I was added to a moderation list on Bluesky for following someone on Twitter and subsequently muting them, and then forgetting I had followed them when I used a tool to migrate all of my follows to Bluesky. Which is just a stupid mistake, but what about people who are following notable bigots because they’re journalists and have to keep tabs on what they say?

Being banned for upvoting someone’s comment seems similarly tunnel-visioned. If you’re upvoting their pun about the moon or their helpful cooking suggestion or their computer build tip, getting banned because you didn’t check their entire post history before upvoting is absolutely insane to me.

Guilt by association is only a thing if it’s actually association.

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Ha. Real ones remember.

Also, his name is “The Doctor,” not “Doctor Who.”

I have to admit, I wasn’t expecting this plot twist out of a BBC science fiction show.

Honestly, for me, it’s the one-two-three punch of easy notes taken anywhere + podcasts + camera.

• notes : before smartphones I carried a notebook in my pocket. And sometimes I still do; writing longhand is still pleasant for me, and being able to sketch and doodle with my notes is still clunky with a touchscreen, amazingly. But the experience of losing my notebook, or not having the right one with me when I need it, is disproportionately frustrating to me.

• podcasts : this is one of the few ways my ADHD brain truly focuses. Listening to a podcast while walking, biking, running, driving, doing dishes, cleaning a room, mowing the lawn, etc. is almost foolproof in getting me to pay attention to the content. I have to be in the right mood to read, and videos are background noise to me after having the Discovery Channel or Scifi Channel on 24/7 in my apartment in college. Before smartphones I had a trusty RCA Lyra that went everywhere with me; and while the form factor and experience were fantastic, I now have a backlog of over 800 podcast episodes that would not fit on that device’s 512MB internal storage. (Also, I just got a pair of noise canceling earbuds, and I have to admit I really like them)

• camera : I’ve chosen my last four smartphones based on the camera quality. I’ve got kids, and being able to take adorable pictures of them at the drop of a hat is very useful to me. I don’t need all the computational nonsense, but I do need it to be good enough and ever-present. Before smartphones, I would occasionally bring a digital camera around with me, but I can’t afford one that would give me the quality I want, and it wouldn’t fit in my pocket anyway.

Messaging, fitness tracking, and work stuff is also easier, though not in a way that I don’t think I could backfill with other things if needed.

Nostalgia aside, the experience of these big three use cases is indisputably better with a smartphone than it was in 2005. Could I live without them? Yes! Absolutely. But I’d prefer not to, and since I shook my social media addiction I don’t really feel the need to.

Comprehension is the responsibility of the speaker. You’re good. I should’ve been more clear.

Oh hey Hurst! They package these in my city. Back in college I used to make a pot of these and a huge batch of cornbread regularly all winter. Good memories.

I think we must’ve gotten hung up on some double negatives, sorry. What I meant is, the default UI on bedrock for large enough screens is the standard PC layout, just like on Java.

The weird thing is that Windows 10 broke that model. It always used to be that the even-numbered Windows versions were worse (after, let’s say, Windows 2000): ME (#4)? Bad. XP (#5)? Good! Vista (#6)? Bad. 7? Good! 8? Bad. 8.1 (#9)? Good! But then Windows 10 came out and threw the whole rhythm off.

You could pretty reasonably argue that 8.1 wasn’t a true version, and thus Windows 10 was the 9th version of Windows, but that just means that 8 was the combo breaker by becoming good eventually. In either case, Windows 11 being bad restores the bad version/good version rhythm.

If that’s not the entire joke of the tweet in the original image, I have seriously misunderstood this post.

Li’l Donny just can’t feel strong if he doesn’t send the National Guard somewhere, and after getting kicked out of Chicago, he’s probably hoping for a warmer reception in a redder state.

Not on Mastodon. Some of the other fedi microblog platforms have had it, though.

They want us to upgrade to 11 so they can do that when they release Windows 12.

Same. I play on a realm with my kids who play on Switch, and it’s practically identical to the Java experience at this point.

It is now, unless you’re running it on a small screen. The touch controls disappear unless you have a touch screen, and the inventory UI is the same across all large screen devices.

It is based on the android version, but the UI is now the same as in Java version.

“…I’m sorry that I didn’t call them that in 2019.”

Great point. Their strategy at this point is holding a gun up to your hard drive and saying “upgrade now or your data gets it.”

You just described most of my post history.