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In retrospect, the most ridiculous thing is that I couldn’t be bothered to plug my phone into my computer and transfer photos last night, despite the fact that I’d done *exactly the same thing* that morning to pull photos into my offline album & push some of the edits back to my phone.

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@ricard_dev Kind of hilarious that it would be that simple, and also kind of infuriating that they could have so easily included the capability but chose not to.

But then Instagram has always been about trying to keep you in the app, haven’t they? I mean, they were only grudgingly part of the web even before Facebook bought them.

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Also, he really wants to get VR gear after trying a demo. Told him we’d set up Cardboard & we can check out the VR arcade at the mall. Anything more elaborate can wait.

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@brion Yeah, I was looking at some of the other VR platforms & devices last night & it’s a significant outlay.

Plus of course the question of compatibility, both in terms of what devices connect to them and what apps & games are available. (Minecraft VR doesn’t work with Daydream, for instance.) Tried asking, “what do you want to *do* with VR?” but he hasn’t figured that out yet. Hopefully Cardboard will be enough for the “but it’s COOOOOOL” factor for a while.

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I kind of want to post a round-up of recent photos (that are already online elsewhere) to Instagram, but the UI makes it difficult.

– I can’t upload from my desktop.
– I can’t share multiple items from another gallery app on my phone.
– I can’t select multiple items from an album when choosing photos within Instagram.

So I can scroll a *lot* while selecting, or manually copy the photos into an actual folder on my phone.

And TBH, I’m not motivated enough to go to the trouble.

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Interesting: Because I follow my old @prismo account at @KelsonsLinks[@prismo.news], I can still see all of the stories I shared by looking at the profile here on Wandering Shop. But even though it has the title and preview image, it only links to the Prismo page (which is no longer available), not to the original articles.

If I really wanted to, I could reconstruct an archive of what I posted there, by searching for each of those articles.

Anyway, Prismo’s back on a new domain & I’m there at @KelsonsLinks[@prismo.xyz]

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*sigh* I suppose on the plus side, the crappy traffic meant that by the time I got to the last eastbound stretch of road, the sun was no longer positioned in the middle of all 3 mirrors.

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@andrhia Not sure, but if there is, I want to know if it also applies to the terror that you’ll drop your phone as you step into or out of an elevator and it’ll fall through the gap in the floor and tumble down to the bottom of the shaft.

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Finally figured out why I couldn’t get this third-party library to load its config!

Had to debug through a decompiled class…

It’s checking whether optional parameters are empty using foo.equalsIgnoreCase("") BEFORE checking whether foo != null.

So loading the config throws an NPE every time it tries to load the config. And it silently catches the exception, leaving the config object empty.

Easy enough to workaround, but a dumb error that was a pain to find.

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The worst part of starting to type and realizing it’s not going into the window you thought it was *isn’t* that you have to start over.

It’s wondering which other window picked up the keystrokes.

@thraeryn Have you read any Julie Czerneda? Her Species Imperative trilogy is my favorite.

One of the cool things about her writing is that she’s a biologist, so she comes up with all kinds of interesting aliens and how their biology impacts their societies and their ability to interact with other species. (ex. ship design for a species that communicates by scent.)

She’s also got several other sci-fi series and a fantasy duology that are absolutely worth checking out.

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@dansup The thing that most infuriates me when I’m on Instagram is when I have to set my phone down for 5 minutes, then when I pick it up again, it decides to automatically refresh my feed and jump to the top so I can’t find the cool photo I had glimpsed just as I’d set down the phone.

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@FiXato @sohkamyung Nice! I had never seen that! I wish it wasn’t buried under the GIF search that I never use, but now that I know it’s there, that’s going to be a huge help! Thank you!

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@FiXato Yeah, that’s what I usually end up doing. Even then it runs into the didn’t-tag-because-i-uploaded-my-entire-sd-card-and-who-has-time-to-label-all-that problem.

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