Consistency is nice. But functionality is important, too. If Apple forced their player on everyone, then I couldn't use my Apple TV to stream from my network tuner.

(I already feel that forcing web browsers to use their rendering engine is a step too far; extending the same control over media playback reeks of the same over-bearing control.)

Divine knew, she always knew

#nokings

I always used a gallon pitcher, and then a strained lined with cheese cloth. No fancy equipment needed.

Fun Fact: the child actor who plays Young Deloris in the opening scene of Sister Act only has one other credit in IMDB, and that’s in her role as Young Guinan in that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Picard, Ro Laren, Keiko O’Brien, and Guinan get youthified in a transporter accident and have to save the ship from the Ferengi.

There has to be a story there for her only two appearances to be as a young Whoopi Goldberg.

1. Context: If a post in my timeline is a direct reply to another post—even if they are not someone I follow—the parent post is shown.
2. Persistence: MastoBlaster will always take me to the latest/newest post when opening the app. This behavior makes extra work for the user, having to manually scroll backwards in the timeline to find where I was last. I personally prefer (at least the ability to configure) having the app remember my place in the timeline, allowing me to manually catch-up, while the standard tap-at-top-of-screen shortcut to should still function to move to the newest post.
3. Full threading: While not a feature of Mona, it is a feature of snac. MastoBlaster does not seem show/indicate the nesting level/depth of replies in a thread.

(You have to give his shows credit for having great casts. And to the uneducated outsider, they are good shows. It is only when you add him to his politics and his shows' subliminal story-lines that you realize the overt libertarianism is covert MAGA.)

The entire US "healthcare" industry is built upon this fallacy that their health should be tied to their continued employment. There is no health, nor no care, in the American "healthcare" industrio-complex.

I mean, seriously!?‽ For all of the supply-chain attacks in the past decade, how can you justify not changing your habits?!‽

Kids put up with a LOT from adults

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Tumblr post by roach-works look, here's the thing: alice in wonderland's enduring fucking charm is that it perfectly captures the vibe of being a very tired and annoyed child who is nonetheless required to play along with adult nonsense. alice is dragged from place to place without warning, forced to play stupid games with no good prizes, grilled over her schooling and manners and recitation and dress, scolded, judged, insulted to her face, sent away, given gifts she didn't ask for and doesn't like, corrected incorrectly, been subject to shifting and arbitrary rules, and then when she gets snappish with all this bullshit everyone acts like a little girl's temper is the end of the fucking world. alice in wonderland isn't a drug trip or a nightmare or a metaphor, that's just what being ten years old is LIKE. that's why kids love it so much. even if they can't quite articulate how, they recognize themselves in it.

Weekend plans.

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour

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a little grey and white kitten sitting in a large bowl full of a giant pile of kibble

Today's macos discovery: I use Skim to read PDFs. If you togggle the Highlight Tool, any text you select gets highlighted!

This makes balancing my credit card statement so much easier...

To hell with AI, more innovation like this please.
#solarpunk

Skiers who look like musical notes...

A photo by Haukur Sigurdsson.

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An aerial view of cross-country skiers traversing white snow. The skiers are small in the frame but cast long, distinct shadows across the snow.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

(And you know that they outsource their mailings, so even if you never log in, when you unsubscribe, they know it's a good email address to sell, along with sharing your general location.)

(And macOS is clearly the descendant of NeXT. I'm glad that Haiku exists as a re-creation of BeOS, though. Its use of extended attributes is still my favorite aspect. I think it's unfortunate what Palm did to Be.)

Young me: "These Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books are fun reads, but this 'all the wealthy and politicians are into human trafficking' plot is a little over the top."

Older me: "I should probably re-read those Larsson books to see what else he was right about."

Your man is one damned lucky individual to have landed you!