Fuck the pigs and all but that doesn’t change the environmental impact both acute and long term which is bad, and the noise pollution is awful, and they’re dangerous to people beyond the police, so on balance I’m done with fireworks.

Also Diwali and some other days are randomly a new fireworks-all-night thing and the fire service is in an uproar about it.

It’s resistance to change. When it was new, people hated it. Now when it’s old, it’s hard going back. If you never changed, it’s new and bad.

OSS isn’t known for its revolutionary user interface experiences.

It’s sorta typical of the OSS community. Engineers aren’t designers and it would seem that UI designers are either not as interested in OSS as engineering types or they’re squeezed out by curmudgeonly engineers.

Not in the Settings for some reason.

Thank you, that’s very helpful.

I’m trying but going from the ribbon interface I’ve been using since 2006 to the pre-ribbon interface feels like a time warp, in a bad way.

Another day, another infant account posting off topic.

In civilized parts of the world, it is illegal to discharge a firearm in an urban area or within X metres of an occupied building etc.

In the USA people shoot in their suburban backyard.

Typically yes.

The odds of $5 into an index fund turning into $700 million are in fact lower than the odds of winning the Powerball. An occasional gamble in the Powerball is not going to end my retirement plans any more than the occasional latte or avocado toast.

Yes, RAM was cheap. Yes, RAM is fast. Yes, assets are bigger because 4K. But if you load a 1MB executable and a 100MB executable into RAM, one will be faster and it doesn’t take a computer scientist to tell you which one.

I hesitate to call it lazy programming because it’s really just business pushing for the wrong results. The old chestnut of fast/good/cheap.

But is it enough to help the farmers forget about it come election time?

My screen is 2160px tall and 3840 pixels wide. If it’s at the bottom, I waste nearly 1.8 times the number of pixels.

Microsoft’s excuse about app design and layout is straight bullshit because I can make application windows any size and ratio I want.

Facebook app set up a local server on the iOS device that received pings when a browser loaded their tracking pixels.

I feel like that behaviour falls under my definition of spyware. I know it’s not as malicious as it could be, but still.

I understand the economics are challenging but it’s been a race to the bottom. There were and still are some really high quality apps, but so many trash!

One of the reasons that the App Store purportedly exists is to provide quality software rather than malware and spam.

I guess that goes out of the window as soon as money appears.

You can literally type the name of an app and the first three results are, if you’re lucky, competitors. More often than not they’re pure junk.

And that assumes you’re searching for an app that’s not trash… ugh.

Educate your friends and relatives and write your representatives at every level. It’s only a small difference but it’s something.

Home Depot is based in Georgia and the founder was fully supportive of republicans. Don’t be surprised when the store espouses his values.

Ah, true.

From recollection, the chip in the iPhone 15 had the capacity to do the local model and perhaps they turned it on in an iPad. Or perhaps I’m confused. That happens a lot.

I very much understand why the software hits end of support but goddamn it’s irritating when something this simple is gated.

Going back to Siri on iPhone 4 (only 4S supported it despite no hardware limitation) and perhaps earlier, Apple gates features behind hardware upgrades for no reason beyond selling new hardware (eg Apple AI on iPhone 15 Pro, not plus, but it’s all in the cloud anyways). This makes it difficult to have a reasonable conversation about legitimately EOL devices - an iPad that’s EOL doesn’t get the feature for med notification because it’s packaged with the other OS changes and the amount of work to backport it to an older OS version is significant.