Journalist, anecdontalist. I work for the company. But don't let that fool you, I'm really an okay guy. There is no future in England's dreaming.
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Last Notes npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge It's just a massive own-goal which will probably undo much of the gains he might have made with elderly voters from the national service nonsense. "Remembering the fallen" is a bit of a religion for that demographic – and Sunak just ignored it. Wow. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Leaving aside all points about policy (and I think everyone knows how I feel about that) Sunak's decision to leave France, avoid a commemoration of D-Day (which Starmer went to!) and come back *to do a recorded interview* show quite how bad at this whole politics thing he is. Truly terrible. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Whooo! I know what I’m doing this weekend npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1jw3…h3v8 Result! npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub12d9…z92a And it is VERY entertaining! npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1gj8…jhul Absolutely no, under any circumstances npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Of course a venture capitalist doesn’t believe that corruption should be punished. That would threaten his business too much. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1pcr…tq84 Hopefully nothing so horrific. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub13zy…3zww Ahh, Kim’s handwriting once again foxes the nation npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge I guess I will find out at some point. (2/2) npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Round in the side garden there used to be a low, neatly trimmed little hedge, acting as a little break between gardens. Because I haven’t touched it for about four years, it’s become a large unkempt hedge, with brambles growing through it and crawling over the top of the old shed. This week’s job: tame that hedge. The shed used to be my father in laws and is basically untouched - I think I have been in there twice, and have never used it. Lord knows what’s inside. (1/2) npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub12jv…gf8c You can stick with Windows 10 longer, although it will cost you: npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub18x5…fsql Not, of course, if you’re using incognito mode with edge, Firefox, chrome or Opera. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Now about these options you're presenting me with... npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1cvv…mv8d Another thing I've always said is I can teach almost anyone to write a news story in a day – it's a formula, craft not art. Where the magic happens is when you find out the information to put in it. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge This is what journalism mostly is: persistently pulling at the thread of something you find, to the point where you know something interesting is going on. It takes time and effort, but anyone can do it – you just need to be methodical. As I always say to new journalists, if you think you're job is writing, you're in for a disappointment. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1y9w…4ayf ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1y9w…4ayf Speaking of good things… what’s the plan with iA Writer for Windows? It’s still easily my favourite writing app on that platform. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1y9w…4ayf Oh now I’m tempted. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge You know, Bing, these are not the most helpful suggestions for follow on searches for my query about Lenovo Copilot+ PCs. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1xsy…cevg So, so tempted npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub12mc…xdp7 That bird is just so round, it's like birds I would draw when I was three years old. Adorable. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1m95…e2mh I love it (although probably not as much as some of the local cats do) npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub14fx…jp2v It's a really good question! Apparently the answer is "no one really knows". npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1dpw…tz9l I wrote this mostly as a bit of snark, but the more I think about it the more I think that a voluntary, paid way of people in my age bracket giving something back wouldn’t be a bad idea. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1f6a…pnql When it gets things right, it really is magic. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1vj2…thgx Green Party member reporting for duty :) npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1ekp…lvl3 And then taken out the back and given a second one. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge I haven't really been keeping up with the omnishambles that is the Tory election campaign, so I'm only just finding out that "we got you through Covid" is one of their campaign lines. Sure, you got us through it, by setting rules that you were ignoring at the time to such a degree the PM had to resign. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1yx6…zf5r Point 3 - WAIT what what what? npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub198t…hasj Why did I not know about espanso? NEIL THIS IS YOUR FAULT. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Curry sweats are the best sweats npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub13h2…fr8q And I did, loudly and longly. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1ssd…gd7s Nowhere near enough. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge I'm playing with using Orion, the webkit-based browser made by Kagi. So far it's pretty impressive. Mac/iOS only at the moment, but they're planning a Linux version too npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Oh and if people could stop saying interesting things to me for about four hours I would greatly appreciate it. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Can I just have a small moment to swear about websites which only work properly on Chromium based browsers? Can I? npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1cvv…mv8d Tick, tick and tick again! npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1527…eh7n At the moment I just remove the search bar from any Windows machine I use, becuase search is so bad it's a waste of space. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1qrq…fnks And you are right to be suspicious npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge People: "Machine learning needs to be entirely local and controlled by the user, not done in the cloud!” npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1y30…ja63 Don't get me started. When I rant about this, there are a lot of “AND ANOTHER THING" moments. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1tzk…phly Just the standard stuff that comes with Wordpress.com (I don't self-host) npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub17nv…6ykh I'm a bit baffled by the passwords thing. It's not a keylogger, so you would have to be showing a password in plaintext on screen for it to be readable. How often does someone do that? npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub12jc…a4uc Well exactly. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub199l…vjgv I totally have to visit sometime. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge This is just such a weird reading of this. The data is encrypted AND if you have Windows 11 Pro, also protected by Bitlocker. You would have to be parsing the sentence pretty oddly to read it as "not encrypted on Windows Home". npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Well that’s quite pretty npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub13y8…hxk4 WELL... I would say Google enabled it, publishers created it. No one made us move to a free/maximum ads model. Some went down the paid subscriber model and have done well from it. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1g53…wrrc I would worry about AI lying if humans weren't also absolute masters at it. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge "Google will now do the Googling for you, and everyone who benefited from humans doing the Googling will very soon need to come up with a Plan B." Spot on, and what I've been saying for a while. