@AndyNicolaides Fingers crossed you're right. I was hoping to get at least another year out of my phone.
Unless, of course, Apple tempts me with something wonderful in the fall ... which I don't think will happen, given what else they've been up to this year.
@lmika I love Sagrada Famiia. I love Barcelona.
@AndyNicolaides It looks handy. When I'm working, my iPhone lives in a charging stand immediately below my monitor, so I don't even have to rearrange my desk to take advantage of it. But I wonder whether it will it work on my ancient iPhone XS.
@AndyNicolaides My current plan is to wait until production on that update, or at least until I hear it's rock solid. I found the demo video confusing but I expect I can figure it out.
@hollie Congratulations!
@JMaxB That is one of my chief concerns about the Apple headset. We don't need to be more connected to our screens. We need more reality time.
@notroot Ah, you're anti-Harry, eh? Cool.
@notroot As I recall, the Dursleys treated Harry horribly, so that was not a happy beginning. :)
@notroot Raymond Feist is is a friend; I'll pass your comment on. I expect he'll get a kick out of it.
@JohnPhilpin Here you are--gift link. wapo.st/3IWFk8u And yes, it's classist to equate HVAC repair to dog-walking.
These days, if I were to give career advice for a young person whose criteria was decent pay and good job security, I'd steer that person out of college and into skilled labor.
@kdawson Thanks!
@kdawson I read it, and I agree! I am currently reading Persian Fire, by Tom Holland. Ancient history is amazing.
@JohnPhilpin I've struggled for far longer than 10 seconds with that kind of thing.
@bkryer I'm absolutely with you on that. I'm a tech journalist and marketing writer. Funny thing: I love some of the jargon that makes many of my colleagues cringe in revulsion. For example: "Productizing" and "actionable."
@vwbusguy Good idea, though I'm suffering a bit of social media burnout at this point. I do Facebook, micro.blog, mastodon, bluesky, reddit, twitter, and tumblr already!
@bkryer I just stumbled over the wikipedia page for "canary trap" in my web wanderings, thought it was interesting, and shared it. That's about it. :)
@bkryer I think that was a honey trap.
@bkryer What was the previous meaning of honeypot? I think of it now as an easily cracked service that alerts you to the presence of an attacker. A spamtrap is a kind of honeypot, or at least related.
@vwbusguy I'll keep an eye on Calckey. Thanks!
@vwbusguy Does Calckey have length limits on posts? Length limits drive me bonkers.
@nitpicking Thanks. I’ve tried those books and don’t care for them.
@ordinal It looks great. Daisies are absolutely brutalist. This is a hill I would die on (particularly if the hill has daisies).
@LauraJMG It's intriguing, isn't it? And ancient, closely related to animism.
Gregory Benford wrote a novel based on the premise. It ... was OK.
It's true metaphorically, if not in reality. Two days ago, I accidentally kicked the space heater in our sunroom and automatically apologized to it. I don't feel foolish about it either. (If I had not been wearing closed-toed shoes, I would have expected an apology from the radiator.)
@manton I'm keeping an eye on Calckey. I'm finding Mastodon to be not fun.
Bluesy, OTOH, is fun.
@cleverdevil Is the first one as good as the series gets? I read that first book years ago and was not motivated to pick up another. People seem to enjoy the series so much that I fear I might be missing something good.
In other words: If I didn't like the first Dresden book (but didn't read it), do you think I should try again? Is this book series like a TV series that takes a few episodes to find its legs?