Notices by Jer Clarke (jerclarke@mastodon.social)

I am officially a permanent resident of México!

Celebrating with some street churros outside immigration 😋

¡QUE VIVA MÉXICO!
🇲🇽🌵🦅🐍🇲🇽

@chris +1

I only wish Ivory on iPad would sync properly. I guess it's because I only use it on the weekend, but every time I load it up, it gets it wrong, and several times I've lost my position (off by hundreds) trying to use the iPad specifically to catch up 😣

@ivory Any chance you've got some iPad improvements in the pipeline?

❤️🔥

@tek It’s worth noting that they are forced to license WordPress plugins as GPL. They aren’t there for the license, they are there for the customer base. There was a whole drama about this years ago.

If they could sell plugins under another license, they would.

@chris Good luck Chris! There’s always a different action you can take that will give more wholesome relief ❤️🔥🙏🏻

As I learn Spanish (living in Mexico) and discuss English with my Mexican partner, I am constantly reminded what utter junk English spelling and pronunciation are. It's embarrassing to try to explain why words sound like they do.

Spanish is so simple and beautiful to pronounce by comparison, and the relatively predictable use of accents for emphasis is part of it.

Bring back English diaeresis!!!
https://cloudisland.nz/@pjf/113333491105769867

“The lost Library of Alexandria could have fit onto the microSD card in my Nintendo Switch, and yet the cutting edge of technology is a handheld telephone that spews lies as a fun little bonus feature.

We are fucked.”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24225972/ai-photo-era-what-is-reality-google-pixel-9

@chris The thing I’m addicted to is having a global keyboard shortcut to pop up the mini calendar that floats over other stuff. Priceless and I use it constantly. It seems to work for me without a subscription, too.

The big app is the same as default calendar to me.

Natural language creation sounds good but often fails for me just like Siri.

@chris I have Studio Display too and enjoy its camera.

The one people I know use and enjoy is their iPhone. Seems to work well with the built in wireless mode, and if you only use it rarely, the annoyance of hooking it up shouldn’t be too bad.

Assuming you have an iPhone and Mac, of course, I forget :)

Anyone have a recommendation for an iPad comics (.cbr files) reader?

Was on Comic Zeal till it broke. Thanks for sharing any experiences you have with the latest options 🙏🏻

@evan My first podcast! I would download episodes and manually sync them to my mp3 player that had no screen 💾

@evan Others have already said good answers (cost, video, privacy). I’ll also add audio quality fwiw.

My counter question is why bother with Fediverse when IRC already exists?

[Vote for the PNG, we commit to transparency!]

@evan Water is cut off to our neighborhood. Had to take a cold shower and hoard drinking water this morning.

We're cute, that's all, continue scrolling 😽

Just to be clear: Mickey Mouse being in the public domain doesn't matter and never did, other than Disney being the antagonist promoting copyright term extensions over the course of the 20th century.

What matters is the literally endless list of other works that were kept out of the commons because of Mickey.

Mickey was a reverse-canary in the coal mine. Now that his copyright is finally dead, the rest of culture can finally breathe free.

Image source: https://copyrightlately.com/public-domain-day-2024/

@ryanc Love the ending 😂

Seriously though, once I came out as non-binary it really hit me how bad the labels are. People had questions and all I could give them were rants.

Personally I think we should focus on "what you like" rather than “what you are” as a starting point, and the “philia" words work best for that.

E.g.
Androphilia: into dudes
Gynophilia: into dudettes
Ceterophilia: into etcetera

The last one is the most controversial but I'm always hoping to make it happen anyway 🤷🏻♀️

Asclepias curassavica enjoying the sunshine. #Bloomscrolling #macro

@lain @waltercool@pl.slash.cl @feld I haven't tried gog before, didn't realize it worked for macOS, maybe I'll give it a try sometime.

Don't love Steam at all, but it's longstanding and I’m "invested" in it at this point, so I shop there out of apathy (and becase games in the actual macOS App Store are always stuck at maximum MSRP forever).

@feld Isn't that for the SteamDeck product that runs Linux?

Either way, what I'm talking about is the way the list their games. You still see the apple logo on games that haven't worked since Catalina released because of the 64bit transition, which makes it really hard to find games to play on a modern Mac.

They clearly aren't willing to build their store to help macOS users find the games that will work.