imathew

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by imathew 1mo ago
There are lots of fun ways to experience literature or any art, and you can do multiple! I love reading a book and just considering it from the text alone, and then also considering it from in the context it was written. And then considerin
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by imathew 1mo ago
I won't (if I know) either, but for me it's because a very big part of reading fiction or enjoying any art is that you have a relationship of a kind with its creator. When a passage surprises me or a song lifts me or a painting in
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by imathew 3mo ago
I thought this was going to be about its logo.
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by imathew 3mo ago
As a user of software I find myself disabling most transition animations when the OS or application supports it, desktop, mobile and web. Very rarely I find myself turning something back on - either it's actually useful in the situatio
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by imathew 8mo ago
Winapp, it really whips the LLMas ass
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by imathew 8mo ago
1.1x is my default setting in pocket casts, with a couple at 1.2x and others at 1x. I don't need to hear more content more quickly, it's just that some readers/presenters talk very slowly and my ears find the cadence - not th
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by imathew 9mo ago
My ISP has good IPv6 support. I was using it for a while and recently disabled it across my home network for simplicity of maintenance, cutting my vyos config in half. When I need to access something not available on IPv4 I'll set it u
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by imathew 1y ago
The removal of the forums that the author mentions was what finally ended my 1000ish day streak. It was the most important part of the app for me, the way each question would link to a forum topic and users would discuss the various subtlet
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by imathew 2y ago
I haven't liked any integrated tooling at all, but that's not such a surprise since I generally disable autocomplete and autocorrect since, like tinsel, I find them distracting. I do really like to use the plain web browser tools,
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by imathew 2y ago
I found this a very beautiful story, I was moved to tears and I learnt a lot I didn't know about the process. I would like to assure the author that there is little to no risk that "AI" will perform that job any time soon, th
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by imathew 2y ago
In around 1997 I installed I think Red Hat 4.x because I'd seen screenshots of the Enlightenment window manager and wanted that beauty on my desktop. Now all I want is the Windows 98 look and feel back, when icons and user controls wer
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by imathew 3y ago
I didn't realise that the campaign was considered a fizzer. As a 14yo in a regional area who had just started connecting to the Internet (and hadn't yet developed distrust of Microsoft), it was one of very few ad slogans that ever
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by imathew 3y ago
"If you wish to build an economy simulator from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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by imathew 11y ago
I'm the same - I have been using Dvorak for twelve years, but that's all about muscle memory with both hands, I struggle to type with it without two hands in place. When I jump onto a colleague's computer I can use QWERTY OK