DJDarren

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Too bad they are missing their Christmas bonuses. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

On the other hand, there’s nothing you can do anyway, so the only option is to let them burn.

Anon watches a scary movie with his gf in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

Is it yelp.com?

do you think lemmy will ever be popular? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Cool, you crack on using Twitter then.

do you think lemmy will ever be popular? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I have no strawman. I had a wickerman, but, well, it’s awkward.

do you think lemmy will ever be popular? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It’s not that weird, given that they’re both examples of Fediverse software that can (in theory, though not well in practice) interact with each other.

As for Masto being separate instances; I’ve never really had a problem with that. Follow a bunch of people from different servers and you’ll soon begin to federate and link up with other people.

do you think lemmy will ever be popular? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I see folks posting on Mastodon, griping that it’s failing, that it’ll never be as popular as Bluesky and Threads because of X and Y, and I’m like, I’m over there chatting to people all day, having a fine time, following new people, picking up new followers, and generally enjoying it more than I ever really enjoyed Twitter.

I don’t really understand why those folks want it to be more than it is.

“Oh, but there are no journalists!”

Good? I don’t want endless ragebait posted in my feeds. I just wanna be chill, share music recommendations, and enjoy more people interacting with my radio show than ever did on Twitter.

We might be living the final moments of not being terrified what the US President is going to do in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think you mean Jeb!

MAGA not beating the "weird" allegations in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (5 children)

90 seconds ago I had never heard of this man, now I discover that he's notable enough that he has a Wikipedia page.

Nuclear Demonology in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fuckin’ nuclear power, man, how does that work?

Nuclear Demonology in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Oh man, I’d love to hear Bill’s views on Fucker.

The M4 Pro chip inside Apple's ludicrously tiny new Mac Mini would make for an unbelievably good handheld gaming PC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I wish the EU would pass a law making it so that all devices must be unlocked once they stop receiving software updates. How many perfectly usable devices are forced to fall by the wayside because the last supported OS can't do anything useful. I would love to see a version of Linux running on old iPad hardware.

The M4 Pro chip inside Apple's ludicrously tiny new Mac Mini would make for an unbelievably good handheld gaming PC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I couldn't believe how long I could get out of my 15" M2 Air's battery when playing No Man's Sky. A good five hours of gameplay without needing to worry about plugging in. Meanwhile, my previous Intel MacBook struggled to get five hours on standby.

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Swiping in Finder (thelemmy.club)
 

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...

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Why does Automator still exist, when Shortcuts could have replaced it entirely? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
6 comments fedilink
 

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?

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Flat Roof Pub (thelemmy.club)
 

Thought you lot might want to know where you can buy a polar bear cub.

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What’s the tiniest thing about iOS / iPadOS / macOS that really bugs you? (thelemmy.club)
 

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.

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How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet (www.wired.com)
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