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Sculptor in welded steel & eWaste. Studio & Landscape photography. Comics & Graphic Novels. Burning with the Holy Fire for VR.

BFA in Sculpture from the National Art School, Sydney.

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cstross, to random
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We are going to end up with half a million low-orbit comsats turning the night sky into a streaky blur because everyone uses Starlink or similar for broadband because the telcos have allowed their terrestrial cable infrastructure to decay, in the interests of maximizing profit. And of course the satellite broadband will be slow and buggy because overloaded.
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112565885370238705

metaning,
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@sundogplanets @cstross There is a certain poetic justice to the idea that Starlink will be the beginning of a Kessler Syndrome that will mean Musk and his fans can never leave Earth for Mars.

GottaLaff, to tesla
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#WompWomp

“Some of #Tesla's institutional shareholders are getting out, convinced that the electric carmaker's days of dizzying growth are in the rear-view mirror.

The company's shares are down nearly 30% this year and have fallen by more than 50% since their 2021 high, wiping out some $600 billion in market value as CEO Elon #Musk has struggled with fierce competition and falling sales. Tesla's first-quarter results missed analyst expectations…”
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/these-early-tesla-bulls-are-giving-up-stock-2024-06-04/

metaning,
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@GottaLaff Tesla’s core competency - electric drivetrains and batteries, were quickly commoditisable, and every car maker can do it, or buy it off the shelf.

Tesla’s core weakness - institutional knowledge of WHY cars are designed and built the way they are, can only be acquired if a company’s management has the humility to understand standard industry practices are the result of generations of engineering geniuses improving on what came before.

And Tesla has Elon.

metaning, to apple
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Can we just take a moment to consider that , who for some reason are considered a collection of the “smartest guys in the room” didn’t take into account that you might have two different devices (six years apart) unlocked at the same time, and provided no way to distinguish between them when you want to files, because it doesn't display the device name.

metaning,
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@tonyarnold @felyashono Yup, there’s not even a mouseover state, and that information USED to be displayed back around High Sierra.

Possibly some graphic designer thought it looked visually complex to show that detail, and Apple’s broken UI culture has coolaided this toxic idea that visual simplicity = ease of use.

tonyarnold, to random
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Does anyone have any guidance on running multiple VMs for CI on a single Mac mini? If I run two side-by-side, it's so slow as to be unusable - I'm looking for advice on memory setup, core counts, etc.

metaning,
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@tonyarnold Could it potentially be done on a 2019 Mac Pro (does it have to be Apple Silicon)?

eclectech, to movies
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Good morning Mastodon

metaning,
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@eclectech Is there a readable origin story and “how to get your own” for knitted chicken?

GottaLaff, to random
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⚠️Yet another :

Nearly 8 tons of beef sold at Walmart recalled due to E. coli risk - CBS News https://apple.news/Af59DOfnRTqWXfCMcbBh1wA

metaning,
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@GottaLaff MMMM, perfect for making Freedom Burgers.

metaning, to random
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@MonaApp I am not seeing any visual indication of typos in posts. I can right click and get the corrections, but no squiggly underlines etc. Is there a (system) setting I can check (Ventura)? It shows up in all my other apps.

metaning,
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@MonaApp is that the thing that was effecting Safari, or something else? i’m not seeng issues in messages, which I believe is also a catalyst app.

metaning,
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@MonaApp Add that to the bug where the mouse cursor disappears when it’s over the app, or the bug where clicks stop registering in the Home timeline… maybe Catalyst isn’t a good technology to use as the basis for an app? 🤷

metaning, to apple
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charges AU$900 for 1TB of SSD storage for a 2019 , in the form of 2x 512GB m.2 dumb SSDs that lack their own controllers.

In contrast, for AU$770 I was able to buy 2x 4TB Samsung 990Pro m.2 SSDs, which have higher read / write scores.

1TB $900, Vs. 8TB for $770.

The Apple 8TB option costs AU$4200... Vs $770. It's just taking the piss.

jamesthomson, to random
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Saving this somewhere safe for June!

metaning,
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@jamesthomson @lisamelton back before we returned to searching in the browser directly, like animals.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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We're 5 years in now and even the most talented and experienced SwiftUI devs aren't building apps that are better than what you could build before, nor does it seem like there are kinds of apps that weren't possible before.

