smartphones are cool because you can text your friends to say youre gonna meet them in town, and listen to some music while youre on the bus. and while youre listening to music you see a really funny looking pigeon out of the bus window so you can take a picture of it. all with the same device! three in one! i dont think i personally need more features than that
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 05:02:59 JST josef -
josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 05:02:59 JST josef the original iphone was the best smartphone because like. it didnt have apps. thank god. no apps. the scrolling was really nice. free ipod built in. good normal interface for browsing your music. touch screen where you could touch multiple things at the same time. and the best feature of all: no apps
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 21:02:12 JST josef copy a program from one computer to another, then run it. if it doesn't work, then computers are bad
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 23:35:01 JST josef tired: profiler
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 00:25:49 JST josef whenever anyone manages to actually build a new house in england nowadays, theres a special stipulation that, legally, so as to not offend the design sensibilities of the king, the house has to be designed by a 5 year old child
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 08:19:47 JST josef i think when you rotate your mouse it should turn the cursor. like on a nintendo wii
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 04:48:05 JST josef very dramatic footage and music currently on the bbc
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 00:12:21 JST josef @mntmn @holo_memory i'm from the UK, and i noticed in about 2005 nobody really knew what to call them, but by 2010 most people i knew IRL would call them a "USB stick". i think this is because:
- usage of 'drive' implied to a lot of people that you might be talking about an external HDD
- they're stick-shaped, or at least used to be when they were larger, and they stick out of the front of a PC in a conspicuous and memorable way
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 08:11:56 JST josef 1990s: *enthusiastic schoolteacher voice* the computer is a place where anything can happen
2020s: *grizzled, world-weary army sergeant voice* the computer is a place where anything can happen
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 01:09:10 JST josef sleepy bee
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 01:09:09 JST josef on the move
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 16:32:54 JST josef i think the reason ads are such a widely attractive revenue stream is probably because they’re kind of an odd exception: it’s one of the few non-consensual economic interactions that hasn’t been made illegal. they’re kind of in the same category of thing, albeit with lesser severity, as “guy washes your car while you’re waiting in traffic and then demands payment” or maybe even “guy takes your phone and runs away with it”
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 04:07:05 JST josef heres some of my personal favorite raspberry pis
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 04:07:05 JST josef what's your favorite raspberry pi? please respond by saying "my favorite raspberry pi is..." and then suggest another single board computer that isn't a raspberry pi. im trying to genericize the trademark, you see
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 00:33:00 JST josef @mntmn i got bit by this once, i think you're supposed to notice that the BOM is twice as long as it should be. but what if you don't!
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 22:01:42 JST josef i find visual studio code weirdly unusable and it's taken me years to work out why: the fucking hand cursor. all the clickable UI elements change the mouse cursor to a goddamn hand! and theres no way to switch it off. my workaround every time i encounter this issue every couple years is to close visual studio code and uninstall it
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 22:01:41 JST josef im sure you can do per-application cursor overrides on linux by creating some files called like cursor.override.d/10-disable-hand-cursors-vscode.conf inside a maze of directories that will stop working in 3 months when you update the window manager, or on windows by installing a 10kb exe called "Bud's Cursor Smasher" that sits in the system tray with a little icon of bud himself giving you a thumbs up and a tooltip keeping track of Number Of Cursor's Smashed
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 22:01:41 JST josef there's a couple of issues open on this and one was closed as "not a bug, this is intentional, we really want our program thats actually a web page to feel like a web page" and the other is still open, with some comments a couple weeks ago like "yo is this ever going to be looked at, it should be like 8 lines of code to make this a config option surely"
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 22:55:48 JST josef me: so i want to, like, copy a file, and--
them: he heh! good luck! <corporation> has NEVER let you do that. let me tell you, ive been a customer of theirs for fifteen years and it's never been a problem for me. i suppose if you know Coding you could write your own kind of "file photocopier" app from scratch, if you really want to make duplicate files for some reason. but i doubt anyone would use it. im closing this thread, also you're banned for asking troll questions
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josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 22:55:48 JST josef me: so i don't know much about this, but i know enough to be certain that if this worked in a sensible way, this specific, but quite normal thing i want should definitely be possible to do
people who know: ha ha!! of course not. that isn't possible, that's never possible. nobody has even imagined it, at least until you came along. everybody knows the thing you can do and the thing people want to do, and what you want? well, it isn't that. in fact i don't even understand what you're asking