@kepano I always travel with a $2 roll of black electrical tape for this exact reason. Just put a piece on each light and you get full blackout. And it's easy for housekeeping to remove with zero damage.
Choosing a travel backpack is really hard, and I still haven't found one I love, so mostly for my own reference I wrote a long post with thoughts on pretty much every travel backpack out there https://christianselig.com/2024/04/choosing-a-backpack-is-hard/
@christianselig Kinda interesting that you use packing cubes/tech pouch for most things but also want a built in laptop/ipad holder. Why not go full modular and get a laptop sleeve like the Tom Bihn cache? Seems like most bag makers either lean towards black hole or modular. Finding one in the middle seems tricky.
@christianselig I get that. Though I use the cache and I just unzip the top to get my laptop in and out on the plane. It functions like a laptop compartment but with the added benefit of removing it when I don't bring my laptop.
@christianselig That would be a good improvement. I'm a huge fan of my pilot messenger bag. The separate water bottle compartment in the middle of the bag is everything I didn't know I needed
This was a shitpost but I’ve cancelled a lot of stuff this spring and three really is the number. (Regional newspapers have been the absolute worst.)
If I have to say NO JUST DO IT more than three times, steam rises from my brain. If I have to say it only twice I feel grateful, which is also terrible.
Anyway—I used to subscribe to a bunch of smaller papers for a few months at a time to support their work but this last round has been so bad that I’m done. https://mas.to/@kissane/112270240074896605
Has anyone of you worked with Relume yet? It looks well-designed but I’m always skeptical if something sounds too good to be true (“Effortlessly generate sitemaps and wireframes for marketing websites in minutes.” “Watch AI turn your wires into polished designs with a ready to use design system ready for dev.”).
@matthiasott my evolving approach to AI tools is to think of them as a shitty first draft generator. It gives you something to start with and helps you galvanize what you do and don't want.
Still very WIP, but I am revamping the #obsidian UI for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Dhivehi, Hebrew, Farsi, Syriac, Urdu.
So many little questions I had never thought about:
Which way does a "back" arrow go?
Do progress bars fill right-to-left?
Are slashes in paths reversed?
Do window buttons get mirrored on major OSes?
This has been an eye-opening experience. Using start/end values rather than left/right is something I will think about with every project going forward.
I'm starting to think people that claim to like the fediverse dont understand the point. We want to be able to follow Threads accounts here without having to have a Threads account. That's the whole point.
No single entity is in control of social media. That's the glory of federation.
Blocking major companies from the fediverse will be the death of the concept. Don't silo yourselves in fits of hate and segregation or you're no better than the things you claim to protest. https://techhub.social/@HilliTech/112207853697301125
@o_simardcasanova@Jonathanglick@AAKL Absolutely. I think it's an easy way for them to fulfill the requirements of EU regulators without much risk of losing users. If Mastodon ever adopted architecture like Bluesky's PDS that allowed users to change servers easily, Meta would be fight it hard.