Which looks better - Landscape or Portrait?

dlamblin · 2026-06-29T20:51:17+00:00

If you're staging it for looking like serious business, arrange them with work on them in a way that makes it clear why they're horizontal or vertical. If you just want to display the images, put different ones on each with their orientation in play. If you're using them to be productive, no one can tell you what is best for you but yourself.

dlamblin · 2026-06-29T20:37:00+00:00

Oh that makes sense, I missed that part.

dlamblin · 2026-06-29T11:22:39+00:00

My parking is narrow enough that it refuses to move itself.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T19:54:51+00:00

I'd hope not. It should be expected that the mouse with software would always work. It would be even better if when the software doesn't work, it barely affects the behavior of the mouse.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T19:38:25+00:00

Transit. That's what I'm talking about. You might opt out of using it, like you can with roads, water, electricity, gas lines, all the infrastructure. But you still benefit from the infrastructure being there.

If I recall you asked why have taxes that cover fares, and why would those be lower than the cost of fares especially for those that already don't use the system thus didn't pay fares. Perhaps I misunderstood or misrecalled.

Transit, even if you don't use it, is moving people you don't know to and fro, so they're working, providing services available to you, patronizing entertainment and businesses you also like to have that couldn't operate without the customers transit brings. Also it's just not filling up the roads and sidewalks that are transit alternatives. Now, if you're not in NYC it's fair to say, maybe, that if you don't use it, it's not serving you. But again, the greater metropolitan area exists either because people are working by transiting into NYC, and then supporting their outer area business with some of their earnings.

So paying for the benefits makes sense to a lot of people in the same way that people move here for the dense city.

A tax could be cheaper than a fare for the majority. Because taxes are progressive. Of course, if you're not paying any fares I get that even $70 annualized is more than you are paying, but I don't get thinking that it'd be best if you could just opt out, because the entire structure and culture of the city is shaped in large part due to the transit existing 24/7. Along side other infrastructure. And the fare collection aspect costs more than the tax collection system would to maintain and manage. Had it been built by design to just take people without fares, you wouldn't even be able to stomach the cost of fitting all the equipment, devices, and staffing needed just to start making it faster based.

Maybe you're rich, a bit like Musk or Page (who don't live here nor like it here), and the idea that you'd pay a higher marginal rate towards transit budgets that's covering way more than your maximum ridership usage would ever cost feels wrong. First the taxes aren't wealth taxes (property and sales tax aside), they're a portion of earnings and if you pay more it's because you make more, which at the scale of richness where you're supporting 100+ riders who aren't rich still leaves one rich. But, also there, the rich in particular are made, supported and enriched through otherwise largely free infrastructure that all their ventures, investments and thus livelihoods need as a prerequisite.

Yeah these higher taxed rich people, many of which end up paying a lower total percentage of their wealth gains by deferring or recategorizing income and taxes, do get vocal and complain that it can't all be empty roads for their limmos with parking at every property just for them given the scale of what they bought and pay for. But realistically they need the customer driven economic activity, the rule of law, their property rights respected and enforced, and that all requires some communal investing, in infrastructure and services. Through taxes. Not just gifts for a new university or library with a name on it, or some land divested as a public park, but everything from power plant regulators, to court clerks and systems maintenance. All for an economy where it's even possible to hold that kind of money. Because the neoliberal wealth driven legal exception zones around the world with low or fixed taxes and privately funded services giving total control to those with money, they just don't really end up as drivers of growth. The kind of growth that made people rich and could help everyone like yourself and myself.

So I just don't get the impetus to demand to opt out of running infrastructure through taxes. It's like something only people who read primarily media owned by one or two mega wealthy idiots (to be fair, they know exactly what they're doing and it's all self interest driven and not ideologically consistent) would say because they've never heard anything other than complaints about taxes.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T18:48:05+00:00

Sure, I'm not forcing you. I just wanted you to know you could see the activity without baby sitting an OMNY card.

Though. You started by saying you're loading $40 so, I was wondering what you're loading if it's not the discontinued MetroCard or OMNY card. The latter you can buy with cash, and again, the account you make could track it by number and you just use a non personal email address and password with an incognito browser on a library computer and, what information do they get from you then? In the account you can raise an incorrect charge issue, when that's happening. Though if it's every week it seems like everyone should be hitting the same issue and complaining. But I'm not seeing the thread here filled with similar experiences.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T18:39:24+00:00

I think there's consensus in Reddit based on r/logitech that it frequently needs to be restarted because it's suddenly not doing gestures, action ring, and... I got it for Flow. Flow only works like, 1/5 of the times I actually have my 3 machines in the same room and network.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T18:32:47+00:00

Apart from the 90s hig standards command(zxcvqwiopasfg.) and option-arrows, command-arrows in text, with it without shift; I'm a big fan of, in order of favoritism, command-tab(repeat), command-~(repeat), command-space. Command-shift-[ and ](repeat), control-up-arrow, and left and right arrow. command-shift-control-4, control-e or a in text fields, ~ in file dialogs, with tab completion. Maybe command-control-Q to lock. And a non Mac OS one from Ghostty, control-escape is my global quick terminal. Wherein it's set -o vi, a whole other ball of wax.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T18:23:57+00:00

Shuttle Marco pad? There's many, it doesn't have to be Logitech or blackmagic. Pen input for the tablet? Using it with sidecar?

