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jimmylittle

@jimmylittle@hachyderm.io

Senior Metadata Product Manager for The Mouse.

If I’m criticizing something, it’s probably because I like it and want it to be better.

Opinions are mine. Facts are ours.

Experimenting with lots of stuff in life these days and loving it.

Ally to all 🏳️‍🌈

https://hachyderm.io/@jimmylittle on all the things.

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jimmylittle, to random
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Reason number 3,421 I would never use Linux as my primary operating system. (You do you, it’s just not for me)

Open source is awesome, until it isn’t. https://fosstodon.org/@keepassxc/112417353193348720

matt, to random
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Man, I gotta review a mouse soon or people are going to think I hate mice 😂

jimmylittle,
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@matt Time for a retro-review!

BenRiceM, to random
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A truly out of this world experience

Photos of the aurora borealis

jimmylittle,
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@BenRiceM This should be a Vision Pro Environment. Beautiful!

jimmylittle, to random
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All these CEOs (including mine) on this list are overpaid - BUT

It really wouldn’t help writers and actors that much. There are 180,000 people in those two unions. Let’s assume half of them work regularly, so 60k people.

All these salaries total $238,000,000. That’s a lot of money! Now, divide by 60,000 and you get about $4k. If every CEO took a pay cut 50% cut, then each working actor/writer would get about $1983 a year. That doesn’t really solve any problems. https://masto.ai/@rbreich/112418248628529925

mathowie, to random
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life at my house got infinitely easier when we implemented two things a few years ago:

  1. the house scissors are always in the silverware drawer over on the side in the house scissors spot, and they're returned quickly after each use

  2. The laundry room has a shelf for a tape measure. In our garage toolbox, there's a drawer for another tape measure. There's always a tape measure in those two places

jimmylittle,
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@mathowie The true life hack is having house scissors IN EVERY ROOM.

jimmylittle,
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@samiamsam @mathowie I’m right there with ya.

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New: The TSA fought senators' proposal to make its policy to allow opt-outs for facial recognition scans at airports into a law as it plans to mandate biometric scans in the future https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/05/tsa-fought-against-proposal-to-require-facial-recognition-opt-outs-at-airports-00157411

jimmylittle,
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@alng @hacks4pancakes Honestly, facial recognition and AI will probably it do a better job than most TSA agents at just about every step of the security theater.

hotdogsladies, to random
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Artificial Intelligence is stealing jobs from trained bird identifiers.

Sickening.

jimmylittle,
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@hotdogsladies Well, shit. Now I’m gonna have to fire my ornithologist/butler and just get a REGULAR butler like some kind of plebe.

NanoRaptor, to random
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A "They Live" AR filter for Apple Vision Pro.

jimmylittle,
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@NanoRaptor @SirTapTap “Buy one iPad instead of a garage full of musical instruments, camera gear, and craft supplies you’ll never use” seems like a pretty good message to me.

jimmylittle, (edited ) to random
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The Crush ad was fine.It’s just a visual metaphor showing “you can do all this stuff on an iPad if you want to”

The fact that so many creative and artistic people are taking it as a literal destruction of physical tools makes me doubt how creative and artistic those people actually are. My guess is it’s mostly CGI, right?

Meanwhile, they did a WHOLE SEGMENT on replacing live musicians with A.I. in Logic Pro and nobody bats an eye.

Priorities, people.

https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/112413294096218514

jimmylittle,
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@Starfia I don’t know, maybe. There are a lot of weird moments that seem generated. The squishing bust, the confetti out of the spray can, headstocks on the guitars bending over instead of snapping off, the stress ball rolling perfectly to the edge and facing up, multiple camera angles of things that would be nearly impossible to film unless the camera was also inside the hydraulic press.

If it was all practical, it’s very impressive.

jimmylittle, to random
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About two weeks into using Arc as my main work browser.

