@Leo I’ll have a snack, but I don’t think I can get rid of my doofishness, so there’s that 🤣

@tylerknowsnothing LOLZ. That’s my text expander for my Now Playing @ Nothing Manor posts. It won’t auto-expand in the Mac desktop app and for some reason I thought it would be helpful to try CMD+ENTER, which does what you would expect.

@combatdavey It’s a great album :) I throw it on every year or two then end up playing a half dozen times in a week 🤣 Rolling Stone hated it, though. So weird. I’m just sad she didn’t make more concept albums.

@nsmug I’m quite pleased with what I saw today, esp. the iPad changes. I’m also happy to see Apple go with a more 3D interface language and start moving away from the Flat look that’s held UI/UX for way too long now. I don’t know about all that fancy marketspeak around why, but it looks nice :) Lotta really good looking plans. Now for the barrage of complaints about how the “developer beta” is terribly buggy 🤣

As for backwards compatibility, I’m only losing two devices. My iPad and my Intel Mini. The iPad is a 7th gen, which is fine. I was planning on replacing it with a 9th gen anyway. The Mini is the Plex server, so it’s just peachy.

@news Seem to be getting a permalink error in preview with the blog theme option enabled.

@manton 🖖

@manton Welcome to LA, Manton! From Knoxville to LA!! You’ve now hit both my “hometowns” :) I was born here, but spent a load of my childhood there. Every big city has its flaws, but LA is great, especially this time of year because of the weather being mostly moderate. We live about 20 miles East and a bit South of Union Station. You can’t see me, but I’m waving hello!

@animationworld.bsky.social I’ve read most of what’s available for Gachiakuta and I’m really hoping that the anime looks and feels as good as the manga. It’s really good and will require an understanding of the manga’s world-building for it to feel like it makes sense.

@peterw 🤣 hee hee

@istumbler At least we won’t have to brave the cold seas when we want to go for a swim any more! I’m seeing more and more bennies the deeper I look :)

@istumbler Plenty of time for the accelerated heatdeath of the universe to catch up and make all things redundant.

@flickeringmyth.bsky.social Ack ack!!

@leo Ha! I’ve set up five primates.

@toddgrotenhuis Done and done. Thanks.

@manton I have some friends who use Kagi and sent this to them on Matrix. When Dustin tried to add it to Apple Podcasts it didn’t work. They threw it into a feed validator and got this:

This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.

line 76, column 0: Invalid HTML: Trailing solidus not allowed on element audio (20 occurrences) [help]

          <description><p>It has been <em>another</em> year aw ...

line 291, column 2: Missing atom:link with rel="self" [help]

      </channel>
      ^

@nsmug Yay! I’ve got a G4 Mini dual-booting 9.2 and 10.4 :) I adore Mac OS 9! I have a deep desire for Apple to open source it and I’d love to see it get updated by the Classic Diaspora! Yes, I’m a radical, but only about old Apple gear… well, that and human and civil rights. Sue me.

@peterw We got one of the older 4K models used for our daughter and that only cost us about $60-70. That’s always an option :) I think hers is the 32GB model while our newer one is a 64GB. We got it for her earlier this year, too, so I’m hoping that price range is still valid.

@peterw Oh, I definitely hear you. The nice thing about Apple TV, however, is a nice conduit to our Plex server :) Even a cheap mini PC would act as a great media server. I hope you’ll find a good combo of gear :)

@peterw If you’re looking for a Dumb TV, then about the only brand you can look at is Sceptre. We got a 55” 4K panel for US$350 two years ago. It’s not great, but it doesn’t have any “smarts” inside and works great with our Apple TV and soundbar. I’m sure they have better models now, and prices continue to drop.

@layered Woohoo!

@leo I’d tried Obsidian a few years ago before I’d started using Micro.blog and it wasn’t my thing at the time. However, now that I am on Mb and my markdown skills have improved significantly, after seeing your successful post I decided to give it another shot. So far I’ve found that the plugin seems to create a simple dialog into which you type your post. Have you discovered if it’s possible to send Notes as posts? I know I’m being lazy, but I find myself being distracted by an in-depth analysis of Serial Experiments Lain, the PS1 video game. www.youtube.com/watch

I find this to be a valid excuse :)

@toddgrotenhuis I try to track everything I listen to and share it out with a link to the YouTube playlist so people can listen at will. It’s not the best arrangement since YT sucks, but it’s something! I take the uploads of album covers in Apple Music and share them with the posts, then apply them to a Collection which is then dynamically updated on my Jukebox page. tylerknowsnothing.com/nothing-m…

Kinda like manual scrobbling :)

@NanoBookReview I’m using Mona for macOS. It’s got a load of options, so I bet it has that… And found it! Excellent!!! Thank you so much 💯

@jadehunter.bsky.social It’s being reported that the powerplant failed, but if the tug I saw in one video had a hand in this, that’s terrible!

@rhymerepartee Oh no! I found out later that it was going in reverse from a contributor on CNN and with new video from across the river.