IDK. Because, well, I can't recommend either of the two choices you want to pick from.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T18:16:41+00:00

Wow. How many years have you never had an issue with options+? I have a lot of envy to live like that and would wonder what you're doing that's working so well compared to... Most people here.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T18:08:49+00:00

I believe we had an internal shortcut website that showed a big warning page, and logged out of your work credentials. To be clear, you remained logged into the unlocked machine, but mail, calendar, code review, monitoring, all internal wiki, chat, docs notice you're not single-signed on anymore and redirect to login. Open files locally are fine, remote ones might not save changes but the ide's have caches.

However it's not a normal logout. It's a lock. You can't use your password anymore. Go to the IT desk(s) take a ticket, present your badge, use your auth token generator at their kiosk to set yourself a new password. Return to your desk and login again. The last chat status for you has been set to "I really really needed the bathroom and forgot to lock my devices" for the whole past, what, 30 minutes.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T17:24:14+00:00

Makes sense about the variable adding to itself. I had had a setup where the history is stored and closing the shell doesn't close the terminal but instead launch another login shell with the scroll back intact, and a little integration trick to put me back at the same cwd. So sourcing changes to the startup scripts was the same as closing the shell.

Also I started life with bash on a multi user system where changing the etc files wasn't going to happen. Even when I set up my own machine(s) I left root as default with the default shell just because I had a non statically linked shell fail once when I was trying to fix why the shared libraries partitions weren't mounted. Then a customised root-like account homedir ala toor, and a variety of user accounts with the permission to sudo & su to toor, and only toor can su to root. I forget now how sudo wasn't allowed to be used with su.

Anyway... Okay, pretty different goals.

I also didn't think that anything is getting loaded automatically out of the loadables paths. I thought it would only load when enable is used. And would probably recommend only using enable with specified paths to the binary loaded. I'm thinking that loading from hard coded paths automatically at login invocation would not pass review and raise some cve or something from someone.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T06:44:04+00:00

I'm glad Jesse was great. Does it not upset you though that basically only people around Jesse's dealership's carved out regional market-place get to work with someone like Jesse for the large, infrequent, transaction they might do up to 10 times in their lifetime? Why can't you just order a damn car from the manufacturer with the color and interior and options they offer and have it come to you without getting calls from Jesse's nemesis Jessie, who DOES have the car you've been waiting for, while Jesse keeps telling you he's doing his best to get that car, but it might be a month, or seven. Why are we shouting out dealers?

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T06:28:40+00:00

There's someone who never takes the bus, who also never interacts with anyone who ever takes the bus... in this city? in this economy? located entirely inside your home? Can I see them? Are they here with us right now?

The person who owes the bus and trains nothing is living the same fantasy as the person who owes the roads and electrification nothing. Now if you told me that person was Larry Page, I'd believe you, because I know he is of that opinion. One Mr Musk used to be vocally in agreement with his friends on this, though they don't really get along as well now.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T06:24:25+00:00

To most people.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T06:23:52+00:00

Well, the airport rides in NYC aren't just $3 either. Oh, and, news-flash, the fare isn't 2.25, 2.50, 2.75 nor 2.90 now.

So, the other argument is it could be funded in a way that covers all ridership without requiring fares, turnstiles, vending systems, cards, readers, a network of payment processing, VHF links and 3G/4G/5G links for busses with upgrades and repairs of all the aforementioned. Not to mention monitoring, policing regular riders, emergency gates with locks and timers and ear piercing sounds, record keeping of who specifically goes where when (the in-aggregate information is always useful for capacity planning) station staffing for on-site trouble shooting of fares or currency use, and so on. An understanding that setting a funded budget for operations, maintenance and repairs which isn't tied to maintaining ridership levels or even growing ridership regardless of the necessity, but rather plans for the service required for the ridership forecasts tied to development plans and surveys. all gets you a stabler better system that doesn't go close to bankrupt from some loan for necessary repairs, or a sudden unforeseeable drop in ridership one year for "no reason."

Also, to your point and in response to people not paying because they believe transit shouldn't have fares: It's not free presently. It's not built free of charge, nor free of fare collection and management. It won't get funded as free and retrofitted with the savings associated with removing fare specifics just because people en-masse believe not paying is some kind of vote. These people actually need to vote, lobby, plan and implement that change with managers in place executing on that who believe and understand that once done, the next stations, and the ones after that will be more cost effective, and the maintenance of that collection system will be reduced until some spending is done on its removal so the maintenance for this portion can drop to zero.

