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06.03.2026 09:36
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mood
I had a Sobranie Black Russian phase.
It takes me 9 clicks to log in at the Social Security website, 8 if I remember to start with the tiny button in the corner and not the the giant one in the middle.
I feel like that's too many clicks for a login.
I think I understand why it's that many, and I think we can do better.
On the left, a leather gaming chair with all it's side bolstering and removable neck and lumbar pillows, in this case an NGEN-N model; and on the right, a proper office desk chair with excellent and adjustable lumbar support and configurable arm positions, ideal for using a mouse and keyboard at a desk for extended periods, in this case a Steelcase Leap.
The ergonomics of gaming chairs are awful.
A racing bucket seat is the worst of all possible inspirations for a desk chair. You're a gamer sitting at a desk, not a NASCAR driver fighting intense lateral G-forces at Daytona.
One of these chairs is fit for purpose. The other is a gimmick.
Spot on!
Absolutely. I tried to work in something like this but didn't have the characters for it. You are 100% correct, there are many who are anti-women.
The more I think about Meta and Apple's $100 billion dollars spent on VR headsets the more I'm convinced none of them have women in their lives.
How is a cohort that spends half a trillion dollars a year and an hour a day on hair and makeup to deal with smashing PCs to their faces with head straps?
Indeed!
My partner's on those, accounting for most most of the failures.
I was comfortable soldering USB-A but not USB-C so each time it's had to go to the repair shop. It's happened enough that we got her a second hand 2017 T470 with the barrel type connector as a backup.
closeup of a USB-C port with it's individual soldered connections and two securing lugs. this photo makes it clear the entire thing is fragile and flexing can easily break the solders for the many pin connectors to the motherboard.
The win is three fold.
1) the modular USB-C receptacle is easily replaced with no soldering.
2) the receptacles are mounted directly to the chassis.
3) the whole system, including the motherboard connection, is secured to the chassis with a bracket.
For comparison, here's the current situation.
Closeup photo of the corner of a ThinkPad T-series opened up by iFixit. The photo features the two USB-C ports, one removed, and their new integration with the chassis and motherboard. The USB ports themselves are replaceable, plugging into a well secured internal receptacle and locked in place with a metal bracket, shown removed, that should prevent flexing that breaks traditional soldered to the motherboard connections with repeated or rough plugging and unplugging use.
A new T-series ThinkPad teardown shows my biggest complaint may be resolved.
24 pin USB-C ports are fragile. In ThinkPads, they're soldered to the motherboard with just a couple of securing lugs.
I've had 6 failures on 3 laptops with the solder breaking lose.
This looks far more robust.
Also, while Tesla's 500 kW charger station growth peaked at ~4.5 stations per day, BYD is installing 1,500 kW chargers at the rate of ~70 stations per day.
BYD will have installed more of its latest generation charging stations this year alone, than Tesla has installed over the last 13 years.
BYD's 2nd generation Blade battery is out.
It charges from ten to 70 percent in just five minutes, and from ten to 97 percent in nine.
That's 350-400 miles of range from 5 minutes at a fast charger!
10 years ago, the top of the line was only about 35 miles of range for 5 minutes of charging.
Bloomberg reports:
"Sources: Oracle is planning to cut thousands of jobs as soon as March, among its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort"
This is the reason for nearly all the so-called "AI layoffs." It's about funding risky AI bets, not worker replacement.
Perhaps relevant:
The WCAG docs are frickin' amazing. I learned more about delivering accessible software there than anywhere. W3C, WAI and their A11Y contributors over the years are goddamn heroes for making it all exist.
Every designer, developer, UXer, etc. would benefit from even just a skim.
So, get a dim/black screen app you can turn on and off easily, have the shortcuts handy, use Firefox ;-) and visit accessible sites, perhaps starting with blogs from accessibility professionals :D
Experience joy, not pain.
(Hope this wasn't too prescriptive or preachy. Thanks for reading it all.)
To get the most from a first SR experience, if nothing more you want the keyboard shortcuts visible in front of you. Don't frustrate yourself (until it's the content's fault and not yours ;-) That's not representative of a typical SR user's experience.
I have typical vision and I learned NVDA over several years because I wanted the power it compared to reading and visual navigation. Speech rate of 3X my reading speed, the most amazing set of keyboard shortcuts imaginable, and all the off-screen structural awareness I get, it's sooo good.
I don't recommend the blindfold. IMO, that's more harmful than helpful. I can't fit the reasons why in a single reply so please forgive me the self replies.
Most SR users are very skilled. If you're not, you may come away thinking SRs are clumsy or burden when they're absolutely not.
I've got some software accessibility experience. Let me know if I can help in any way. As a start, these are cool people to check out, get to know.
Léonie Watson, Adrian Roselli, Stéphanie Walter, Scott O'Hara, Hidde de Vries, Sara Soueidan, Heydon Pickering, Lainey Feingold, and Marcy Sutton
mood
Remember about six months ago when that bullshit AI actress, Tilly Norwood, was all over the place and folks were calling it the end of Hollywood? Has Tilly been featured in any major productions yet? Movies? TV shows? Commercials? Anything?
BYD's Z9 GT, a 4-door EV in profile
BYD's Z9 GT can travel ~650 miles on a charge.
Stellan Skarsgård knocked it out of the park as Luthen Rael in Andor.
Across nearly 50 years of Star Wars, there haven't been many performances equal to his, despite the stroke he suffered between season 1 and 2.
Manifesto - by Nemik There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this, Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this: Try.
The best writing in the entire Star Wars universe
60 Minutes: You said AI could wipe out half of all entry level white collar jobs and spike unemployment from 10-20 percent in the next 1-5 years.
Anthropic CEO: It's hard to imagine there won't be some significant job impact there.
They won't stand behind their own claims from just 6 months ago.
In pretty much every discussion I read concerning generational conflict or differences, it's about Gen Z, Millennials or Baby Boomers, and Gen X is almost never mentioned.
Is Gen X just really great, so none of the other generations have a problem with us and we can cruise mostly under the radar?
Ecosystem lock-in is a lie propagated by the ecosystem owners and their fanboy stooges.
I've been using a mix of Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android since they launched.
You're fine using Android with Mac or iPhone and Windows.
Get a compatible password manager, and everything else just works.
You're in for a treat :D
all great points. probably all true. we can and should fight against the spying *and* the apathy.
"The main ones were, the across ones who ate grass, and the up and down ones who ate the across ones."
Philomena Cunk on dinosaurs :D
