alexius

This is why parking spaces have the yellow fucking things in the front.

That fucking comma is changing the meaning of the sentence

I once helped my niece set up her Android phone. That’s the only time i’ve used an Android phone for over 2 minutes.

But hey, at least Android is customizable to the point of maybe getting a version with no gestures. I just can’t imagine what that means anyway. Scrolling by tapping arrows…? Zooming in by tapping on a magnifying glass? Gestures are the way we interact with screens.

The answer is not as obvious. Those that don’t use Signal may use Whatsapp, Telegram, Instagram DMs, Google Chat, even Slack or Discord.

Sending SMS is like using a fax at this point. It’s ridiculous to even consider doing it.

The state of messaging in the US is absurd and only explained by this kind of behavior. The rest of the world moved on from SMS over a decade ago and have zero issues communicating with people no matter what OS their device has.

I strongly believe that GPT is a (really impressive) gimmick. I’m not conviced that it has the potential for growth every outlet is pushing. No matter the brand or model (Bard, Bing, OpenAI, Apple if it happens), I don’t think this will exponentially improve over time like other tech has. It relies on growth in computational power, bandwidth/cloud connectivity and access to quality content for learning. The first two are already mature technologies that will improve marginally over time and access to new content will be increasingly difficult, specially if the web gets flooded with texts written by GPT.

So yeah, it’s cool they create their own model and add it to their services, but it’s not a big deal.

Who are you sending sms to? Like, how is that a dealbreaker?

Google Maps. The reason is not living in the US. Apple Maps is a complete joke over here. Like, it’s at least a decade behind. Roads and residential areas newer than that simply don’t exist, it constantly suggests making illegal turns, and searching for places is just sad. Results are places in different cities and in the US.

Switch brands. Honestly, gestures are like half of the iPhone experience. If you think it’s a fundamentally broken idea, then this phone just isn’t for you.

In my view, the comment implies that Russia invading Sweden is a decision that falls solely on Putin’s will. How is that not something that reduce russians to pawns or zombies, or them being ok with whatever war their leader instructs? They are invisible to the commenter, and that’s disturbing to me, honestly.

Of course Putin is unable to start yet another war. He’s only partially getting away with Ukraine, and even with years of planning and propaganda, he’s struggling to stay in it, and is relying heavily in straight up mercenaries who may or may not be russian, they’re just hired assassins.

An entire comment for you to read explaining why, but you got instatriggered and lashed out.

What do you mean by ‘are terrorists’? That word seems so ambiguous these days. Sometimes it means they infiltrate societies and attack civilians through homemade bombs, shootings or some suicidal maniacs. Sometimes it means they’re the baddies. Sometimes it’s a slur that basically means middle eastern. The word is meaningless to me at this point, specially when used to reference a country waging actual war against a sovereign country. Not even a guerrilla kind of thing.

They’re definitely a problem and obvious aggressors, for sure the biggest threat to peace in Europe. But how do you categorize them as ‘terrorists’?

I’m worried at some aspects of your comment that seem xenophobic in nature. Most Russians disagree with the decision to attack Ukraine and even a dictator like Putin can’t pull the string forever without breaking it. We already saw the consequences of him having to rely on mercenaries a couple weeks ago. He had to rely on them because there are not enough people willing to fight. So russians in general aren’t some zombies or pawns, we shouldn’t look at them that way.

On the other hand, I don’t see a real risk of Russia invading Sweden, and don’t even consider NATO’s response to a Russian’s hypothetical threat of invasion to another country to be the same, so in the end, while they didn’t get to join, I think they can move on without any damage and try joining later when conditions change. They’ll still be de facto protected.

Thank you for a comprehensive answer, i’m a firm believer that geopolitics shouldn’t be assumed from an outsider’s perspective. I truly appreciate that you took your time to explain how this is understood by the people of Sweden instead of accusing me of things and downvoting my ass.

I agree with you in the aspect that it seems like Russia is not strong enough to pose a threat anymore, and understand how this feels like you were left out while Finland didn’t. Hopefully this decision doesn’t have a true impact in your lives and a military alliance isn’t ever needed for your safety.

I really wanna know the opinion of a citizen of Sweden, the decision is about them. Do you currently consider Russia a threat to Sweden? It seems to me that they’re depleted after invading Ukraine and more or less failing. Would NATO not intervene in a hypothetical russian invasion of Sweden because of this vote?

Legit question. What would be the tangible benefits of joining NATO?

When using finder:

Return is for renaming, not opening files. To open files press cmd + o.

If you want to preview a file (basically super quick opening for review) hit space bar. If you hit space bar again it closes, or you can use the keyboard arrow to see the file to the right, to the left, up or down. This opens images, pdfs, presentations and documents.

To send a file to the trash, hit cmd + delete

Open a new finder tab, it’s just like in a browser with cmd + t, close it just like in a browser with cmd + w

Close applications with cmd + q, close windows (app instances) with cmd+w. Let’s say you have two Word documents open simultaneously. If you just want to close the one currently focused, that would be cmd+w, if you wanna close Word, that would be cmd + q (easy to remember because one is q for quit and the other w for window).

In most apps, save is cmd + s, save as is Shift + cmd + s.

When you’re working with text, cmd + right arrow or cmd + left arrow jumps the cursor to the start or end of the line, ctrl + right or left jumps one word forward or backwards. If you add shift to those two shortcuts is the same but selecting text. Oh! If you want to forward delete, hit Fn + Delete (this is what windows calls delete as opposed to backspace).

So, basically, keyboard shortcuts are different and as soon as you get used to them, you’ll become way more fluent in MacOS, same goes for trackpad gestures, they’re super reliable and the experience with the trackpad is superior to the experience using a mouse, so try it out.

How in the world is it an investment? Do they gain value over time? iPhones are a lot of things, but an investment isn’t one of them.

I feel ya. You may need to switch the hdd to a proper ssd drive with enough capacity, but it’s a good use for an old imac

Plex media center/server would be a good example of what you can do with it. As people keep saying, you need to drag the app inside of it into the applications folder, the thing showing on your desktop is the image, kind of the exe installer. When you’re done copying the app, drag the thing in your desktop to the trash to ‘eject’ it.

As far as automations go, shortcuts and the home app would be the IFTTT replacement, since IFTTT won’t have enough options for system commands as shortcuts/home app.

Using deep sleep as a trigger is just not possible. the closer you’ll get would be when sleep focus is on, but you can only automate focus modes based on time or location.

As for the QR code to turn off the alarm, there’s an app called Alarmy that does what you’re looking for, but i’m not sure if those alarms play nicely with shortcuts to run automations when you turn off the alarm, most certainly not.