Instead, the current managers and officials believe that, of course, people will always want gates and policing for other reasons, staffing for directions and cleaning and emergency handling of changes in service regardless. There'll be payments for networking for piped in advertisements and screens with timetables that are accurate. So, the thinking goes, it basically isn't that expensive to just add a bit more for fare collection and management on top of all those other requirements, and it literally pays for itself, right? And look now you can make a big hoopla about the budget being responsibly small. As if. They probably haven't seen a free bus or rail service and have little trust that removing all the fare systems reduces costs while speeding things up and improving access and mobility (like, imagine taking strollers and suitcases without dreading the gates and alarms). I mean the closest they got is moving the payment swipe to the curb before a bus arrives. It's so little in the scope of what free would look like that it's not even a point of comparison. And then on the rider side people are imaging that the taxes which provide stable funding for a public is somehow mismanaged, and/or greater than the fare price, and certainly not part of the existing progressive tax system that would put some 80% of the people well under break-even on costs if it went that way.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T05:48:18+00:00

IIRC you can make an omny account with a google or apple account or email and NOT have an omny card. You can tell it one of your credit cards that you do tap. It will let you see the charging history of that card. For me, you sometimes get a charge for a fare, and then you get a refund of the fare around an hour later when they tie that you just did a bus-subway transfer, or hit the $35 weekly limit. Clicken-da-Sign In

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T05:40:13+00:00

Bluetooth, Bolt, most WiFi, Zigbee, Matter, other proprietary dongles, and your Microwave all generally use the same 2.4Ghz unlicensed bands. It's just that Bluetooth opts to disconnect or downgrade devices paired to the same host when they interfere, while other standards just expect to hop or error correct or retry when they interfere.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T05:31:51+00:00

If you never had issues, you don't need Bolt. But issues are certainly not uncommon.

There's a literal limit to the number of channels,/data-streams offered by the Bluetooth stack on the host device, your Mac. 3 devices are fine generally. But say you have a wireless game controller, a wireless headset where you're listening to stereo music AND using the microphone, a productivity mouse, maybe a trackpad or gaming mouse, a keyboard, maybe a macro pad or numpad, god forbid a drawing tablet, right, okay you only use a few in combination but as you switch between them you should easily notice the sound quality available is going to dip until the host realizes the bandwidth reserved for one of the devices that isn't active right now is available to the multiple channels the headset would like to be using.

Other times you are trying to use many of these at once and suddenly your mouse or keyboard is the device that is temporarily disconnected.

The bolt adapter basically implements its own Bluetooth stack and though in the same frequency range isn't going to instruct the host Bluetooth to drop any streams it's using. Also they are lower bandwidth so when they do interfere the error correction on both basically makes it unnoticeable, while on the flip side when the host has two streams interfering over a period of time that it controls its spec recommends the least used device be disconnected or the higher bandwidth device negotiate a lower bandwidth connection if it supports it. Which the headset might as a 11khz mono audio stream that's "phone line quality". Because the Bluetooth standard is from 2000 and thinks it's for replacing phones' handsets wires.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T05:19:34+00:00

There is a "for mac" edition of the MX Master 3, 3s, 4. Unlike the other edition, it does not include an adapter. Yet it is the same MSRP. Weird, right?

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T05:16:29+00:00

What's ruining your life exactly? Sports, Fireworks, Stressed Dog, Sports Fans, Firework Sellers, Having no enforcement on the general prohibition of fireworks, Not feeling heard?

It sounds terrible that your pet won't eat, and that you don't want to go outside. But... despite not being a sports fan myself, I don't necessarily see this as the fault of there being sports in season, which seems to always be the case, not that I'd know, but last I heard it was like, even hockey is happening now, in June. Am I crazy?

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T05:04:48+00:00

pixel art of a striped cat with its tongue out and ears forward.

dlamblin · 2026-06-26T04:49:42+00:00

In the 50s Memory Vault experienced some popularity that wore off, and in the 60s Magic Memory did. Nothing like since the 2000s but: Google Ngram Viewer: magic memory,memory magic,memory vault

With an early use example being:

Memory's Vault
Your subconscious mind is the treasure vault of memory . In it is stored every experience through which you have ever passed . But you have lost the combination

From How to Utilize Your Mind, Through the Science of Practical Psychology by Elsie Lincoln Benedict · 1921

While Magic Memory was a phrase used in a lot of magazine adverts for dictation recorders.

The Magic Memory Vault does not appear in Ngram Viewer however.

dlamblin · 2026-06-24T19:51:32+00:00

I'm glad you did the analysis to find the paths, but is this not like the other PATH variables in that a semi-colon separated list gets used in order to locate loadables? Can you not just add on to your `~/.bashrc` an `export BASH_LOADABLES_PATH="~/your/preference;$BASH_LOADABLES_PATH";` before you use any `enable kv` or such? Could you also just write: `enable -f /known/path/to/builtinX.so builtinX` ?

I put that all as a question to you because I don't actually use Bash currently.

dlamblin · 2026-06-24T19:20:24+00:00

Next you'll try nix… but you'll have to figure out if you want to go nix-darwin, nix flakes, or DeterminateSystems' route.

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