DJDarren
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Of course they do.
If there’s a binary choice (and here in the UK it basically is), you’re going to vote for the candidate that broadly covers your requirements from government, conveniently ignoring the bits you don’t like. The alternative is to not vote at all because no one candidate or party can perfectly mirror your values.
DJDarren
2h ago
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I have two relatively new microphones that have mini USB, and honestly, I think it’s against the Geneva convention.
DJDarren
17h ago
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This group is for shitposting, yet this is qualityposting.
DJDarren
2d ago
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Let me do it for you…
…Kermie
DJDarren
2d ago
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Between 1948 and 1991 Skoda was a state owned company, making pretty low end cars to satisfy a social requirement for Czech citizens to have a vehicle. They had 0 bells and whistles because that wasn’t really the communist way.
As a result, non-communist car manufacturers almost always offered better quality, better kitted out models, so the likes of Skoda, Lada, and Yugo became a joke.
DJDarren
2d ago
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Mine’s £40k. Could be better, could be worse.
DJDarren
2d ago
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Yeah, yeah, I know. I need to sort out a different way of doing things.
DJDarren
2d ago
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She’s just remembered she has some video tapes to return.
DJDarren
2d ago
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My phone hasn’t made a sound in years. It’s hard on silent and all notifications* go to my watch so it can tap my wrist quietly and politely. _ *I say “all”, but it’s calls, messages, and reminders. General purpose apps aren’t allowed to talk to me.
DJDarren
2d ago
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It makes me more angry that it should that Alexa talks back to me when I ask it to do stuff.
“NOW CONNECTED TO YOUR PHONE!”
YES I FUCKING KNOW BECAUSE YOU MADE THE BEEPING NOISE YOU MAKE AND THAT’S OK BUT DON’T FUCKING TALK TO ME
DJDarren
2d ago
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I get that ready cash availability at the time is absolutely a factor, but it does make you wonder whether spending $5k more on the competitor would save a bunch of money in shit that John Deere won’t let you repair for yourself down the line.
DJDarren
2d ago
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Is Case to farming equipment what Brother is to printing?
Am I going to have to buy a Case for the two holes a year I might need to dig?
DJDarren
2d ago
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I’m going to be kind and assume he’s on the piss take. Because that seems like the kind of shit I’d post.
DJDarren
3d ago
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Born in late ‘80, I’m borderline. A Xennial, I guess.
Just yesterday I was groping on Mastodon that so much of Linux is done via the command line, which messes me up because I’ve only ever really used OSs with a GUI. Sure, we had a family C64, but my brother would load the games for me. Then we got a ‘proper’ Windows PC, where I stayed until I got my first Mac in ‘07.
I’m not unfamiliar with doing stuff in Terminal, but all I really do is follow instructions I find online.
DJDarren
3d ago
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Well, it’s not supposed to happen.
DJDarren
3d ago
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u/ouRKaoS gets booted from their Lemmy server
DJDarren
3d ago
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The company that founded Wittenoom?
DJDarren
3d ago
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Rattle those drawers and praise her.
Can anyone shed any light on why you can't swipe back and forward in Finder with a trackpad? The option in Settings allows for two finger swipe between pages in eg. Safari, but that doesn't extend to Finder, and I can't work out why? I've been able to activate it using BetterTouchTool, but it seems like a truly bizarre omission, considering how much Apple have optimised macOS for trackpad use. I don't know why I've never really thought about it before, but now I can't stop...
First up, I realise that Automator does *so much* more than Shortcuts. But my question is: why? I have a couple of spreadsheets that I want to be reminded of once a week so I can keep an eye on the dates they contain. My stupid ADHD brain is likely to forget to check them, and a reminder is only as useful as whether I'm able to act on it at that moment in time. So I've set up an automation to open them up at a specific time. Given that Shortcuts on macOS doesn't support automations (as far as I can tell), the only way to do this is; - Create a shortcut that will open the documents I need to open. - Create an automator application that uses a bash script to open the shortcut. - Create a calendar entry where the alert is set to open the automator app. So I guess I want to know why Shortcuts (for macOS) can't run automations, why Calendar can't open Shortcuts, and why Shortcuts didn't subsume everything that Automator can do? Who at Apple thought it was perfectly right and proper to have to distinct and powerful apps essentially offering the same functions, but that neither of them fully encompass the abilities of the other?
Thought you lot might want to know where you can buy a polar bear cub.
As much as I don’t like negative threads, there’s one thing in iOS that really irritates me, and I want to air it… Pressing and holding the tab button in Safari to access tab groups, should have a haptic response. Because it doesn’t, I often end up opening the tab view instead, so I have to huff a little, hit Done, then try again. I don’t know why it annoys me that it doesn’t because none of the other buttons in Safari do, but I feel like it should. No, I have not contacted Tim Apple about this. Yes, I probably should.
I've been using the free version of Cold Turkey blocker on my Mac for a while now, but it doesn't offer an iOS/iPad app, so there's nothing to stop me from just picking up my phone to fuck about online when I should be working, so I'm not keen on spending £30 on the full app. There are other alternatives like Freedom.to, but they want £3 a month / £25 a year, and there's a bit of me that rejects the idea of having to pay a recurring fee for the maintenance of what is essentially just a glorified IP block list. It feels kinda predatory, like those of us with ADHD have been fucked over by apps and sites being designed to be little dopamine boxes, and they have the only solution, but we have to pay for it. So, do any of you use a similar app? If so, what, and how much does it cost?