“Under the shelter of each other, we survive.” -Mike Davis, RIP
Human, curious; designer, usability advocate, oss fangirl; snowboarder, Michigan kid, Motörhead fan. Former Model UN dork. Still a general dork. #nobot#noindex
This might be the worst bathroom sink user interface I’ve encountered in a long time.
After some experimentation I discovered that they are, left to right, soap, water, and air dry. Or at least they’re supposed to be. The soap one didn’t motion trigger consistently and also was possibly empty.
@harris Oh goodness, at first glance they look like baby bear, mama bear, papa bear faucets, lol. That sink is... well, ok. Sure. Good luck when a paper towel or kleenex blocks the tiiny drain slot, lol.
A big new iPad Pro with the new keyboard would be great but I checked and it’s $1848 which is $500+ more than a new 15” MacBook Air, and I didn’t see any mention of MagSafe charging being added to iPads.
If Apple made a home dock wireless charger/holder like the Google tablets have, I’d buy one for the kitchen counter as a family Apple Home controller/recipe lookup screen that is always charged and ready to play tv/movies when undocked.
@mathowie Dude, my 2013 iPad won't accept iOS updates anymore. I'm so mad, it WORKS FINE for my needs, otherwise; so now I can no longer use it for what I bought it for.
@steveportigal@mathowie My partner was sent a free iPhone by Verizon, once his was no longer supported. Which, he was still annoyed by, as he far preferred the older/smaller form-factor. I really, really do wish Apple would see those of us that prefer the dinky form factors, more.
@steveportigal@mathowie iOS comes with a faux "Home" button for transitioners—and I still haven't deactivated mine. I've had it on for over 2yrs, now.
I've been iPhone-only since it premiered in 2007, and the up-swipe to unlock the screen is just too un-intuitive. Still peeved that Ive disbanded the Human Factors team.
This guy gets it: "There’s also this oily smell of AI and machine learning in the tech atmosphere, where I no longer feel relevant and I seem to have stopped caring about new tech when I noticed that 8 in 10 articles are about some new LLM or image generation model. I guess I like the smell of wood better." https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/woodworking-escape-from-software-absurdity/#carving#software
@kentbrew YES!! I've also got new hardwood floors being installed at my house, and just the smell of the burning wood from the sawblades makes my heart flutter. :)
Let's reflect on our history in the US, with Black Power. The Black Panthers never intended for Black Power to translate into subjugation of White Americans by Black Americans. That was our interpretation, through fear.
Ask questions. Listen to answers. Prioritize care. Breathe.
We can all live together and in peace, if we choose to. Humanity has not chosen that path, historically. Empowering humanity over hegemony, is our challenge to rise up to.
And I'll be damned if I can't slowdance wit'choo;
come pour some sugar on me honey, too;
it's a real live boogie and a real live hold 'em;
don't be a bitch come take it to the floor now, ooh.
Laying off an entire team because their manager wouldn't lay of a large chunk of the team to cut costs is the sort of penny wise, pound foolish portrayal of tech you'd expect from HBO's Silicon Valley not a company that the market calls one of the "Magnificent Seven".
Treating core IT infrastructure teams as a cost center you outsource cheaper countries is what you expect from IBM or a dying bricks and mortar business not a big tech that made $23.6 billion in profit last year.
At the tire store waiting for a set of tractor tires to be finished. Having some good conversations with others in the waiting room, wanting to make smalltalk about "the riots." More abolitionist and folks on the side of protestors, need to be open to having calm, friendly conversations with doubters. They're just trusting the crap they see in the media.
Seeing organizations whose leadership has been asked for simple apology and accountability from Palestinian leadership of organizations who have worked on this for decades (who they have shamelessly been dismissing), and doing everything they can to sidestep that call instead of doing the simple thing of apologizing and creating accountability structures. Interesting logic 🤔
@castironflower I honestly expect it's something like that; tooling is abundant, the screwdrivers themselves are ubiquitous. Not everyone can be like IKEA and ship a thing with its own driver tool.
Co-founder of Twitter joins new Mastodon board of directors. Right, so federating with Threads wasn’t a mistake. This is just the direction Mastodon is going. Oh, well. Another Mozilla emerges.
@aral We briefly chatted about this, though. There really isn't, today—and considering Eugen supports himself, another adult, and two pets, it's not right to expect him and his family to personally take the hit for today's scant funding for public interest tech. Mastodon would at least need a full-time development director, and even then there's barely enough. Barely. TorProject and many others subsist on USAID & the US Dept of Defense. Our community needs better.
@aral The EU is also in a precarious state I suspect, following Brexit and with other matters of the world (Ukraine, Putin, Drumpf) happening. I am very with you, but just as I left public-interest tech for for-profit for my own sanity living in the US & supporting both my parents and a disabled partner, Eugen and Mastodon deserve stability. I'm cautiously optimistic, that that is all this is about. How to sustain, in a world not yet ready to properly fund a commons.
@aral Do we really want the growth limited of the primary federated platform functioning as the world's Shitter replacement? I honestly don't see Mastodon going for "unicorn" (blick) growth, but instead to meet community demand. The world does want usable, accessible, and easy to access social platforms; and this is truly the only one with a reasonable entry curve. Discord is ok, too; but Matrix, too hard. Most others, also too obscure or hard.
@aral I guess that's where I disagree. Non-nrrds and folks leaving proprietary/for-profit media need the "gateway-friendly" mastodon.social instance and experience, imho, to learn about the fediverse and to feel emboldened enough to take the next step(s). To really force the failure of for-profit tech, a much more massive migration has to happen; and (almost) anything possible, I want to support.
@aral Threads is part of facebag, which we all know uses people's data for ad targeting, LLM training, etc. So, we still need both the org and the one instance, as well as the platform and the protocol—which don't matter, if they can't be usably accessed by our parents and other non-techies.
