kinttach

joined 2 years ago
[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago

I’m starting to suspect 99¢ isn’t a sustainable price point.

[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago

This doesn’t make sense as described. The Mac and its apps are optimized for keyboard and mouse. A tablet form factor would at a minimum require Apple Pencil; fingers aren't precise enough. Combine that with the terrible iOS/iPad virtual keyboard and it does not seem compelling.

[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Moons vs. dwarf moons? (Sounds like a fantasy novel series.)

[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

I have been using it and it works well.

[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Discovered in the 1990s. It’s been known/used for decades now.

[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

The repost bots often use oddly-phrased headlines -- often commenters will even talk about how weird the headline is. I can’t tell if the posters are actually bots, or if they are content farmers from certain countries. (The odd phrasing may sound natural in their language.)

Another tactic is to post an obviously incorrect headline to draw engagement, like mis-identifying a picture of the Empire State Building as Chicago.

Both of these happen frequently with image posts.

[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Palm trees, roofed area in the parking lot. Southern California. Giant sign base on the right side of the picture: next to a freeway.

[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

Apple has not made the necessary APIs available. Only those two apps have animated icons. They’re made by Apple and so they are able to use the private APIs needed to do it.

[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

I’m picturing a vast apple pie desert with an ice cream oasis.

[–] kinttach@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

Or they changed the headline and due to caches CDNs or other reasons you didn’t get the newer one.

archive.today has your original headline cached.

Thanks for posting. While it’s a needlessly provocative headline, if that’s what the article headline was, then that is what the Lemmy one should be.

 

Is there a way to turn off haptics when a server error happens?

Various Lemmy servers that Arctic connects to are sometimes down. Even my host, lemm.ee, one of the more reliable ones, was down for a few minutes this morning. During this time I was trying to read an article but got an error message with haptics every few seconds. I would like to turn off the haptics when this happens.

 

About 3 or 4 years ago PayPal added the option to buy cryptocurrency, which I thought I’d try. (Dumb idea 🙄)

Part of the sign up process was glitched. I retried and clicked submit one too many times, I guess. Now I’ve been unable to use PayPal for years. They blocked me because THEIR SITE was broken, but the web page essentially accuses me of being a criminal and asks for my bank records. No way in hell.

This was just for me to pay others. I can only imagine how awful PayPal is if you are a vendor.

Fuck PayPal.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/34248154

“Failed to mark post as read” errors

I see this error almost every time I open the comments on a post.

My server is lemm.ee. Does it not support the “mark as read” feature?

 

I see this error almost every time I open the comments on a post.

My server is lemm.ee. Does it not support the “mark as read” feature?

 

I don’t know when they were added, but I just noticed that spoiler tags are supported.

spoiler+。:.゚THANKヽ(*´∀)ノ゚YOU.:。+゚

 

Comedian Lewis Black has a routine about “a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks”. Apple Stores aren’t nearly as common.

Unless you’re in Glendale, California -- where Apple Glendale Galleria is across the street from Apple The Americana at Brand.

Are there any other Apple Stores this close together?

The stores are less than 150 meters apart, but unfortunately they aren’t within sight of each other. As you exit Apple The Americana at Brand, you won’t see the other Apple Store — only a notably uncrowded Samsung Experience Store.

map of Glendale Apple Stores

 

New EV owner here. We charge at home so I don’t need to use them, but stores nearby have chargers. I tried them to see how they work. They are often broken.

One store has a Volta charger (free!). It worked great the first time; the next time I went it was broken.

Walmart has an Electrify America fast charger. The first time I went, 1 of 3 was not working. The next time I went, 1 of 3 was not working, but it was a different one.

Was I unlucky, or are these charging networks unreliable? Has it been getting better or worse over time?

 

We need ‘em!

spoilerThis is a spoiler. It should be hidden until you tap or click on it.

 

Cory Doctorow’s insta-classic blog post introducing the idea of “enshittification”

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