Technological/practical "backward steps" we all just accept now

please, i know people have said this already, but can people plaese stop replying to this thread as its clogging up my inbox thx!

lol

/Kindle - footnote links

― Ste, Thursday, 5 December 2019 14:20 bookmarkflaglink/

jfc i am ready to do violence after trying to handle that shit. good call.

xxxp the email storms where people just joined in on the chaos by sending broccoli and pizza recipes... that's the good stuff

STOP REPLYING ALL GODDAMMIT

no the world needs more horny emails

Rhonda's alive?

didn't we expense flowers to her memorial?

xp Kindle footnotes... are they not in a little popup box when you click the number in the text? Or, worst case, take you to the long note with a back button for where you were? If not, you're probably dealing with a file not properly formatted for your reader. Calibre could probably make it behave. But yeah it's all a lot of messing around ennit

Ingredients

APPLE FILLING

2 lb / 1kg Granny Smith Apples( green apples), weight before peeling1 tbsp white flour1/2 cup / 110g white sugar2 tbsp lemon juice (or water)1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

TOPPING

1 cup / 90g cup rolled oats / oatmeal (quick cooking is ok)1 cup / 150g white flour1 cup / 175 g brown sugar (loosely packed)1/2 tsp baking powder1 tsp cinnamon powder1/2 cup / 125g unsalted butter, meltedPinch of salt

TO SERVE

Vanilla ice cream

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F/180C.

Peel apples, then cut into 1.5cm/ 3/5” cubes.

Place apple in a bowl. Sprinkle with flour, sugar and cinnamon, then pour over lemon juice. Toss, then spread out evenly I'm a 1.5 litre/1.5 quart baking dish. 

Place Topping ingredients in a bowl. Mix until clumps form, like wet sand (see video). Spread over the apples, crumbling with fingers if required to get that crumbly topping.

Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until golden brown. Remove, cover loosely with foil to keep warm and let stand for 10 minutes before serving (let's the apple filling come together).

Serve warm with vanilla ice cream!

after one of those mass email debacles someone in IT always needs to do fun metrics on the incident.

"emailing you all this survey, pls reply back to me with the reason you hit reply all on the last email storm"

yeah, footnotes on a kindle seem fine? you click and they appear? Seems like an improvement to physical books for me, where it's much easier to lose track of where you were when looking at a footnote. Though now this is making me wonder what reading Infinite Jest on a kindle is like.

xxxp

__born stupid
__became stupid (drugs/alcohol/head injury/lab experiment/etc)
__troll
__all the cool kids were doing it
__unable to control body (ie, you're a "spaz". requires doctor's note)

Xpost Lotsa dimples in the Kindle

To: Grannistopher Percival Danger
CC: company mailing list

Mr Dainger, you were meant to send your reply to just me, but you have instead replied all. Also you did not checkba box.

BUY A KOBO AND STOP EMAILING ME

ALL HANDS MEETING, MANDATORY, 10AM FRIDAY
RE: REPLY ALL EMAIL FW: STOP REPLYING FW: THIS IS CRAZY
MICROSOFT TEAMS INVITE FORTHCOMING

WHAT TIME ZONE?

Atlantic

halifax fat cats

im in IT

it was....a survey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm

― DJI

"An email storm (also called a reply allpocalypse)"...

missed opportunity to find some use for the phrase "reply alpaca"

The Reply to all debacle is similar to people on Twitter tweeting about 'X' saying "omg can't believe X is trending please stop talking about X"

re the kindle footnotes, it's usually the tiniest of asterisks that I have to click. And so I guess fat fingers or small fonts are to blame. Also in a real book I don't have to click anything!!!

(I'm talking about the notes that appear at the bottom of a page, as opposed to the ones you have to jump to the back of a book for btw)

ok this is kind of cool. my kid's home sick, on the couch under a blanket, and i'm wfh. he's listening to radio 4 through the alexa. it's desert island discs and one of the choices was public enemy 'rebel without a pause' and my kid goes 'alexa, play songs by public enemy' - suddenly 'fight the power' is on. that's pretty rad.

