greg

@greg@furry.engineer

Software engineer living near San Francisco. Photography, making stuff, cooking, and ADHD task paralysis fill my free time.

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protonmail, to iOS
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🎉 We have a new feature for you this week on .

Now, you can swipe between messages on the Proton Mail app. Stay focused as you quickly move from one email to the next.

If you haven’t already, download the app here: https://apps.apple.com/app/proton-mail-encrypted-email/id979659905

greg,

@protonmail Is there a way to disable swiping between messages? Because sometimes I find horizontal swiping is overly sensitive in some apps (cough Apple News) which makes it harder to scroll vertically to read content. This could be particularly problematic with some kinds of mobility restrictions.

greg, to random

I’m actually kind of surprised this worked :blobfoxcofecute:

Video description: A hand presses the start button on an LCD fax screen. Camera pulls back to reveal a Canon MFP scanning a document through the ADF. Camera pans down to reveal a rotary phone with a thing strapped to the handset. That thing has a cable connected to a Nissei Fax-305 portable fax machine. A spool of paper curling out the top. A hand reaches out to the ringing phone, lifts the receiver, and places it on the floor. The hand presses start on the Nissei; a status light starts flashing. After a short time, the paper starts moving very slowly, one line at a time. The first line to appear is the sending station info, reading: 2024 02/04 22:16 Fax 69 @greg The next line is the Fax Wikipedia article title and URL. Then the Wikipedia logo, followed by the title and first few lines from the Fax article. The camera then pulls back out to show the equipment on the floor again, before looking up at the modern Canon machine. The video ends here. Audio description: 0:02 Machine beeps and the document feeder whirs. Another beep at the end of scan 0:09 A click then a dial tone. Three number tones dialed 0:13 Rotary dial phone rings 0:18 Sending fax machine beeping over the phone 0:22 Long tone then data signal 0:30 Repeats 0:38 Ticking / creaking when paper advances (continues for rest of video)

kiwa, to random
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im still waiting for someone to make a hdd noise emulator that actually sounds like an hdd and not a relay

greg,

@kiwa It might be fun to try to model the noise profile of classic drives. I wonder if anyone has some good quality recordings of the drives on their own 🤔

drewdevault, to random
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Gaming is a huge consumer energy sink, it's a good example of western extravagance in this respect. Nintendo Switch uses 6-7W in game and a PS5 averages nearly 200W.

Every 24 hours of PS5 game-time is a kilo of CO2 in the atmosphere if your local power supply isn't green

greg,

@drewdevault Certainly we should care about and pursue better energy efficiency in our devices. However, this hews dangerously close to the trope of blaming the individual over their relatively minor contribution to overall carbon emissions.

Let’s maybe not guilt people over something that brings them joy, particularly when that form of entertainment can take the place of other, higher emission forms of entertainment / consumption.

Choosing to play games on a PS5 is not an inherently less moral choice than playing on a Switch.

greg,

@drewdevault Everything we do right now is subsidized by future generations and equatorial nations. I’d be shocked if my next trip to the grocery store involves less than 1 ton of carbon emissions (the grocery store is literally next door for me). The four LED lights in the room where I work consume the same energy in an 8 hour work day as an hour and a half of playing the PS5 (which, incidentally, I don’t own).

A lot of the things we do every day have completely opaque production chains and emissions. Choices that seem better on the surface can turn out worse. Is buying a physical game better or worse than digital distribution? Are Switch cartridges better or worse than optical media? Are the bigger lithium batteries better or worse? And if played mobile, do those batteries wear out and need replacing? What’s the impact of that? Maybe taking up tennis would be better than all this… but then what is the cost of getting to the court and how much power are those lights using?

drewdevault, to random
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City didn't listen to my complaint so let's escalate things a bit

greg,

@drewdevault These things are terrible. My partner and I have to avoid several streets in our neighborhood because people have motion activated mosquito devices in their yards. We’re in our late 30s. Thanks for trying to do something about the ones you encounter :blobfoxheartcute:

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