tuomas_h

tuomas_h, 22 days ago to random

It’s a synthwave kind of Friday evening. Bliss.

tuomas_h, 24 days ago to homeassistant

Been tracking down a mysterious behaviour of a couple of Ikea Trådfri bulbs in our #HomeAssistant setup: at seemingly random times, unprompted by any automation or other obvious trigger, they turn on at very dim brightness. Logbook simply shows “turned on” without any additional context as to what did it.

Now I’m at the point where I’m trying to create an automation that captures this event and turns the light off, which I’m fine with if it works, but would still love to know why it happens.

tuomas_h, 26 days ago to random

Getting to geek out about old & delicious Mac OS X UI styling with @marioguzman and watching him just magically incorporate them into modern apps is such a treat. Give this one a go, it’s quite special. Brushed metal everything!
https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/112474247278775487

daringfireball, 1 month ago to random

Erasable Logo on Apple’s Homepage
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/06/apple-logo-eraseable

simonbs, 1 month ago to random

When I become president, I'll make sure that copy/pasting a GIF actually copies/pastes the entire GIF rather than a single frame.

tuomas_h, 2 months ago to StarTrek

Before the Picards settled on their chateau in France (and famously took to the stars as we know), they ran a small but successful family business in Vienna, Austria, selling security doors and locks. #startrek

tuomas_h, 3 months ago to random

One of the aspects I’ve enjoyed the most about moving homes so far has been to design bespoke 3D-printable things for the new place, such as fittings for cable management and a light fixture with hanging lamp cords for the dining table.

I don’t often get to do honest-to-goodness industrial design at work, so it feels good to flex that muscle a bit for personal projects.

stroughtonsmith, 3 months ago to random

Would you be /that/ upset if Apple never released another headset, though? 🥲

tuomas_h, 5 months ago to random

I don’t want to read your blog posts or emails you didn’t actually write. I don’t want to talk to hallucinating customer service chatbots. I don’t want a TV to “enhance” the picture based on what it thinks I’m watching.

ML/AI has legitimate and cool use cases, but the stupid “AI all the things” gold rush needs to calm down. Those computer resources are better spent elsewhere, or not at all.

tuomas_h, 5 months ago to random

The temperature widget for Apple Weather is not able to show double-digit low and high negative temperatures at the same time.

Designed by Apple in California where there’s no winter.

tuomas_h, 5 months ago to random

Today: just us, the frozen sea and falling snow. Bliss.

tuomas_h, 5 months ago to random

Really loved how my Mac welcomed me home to Finland with “Time Machine has to erase your backup history and start over”.

getflourish, 5 months ago to random German

New hobby: reporting scam ads on YouTube. The more I report the more I get.

Usually footage of Elon Musk or a TV clip paired with a “how to get rich fast” voice over. Usually made by “companies” in Hong Kong or Eastern Europe.

This is so disturbing and disgusting. I’d be fine skipping real ads but I only get this shit. Is this a tactic to get me to buy YouTube Premium?

tuomas_h, 6 months ago to random

Apple Music Replay is pretty embarrassing and FOMO-inducing when you put Spotify Wrapped next to it. Yet again.

I’ve seen many share their Wrapped on Instagram. Apparently one of the slides has a burger of the genres you listened to. It’s crazy and I love it.

tuomas_h, 6 months ago to random

Upgraded my work Mac to Sonoma. I haven’t yet noticed many improvements but I have noticed things that seem to either get worse or at least not any better:

System Settings is still a flaming dumpster fire where options are just randomly sprinkled into long lists.

And because we apparently didn’t complain enough about the yellow privacy dot in the menu bar for microphone access, there’s now also a giant orange box with a microphone icon in the menu bar whenever any app uses an audio input.

tuomas_h, 7 months ago to random

With this “pay or see ads” choice that Meta is giving their users (including myself), they keep drumming up how ads are valuable and helpful for users to discover new brands and products, almost as if people will miss out and have a worse experience if they choose not to see ads.

I don’t know about you, but during the time I’ve been seeing ads on Instagram, I haven’t seen a single one that I was actually interested in. None of them have made me go “I’m glad I saw this random brand in my feed”.

marioguzman, 7 months ago to random

Idk why I bought AirPods Max. They just sit in a drawer and I’ve used them probably collectively all of 5 listening hours.

I hate that they don’t have an on/off button. So much friction putting them in their case.

My Sony WH-1000XM5 I can just press the off button and leave them on my desk. Easy. Simple.

Waste of $550 on the Max.

ctietze, 7 months ago to random

Irregular update on my 93 y.o. grandmother's situation with regard to being able to use any modern device:

It's still impossible.

Try to listen to audio books in a hospital if you can't see well and screens don't work for you.

Try to use devices that require "normal" button presses, but your finger tips are too numb to register the button's bumps or tactile feedback.

~89.7% of the devices are touch-first or touch-only. The rest is also unusable.

You know what still works?

Tape decks.

tuomas_h, 7 months ago to random

Microsoft Word is 2,36 GB on disk on my M1 work Mac. That’s twice the size of the entire hard drive of my first laptop.

You can’t tell me a word processor has any justification of consuming so much storage space. It just bums me out how careless big companies are with their apps. They think disk space is free.