And the "Twitter profile linking is my online identity" is even worse for authors, for example https://
But to be fair, this site is from the times when being on Twitter was still considered cool and a public good.
Looking around on web dev articles and seeing a lot of authors still being referenced with their Twitter handles - guess what happens when people - who don't have Twitter accounts - click on those links? They're forcefully taken to "you can only see this person's profile if you create an account with us". Why don't web devs all use their own domains instead?
First thing I did after upgrading to Android 13 on my Fairphone 3 was to turn off UI animations. I really do not need my phone's UI to dance all the time.
I'd like one day please where I did not need to reset, reboot, refresh, contact support or generally have to figure out how to achieve what I actually wanted to do on my devices because of some technical issue or an "oops message".
Anyone else experiencing weird scrolling issues on the NYTimes's mobile pages lately? It just gets stuck for me suddenly after a few strolls on their home page.
Reading "The Shape Of Things to Come" and realizing just how lucky I am to have known no war in my younger life. That's all I wish for, that my son gets a chance to live his life full and content at least for as long as I have.
Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories" album is already a decade old! How time flies.
What an amazing experience it is when you're on a deadline for delivering a presentation and Powerpoint keeps crashing while working on adding the finishing touches.
My son and I had our first shared Minecraft experience. We built mine cart rails and he laughed out loud when a cow got into one of the carts and we were able to push it down the track and the cow stayed in it! Beautiful experience.
A new week brings a new Android issue to resolve. The phone now goes into screen lock whenever I play a video from Firefox. Having a hard time ploughing through loads of crappy websites to be able to find any thing remotely related to find out what to do about this. The Internet is a mess.
My five year old already wants to play MineCraft - I hadn't looked at the game for a long time - but since he is really into it, I have been reading parental guidance articles. Going to set up a "creative game" world for him to explore in - even considering joining in on the fun myself. Curious where this is going to take us.
Changed the "post deletion" on my Mastodon profile to a month. No need to keep a copy of my ramblings on this Mastodon server for longer than that since I keep the original post on my own site anyway.
To do: fix Known CMS to actually post the full content on longer status updates to Mastodon, so I don't look like I am spamming links back to my own website so much.
After struggling with a Fedora instance to get a lot of files copied from one external USB HD (NTFS) to a new one (exFAT), I tried the same sync process with Beyond Compare on Windows and it just works ... better. First of all I could not install Beyond Compare on ARM, then I found "Kompare", but kept running into various errors which stopped the sync. First HD is NTFS, and the new one is exFAT, issues are probably to be discovered within Fuse, but I cannot reformat the original HD, so there's that. Good thing there are still alternatives.
Happy Summer Solstice everyone!
What does one do when they discover an HP Notebook (HP Pavilion zv6000) from around 2006/2007 in a closet running Windows XP originally? Well, live booting Linux from an USB drive of course! The thing has only 512MB RAM, so no high hopes to refurbishing this ancient machine. But it is cool how it still runs anyway.
Managed to spend 20 minutes time today on figuring out why a file wouldn't _simply_ sync with the Nextcloud app on my Android phone after being edited by Markor. It would not sync to my Nextcloud server at home and then the bytes would not sync back to another instance of NextCloud on my Fedora virtual machine that is running on this Mac... and while I am writing this I just realise just how scifi all of this is, compared to what we had 20 so years ago: physical drives and FTP.
I always need to look up how to use the bpcopy command on the terminal.
The original "admin" user account on my #Android 11 phone got messed up, due to a faulty sdcard, and could not store pictures any longer. Luckily I could still add another account on the same phone and reinstalled all apps, changed the sdcard, and the camera works again. Now i need to figure out how to make the new account the "admin".