When I first got my alexa i used to get up in the morning and shout Alexa play some jazz!

tracer yr kid is now on an international terrorism watch list, sorry to report

I still treasure the memory of the day in my first IT job that someone moderately important emailed the entire organisation (presumably accidentally) a video of themselves skydiving, naked

btw this was in the 90s when video files were large (video compression in its infancy and not the default option for home video editing software) and network bandwidth was not - the entire infrastructure ground to a halt all day and people trying to check their email over dialup became very irate

xp

It's cool, the S1Ws will be crashing through Tracer's windows at any moment now to liberate the child.

Windows 10

That's all, just Windows fucken 10

Whatta sack of trash

ooh good we’re about to move on to that at work.

Made the mistake at home a while back, had it foisted upon me at work a couple weeks ago. Sucks.

C'mon, Microsoft. You cranked it all the way up to 95 at one point, only to slide all the way back down to 10? Weak, bruh.

I've been on Windows 10 for a couple years and haven't had any problems.

DIdn't ILX once have a "Subscribe to this thread!" function? That was insane.

Seriously, the postman couldn't even fit that effing DMB thread in my mailslot.

worst euphemism ever

my experience of windows 10 was basically like the launch of Coca-Cola Classic after the New Coke nightmare that was Window 8. it's still slightly less functional and slightly more cluttered than 98/XP which is basically as far as PC operating system software actually needed to evolve for my purposes. so yeah, fits for the thread.

Like, much of the reason I've remained a PC head is that I can't stand the infantilizing 'here, let us handle that for you, techno-n00b' philosophy that seems to inform so much of Apple's stuff. But now Microsoft is gradually adopting the same approach. Really, it's the inability to opt out of their constant mandatory updates that sticks in my craw the most. No no, Windows, it's totally cool that you had to restart everything while I was away and close out the programs I was running and those unsaved files I had up. Whatever you think is best, father.

I am so tired of microsoft disabling 'stereo mix' input every time they update, one day I know it's not going to be fixable.

And while we're at it, just in case it hasn't been mentioned already, Apple hardware evolving into a variety of differently-sized smooth white obelisks with no pesky vestigial ports for things like 'headphone jacks' or 'physical media discs' is really just the dumbest shit in the world and it baffles me that people just roll with it. Like at some point they'll decide that screens are superfluous and their customers will just nod as they strain to understand the complex set of faint atmospheric tones and chimes that Apple has decided is the logical step beyond the primitive concept of a GUI.

^^^

I agree, but I don't really think it's that people have been just rolling with it, there's been a pretty sizable negative response and complaints every time they remove the ports and jacks. Apple just doesn't give a shit and people are so invested with the "ease of use" already that they have no choice. I'm not sure what effective pushback would look like, but I'd love it.

Yeah nothing will ever be as bad as Windows 8, everything after is a sweet relief

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we've all said "dongle" more times in the last two years than in all of human history, so that's a neat side effect.

Well, I guess some of us were raised by people who allowed us to refer to a penis by its proper name rather than forcing us to use a ridiculous and humiliating neologism.

yy I wish people wouldn't feel they need to buy this stuff that doesn't actually do what they want

That's nearly every piece of technology at this point afaict. Feels like I spend roughly equivalent amounts of time using a device and swearing at that device to effing do what the gee-dee aitch it's supposed to effing do already for the love of pete.

xpost buying a penis?

Thankfully, I don't have to lay down money for that privilege.

subsidized penis?

We all just accept it now, whether it works the way we want it to or not.

infantilizing 'here, let us handle that for you, techno-n00b' philosopy

vs. m-soft's 'we know better than you how to handle action x and will make it aymptotically almost impossible to override our auto-implementation.'