catastrophicblues @ catastrophicblues @lemmy.ca

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Yawn. Tell me when he actually gets convicted and sentenced.

James Hoffmann - for anything about making great coffee at home

The Food Theorists - Interesting content about food, especially in their older videos

Doctor Mike - entertaining but useful medical information

Terminal fan here (though I’m on Mac). GUIs, in an attempt to contain all the features of a CLI program while being user friendly, make compromises on simplicity. It’s difficult to remember the combination of buttons to click to get what you want. For CLI programs, you have man and —help to figure it out. Of course there’s the pipes and automation aspects of it too.

True, but when done in jest I think distro wars are fine. The charm is that each distro has stuff you’ll like and dislike.

You make a good point. I guess the outrage was more about scanning at all, though I suppose that’s not on Apple.

Hmm that makes sense. I’m unfortunately all in on Apple’s ecosystem, since Apple Music links to iTunes Store, where I can buy music I like from my Recently Added list. And ever so often, I’ll get a GDPR request and run my own version of Replay that doesn’t have numbers rounded.

As always, Firefox steps up against stupid website behavior.

I really wish they’d decouple it from YouTube Music. I don’t use it and if just Premium was about $10 or so I’d at least consider it.

Yup. They have had issues (think CSAM scandal), but they’re slowly earning back my trust. I’m still a bit wary, but for big tech they have a pretty good track record.

I’ve had the most confusing conversation when a relative referred to their browser (Chrome) as “Google” (which to me means the search engine or the company, not the browser). It was only when they later mentioned Firefox as an alternative to Google that I realized what they were talking about.

It does, but because of that I feel it needs to be used a bit more sparingly. Helvetica (Neue) you can use the entire document; Segoe seems like it works best for headings and such, but maybe I’m wrong and someone does it well.

Yup. I couldn’t figure out the answer from the network requests (that’s basically how I do the Wordle part of it) so I decided I’ll dump everything in there.

Segoe is so good. Criminally underrated.

I’ve never been a big fan of Calibri. Cambria was great, though. Aptos looks much better as a sans-serif font.

Wait I remember this show but forgot the name! What was it? Black Mirror?

I just pasted all the countries and ditched the ones that were wrong.

As opposed to what?

You started the voting thing. I merely said I was apolitical.

Absolutely is. It’s a great gift for a coffee drinker if you’ve got the budget.

It’s absolutely expensive, perhaps moreso than it’s worth. But the delight of being able to spend an hour sipping your coffee while working is just incredible. In fact, my one gripe with this is that the battery is only about 1.5h, so you need to finish your cup of coffee in that time. That sounds ridiculous, but I’ve run down the battery enough that I just wish it was longer.