I made an iOS shortcut just for sending YouTube links that strips out any tracking codes in the url.

Curly fries

Right now I use Vivaldi on my work computer. For my personal devices (MacBook, iPhone, two iPads), I’ve been mainly using Kagi’s Orion browser for about a year. It’s a WebKit browser but even on iOS it can run (some) Chrome/Firefox extensions, which I think is pretty neat. I also dabble with iCab. It’s a very eccentric browser with an interesting history that goes back to the 90s.

I tried a standing desk and it made my back pain a lot worse.

Why do these things require microphones?

Yep. I learned to touch type through different kids typing programs back in the 90s. The one I remember the most was this game where there are two talking hands and you have to help them take back control of a city from this angry green blobby alien with a German accent. Apparently this alien’s one weakness is typing.

After trying some more search terms combinations, I see two mice now from Microsoft that resemble the Magic Mouse. But I’m really struggling to find anything else?

What I’m not finding is my dream mouse, which would have an ergonomic design, lots of customizable physical buttons like my Logitech mouse, but with an additional 360° scrolling input (either a touch sensitive area or a trackball (sized large enough so dirt clogging wouldn’t an issue)). It just seems like an obvious product to me; I’m surprised it doesn’t seem to exist yet.

Mass migration like that occurs (from my memory at least) when the newer alternative has much better functionality, performance, and ease of use compared to the status quo service and has a low barrier to entry (sign up is quick and straightforward). Do any of the decentralized Discord alternatives fit these criteria (honest question, not rhetorical)?

Wait, is Gideon Dunster the name of her actual husband? Or did she get accepted into some polygamous cult in Utah?

I had a Batman action figure with a bright prison orange suit. The least stealthy suit possible. But I was 8 and thought it looked cool and begged my mom for it.

I’ve seen blue sunset pictures from Mars before, but I suspect someone pumped up the saturation on this picture.

If this is a prequel like IT: Welcome to Derry, a major subplot will have the US military trying to recruit Leatherface to use as a super weapon against the soviets.

where grammar?

It was the scariest shit I ever saw at age 5. Watched it several times as a kid. I would hide under the pillows during the clown scene. The AC blowing up at the beginning also freaked me out.

I actually like the ribbon UI compared to what came before. Jensen Harris from the office design team way back in 2008 gave this talk about how they invented the ribbon:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9kD693ie4

I know that workflow style is good for like dissertations and academic journal articles, but the sort of templates I have to design and work in are more splashy and dramatic. The look and structure is more akin to what you see in artsy magazines and books—pages with dark background colors, decorative stock images, vector shapes, etc. Can Latex be used for that?

I consider myself a Word power user. I’ve spent 1000s of hours in it and I know just about every obscure feature and quirk. I’ve designed professional corporate template suites in it.

I hate it so much. It is so fucking archaic and janky. It has so many modal dialogs. There are features I need to get to regularly that are like 6 modal dialogs deep, and I have to close them all to see if the change I made was good; if not I have to go through them all over again.

It has a sort of stylesheet, but it has built in styles that you can’t delete if you don’t need, and the inheritance hierarchy among them is a mess. Then there are “font themes” which are conceptually separate from the styles but can impact them.

I could go on. All the Word alternatives aren’t much better because they imitate Word too closely in my opinion. I think the approach to word processors needs to be rethought at fundamental level.

I’m out of the loop. What’s wrong with PeerTube?

Before I installed blockers, I only remember one time ever clicking a targeted advertisement and making a purchase (it was for a ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ t-shirt). That was after browsing the web everyday with no blockers for like 15 years.

I’ve been having the random restarts too on my iPhone 13 ever since iOS26. It seems to occur when I’m switching back and forth between more than two apps in short amount of time. Maybe something to do with RAM?