Keep in mind that changes are coming even if you stay on Windows or Mac or Android or iOS. AI in particular is going to require everyone to relearn everything in non-deterministic ways, so you end up begging the system to do what you want in new creative ways. Also, the UI will be radically reworked over and over. There’s really no way to avoid learning new ways to do things on an invention that’s less than 50 years old.

Yes, it’s work that we don’t usually have the energy for, especially now, but the best we can do is look for a community to support each other through it all.

Wait, does it not work on your hardware, or are you using it frequently enough to be bothered by passwords?

I’ve been using the Dvorak layout for typing and swiping on my phone for many years. It’s actually set to be multilingual, even: I can swipe either language or toggle to Azerty for French (I probably should switch to BÉPO, but I don’t think I have that option yet). I don’t tend to swap phones enough for that to be an issue, and I work remotely so I don’t have to use other workstations, so my use case is probably more suited to this.

Where’s my Dvorak phone?

What’s unreasonable about doubting automation for topics that a person has enough knowledge about to doubt their own mastery?

It’s Dunning-Kreuger, so when you understand the complexities within the area of your expertise you’ll doubt the likelihood of effective automation using statistical brute force.

OneDrive is the most aggressively stupid and evil file sync service I’ve ever used. Constantly upselling, actively re-enabling terrible defaults to maximize storage and bandwidth used, terrible at sync resolution when used with multiple systems, and punitive data loss when you try to disable excessive backups.

It’s one of the main reasons I stopped using Windows at home outside a VM.

Why is the date of the post omitted? When was “last night”?

I’ve often wondered if data could be reliably stored in lab-grown animal cells, specifically cancerous ones, that multiply based on usage into large data tumors. At the very least, it seems like an interesting sci-fi tech.

Fruit, I think.

Economics is a religion, not a science.

How economics became a religion | John Rapley https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/11/how-economics-became-a-religion

When I’m on Windows, I use subst A: %USERPROFILE%\GitHub to mount my local repos as drive A for shorter paths.

Honeydew is unpopular because when you buy cheap honeydew, they can include too much of the rind without you being able to tell until you eat it.

Maybe not always easy, but easier than fighting with Windows for control of your own computer now. #copilot #TimAppleAward

A tank of gasoline isn’t safer if you’re worried about fires, there’s just less sensationalist media coverage. The tires are expensive, but that’s because they are inherently more durable: we drove over a tack last week and our tire was fine. Brake wear is about 80% less, because EVs favor regen instead.

We have a 2023 Nissan Leaf with a 215 mi range and the least popular CHAdeMO connector, and we’ve driven it all over Washington state. We drove from Spokane to Lake Quinault for Thanksgiving.

Don’t believe all the petroleum-invested hyperbole.

One is positive spin, one is negative spin.

Any solution that has to start with purges is an inherently bad solution. Collapse isn’t much better, the people that have already borne the worst of things will be the hardest hit. But it might also be wishful thinking: If the last ten months hasn’t caused it, what will?

At that speed, the risk of running over anyone is pretty low.

Are you fucking kidding me‽

The Mellon fortune again? After Cordelia Scaife May used it to help establish our racist immigration system?

https://web.archive.org/web/20190815020220/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/anti-immigration-cordelia-scaife-may.html

I wouldn’t worry. It’s not like an Excel error has ever caused human suffering at a global scale or anything, right?

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-excel-spreadsheet-error-that-justified-global-austerity