“Sorry my Internet is only good enough for texting and tweeting and streaming Apple Music and also watching YouTube. But def not good enough to work.” About to make this my Slack message for then next 5 hours.
Continuing my series of “you saw what movie with your mom?!,” I took my mom to see Challengers today. We had a great time and mom is now a certified Zendaya stan. She wants to see it again. She also loved the soundtrack.
@jrey4u when I was 12 I walked in on my dad watching it on Showtime and I called him out on it. He didn’t need to know I was also watching it in my bedroom upstairs lol
Watching Linux distros (and yes, it is usually Debian packagers who act the most sanctimonious) shoot themselves in the face and then insult upstream AND the users of a popular package under the delusion that only the distro's self-declared experts are capable of making decisions is always a good reminder as to why you will never be able to waterboard me into using Linux as my primary desktop. Very sorry this is happening Team KeePassXC. https://fosstodon.org/@keepassxc/112417353193348720
@film_girl I just don't see why Debian should be responsible for whatever Ubuntu does further downstream. Surely they're aware of this issue by now and can re-package the -full package if that is what they/their users want and expect
@kgMadee2 should be, no. But after 20 years, it’s obtuse to pretend/ignore that Debian changes don’t have broader impact is my point. So changes need to be more considerate. But the real loser is upstream, who already has a heavier burden just from Debian users, even advanced users who knowingly choose Sid, because they file bugs upstream instead of with Debian. In this case, the person who maintains the Ubuntu package is almost certainly the same person anyway. Because he works at Canonical.
The problem with the iPad as as many have pointed out is that the software hampers what it can do unless you’re willing to contort yourself into a very specific workflow. For most casual users those limitations aren’t an issue and the advantages of the form factor outweigh the deficits. But when you charge MBPro money for a device the trade-offs sting. As @jsnell says, the best solution would be to just let us virtualize macOS on an iPad Pro when using it in certain modes https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/the-ipad-pro-is-no-longer-the-future-so-whats-next/
@jsnell@film_girl Well, one of the flagship Pro apps on iPad lets you export to there, but not save. Maybe it's on Procreate, but I do remember there being some file size problem.
In the end I think this is Apple's fault because they led us down this app-centric path to start with. It was never going to work well for multi-application workflows, but they kept hoping. And here we are 14 years later talking about cramming a whole other OS in!
@film_girl@jsnell The ideal solution would be for us to not buy the iPad Pro. But apparently we can’t organize ourselves sufficiently to effectively boycott it. 🙃
Love this from @ismh - I haven’t written much about the new iPads yet because if I buy one, it will probably be so I can hand my 2022 M2 Pro to my mom (since trade-in is less than a 10th gen iPad with 256GB and cellular costs…which is insane. Not for the trade-in but the iPad 10th gen price) and not b/c I need to upgrade. B/c the software means I still use my iPad primarily as a media consumption device. No matter how great the hardware, the software is the rub. https://512pixels.net/2024/05/the-problems-never-the-hardware/
@luis_in_brief@jsnell I think for the group of people who consistently buy iPad Prod and accessories, we’re probably a lot closer to being representative than the people Apple shows in its announcements. I think the average iPad user is an iPad Air user. And the new iPad Air is basically the old iPad Pro. But for iPad Pro, I think we’re probably fairly representative. But even yourself, you still own both an iPad and a Mac b/c of limitations you run into.
@luis_in_brief@jsnell now, Apple might lose a future MacBook Air sale for you if they did what Jason and I want. But they’d also potentially get you to spend more on an iPad Pro, which might negate that lost income. And I said this in a reply to someone else but if they did this, I think they could absolutely charge another $100 or $200 for the iPad Pro just for that feature. B/c as Jason pointed out, the beauty of the iPad is the flexibility. But the software limitations hinder that beauty.
OK, this is a walkthrough of the weird VNC thing #rabbit#r1 uses for connecting accounts. Again, I'm not saying there is anything necessarily wrong with doing this. I am saying there are way better ways to do this. And the clipboard button workaround is very funny. https://mastodon.social/
@film_girl that is the jankiest integration possible. Also, your password is known to the remote VNC server before you paste it in and they could conceivably log your keystrokes remotely... Engineering-wise, that is not even defensible, because I have to wonder how they're capturing the Spotify access token to bind it to your account (non of the answers are comfortable to contemplate).
OK, so you know the so-called "source code leak" from Rabbit for the #r1 last week? It wasn't a real leak, but what it showed was different than what I was expecting. So Rabbit Hole, the way you configure your R1 -- it only works on desktops, which I thought was rather odd. And then I went to manage my connection and I figured out why. This whole thing is a fucking VNC session in the web browser served as if it is a modal login
The whole process is also horribly slow, even though it is trying to trick the user into thinking it is just a normal modal Uber/DoorDash/Spotify login window. I'll add a video in a second
All of the talk over the last few weeks about startups shipping unfinished hardware reminds me, and not for the first time, what a triumph the #playdate is. The whole @panic crew worked so hard to deliver something that fulfilled expectations and then some against challenges (like a global pandemic and supply chain fiasco) that would have leveled others.
@film_girl Thank you so much for saying this!!! It means a lot. We don’t really toot our own horns and sometimes I wonder if people even notice us in the grand scheme of things…
@film_girl@b3ll it took too long to receive mine honestly but I use it with the kids when out and about and forced to be somewhere they would pine for a phone or tablet.
Honestly, support ublock origin and you can win back the Mac browser market. But the current extension model in Safari is such a terrible experience for every person involved, developers and users. https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112360846501810807