We were going to check out a comedian’s set after seeing a snippet on Tiktok. Even though the TV audio was set as one of the Apple TV audio outputs, sound from the Apple TV was only playing via a HomePod Mini in a different room. I had to leave the YouTube app and the video I was watching to go into the system settings to set the audio output to the TV speakers only.
It’s not just me.
I’m thinking about the uncertainty that I have, and that I see others demonstrate, regarding social media services. Do I hang on, hoping for the best, or do I cut ties because I can provably show toxicity? If I cut ties, am I abdicating responsibility? How responsible am I?
Our social media is imperfect, like we are. All of our good intentions come back to us with their unintended consequences. And there it is, all on the record.
Perhaps moreso on the holidays than at other times, but always:
There are too many dirty dishes to do your kitchen prep.
The bag for the garbage can was just changed, how is it so full?
How has it already been a week since I did the laundry?
Watched It’s a Wonderful Life, again, today. I’m not sure how many times I’ve seen it from start to finish. It’s easy to point to the happy ending to instantly paint it as “Hollywood” or too simplistic. But if you’re a survivor, the titular message is profound.
Bad habit: Posting directly from the web-based editor. And correcting. And correcting. And correcting. I’ve made a small investment in editors. I should use one that points out the spelling errors, at least? It would be cool if I didn’t post basic errors for all to see.
Just read into Keybase documentation. Mastodon software supports Keybase, per-instance. However, due to what I’m guessing is massive proliferation, Keybase isn’t adding more instances at the current time.
I’ve waffled on Twitter. Disabled, re-enabled, and again just diabled cross-posting. Before the edict on barring Mastodon links in profiles, I had used Debirdify to learn that about 106 of the accounts I follow had federated accounts elsewhere. That’s less than 10 percent of the total number of accounts I follow there. The news escaping the Twitter bubble about the owner and his policies and his actions don’t really give me hope.
It’s probably just me, but only today I noticed that when you hover over a profile image in the Micro.blog timeline, the profile information for that account appears. #TIL