And still, a large chunk of dev energy is spent just trying to make it ‘as good as' before, too. Churn for the sake of churn. Some big apps have fancy new UIs with terrible layout performance, completely squandering the long-held lead Apple's chip teams bought the platform

metaning,
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@stroughtonsmith But there sure are a lot of crap Catalyst apps (mainly from Apple) that do less than their old Mac versions, are less stable, and feel about as alien as Electron apps. 🎉

metaning,
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@stroughtonsmith as long as we’re celebrating.

macrumors, to random
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Apple Reportedly Stops Production of FineWoven Accessories https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/21/apple-reportedly-stops-finewoven-production/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

metaning,
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@lisamelton

metaning, to TeslaMotors
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The point of for electricity, is to allow the power company to shift the “peak" charge time to whenever you use electricity. If you shift your usage, you can bet the peak charge period will follow you. Also, get ready for charging to attract a surcharge, as Smart Meters allow energy providers to apply differenital tariffs, based on purpose and voltage.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to MultipleSclerosis
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COVID-19 found to increase risk of hospitalization, death in multiple sclerosis (MS): Study.

Researchers say findings in England show threat 'still very real for many'

"With new variants constantly emerging, people living with MS should be considered an important high-risk group for COVID-19 hospitalization and death for which additional preventive measures and multilayered public health protections are urgently needed"

@auscovid19

Source: https://multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com/news-posts/2024/04/15/covid-19-increases-risk-hospitalization-death-ms-england-study/

metaning,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 Literally the opposite of what neurologists have been saying (up to now?).

mcc, to random
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As part of their aggressive attempt to get people to replace their old headsets, Facebook's Quest 1 headsets, released in 2019, will be barred from purchasing any app on the Quest store released after April 30, even if that app would have supported the Quest 1 when sideloaded.

The aggressive deprecation schedule really makes me baffled why anyone would trust Facebook with their money here. This is a novelty/nice-to-have device, not something you upgrade every 2 years.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewwilliams/2024/03/29/meta-issues-warning-that-impacts-many-quest-headset-users/?sh=42b7afa66306

metaning,
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@mcc a fundamental flaw of all standalone headsets, including Apple’s, IMHO. Dumb, tethered headsets that act as sensors / displays for other devices are a better long-term solution.

metaning,
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@mcc yeah, the hybrid models - Quest, Vive XR Elite, Pimax Crystal have that fallback - though I would always worry the presence of the onboard OS becomes a lever for obsolescence (or a security worry).

metaning,
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@mcc well that’s a nightmare.

kcarruthers, to random
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They came for Florida’s sun and sand. They got soaring costs and a culture war.

“One of the first signs Barb Carter’s move to Florida wasn’t the postcard life she’d envisioned was the armadillo infestation in her home that caused $9,000 in damages. Then came a hurricane, ever present feuding over politics, and an inability to find a doctor to remove a tumor from her liver. “
https://www.yahoo.com/news/came-florida-sun-sand-got-130000443.html

metaning,
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@kcarruthers Can’t help but wonder how much of what’s wrong with Florida’s culture is Floridians, and how much is people from outside Florida (eg folks who move there so as to not pay tax) bringing an outcome-oriented mindset. (Noting a lot of people from Melbourne here in SEQ who love Melbourne so much, they won’t live there, but will homogenise where they go to turn it into yet more Hegemonic Melbourne 😅)

rasterweb, to random
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Dropping a pin so I can check back on things in the future...

The Enshittification of Affinity

➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/03/26/the-enshittification-of-affinity/

metaning,
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@rasterweb You know, I tried to like the Affinity suite, bought V1 & V2, but at the end of the day it was just bad to use. It felt exactly like the sort of software you get when someone invents a technique (e.g a file format) and then tries to monetise it by building applications around it, rather than building applications to accomplish a task, and designing things, like file formats, to support that. So everything about the app is limited by the capabilities of the original novel “trick”.

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@rasterweb I tried to use Photo and Publisher, but they just never felt right, and with version 2 losing the ability to have multiple documents in separate windows (because Windows doesn’t), they just became janky windows apps on Mac. My old CS5 adobe apps remained more logical n the way they worked. Honestly after struggling with Affinity for a-number of years, I’m at the edge of subscribing to Adobe, as much as I hate subscription software.

rasterweb, to random
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I was surprised to see Clarus in the Pages.app on macOS... Moof!

metaning,
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@rasterweb Actually not surprising - modern Apple is a cargo cult for pre-NeXT Apple.

tonyarnold, to random
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Surgery is happening imminently.

I don’t do seem to do things by halves.

metaning,
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@tonyarnold Fingers crossed for you, speedy recovery.

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