@kiwa They work just fine. They’re really just bluetooth headphones :) And most of the basic functions work from the earbuds themselves, like transparency and noise cancellation. I believe the Beats by Apple are more Android friendly, though, so that’s also an option. They have a few models that are quite affordable. It’s just a fantastic deal on the AirPods Pro 2, so you get a lot better quality for your money :)

@manton I wonder what they count as a robot, though. They’ve had those shelf mover things and various carts for some time. I doubt that most of them are of the bipedal type.

@manton No! Not at all!! I should have added a bit more to my initial comment for better context :)

@manton I’m quite sure that those who “hate” Mondays do so because they work an unfulfilling job for someone else and the upcoming week is just another set of opportunities to be laid off.

@peterw Indeed. One of the features of the Lenovo I really like is that it has USB-C PD up to like 40W, I think. Plug my SteamDeck into it and it works like a dock. Quite nice. It’s handy for me, at least :D

@peterw I got the Lenovo ThinkVision T32p-20 a few years ago and it’s wonderful. People complain about how “fuzzy” 4K is on the Mac when it scales natively to 5K, but I don’t have that issue with this monitor. It wasn’t terribly expensive, either. I spent about $330 at the time. I’m sure there are newer models now.

@peterw I used to rock a 27” 2K and 24” 1080p dual screen setup then I got a 32” 4K and now I have just one with 8 apps, six desktop widgets, and the dock visible at all times. Soooooo much better. Of course, my old 27” is on my other Mac and with Universal Control and my iPad below my 32” it’s like I have a 3-display setup LOLZ.

@manton I like Sonic’s crushed ice, but only because it comes in those terrible-for-the-environment thermal dense foam cups and doesn’t melt quickly, so very limited use-case. Otherwise, I prefer full cube ice. In other words, I concur. Seems silly. The daughter loves it, though.

@manton You could just move everything, including the target domain, up to the titlebar area or change the photo icon to a plus sign inside a circle.

@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.