Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Desktop CPU is overheating during games again. Figure I’ll reapply the paste & add the spare case fan to the side.
Might upgrade the cpu fan too. Maybe one of the ones that aims sideways toward the back of the case.
Went to look up the socket type & discovered that the cpu model is 10 years old :blob_dizzy_face:
I’m sure there are newer CPUs that are both faster *and* more efficient. Might be better than replacing the heatsink. But a lot more involved.
Um… #ClassicPress seems to have had a major implosion over the weekend.
Over the last few days it has become crystal clear that the community feels that the Directors of the ClassicPress Initiative are now hindering the progress of the ClassicPress Project.
Has a definite “Oh, you think you can do a better job? SHOW ME.” ring to it
Wow, actually found “This resource fork intentionally left blank” in a file copied from a Mac drive
The stand-alone episodes are good, and the Burnham/Spock family dynamics, but the main arc gets really frustrating in the second half.
Some of the ridiculous things going on in the name of “freedom” make more sense when I consider that to some people, the only freedom they care about is the freedom to forcibly reject people who aren’t in their ingroup, and to some people, the only freedom they care about is how much money they get to keep, and some people have found it very effective to cater to these two groups.
Good: Got the battery replaced in wife’s otherwise still-working-great Note 8.
Bad: Repair shop told us Samsung is phasing out parts for it, and we had to go to another location to find one that had the batteries in stock.
Ugly: I had to drive on the 405. 4 times (there & back twice).
Stumbled across this article again…just as relevant (if not more) than it was back in the day.
Speaking of Portal 2, have i mentioned how impressed I am with the design on the multiplayer co-op levels? Every one of them actually requires 2 players working together. And it’s much better than trying to play a 1-player level with 2 players
I seem to remember reading that during play testing, if anyone found a 1-player solution it was filed as a bug
Looking at an icon that i think is supposed to be a rocket blasting off, but since the kid has re-discovered Portal 2, i swear it looks more like a Portal turret
Who called them indexing bots and not web phages?
“I’ll see your statue of a frog covered with buttons and raise you one bright yellow Oldsmobile with a statue of a chicken on top! With a Torchic sticker!”
— things that go through my head while exchanging #PokemonGo gifts
Saw this while walking around the other day.
> There were no results for “caulk.” Showing results for “cable.”
That’s…not particularly helpful
I’ve been finally catching up on recent #StarTrek series. I have…mixed feelings about Picard Season One.
Aaaaargh! Why would you have your webservice return a success code if it wasn’t actually successful!
#justVenting
I wonder if there’s a line of clothing for fans of e-cigarrettes called VaperWear.
Picking up on this again briefly:
None of these complaints is inherent to the structure or functionality of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc. They’re deliberate UI design choices to optimize for the company’s targets. A third party client could bypass it all (which of course is why they don’t allow those).
Similarly, Mastodon and Pixelfed and so on *could* implement UI like this, but they don’t. The project goals aren’t engagement at all costs. And each instance can have its own goals.
Someone could add an ATTENTION-GRABBING EXPERIENCE on top of the Mastodon or Pixelfed code.
And those of us connecting with different software wouldn’t be affected.
Or they could write an app that adds it! Though I’m not sure many people would consider that an improved experience.
Then again, people do use Yahoo mail. 🤷♂️
IMO there are two sensible ways to handle granular push #notification preferences:
1. Use the system’s per-app settings for all of it. (Tusky does this, even putting your per-account preferences in the system UI)
2. Use the app’s settings for all of it, and let the system just be an on/off toggle for what you’ve chosen in the app (like it was before the system had UI for it)
And while I’m griping about Instagram, why the heck are the detailed notification preferences split between the app and the system notification UI?
That’s terrible design.
Well, if it’s intended for usability, anyway.
If your goal is to make people see more notifications, though… 🙄
