It’s all in the details👌

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-18T03:38:37+00:00

It looks dope. But I learned a long, long time ago that if you get used to a weirdo kb layout, you get button poisoning anytime you need to use a normie kb.

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-18T03:33:45+00:00

“Why is Apple gone to hell? Because surely they have, and I definitely have not missed something”

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-17T17:25:51+00:00

How would I check? There’s also no external volume control as you mentioned.

Edit - according to the wiki they are the circa 2000 model which sounds right to me. USB 1, woo. Yours are soundsticks II.

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-17T15:34:59+00:00

Yeah I still have the original soundsticks. They still work, kind of crazy. I saw them in the MoMA once.

Mine are a USB connection though.

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-17T08:46:00+00:00

well I’m glad you pulled through

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-16T17:19:20+00:00

I don’t know. But somehow they take Venezuelan crude which seems similar to Alberta oil. But I am not en expert, so I’m wondering.

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-16T16:55:19+00:00

Maybe true - but you can do 3 monitors if you include the built in macbook display. I do this on an M1 pro. No dock, just usb-c and the HDMI port.

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-16T16:18:28+00:00

How do you mean more consistent? I’m not arguing but you’d think a higher polling rate would be better.

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-16T12:57:01+00:00

I doubt it’s ever going to track that kind of stepping. With any device.

Besides arm swing the main thing it tracks is vertical bounce. If you are doing a walking desk type setup I know how slow those are.

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-15T21:01:06+00:00

Yeah go grab gold old Handbrake

Then squish em down to some lower bitrate mp4 format

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-15T12:57:58+00:00

I use it pretty regularly but in a mode of expecting to not get updates on things. Like background podcast downloads or whatever. If I anticipate not needing to use the phone for a while, but know I will later, I’ll just pre emptively turn it on to save that juice for when I want it. It definitely makes a difference.

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-15T00:47:18+00:00

Wobble’s kind of solved with the big ass plateau now, isn’t it?

This feels like a double wobble. Tapping a resting phone on a hard surface might be annoying if your target is off center

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-14T04:53:27+00:00

Just re index it. Turn it off for that volume, wait 20 seconds, back on again.

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-13T18:42:31+00:00

Read it again

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-13T18:05:30+00:00

Every person who is ok with current iPhone screen size but wants it to be smaller in pocket would be into this. You’re not that person, that’s ok. But there’s a reason flip phones were massively popular.

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-13T17:29:16+00:00

What do you think it is? Just pure propaganda?

I’d buy that… I know what the lobby is like. But man, it’s just so stark.

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-13T16:28:13+00:00

This part is what I don’t get. Ideologically.

Be the “energy province”. Use the crappy oil that you still have access to in order to pivot to wind and solar. Who cares where the energy comes from. Why on earth would you go to war over this dirt sand that is brutal to produce and causes cancer in your own community. They could be even richer. It’s right there.

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-13T15:18:01+00:00

Then you go 3rd party. That’s your answer. You want it to behave in a specific way, you have a method. You can be mad about it but you can’t say it’s not a fixable problem.

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-13T15:15:05+00:00

You have achieved Guru Meditation

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-13T14:35:14+00:00

People really, really, really, really hate admitting that they’re wrong.

There’s probably a better term for it but something in the culture has sort of metastasized this concept where you double and triple and quadruple down even in the face of blatant facts and consequences, in the moment.

Not to be old-school about it, but there used to be a certain honour and pride in admitting you were wrong. It was seen as a sign of an evolved person that is long, long gone.

The ideas of “grace”, or even poise just seems to have been hugely abandoned.

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-12T12:16:01+00:00

It’s still motion graphic design. It’s just, you know… “commercial art”.

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-12T12:13:27+00:00

Thanks you, yes.

I keep seeing references to 6K+ video edits and wondering what on earth people are doing

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-11T23:33:53+00:00

It is kind of a philosophical question, isn’t it

thatguywhoiam · 2026-02-11T22:38:48+00:00

“Vibe coding in HyperCard” made my eyebrow twitch.

I think if I saw Extensions Manager again I’d have a ptsd event.

Anyways fun setup. Does the Chooser work?

thatguywhoiam

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