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Most awkward moment of the year so far:
Today on the commuter train, the iPhones of me and the man standing in front of me accidentally touched tips and started trying to exchange contact information.I've been having a lot of success using AI to not replace search engines, but to help me figure out what it is I should be searching for.
Q: What is the best way to attach some legs to a plank of wood to make a simple foot stool?
A: Here are some common methods with their pros and cons.
Cool, now I'll go look up some actual woodworking guides.
Q: Is there a dongle that I can pair my bluetooth headphones to, and then sticking the dongle into a TV or computer will let me hear its audio?
A: Yes, that's called a bluetooth audio transmitter
Cool, now I'll go look at reviews and shop around.Yakitori barbecue
A dynamic wallpaper of the last scene of Look Back, that changes along with your local time. This is so good!
https://dynamicwallpaper.club/wallpaper/qmnubz2pm4h
[Bracket City] was a fun puzzle!
https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/I'm going to try automatically un-boosting statuses after one week.
Until now, my usage of boosting was stuck in a mindset that is a remnant of Twitter's culture. Since boosted statuses are displayed on my timeline next to my own words, I find myself boosting statuses that resonate strongly with my own thoughts. "Had I thought of these words first, I may have been the one posting instead" is the metric.
On Mastodon and the fediverse, I think the recommended usage of boosting is to increase visibility to statuses that I think should be seen more widely. This has noting to do with whether they specifically mirror my own thoughts. "This is good, people should see this" is the metric.
At the same time I don't want my timeline to be filled with other people's words, so my solution is to automatically un-boost statuses after one week. After the initial boost of visibility, there shouldn't be a reason to have them stuck on my timeline forever. The aim is that this will give me the freedom to boost more widely, and not worry about diluting my own words.Watched Adolescence, and wow what a ride. I was gripped from start to finish and was pretty emotionally battered at the end.
I may have just flipped a setting that will halve our utility bill. Equal parts happy that I discovered this, and annoyed that I had been pissing away money for so long.
Backblaze randomly stopped backing up for many Mac users on 3/13 (myself included), and the only information about this problem and its fix is in this reddit thread(!?)
https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/1jdlzop/bb_stopped_backing_up_after_macos_1532_update/
tl;dr:
1. Restart the computer
2. Manually update the app via the latest installer
3. Invoke a magic command to make it rescan your drive(!?)Sage words from the 4 year old:
You need to be the first to tell mommy that she’s pretty. Say it first thing in the morning, as soon as she wakes up. That’s the kind of adult _I_ want to be
