Watched the first ep of #XMen97 cause everyone seems to be talking about it. Was pretty fun but I’m kinda lost. Never watched this show back in the day. I know some of the characters but that’s about it. Some of the art direction is pretty impressive.
Apparently Apple Music for Mac has rabid fanbois (they are all men. All of them) and they are on Threads?! Of all the truly shitty products to stan, you want to defend Apple Music on the Mac?! I’ll defend Apple Music on iOS, even tho sync is a shit show, but on the desktop?! Man normies are weird.
@film_girl@christianselig I use Music because it's part of our Apple One bundle (which is basically theft on Apple's part), but I can't understand how Music is still so bad. Why can't I search my Library and Apple Music at the same time?
@hotdogsladies I had to install an NVME hard drive onto the motherboard of our son’s PC a few months ago, and I barely made it with my aged eyes, shaky hands, and terrible lighting.
Opened another 500 TestFlight slots for the new Reeder preview (see previous posts). There's still a lot to do but it's slowly getting to a usable state.
Early in the pandemic, our Subaru’s car stereo system died. I checked all the fuses. They were all OK. I did a lot of research online. It seemed like we need to be replaced. Subaru didn’t have the units AND it was going to be thousands of dollars. We just switched to a Bluetooth speaker.
Today we had our suddenly failed air conditioning system repaired and…The stereo system works again. Apparently a relay in the car that is part of the AC electronics also feeds the stereo system.
@wnknisely Ah, I see that. Doing a little digging, it looks like it only works if one chooses to federate their feed. I guess you can’t post from Threads with Ivory, though, right?
Not that anyone asked, but I’ve been using an Ottocast Wireless CarPlay adapter for about a month and am pretty happy with it. Nice to not always have to plug in.
Worth a look if you have a car that shipped with wired-only CarPlay.
Note that I was not at all happy with it until I unpaired my phone from the direct non-CarPlay Bluetooth connection to the head unit because it would get confused which to attach to at start.
@agiletortoise our 16-year-old will be getting my 2011 outback in a couple of months. She really wants CarPlay, and I think it might be safer, but I’m having trouble finding a way to retrofit this thing at an agreeable and affordable price.
A dentist in town has one of those movie marquees on his sign and he’s anointed himself the pun king of the city, but I can tell most of the jokes each week are ripped from tweets or Instagram memes.
It gives me a whole new appreciation for artisanal, single-origin, locally sourced original puns.
I wish I could tell my ten year old self reading Omni Magazine and sci-fi short stories that in 2024 shit will actually get a little weird, like that time solar flares caused our robot tractors to not plant seeds at the right time, jeopardizing our food system https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/112428406876457168
@agiletortoise We’ll have a senior and a sophomore, and I’m already a bit of a mess. All the arguments and hard stuff aren’t enough to make me want to give up telling them I love them before bed every night.
@Iconfactory Hey, everyone. I’ve been getting a dialog box that I traced back to an IF app, but I can’t find a support email to send it to, in case you need it.