Notices by Stu (tehstu@hachyderm.io)

@inthehands deport to where? If I get caught up in this I'll be back to the UK, but what about people born in the US? Made stateless?

I appreciate I'm expending more thought on this than the average Trump voting xenophobe, but still.

@mekkaokereke I didn't realize you were there, that makes me reconsider. I'm having the strangest FOMO about it, although ironically deleted the invite from the initial rollout.

I honestly don't know if a big, central place to organize is the way to go (with one eye on the wheels eventually falling off), or stick the course with proper decentralization. It's disheartening to see how some recent PRs were treated by the Mastodon core team. Starting to believe the "yes, slowly" = "no".

@thomasfuchs out of curiosity, and if you don't mind sharing, do you have this turned on?

@mekkaokereke Gah, I found this thread and then somehow completely missed that you'd already answered my question. Sorry about that, and appreciated.

@mekkaokereke This graph by John Burn-Murdoch of the FT is being shared, and his analysis suggests Millennials are the first group not getting more conservative as they age (in US/UK, at least).

I immediately thought of this post you made and so was skeptical of the graph. I trusted John's informative work during the height of the pandemic, so I wonder where this analysis goes wrong.

Appreciate your thoughts, if you have a moment, please.

https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/113448632302017098

@inthehands I was just talking to my wife about this. I don't think you can convince me that the position of certain press (or perhaps their wealthy owners) isn't that Trump is a useful idiot to install Smooth Used Car Salesman MAGA Vance. It doesn't really matter how that happens, be it ill-health or the law. The age thing, on which they're now silent, was to hopefully get an inferior candidate.

Which sounds like fringe conspiracy nonsense. I honestly don't know - I guess if the shoe fits?

@inthehands complete aside, but 111 miles this last week? That's excellent, must be doing wonders for your health.

I haven't regularly ridden since I was a late teen. I'm in a similar middle aged boat and I should really treat myself to that new bike I've been threatening for years. It can't replace the car, we pay lip service here by "sharing the road" with bikers, which I'm astonished doesn't cause more injuries to cyclists. But we've got miles of trails I need to avail myself of.

@inthehands Oh, no. I know subsequent seasons were quite different to the first, but it felt like a story perfectly and completely told, for all characters.

Apple needs some line go up for their subscription service?

@inthehands @ned taking the time to write the correct amount of documentation. Future someone is high fiving past someone.

@inthehands "draft bill attached"

Should be the name of the documentary about this abject failure of our political process.

@inthehands you've been knocking it out of the park with these threads, can't agree more.

@inthehands I've never thought of it that way, but you're right. Ostensibly clean, but they hide the non intuitive complexity. Plus, for the sake of appearing to be new (and sell devices), I think there's impetus to keep fiddling with it.

After I replied earlier, I was reminded of how consistent the Xbox user interface has been (after they shed the silly Windows 8 look). Probably for close to a decade now. I assume the PlayStation is similar.

@inthehands I think we've hidden so much behind clean user interfaces now. Well, and clean hardware too, devoid of mechanical inputs. If I remember correctly, early iOS made quite clear which on screen elements you interacted with. Websites of the era similarly do.

And not only are we hiding stuff, but we keep altering the paradigm. Burger menu? Sure, lot of people now familiar with it (and a waffle, etc). But Google is moving away from that now.

Minimalism has set us back, I reckon.

@thomasfuchs co-signed, also an immigrant

@thomasfuchs Nice. I think I'd find it really restricting to give up ultra wide. Two widescreens aren't the same.

@thomasfuchs keyboard width ∝ monitor width

@inthehands @aubilenon wait... Walz was addicted to his Dreamcast?

We're going to need a wholesome-o-meter which goes up past 11 for this guy.

@GossiTheDog that would be an easier way to exit the hardware business though, which probably has thin margins, and just eat that sweet, sweet subscription money.

Xbox has got caught up in Microsoft's Make Line Go Up brain worms, rather than something they appear willing to subsidize forever. Surely only a matter of time before it's enshittified beyond the point of use (and they're about to lose their "fastest" claim).

Sony must be running out of cabbages to lol into.

@thomasfuchs I applaud people doing that. When news broke overnight and I went to submit feedback this morning, the replies from the developer inspired no confidence whatsoever. Since then, I had a run-in with an ex-Mozilla worker and, honestly, after using this thing since it was still called Mozilla Firefox, I think I'm finally done.

@inthehands /giphy Jeff goldblum Jurassic Park just because you can do a thing