Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Good: Media Controls on my lock screen, media controls on my phone's lock screen through KDE Connect, plays my music, adding stuff to playlists is super easy.

Bad: Some stuff is super small on my screen. After finding the tiny player controls I still can't visually tell which is the play button (HiDPI)

Ugly: Smart playlist->all tracks creates a playlist with all tracks in apparently random order. Too smart for me.

Meh: Lots of features that I personally have no interest in using.

This arrived in the mail today.

@saturno@octodon.social My instance is hosted on linode (a $10/mo plan). Seems to be working well so far. Don't expect any masto-specific help.

Why do cats like to stretch out at the top of staircases when the lights are off?

I'm reminded of the last time I flew out of London. As I approached the security area and was about to go in, a guy called me over, asked if I was an American, and when I told him I was he just waved me through. No scans, no metal detector, no search, just walk right through. I'd rather see airport security move back in that direction.

(one of these days I'll probably just budget some time to get myself set up with Global Entry since that comes with TSA Pre✅ which generally allows a bypass of the worst aspects of airport security theater)

I should pick up an HDMI or DisplayPort to VGA adapter. Sometimes the places I'm asked to teach don't have any other options and getting a straight answer about what to expect (so I can make sure I bring the right computer/cable/adapter) can be like pulling teeth. My usual approach is to just bring enough stuff that no matter what I run into I'll have something that plugs into it, but moving multiple laptops through airport security keeps getting harder and I'd like to be able to stop doing that

Just tried replying to a text message from the computer through KDE connect. That wasn't implemented last time I messed around with this, but now it works. I never learned to properly thumb type so typing replies on a real keyboard will be a lot easier for me.

Added another tracked issue with Typica on Linux HiDPI screens. Part of the reason for picking that screen on the new machine was seeing if there are problems (yes, but they're all relatively minor) so I can fix those issues. Those will be good things to work on for 1.9.2.

@josephespana @debugninja@banana.dog New mascot for banana.dog?

@Taweret@octodon.social Brands are painful and disfiguring, but I'm not one to kink shame.

Pulsing insertion point, waiting for input, nice colors.

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/fd4c920d-c626-4664-8785-7a13093a5871

My desktop icons seem to have glitched.

Got Typica built on the new machine. The reports are sub-optimal on a HiDPI screen on Linux (not an issue with retina displays on Mac, no clue if there's an issue on Windows) but still readable. Might be a really easy fix. Will have to look into that later.

Cat is shedding a lot tonight.

@pla I had indeed forgotten about that. I have some in both so a failure in either doesn't leave me completely cut off.

@pla Atlanta seems to be more reliable.

@schestowitz Most of the stuff that's being presented in that article as variations that make Linux support "hard" are things that, if you as a developer think you even need to care about that, you're probably doing something very wrong. A lot of that stuff can (should) be completely invisible at the application level if you're using the right interfaces.

Timespinner beta plays on the new computer. Time to fight catboss again.