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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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Every time I use Siri on my WATCH, which is often, it drives me insane that the Siri blob overlay does not center itself over the bottom center complication.

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jimmylittle,
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@freequaybuoy sorry…

jimmylittle,
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I assume the watch face moves around a bit to pixel-shift and help reduce OLED burn-in, which makes total sense. But move the Siri blob with it!

dmoren, to random
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Man, my Apple Watch battery fell off a cliff today. Anybody else seeing that on watchOS 10.5?

jimmylittle,
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@dmoren Still OK here, but it’s on an Ultra 2, so YMMV. Charged sometime yesterday, did sleep tracking and an early morning workout. Charged it during my shower up to 84%, and sitting at 73% 8ish hours later.

jimmylittle, to random
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Searching for Google IO 2024 on YouTube puts the official keynote below a news carousel and #6 in the results, at least with my algorithm.

I hope this isn’t the future of Google Search. I’ve watched several videos about Google leading up to I/O, so YouTube should know what I want to see - and it ain’t “news about Google protesters” from a local NBC station 7 hours away.

jimmylittle,
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The stage design at I/O is always so much fun. This is serious 1988 Apple vibes, and I miss that fun vibe from Apple.

jimmylittle,
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3-½ minutes in and already the dumbest quote of the year:

“since then, we released the first Gemini model, the most capable yet”

So, more capable than literally nothing? Cool cool cool…

matt, to random
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I’ll just say it, I want an iPad that runs macOS (members post) https://birchtree.me/blog/ill-just-say-it-i-want-an-ipad-that-runs-macos/

jimmylittle,
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@matt I want it just so we can all move on to complaining about something else in the Apple-sphere. “My iPad should be a Mac” seems to be the earworm of the week.

agiletortoise, (edited ) to random
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I don’t look at the App Store app much anymore. It has become irrelevant to both my personal and business life, which is unfortunate.

I just scrolled through maybe 8-10 screens on the “Today” tab before I found anything I could identify as an indie app…or much of anything that wasn’t just entertainment/games.

jimmylittle,
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@agiletortoise The App Store isn’t made for us. It’s made for a billion or so rubes who dump $10/mo into silly casino games.

lexgames, to random
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Twist your way through Conlextions . Can you catch the connection?

https://lex.games/connections/1715601600

jimmylittle,
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@lexgames Conlextions
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟦🟦🟦
Solve Time: 2 minutes, 48 seconds

Got 🟩 and 🟪 immediately. The others took a minute.

paul, to random
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This can’t be legal.

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jimmylittle,
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@dominocollege @Archnemysis @paul $20-30/mo if you have at-home charging, which most people in America cannot install.

jimmylittle,
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@dominocollege @Archnemysis @paul I see dozens of EVs parked in my company’s Burbank parking garage at pay-to-charge stations because they all live in apartments. 7% of vehicles registered in NYC are EVs, and almost nobody lives in a single-family house with parking.

I’d love to see more charging infrastructure available to people (like me!) who can’t charge at home.

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.

alng, to random
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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.

stroughtonsmith, (edited ) to random
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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 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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