I love this fake retro hat only because the very first thing I bought online was a white Netscape hat just like this in September of 1995 from Netscape.com’s store.
I was so terrified of buying online the first time I used a brand new credit card and watched the statements for three months afterwards to make sure it wasn’t stolen by other websites before I ever used it again.
When terminally online people mock older users these days for not trusting common things on the internet I always think back to my own first e-commerce interaction and how I was completely convinced my credit card number would get stolen the first time I typed it into a web browser.
On my last flight, I grabbed the Delta emulator app and bought a PS5 controller at a Best Buy in Houston and downloaded a few N64 and NES games and getting to play games full screen on a iPad with a PS5 controller was kind of incredible and I'm gonna write up a blog post about it because it was a little tedious and confusing to get games onto devices and play smoothly, but once it's done, it's kind of magic.
@chrishuck the weird part was the KC airport was packed on a Sunday at 5am and I asked someone working there if it was unusual and they said it was always busy even at that hour
You ever look at a friend’s texts that get increasingly desperate sounding and think someone needs to pull them aside and say “hey, can you cool your jets? you sound thirsty af and you need to calm down”
trying to wrap my head around the guy in front of me in the airport TSA Pre line who had no idea giant plastic bottles of water you bought at the store weren’t allowed through security.
The rule has been in place for what, 23 years? How did he even end up in the TSA Pre line?
One of my favorite boring technologies is the CNC machine. Basically a robot drill connected to a computer, it can cut material in any shape or form you need.
Some guys in Kentucky scanned the back of a Jeep just like mine, then produced a lightweight drawer system they flatpack shipped me. Today I assembled it all.
I now always have tools to help me fix anything when I'm out and about, I can change a tire, jump a battery, torque a lugnut, and fit camping stuff for trips, etc.
https://phanpy.social is a pretty incredible Mastodon client. Entirely web based, looks great on mobile and desktop, you can configure your shortcuts that appear above or below the river of news.
Some screenshots from my own account: good notifications page, different kinds of toots get a different status, plus Boosts are shown in their own carousel.
I've heard one developer made all this, it's pretty incredible.
The best feature in Phanpy is the Catch-Up. Say you sleep and come back to Mastodon the next day. Set your Catch-Up to the past 8 hours and you'll get a summary of the most important things you missed while you were gone. It's incredible a web app can do this when no other Mastodon client offers anything similar.
@lkanies the whole catchup feature means you don't have to read absolutely every single post, you can just look at a summary and move on. If that isn't a feature you need, that's fine, it works great for my needs.
@jacob friends all have Ozomatli playing in the lobby after a show then in the street then the cops showed up stories, I’m so bummed I’ve never gotten to see them play live
There’s something so incredibly broken with Google calendar when you track all your flights and travel appointments that take place in other timezones.
It auto-adjusts time stamps to your current timezone that you view your calendar in, so you see things like a flight at 4am or a hotel check in at noon, which you know are fundamentally wrong.
@jwz It has the city names of the airports and the hotels, I kinda wish those would stay at 7pm eastern, maybe with a stripped pattern or special color to indicate it's not in Pacific time when I'm viewing it within the pacific time geo zone?
I was reviewing some future travel and almost canceled a hotel reservation because it appeared on the wrong day as pacific time.