@stevenbodzin When we got that little bit of snow a week or so ago, I was out playing with my kids and I had this weird pang of nostalgia mixed with hope mixed with loss. (Also 1970.)

@snugug in vscode, you might try creating a new profile and see if starting up from a fresh profile is any faster

@kyle what is the subscript of this toot

I think about the ending of Roger Ebert’s 2004 review of M Night Shyamalan’s The Village on a regular basis. It is a perfect piece of writing. https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-village-2004

@hbuchel not sure about their drink menu but i happened into Skinflints Irish Pub in Bay Ridge (after a tour of the Christmas Lights in Dyker Heights, much recommended) and it was super cute and Christmasy in there

@bart So sorry to hear this. Curious which instance you’re planning to migrate to?

All of this is exacerbated by the fact that LG’s settings UI was apparently designed and organized by a raccoon on meth. Wish there was a toggle switch that just said “Dumb TV” to turn all this shit off.

And even then, if you say Alexa, it still shows an undismissible alert with a link to that same user agreement. So then I have to find the LG remote (which we don’t use regularly) to get rid of it so I can go back to whatever I was watching on my Apple TV.

So far the only fix I’ve found is to navigate to Support > Privacy > Agreements and uncheck the Voice Recognition agreement and then click the Agree button. That’s right, Agree to disagree.

At some point my 2023 LG TV started responding to “Alexa”. It just opens the Alexa app which shows a QR code to sign in to Amazon and nothing else. I do not want this.

@jsnell aka Surfer Sat

Today I got the same birthday gif from two different friends. #modernlife

@stevenbodzin saw a dad and 5 year old boy running downstairs as a G train was pulling away.

“Daddy we missed the train!”

“Yeah, well you always miss the last train…”

“Yeah,” agreed the boy, dejected.

“…but you always catch the next one!” said the dad.

The boy, now hopeful, yelled“Oh yeah!”

@stevenbodzin I spent a long cold night in a train station in Bristol, having missed the last train back to Swansea after a Throwing Muses concert, pushing a button like this one every 15 minutes, just out of reach from lying position on the bench where I was trying to sleep. Torture

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Netflix getting TKO’d right now.

@JesseSkinner I switched a couple weeks ago, our whole team is trying it. I had a few glitches migrating settings and extensions from VSCode but once that was sorted it looks and feels exactly the same, but the AI is way more helpful than copilot (and I was a heavy copilot user).

Apparently if you’re wearing a mask and an Apple Watch, and you have ‘FaceID with mask’ and ‘Unlock with Apple Watch’ enabled, AND Face ID fails to recognize you with your mask on, then the Apple Watch unlock is ignored. Turn off ‘FaceID with mask’ and the watch unlock works every time.

@kyle wow that’s so fun. Especially now