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mastodon 4.7.3resident of the *other* Oregon: out here east of the Cascades, it’s all sagebrush and cinders.
iOS developer by day, cattle dog herder by night; 24/7 low-key house contractor
expect posts about chip architecture and nuclear reactors and AC ⟷ DC power conversion (and associated costs) and just anything where atoms do things to other atoms, and sometimes, to bits.
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Joined November 09, 2022
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@djc@hachyderm.io @atpfm@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social until the actual moment he said phone, I thought it was a rock in the Volvo’s serpentine belt.
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@clarko@mastodon.social I still can’t ponder which five people at apple use that rearrange based on usage setting; I do depend on the “switch to space if the app isn’t here” to swap from one task to another based on the apps used for the task (obvs only if it’s disjoint from the current task)
less positive reviews for MobileSafari which did not keep any of the webpages open that I tapped into from Ivory while offline. The number of tiny data loss bugs they ship in Safari on iOS and Notes on the Mac every year just grates
(Notes on macOS, **every year**: “we could restore your open notes, but it’s more important to tell you that we added drawing tools.”)
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@Casey the next time (lol) the news is quiet, would love to hear an update on moderation from you all on the podcast.
(I hope you’re not experiencing the mastodon version of Nilay’s Welcome To Hell)
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@mergesort@macaw.social I don’t watch much baseball
But when I do, it’s the Mets making our household sad
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@atpfm@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social I have a Mac Pro armchair theory over coffee after listening to the live stream: they killed it before Ternus’s ascension to make it unambiguous that there wasn’t anything coming in the future. (We all certainly would have run rampant with it in limbo knowing he had an ATP Believe shirt in a closet somewhere)
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@saagar I’m about to reverse the LE protocol for this truly comical UX disaster we use in our van conversion, and this is precisely the news I was hoping for.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/switch-panel/id1569109150
RE: @overcastfm@mastodon.social
transcripts are the coolest thing I’ve seen in a podcast app since Marco’s smart speed implementation. run, don’t walk, to your nearest App Store for this update
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@alexisw@xoxo.zone I somehow missed this the first time! This put a huge grin on my face for reasons I simply do not understand (and don’t need to!)
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@kylebshr@mastodon.social it would be for widgets and pushes. Ambient awareness of AQI + anomaly alerts. I want everyone to breathe healthy!
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@annika (I would 100% read a Painfully Accurate Description if there’s one out there or if you ever type it out; I am here for this nonsense)
@gruber@mastodon.social first time opening wallet on iOS 26(.4b3) and got this popup. Not sure if this is shown for everyone on first launch, or bc of the recent express transit news? (Went right from iOS 18 to the 26.4 betas, just for context)
Shouts to Flighty for making me the first person on a flight into Palm Springs to know that we were being diverted to San Diego.
The pricing model of “yeah I’m traveling next week but I don’t do this on the regular” makes it an absolute no-brainer, and the info about airport conditions is better than anything I could find online about KPSP’s weather. So impressive
hearing the news three minutes at a time as I test these ignition-based magnetic cabinet locks I put in the van. not my favorite!
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@Efften@mastodon.social check the playback history when that happens, and grab a screenshot (It’s def a bug, but the cause is maybe pretty weird)
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@kylebshr@mastodon.social whoa party on.
(Still using it in Bend this week as our forest attempts to burn down the ski resort!)
What’s the best way to gift a year sub to someone? I want more people using this