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge If you’re in publisher SEO and the Google IO demos aren’t making you consider a new career, you’re probably not paying attention… npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub18jk…gark aww thank you! npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge WELL npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub17er…ht66 Oh totally. DHH is a complete asshat. But the points made about the ad are correct. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub14gd…7cgr Entirely accurate 😀 npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1fg4…22tg Professed quite often. Real? Well…. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge This ad was all “lemmings” and no “1984” npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub12ks…kf3h 🫣 npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Possibly my favourite Steve Albini story. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/30/steve-albini-rant-about-dance-music-turned-into-billboard npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Nooooo npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1zfn…ke9v 1871? npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1txd…txmn Of course, there actually is a minifig. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Worth noting: “tandem OLED” isn’t an Apple thing. In fact, those screens have been around a couple of years, mostly being using in automotive where the long life, brightness and lack of burn-in are really valuable. I *think* the iPad Pro is the first device to use it outside of cars, though. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1qdf…wn0r It’s the fringe. I can’t resist the fringe. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Lord help me I’m watching “Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. Easily the worst of the series. But hey Cate Blanchett. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1m67…vg4d Processor. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1v0a…hwrm I’m nodding along, which is a bad sign npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge My feelings whenever I watch any Apple event. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge I see Dorsey is well into his “two croissants short of a breakfast basket” stage. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge One of these days I am going to have to write up how I’ve turned Obsidian into the best environment for writing I’ve ever used. Today is not going to be that day though. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Ahh, watching the Derby v Carlisle match and the commentator has now had to apologise twice for shouty Derby accents swearing very loudly indeed. #football npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Imagine, for one second, if a national newspaper referred to gay young people as “sexuality distressed”, rather than just calling them “gay young people”. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Similarly, IBM could have bought Microsoft - Gates even offered them 10% of the business and they could easily have afforded more. In the environment of the past 20 years, where big companies are allowed to buy pretty much anyone, they would have. Back then antitrust concerns made it a nonstarter. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge I'm amazed that so few people understand that the ruling classes smashed unions to make sure that workers didn't get their fair share of growth in productivity. Then, as a distraction, they blamed "immigrants" for stealing jobs and depressing wages. And now they'amazed that this has led to the rise of the far right. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1huu…vyxe Does Jim Diamond have a neck? npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Because I'm stupid/weird/adventurous I've installed Fedora 40 KDE spin, which has the new Plasma 6, and OMG it's great. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Every time anyone mentions the intrinsic superiority of Italian food, I am posting this link. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Re Apple’s EU judgement: Remember that EU antitrust law does not require direct harm to consumers. It’s not the same as US law. Behaviour which is anticompetitive (ie using monopoly positions to stifle competition) is regarded as harmful to consumers, even if no direct harm (ie raised prices) has occurred. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge There are definitely days when I look at where we were 40 years ago - high vaccination levels, conspiracy theories confined to weird little books - and think maybe we should just turn off the internet and chalk it up to experience. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1uyz…08rn I think that's a terrific idea. For example, I've spent quite a bit of time customising #Obsidian so it works pretty well as a Markdown writing environment, rather than just a notebook. I'm sure that would be useful to some. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Taking a look at KDE Plasma 6 (using KDE Neon) and omg I might have actually found a version of KDE that I like. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1ekp…lvl3 OOOOOH well played! npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Actually, they cancelled the Apple car because they reallised it needed Windows. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge I accidentally revealed I was learning Welsh on Duolingo and now Welsh people are talking at me and all I know is how to read when Dewi is saying good morning to Gareth and that Mrs Jones feels terrible and HALP npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Elon Musk buying Twitter just to get personal tech support from Satya Nadella has to be the most expensive support contract in history. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge You know, I think Maidstone's lucky might have run out. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1avz…8av6 Not sure. The (largely American) origins of using "citizen" in that way tend to focus on it as an individual endeavour, rather than a collective one. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub10fl…r79m I think the problem with that is "who decides what the broader civic good is, here?" Because what you're talking about is activists, rather than journalists, professional or amateur. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub10tx…crtk OMG I asked Gemini to write some of these and every single one sounds real npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge So Sunak has been publicly denouncing councils for putting up tax… and they’re putting up tax to service debt that the government pressured them into taking. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/10/disastrous-truss-budget-forced-uk-councils-to-take-out-massive-loans-at-high-interest-rates npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge Remember when politicians were falling over themselves to be associated with Russell Brand, and left wing publications were getting him to guest edit? Yeah, they would all rather you didn't remember that. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge A rare Betteridge’s Law exception https://mastodon.social/@asymco/111900444926011346 npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge I appreciate any article with extensive citations and footnotes, and this is a perfect example. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1huu…vyxe Noooooo npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge So my doctor gave me some back exercises to do to ease up the (possibly) trapped nerve in my back, and OMG it is the best thing ever. Not quite as good as necking E and going clubbing in 1992, but pretty darn close. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1gzc…fsz3 /me shakes fist at sky :) npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1n36…a9gg Yep. And that’s part of the problem, when exec compensation includes big chunks of stock. The market likes layoffs. npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge @npub1dq6…kl95 Yes, yes they are. Also: screen time will not work with apps bought outside the app store. Which begs the question: what exactly is screen time doing? npub1etd9hnt8wj65tx5jydf9sfa56tp7l9rw8dgq2ar0gqyad45qtrrq5w8yx6 Ian Betteridge I mean, basically it sounds like Apple has just looked through its entire catalogue of features and broken as many of them as possible for any app that dares to use an alternate app store.
