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If the #AppleVisionPro is the next "iPhone moment"...
Then I'll wait for the 3rd gen.
Or the cheaper, more open Android equivalent.

I could wait for Microsoft's answer, but it would probably be too late and fail to garner support from developers, even if it is better than the alternatives.

in reply to Gordon Pedersen

Microsoft should just save themselves the embarrassment and not even try to compete against Apple on this (remember the Zune? The Microsoft phone?) There’s a lot of money for them to make in this space if they stick to software and subscriptions.
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@Magnus Hedemark
You're probably right.
I was thinking that they already have the HoloLens they could build onto as a competitor... But then I remembered they also had Windows phones/PDAs before the iPhone hit, too.

Don't bother repeating history, Microsoft.



Most mood trackers I've seen just rank from negative to positive, and I feel like there's a lot of nuance there that is lost.

If I have a negative day, it doesn't necessarily mean I was ☹️. I might've been angry or irritable or just sick.

Has anyone seen any good alternatives?

It seems like a problem that is likely solved somewhere already.

#mood #tracking

in reply to Gordon Pedersen

I was perhaps thinking of just tracking multiple axes...
Like a rating of 1-5 for each of "pessimistic optimistic", "serene manic", "peaceful angry", etc.
(I'd need to come up with a definitive list)

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Pleas follow @shanselman so we can force him to post more. Awesome person. All kinds of cool stuff.

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PSA for my friends:

Mastodon has no algorithms. That might be a tad weird, especially for people who come from Xitter or FB where a Like actually triggers something.

Here, a Like triggers only one thing: a smile on my face. Thank you.

If you think more people should read a post, you must boost it. Then your friends can see it in their timeline. Nothing else.

There is no algorithm. You see posts by who you follow and what those people share by boosting.

Simple.

It's people, not algos.

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Ran Prieur on AI: "AI takes words and pictures, and jumbles them up and puts them together in intelligible ways. It's not a way of creating stuff, but a way of exploring and remixing stuff that humans have already done. So it's basically the same thing the internet was already doing, except instead of searching the internet for a whole human-made thing that you're interested in, you can have the AI do a Frankenstein of a million human-made things."


@Fedilab Apps
I recently organised everyone I'm following into lists, and I found I have no need for my home timeline.
I'm now using the single toolbar and wanted to hide the home timeline altogether. But when I did so, something weird happened and a bunch of my lists and timelines got duplicated.
Is this a known issue?

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Couldn't sleep last night, started writing a manifesto, couldn't focus today, finished and posted to my personal blog.

blog.webb.page/2024-01-16-mani…

It's essentially a call-to-action. The internet we miss is zombified; let's work on a new one, with intention.

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So, as my own personal portal to the #fediverse, I'm selfhosting a single-user #friendica (friendi.ca/) instance. I'm still learning, but I can easily connect to #mastodon peeps as well as following #RSS feeds (and I'm starting to reach out and explore "forums", like #lemmy instances.
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However, I mostly interface to it via the #fedilab app (fedilab.app, @[email protected]), which saves my positions in feeds and, crucially, allows me to seamlessly follow external instances, such as the lovely people at pkm.social

I wish I could do this in #friendica itself, too.

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#ActivityPub is great and all, but it really needs a means of #NomadicIdentity so I can actually join a server like pkm.social (for both reading and posting) while still maintaining my own identity on my own server. I feel like that's the missing piece of the puzzle.
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Another thing I'm liking about #friendica the "saved folders" which basically act as private tags I can add to any post on my server (and #fedilab allows me to add posts from remote servers for actions like starring), and I can bring up the posts with those tags whenever I want.
It's like the bookmark feature on #mastodon, but supercharged.

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Friends have previously told me they could see me getting a job somewhere just to fix a bug or bad UX choices that bother me.

In absolutely unrelated news, does anyone know if the Microsoft Teams team is hiring?


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Learned a new word today:

respair

From the 16th century. It means "fresh hope, and recovery from despair."

I wish you all a year filled with respair.

Please feel free to pass it on to others; this one needs to be spread around, I think.

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Oh no! My 20-year-old minidisc-capable stereo (minidisc.wiki/equipment/sony/b…) looks like it might have given up.
There was an electrical storm yesterday, and one bolt of lightning did hit quite close to home, but no breakers or anything seemed to be tripped, and nothing else has malfunctioned.
But when I try to turn the stereo on, the backlight does not turn on, it flashes "STANDBY" and then turns off again.
Hopefully there's something I can do to save it...

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New year, so quick #logseq resolution, I'm going to mark the wins with #success so in the end of the year I have a log on all the things I managed.

First entry, cleaned the attic!


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It's that time of year where one reflects on the year that has passed and looks forward to the new one. A lot of people like to set a "theme" for the new year, which is something I've not done before.

But next year, I think I'd like to set a theme of #focus

Focus is something I constantly struggle with, and I really need to step up my game.

So how does one practice focus? What does that even mean? That is what I'm setting out to discover.


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INCREDIBLE fanart by @death.au !

A perfect mashup 😅

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@Fedilab Apps
I absolutely love the ability of #fedilab to be able to remote follow instances. I've set up my own single-user instance (#friendica) and being able to follow instances is awesome for my very blank timeline.

I have a question - more technical than a feature request - is it possible/feasible to post to another instance's shared inbox endpoint to show in their local public feed?