Pros:

  • lack of window chrome/clutter
  • bookmarks-as-tabs is great
  • sidebar > toppy tabs
  • ⌘-L

Things I’m Still Grokking/Cons:

  • separate windows aren’t really separate windows
  • just figured out double-clicking a tab/bookmark reloads the ORIGINAL url, even if I’ve navigated away.
  • Lots of hidden interaction.
  • Extensions are hidden under a menu
jimmylittle,
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Oh, one thing I love that I forgot was Little Arc. Just having things like email validation and Zoom re-directs pop up in a disposable window is super useful.

matt, (edited ) to random
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Apple’s “Crush” ad is getting roasted, and I get it, even if it didn’t bother me https://birchtree.me/blog/apples-crush-ad/

jimmylittle,
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@matt My least favorite part is all the people who are saying “what a waste, crushing all this perfectly good equipment and supplies!”

My bet would be this is nearly all CGi.

jimmylittle,
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@matt As a member of Disney’s digital media team, I’d guess any of that could be rendered pretty easily — or at least some things (like the cracked camera lenses) done practically and composited into a larger animation.

I’m with you though, I’d love to see a BTS of this.

jimmylittle, to random
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Funny to me that the people who complain that “iPad hardware isn’t the problem, it’s iPadOS that is holding it back!” are the same people complaining today that the new iPads only support Thunderbolt 4 instead of TB5. 🙄

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When I finally pull the trigger, a new 13" iPad Pro w/ 16GB RAM, keyboard & stylus is gonna cost me €3,107. It would be by far the most powerful computer I own.

That's more than twice as much as what I paid for the Mac mini I do all my development on. It even beats out my high-end gaming PC whose GPU alone was €1800.

All of that goes to waste because it’s paired with a simplified, stripped-down OS using the same technology stack and limitations as a $300 Netflix device for your grandparents

jimmylittle,
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@stroughtonsmith iPadOS is certainly hampered, but comparing it to a smart tv is just mean. (and wrong).

You’re definitely correct on the sentiment, but in my experience hyperbole never wins an argument

jimmylittle, to random
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I get what the WATCH is trying to do with color-blocking emoji, but I just don’t like it. I use emoji to prefix calendar appointments and they provide no context without color or detail.

For reference, these two calendar events are preceded by a 🎲 and 🗓️ emoji, but they’re just kinda white blobs.

ismh, to random
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Glad to see the 9th-gen iPad is gone:

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jimmylittle,
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@ismh The saddest part of the whole thing for me is when Tim was all like “this is the greatest iPad lineup ever…and we also still sell the iPad mini, apparently”

lexfri, to random
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what app do you force quit the most and is it xcode

jimmylittle,
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@lexfri Sadly for me, it's Notification Center, which apparently runs the widgets on the Desktop.

Every time my Mac Studio wakes from sleep, I get a beach ball on the Desktop until I killAll NotificationCenter in Terminal. Then widgets reload, and everything works fine.

It's infuriating enough that I set up a Keyboard Maestro macro to just kill Notification Center every time the Mac wakes.

Because that makes sense.

_patmurray, to random
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do you use a weather app consistently or do you just vibe and then get annoyed when you chose clothes wrong?

jimmylittle,
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@_patmurray I’ve solved this problem by moving to Southern California. We don’t have weather anymore.

kyleford, to random
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Jeez, get a room, Tom Selleck and WaPo

jimmylittle,
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@kyleford 🤮

Now imagine a WaPo headline describing Jane Fonda or Goldie Hawn as a “magnificent specimen”

It’s just creepy.

matt, to random
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The average iPhone user has a Windows computer, not a Mac. I feel like this is something we in the Apple enthusiast space forget like…all the time.

jimmylittle,
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@matt @andyn I use both. 1Password is the “canon”, and I have dozens of shared passwords, notes, and credit cards with my wife.

But when the system asks to save a password to Keychain, I let it. The system-level password filler is just so much faster in a lot of cases (like on Vision Pro)

jimmylittle,
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@elroyjetson @matt I think it says just as much about Microsoft’s failures in mobile than Android’s success.

jimmylittle, to random
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I wonder what the reaction would be if Apple dropped all this core technology fee nonsense and just went back to charging for software upgrades.

I’m old enough to remember paying $9 a year for iOS upgrades.

jimmylittle,
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@winterschon It would definitely piss off users. But it would solve the “Apple wants to make money off of iOS” problem- it would just shift the cost directly to the user through upgrade fees rather than indirectly to the user through developer fees.

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