DJDarren

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It's important to have a hobby in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 6 points 14 hours ago

It’s a bawg.

hard to argue with in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 36 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And some of us are blessed with producing more shit than others.

Many voters are willing to accept misinformation from political leaders – even when they know it’s factually inaccurate, if they believe the statements evoke a deeper, more important “truth.” in c/science@lemmy.world
[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 day ago

Of course they do.

If there’s a binary choice (and here in the UK it basically is), you’re going to vote for the candidate that broadly covers your requirements from government, conveniently ignoring the bits you don’t like. The alternative is to not vote at all because no one candidate or party can perfectly mirror your values.

let's settle this in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago

This group is for shitposting, yet this is qualityposting.

You fuckin monsters in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Let me do it for you…

…Kermie

guess the company in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 days ago

Lamborghini started out making tractors

They still do.

Americans when they visit Germany the first time in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 days ago

Between 1948 and 1991 Skoda was a state owned company, making pretty low end cars to satisfy a social requirement for Czech citizens to have a vehicle. They had 0 bells and whistles because that wasn’t really the communist way.

As a result, non-communist car manufacturers almost always offered better quality, better kitted out models, so the likes of Skoda, Lada, and Yugo became a joke.

The Myth of the Russian Superpower in c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mine’s £40k. Could be better, could be worse.

You are a program in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah, yeah, I know. I need to sort out a different way of doing things.

Hot Takes Gom Jabbar in c/memes@lemmy.world
Cynthia Erivo calls out fans who made their own Wicked poster in c/movies@lemm.ee
[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 days ago

She’s just remembered she has some video tapes to return.

You are a program in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 days ago

My phone hasn’t made a sound in years. It’s hard on silent and all notifications* go to my watch so it can tap my wrist quietly and politely. _ *I say “all”, but it’s calls, messages, and reminders. General purpose apps aren’t allowed to talk to me.

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Swiping in Finder (thelemmy.club)
 

Can anyone shed any light on why you can't swipe back and forward in Finder with a trackpad? The option in Settings allows for two finger swipe between pages in eg. Safari, but that doesn't extend to Finder, and I can't work out why?

I've been able to activate it using BetterTouchTool, but it seems like a truly bizarre omission, considering how much Apple have optimised macOS for trackpad use.

I don't know why I've never really thought about it before, but now I can't stop...

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Bishops Waltham palace (thelemmy.club)
 

Well, what’s left of it.

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Why does Automator still exist, when Shortcuts could have replaced it entirely? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by DJDarren@thelemmy.club to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
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First up, I realise that Automator does so much more than Shortcuts. But my question is: why?

I have a couple of spreadsheets that I want to be reminded of once a week so I can keep an eye on the dates they contain. My stupid ADHD brain is likely to forget to check them, and a reminder is only as useful as whether I'm able to act on it at that moment in time. So I've set up an automation to open them up at a specific time. Given that Shortcuts on macOS doesn't support automations (as far as I can tell), the only way to do this is;

  • Create a shortcut that will open the documents I need to open.

  • Create an automator application that uses a bash script to open the shortcut.

  • Create a calendar entry where the alert is set to open the automator app.

So I guess I want to know why Shortcuts (for macOS) can't run automations, why Calendar can't open Shortcuts, and why Shortcuts didn't subsume everything that Automator can do? Who at Apple thought it was perfectly right and proper to have to distinct and powerful apps essentially offering the same functions, but that neither of them fully encompass the abilities of the other?

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Flat Roof Pub (thelemmy.club)
 

Thought you lot might want to know where you can buy a polar bear cub.

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What’s the tiniest thing about iOS / iPadOS / macOS that really bugs you? (thelemmy.club)
 

As much as I don’t like negative threads, there’s one thing in iOS that really irritates me, and I want to air it…

Pressing and holding the tab button in Safari to access tab groups, should have a haptic response.

Because it doesn’t, I often end up opening the tab view instead, so I have to huff a little, hit Done, then try again. I don’t know why it annoys me that it doesn’t because none of the other buttons in Safari do, but I feel like it should.

No, I have not contacted Tim Apple about this. Yes, I probably should.

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How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet (www.wired.com)
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Recommendations for anti-procrastination apps... (thelemmy.club)
 

I've been using the free version of Cold Turkey blocker on my Mac for a while now, but it doesn't offer an iOS/iPad app, so there's nothing to stop me from just picking up my phone to fuck about online when I should be working, so I'm not keen on spending £30 on the full app.

There are other alternatives like Freedom.to, but they want £3 a month / £25 a year, and there's a bit of me that rejects the idea of having to pay a recurring fee for the maintenance of what is essentially just a glorified IP block list. It feels kinda predatory, like those of us with ADHD have been fucked over by apps and sites being designed to be little dopamine boxes, and they have the only solution, but we have to pay for it.

So, do any of you use a similar app? If so, what, and how much does it cost?

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