA is probably your best bet.

heavyboots, 7 months ago

Very cool!

heavyboots, 7 months ago

Oh man, I feel you. Worst thing for my last cat was he had to get radiation therapy for his hyperthyroidism. So he had never been away from home overnight and they have to keep them like 4 days until the radiation is out of their system enough to come home BUT they say no cuddling or sleeping next to them for another 3 days. He was SO SAD when I would push him away to the other side of the couch and when I had to lock him out of the bedroom for the first time ever.

heavyboots, 7 months ago

I think what you are looking for is Containers. FF uses containers to wall things off from each other, whereas Private sessions are still all sandboxed together, as you discovered. I know this is quite different from how Safari, for example, handles things, but you can accomplish the same things, just a little differently.

heavyboots, 7 months ago

Meanwhile, my $30 Roku can accurately look up a movie and what services I can play it on by voice while my $30 freaking REMOTE on my $500 PS5 still has no clue…

heavyboots, 7 months ago

Yeah that’s a pretty fun stage. I personally still like a lot of the OG stages like Frasier Wells, Cote de Abroz, Mineshaft and Pirka Maneko , but anything else by Rally Guru is amazing too (like PS Valstagna, Torsby, etc).

heavyboots, 7 months ago

Haha, yep that’s a good example!