Notices by Ernie Smith (ernie@writing.exchange), page 3

I have written literally millions of words on @tedium , and yet this one boilerplate line on every page of the site is the best thing I’ve ever written.

#SEO

@grammargirl If I remember right, I believe @anildash actually modded his for this purpose.

I otherwise see a ton of good suggestions in this thread that beat me to the punch. Luna display will probably be easiest, though you could always do something like Duet Display if you don’t want to buy hardware.

My suggestion would actually be to look at getting an HDMI capture card. People are doing this to plug in Switches on iPads and I imagine it would work with your old Mac, too.

Well, that was a giant waste of everyone’s time.

Congrats Matt Mullenweg, all your aggressive actions ended up getting flipped over immediately.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69221176/64/wpengine-inc-v-automattic-inc/

When’s the last time you saw a G-rated film in a theater? If the answer to that question is “Toy Story 4,” congratulations—you saw perhaps the last truly successful G-rated film.

Turns out the G rating isn’t used so much anymore. Here’s why:

https://tedium.co/2024/12/08/mpaa-g-rating-history/

new @tedium

Got a nice personal email from @internetarchive for donating monthly for five years in a row. Pretty cool!

@killyourfm I can tell there’s interest, I get the emails from random places, but I never have a place for them. Wanna get on a call sometime and actually talk some of this stuff out?

@killyourfm Hmm, this certainly sounds like something that I would be interested in personally, though you’ve worked closer to that area than I have with your work on Thunderbird.

Kind of weird that the Linux Foundation doesn’t emphasize this kind of work, honestly. It’s strange that I get all my scoops on what’s happening in desktop Linux from Brodie Robertson (I enjoy his channel a lot, I just think it reflects the point you’re getting at).

@killyourfm That’s interesting. I wonder if there’s room for a Linux-specific marketing agency?

@killyourfm And also Red Hat is already a prominent enough customer that Adobe is promoting them on their blog. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/10/11/how-adobe-express-helped-red-hat-marketing-ibm-company-achieve-10x-time-savings

If Adobe makes the move to Linux, even money that it’s through RHEL.

@killyourfm And it also helps that Adobe is already in a strategic partnership with Red Hat.

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/adobe-ibm-and-red-hat-announce-strategic-partnership-advance-customer-experience-transformation

@killyourfm The place where my head went was that Red Hat should strike some sort of deal with Adobe to make RHEL a first-class platform for the Adobe suite. Red Hat is one of the few companies in a position to pull something like that off.

@killyourfm Excellent point. I think one thing that could make this transition viable is commercial software. We have seen Steam/Proton prove this out for gaming, my question is, how do we get more productivity software to follow suit?

I don’t think commercial software replaces FOSS to be clear, but I think if your goal is to bring in businesses transitioning from Windows, it’s easier if it feels like they aren’t giving up as much.

@killyourfm I wrote something relatively recently about how, when blogging tired me, I would emphasize design work more. I think the challenge with social media is that it doesn’t make it easy to switch tracks.

The fediverse rules and I plan to stay here as long as I can.

But seeing Bluesky carry a similar mission into the mainstream is ABSOLUTELY worth respecting.

https://mas.to/@swelljoe/113467896206066079

The Onion bought Infowars. Not a drill. Not a drill.

https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

I always check my spam folder because there’s a real chance something might slip through.

This guy is emailing me about an article I wrote in 2015.

Here it is. I was proud of the headline.

https://tedium.co/2015/08/04/cell-towers-nimby-trees/

The Washington Post lost around $30 million in annual recurring revenue from all the subscriptions folks cancelled.

After Trump won, Bezos made $7 billion yesterday.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/07/trump-victory-adds-record-wealth-richest-top-10

@killyourfm Definitely adding in more about Flatpak and Proton, which (for their own respective reasons) have changed a lot about the experience that makes it appealing to the average non-technical user.

@killyourfm Watching videos, surfing, and screwing around on various projects. It’s a laze-about machine. (I use an HP Envy as my main machine, mostly because of screen size.) Probably wouldn’t get that playing a game. But the GPU optimizations the Asahi team have made it equivalent to running on MacOS battery-wise.