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Danny Whitt
@drwhitt@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Not a real doctor.
33 miles to Boston.
Ski bum (aspirational).
An original.
I’m not a person you can put on speakerphone.
Semi-charmed kind of life, baby, baby.
Banner: Landscape view of a forest pond, foreground deciduous and conifer boughs, a fallen tree in the water, a majestic row of evergreens along the far shore, and a deep blue and clear sky, all reflecting upon it.
Avatar: Selfie portrait of a man grinning in a forest.
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Joined February 26, 2018
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@JonathanGerlach@mastodon.social You had me at ffmpeg.
Also, I agree with my read of @fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe’s implied sentiment in that this will prove a sisyphean effort.
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@Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu @flargh@mastodon.social Recently began shopping at Market Basket solely due to the nearest Hannaford closing and (soon to be) replaced by a Shaws. Agree that, despite the nonstop family-owned-business-nonsense-news over the years, Market Basket is the best around. I do miss the August lobster sales as low as $3.99/lb. years back yet it’s still the best option for now.
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@ashur@front-end.social I was hoping that @CARROT@mastodon.social did this but, sadly, no.
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@leemoknows Instead I opted for a simple indoor antenna that provides 7 HD stations (the local network affiliates) and another 56 other SD stations. That's quite a bit of content for 0.00 dollars, as they say on the old-folk tee vee commercials. :)
I’m officially a cord-cutter many, many years after it came into vogue. All of my content is strictly OTA or from streaming services.
Me and my family will greatly miss decades of happily using #TiVo CableCard-based DVRs. As @siracusa@mastodon.social has lamented, paraphrasing, there’s really no good equivalent. Took a look at Channels but despite @caseyliss@mastodon.social being quite enthusiastic about it, it just seems like a little too fiddly (not to mention that it’s just another subscription cost).
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@JonathanGerlach@mastodon.social @fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe Hyperbolic, yes. But have you ever looked at just how deep the well of ffmpeg features and functions goes? Maybe you’re thinking of a specific (sub)set of features for your particular use case?
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@davew@mastodon.social It’s been a mixed bag for me but mostly leans towards success. :) As suggested above, maintaining context with the tools is the key factor.
Sometimes, responses to follow-up prompts often include snippets of code that, while correct, can sometimes be hard to see where they need to be applied as a change/addition/subtraction. I find myself prompting to, “Please provide the complete implementation with this update included.” and that (almost always) works.
It does feel magical,
though. 🪄
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@Iconfactory@iconfactory.world
Unrelatedly related, in the excellent Triode app, I followed a similar approach by exploring the awesome “Our Picks” list of live streams first.
I only added my own streams, mostly live local terrestrial radio, after adding a bunch from your recommendations.
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@Iconfactory@iconfactory.world I cannot recommend this highly enough!
For me, I simply added EVERY recommendation during onboarding– no more, no less. What wonderful selection of varied and interesting topics!
Try it, you’ll like it.
Getting this intermittently in Ivory 2.4.1.
A bright red banner alert that reads, “Not Found Couldn't find what you were looking for.”
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@MoritzBrouhaha@typo.social Sadly, this is the status quo with respect to optimizing for profit over usability. I agree with the essence of @mariejulien@mastodon.social’s comment above that, while it may impede those with assistive needs quite a bit more, it is a serious problem for all users.
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@flargh@mastodon.social @dsilverman@mastodon.social
Makes me wonder if public libraries, well known to have news periodicals, have access to such paywalled sites.
From the library perspective, shift funding from physical periodicals (as they slowly disappear) to digital offerings. From the publisher perspective, however, I suppose it’s, “Fuck you. Pay me.” for every individual user.
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@flargh@mastodon.social but let’s pour!billions into Apple Intelligence only to succumb to the fact that they can’t succeed and will, ultimately, just pay someone (Google) to do it for them.
I’m saying this because today (really!) I replaced
my wife’s aging iPad Pro because it’s EOLed on iPadOS 16.7.12 and is basically useless for some apps and, yes, unusable performance-wise.
😡
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@leemoknows Weirdly, the app I am viewing OTA on a recent Sony Bravia TV running Google TV is labeled “Channels” but it doesn’t seem to be the https://getchannels.com app. That, as you infer, requires setting up a local server, i.e., the aforementioned fiddly part. How are you using Channels for over-the-air?
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@drdrang But the nonstop commercial interruptions made watching pickleball tolerable, yes? No?
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@flargh@mastodon.social Same. Been getting them every day or two for weeks. So just to be sure, I changed my password and validated 2FA on Meta apps anyway. That’s how I roll.
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@flargh@mastodon.social That would
make me nuts. I’ve seen no issues like this with the Abbot Freestyle Libre sensors over the past two years. They also “eat shit” more often than one would expect from a US$200 million company – at least every three to four months one either won’t activate or quits before the normal expected lifetime of two-ish weeks.
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@flargh And the return/replacement process puts the burden on the user to keep the failed device
whilst waiting for the replacement/return box to arrive. And then, you get a phone call a month later saying that they never received the defective device.
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@flargh But the mobile app seems top-notch and full medical data can be easily shared with the endocrinologist and a
subset shared with family members on companion apps.
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CC: “[ SPEAKING IN A NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE ]”
Really, #nbcuniversal? We have tools to automate this you know.
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Ah, living in Sports Bars is, indeed, the life I want, need, and deserve.
My heart says lease yet my head says buy. Also, no compromises this time like the last two times.