Curious_Canid

Curious_Canid , 8 days ago

We need a similar bill that would send anyone convicted of unlawful activity in the US Capital since January 5th of 2021 to Siberia.

Curious_Canid , 1 month ago

Republican Legislators: We are strongly opposed to child labor.

Public: Finally.

Republican Legislators: So we are going to severely punish any children found doing it.

Public: Wait a minute...

Curious_Canid , 3 months ago

And clearly enjoying it. It's good of you to give him one!

Both of ours have chairs too.

"Our dogs are not spoiled. They are competitively compensated for the user experience the provide."

Curious_Canid , 4 months ago

I wish I could just get Prime shipping and drop the video service. I may still drop the whole thing.

Curious_Canid , 5 months ago

Every years or so I try out a bunch of alternate keyboards. Then I go back to using Gboard. {sigh}

I’ve been using swipe typing for years and I just can’t get by without it. None of the privacy oriented keyboards do it well enough to really be usable yet.

Curious_Canid , 5 months ago

All dogs should have their own comfy seats. And the rest of us make do as best we can. :-)

Mine do that too.

Curious_Canid , 5 months ago

I’d missed the cat! She impersonates a sofa cushion quite well. Protective camouflage.

Curious_Canid , 5 months ago

AnyStream has worked well for me. Sadly, I often get better quality results with PlayOn.

Curious_Canid , 5 months ago

PlayOn produces higher resolution files than AnyStream on the services I use most frequently.

Curious_Canid , 5 months ago

I appreciate that you said it “for” mental health, but not whether it’s intended to be positive or negative. :-D

Curious_Canid , 6 months ago

I recently switched to FairEmail. It’s a really nice app and works much better than anything else I’ve tried. And it would be a shame if it were abandoned.

On the other hand, I have published a few things to Google Play myself. Google has made constant effort necessary to keep up with their policies. It wasn’t worth the trouble for someone like me who just casually released things I built for my own use. I can’t blame anyone else for deciding to step away from it either.

It is appalling that he also has to deal with abuse and threats for performing a public service.

This is why we can’t have nice things. {sigh}

Curious_Canid , 6 months ago

How could even Microsoft release a product named WinCE? I’ve marveled at it for decades.

Curious_Canid , 6 months ago

There are plenty of other instances out there with different policies and different approaches to moderation. I live in the US, but I use lemmy.ca. Their writeups said that it is not restricted to Canadians. My experiences here have all been positive. Very nice people.

Curious_Canid , 6 months ago

It is very much appreciated!

Curious_Canid , 7 months ago

I assume she looks like that because she is trying to solve the worlds problems. She has a better chance than most of succeeding.

Curious_Canid , 7 months ago

Those extra limbs are helpful in supporting all that cuteness.

Curious_Canid , 7 months ago

I use option #1. Each instance of KeePass maintains a local file, but updates them automatically whenever it opens or closes. I also back up the file to my personal server automatically, so I have a copy even if the cloud service fails for some reason.

This setup has been serving me well for a long time.

Curious_Canid , 7 months ago

That sounds promising. I’m still wearing a five-year-old Fossil because nothing since has seemed like enough of an improvement to justify the cost.

Curious_Canid , 7 months ago

It looks like happy chaos.

Curious_Canid , 7 months ago

I have tried it multiple times with various devices, going back to the Palm Pilot. Modern Android does the best of any environment I’ve tried, but I still consider it unusable for editing. There may be some clever, outside-of-the-box solution that would make it viable, but so far there hasn’t been enough demand to drive that kind of development.

Curious_Canid , 7 months ago

He’s adorable! I’m glad he is being well taken care of.

Curious_Canid , 8 months ago

I can feel the softness through the picture.

Curious_Canid , 8 months ago

Despite all of the “this is new” in the article, nitinol has been around for a long time. I have a great set of small split rings made of nitinol from at least a decade ago. Wish I could get more of them.

Curious_Canid , 8 months ago

It’s okay to joke with your wife, but don’t let him hear it.

He is adorable!

Curious_Canid , 8 months ago

I have a small UPS to keep my fiber and router working for a while and I have a larger UPS for my server. Even the larger UPS will only keep the server going for maybe half-an-hour, but most outages here are short. For me, the most important benefit is that my UPS will tell my server to shutdown when it begins to get short of power. Graceful shutdowns remove the risk of corruption and data loss.

Curious_Canid , 8 months ago

I’m not sure requests for help with Linux would be that much more frequent than the ones I get now asking for help with Windows. The Windows UX is getting worse while the Linux UX has been getting better for a while now.

Curious_Canid , 8 months ago

I understand the cynicism, but it’s worth looking at the details. This is not the most powerful phone on the market, but it looks very good. The price is reasonable. It is easier and less expensive to repair than anything else on the market and it comes with a much longer warranty. They appear to be serious about both minimizing their environmental impact and being fair to the workers all the way down their supply chain. Those are all significant achievements.

I don’t need a new phone right now, but I’m still tempted, just to encourage the effort. We tend to complain about all corporations being basically evil. We should do everything we can to support the ones that really aren’t.

Curious_Canid , 9 months ago

If you need to add more than one drive you should look at external enclosures. There are 4-drive models just over $100 and 8-drive models just over $200. You connect them with eSata, USB 3, or USB C, depending on the enclosure.

Curious_Canid , 9 months ago

There are other polyhedral die rollers for Wear OS. I don’t have my smart watch on to find the name, but I’ve been using one for several years.

Curious_Canid , 9 months ago

When companies began to drop the audio jack I was annoyed, but I figured I could just buy a converter. Which would be great if there were a universal standard for connecting audio through a USB C. There isn’t. There aren’t even just two competing approaches. There are all kinds of different setups that sometimes vary even within a single brand.

I found multiple adapter that said it supported my phone brand. It didn’t work. I looked deeper and found some advice on adapters that would work with more recent phone. I bought one based on that and it worked, sort of. The audio quality was not great and it would occasionally just cut out for a second. My third try got me an adapter that work reliably, but the audio quality is still mediocre. My best headphones are all analog, but I have to use Bluetooth with my phone because it provides better audio.

The physical issues, particularly the connectors, guarantees that USB C will never work as well. The lack of standards for implementing it make finding compatible hardware a nightmare. And if you manage to get everything else figured out you end up with the kind of sound you can hear from an audio jack using a $5 set of earbuds. It provides no benefits to the user, only to the manufacturer.

Curious_Canid , 10 months ago

That proud look is so cute! And I’m sure they helped.

Curious_Canid , 10 months ago

You are, of course, right. I should have given proper credit.

Curious_Canid , 10 months ago

They’re both adorable!

This expresses the natural relationship between cats and dogs. Despite the stereotype, nearly all of the ones I’ve known have been very fond of each other.

Curious_Canid , 10 months ago

I respect her work ethic.

Curious_Canid , 10 months ago

That is a magical picture. I know how much time and effort goes into reaching that point and you’re a good person for doing it.

Curious_Canid , 10 months ago

Your caption is accurate.

Curious_Canid , 10 months ago

Hope he feels better soon!