Phone: great for mindlessly scrolling or the odd comment.

Laptop: for actually getting anything done.

I’d use a desktop but sometimes I have to work from cafes or something so I prefer just using a laptop all the time rather than two machines

I’ve had a mac for years and still haven’t had any need for an iCloud account. It’s optional

What’s that in football fields?

I’ve recently gotten a couple (absolutely tech illiterate) friends and family to move to Linux. It’s finally there - it’s much easier to use than windows now.

And if you don’t want to keep shelling out for new computers every few years, doubly so - Linux works fine on decade+ old hardware (and you can keep upgrading practically indefinitely to stay within security windows, so you barely ever need to actually buy new hardware)

In Dune II (1992) the units move slower when they’re off screen. This is useful because you can only select one unit at a time to give orders, so if you want to send an army into the enemy base you send them one at a time. But then you can carefully position your camera to allow the units at the rear to catch up with those in the lead so your whole army arrives at once and overwhelms the enemy.

I had to help my sister keep her 8 year old Mac going or buy a new secondhand (cheap) machine. With the options out there and with the state of Windows, I didn’t even consider it.

She’s ended up with her same 8 year old Mac with Ubuntu 24.04, and I’ve been really impressed with how it’s actually great for non-technical users these days! And works really well on old hardware.

This should give her another few years of life out of the thing without worrying about software support.

Better article: https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/29/google_python_flutter_layoffs/

Well yeah. I turned that shit off on day one of getting my phone. It doesn’t even make you faster at typing? What’s the point in having it enabled?

Now when I make typos at least it was me that made the typo

I’m not from US but this looks like a normal roach to me.

If a democrat loses under this system they will have lost fairly.

I have two. Early career I found the second one absolutely improved my productivity - perhaps by 50% or more - as it helped me multitask really effectively.

Now, later in my career I have had kids for a while. My multitasking went out the window when I had kids - I find it hard to juggle more than one or maybe two things I’m working on at a time. I suspect this was due to poor sleep - parents never seem to really catch up to sleeping full nights like before kids. Instead of multitasking on lots of small things I transitioned to more in-depth work where I can focus for longer periods on a single thing.

Now, I think having a second monitor is still useful but I can function fine without it. It’s maybe a 10% boost if that.

On MacOS this will do it:

printf 'net.inet.ip.ttl=65\nnet.inet6.ip6.hlim=65\n' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.conf

Can’t personally speak for other OSes at present. Here’s a SO post about Ubuntu: https://askubuntu.com/a/670276

You can also just increase your laptop’s initial TTL by one and then they can’t tell.

On a macbook? You can’t plug a normal keyboard in without a USB hub because there’s no USB-A port

I had to google all the nouns in this post.

Not just in the past, you still can’t install addons in (any browser) on iOS. brave is basically the only option because it adblocks without addons.

What else would you call an analog clock?

I’m 38 and still take 10s to read an analog clock.

I do still say half past etc though. I don’t really associate them with digital vs analog

Odometer readings

I’m a nerd. I know vaguely what RCS is because I had a discussion in 2019 with a friend about it. Do I have it? Do I use it? I have no idea. Is it an app or just a protocol that happens behind the scenes? I would assume the latter. My phone’s a few years old, isn’t everyone’s? Probably that means I don’t have it. No way to tell and I’m not going to bother trying to find out.

I’m so much more technical than most people btw