Arkhive

Art imitates life.

It really just comes down to what you know. Moving from MacOS (from OS9 through like 10.12 or something) to Windows made me feel like Windows was the bent spoon. So many small things that to this day infuriate me. Just a couple that really stuck with me even after ditching both for Linux.

• if you have highlighted text to select it, and hit the right arrow, where should your cursor end up? MacOS decided the cursor will be after the last character within the highlight. Windows places the cursor after the first character outside of the highlight. Why does this matter? The reason I noticed it was trying to edit file names quickly. I would like to right click, select rename from the context menu, which selects the text in the editing field, tap the right arrow once to move my cursor to the end of the string, and begin deleting whatever amount of text I need. If I try to do this on windows I end up deleting part of the file extension unless I tap an additional time. Not a huge deal but it legitimately messed with my muscle memory in just basic typing on windows.
• the other aspect of MacOS that really is far and above anything windows has is ‘Preview’. Not QuickLook, which is a detail view of a file triggered by tapping space with it selected. I mean ‘Preview’ the graphics viewer utility. It’s one of those pieces of software that “just works”. It can import from pretty much any scanner, print to any printer, do basic image editing, open and edit PDFs. It’s really a phenomenal piece of software that feels like such a basic set of features that should exist in a default install of a flagship OS. Even the best free option of anything similar on windows doesn’t hold a candle to it.

These are two VERY cherry picked examples, but I also feel they exemplify the “what you already know is more comfortable” dichotomy. Like having to find a functional PDF tool is kind of just “normal” for windows. Few windows only users I know actively miss the inclusion of that by default, and a whole industry has formed around the need for PDF editing, and yet humble Preview still puts Adobe Acrobat to absolute shame.

Yeah this is where I’m at. I’m educating myself and working on my self hosted offerings so once all the people around me start caring I’m here with all the knowledge and tech to make the switch really easy.

Striking, daring, graceful

I plead the 5th

Rock climbing is quite literally my job, so you got me there.

Never have I ever kissed a boy. Not opposed necessarily, just hasn’t happened lol.

Grew up in a cold part of the world, was a skier doing grinds and flips, but yeah, same idea!

My ThinkPad’s hostname is “ThotBot”

Very interesting, thanks for the additional info!

I would love a little further explanation here. I thought eSIM relied on a dedicated chip to function, right? This is not magically enabling eSIM on an arbitrary phone? This is to manage eSIMs without OEM software? Am I understanding that repository description correctly??

I think the sign in ASL was moved off the face and is now dominate index finger touching the chin and thumb in the air, still in the “L” shape. My understanding is that the original ASL sign had its origins in stereotypes that reduce lesbians to just wanting to eat each other out, so it’s been updated. Let me be clear, I don’t NOT want to eat other women out, but I do have a good bit more to my personality than that XP

Imagine if all the space between the primary radial arms of trains was filled in with street cars and pedestrian/micromobility centric spaces. Like the problem you are saying cars solve just doesn’t exist in the first place and people can still get around very easily. Even more rural folks can simply drive to the edge of this style of urban design if they need access to something. The reason bus rides are 45 minutes is because of the number of cars they have to put up with. The density of people that can be moved with shockingly good area coverage if cars are not a factor is incredible.