[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 points 4 hours ago

The US election cycle is continuous. Someone will win in November, there’ll likely be some bullshit to keep it in the news until inauguration day, then give a week before the party that lost starts the process of finding their pick to contest the next election.

From a foreign perspective it’s tedious as fuck. Our elections are called and wrapped up within 8 weeks, and even that feels too long.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 points 7 hours ago

I hate Word with the power of a trillion suns. Word is our continuing punishment from God for Adam and Eve nicking that damn apple.

I use Pages for 90% of my word processing work, but there are times when my documents have to be accessed by Windows users. Those times make me sad.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 23 points 15 hours ago

I’d ride the CHUNGUS 3000.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago

The truth is that they know all this, they just don’t care.

Politicians of the centre/left don’t tend to attack conservatives in this way, so the end result is a lot of noise about how bad one side is, regardless of whether their guy does it too. The noise is what they want, because it engenders uncertainty.

All of this is just kinda funny though. They have fuck all of substance on Walz.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 14 points 2 days ago

I do have ADHD, and while I can manage meal prep, 99% of the time I just can’t be bothered. But I force myself to do it, because the alternative is eating a bag of crisps and a big bar of chocolate and feeling like crap all afternoon.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 days ago

Couple of weeks back I was on holiday in Corfu. The number work has for me - and by extension the people who I work with - is my personal phone number, for which the company pays me a small stipend every month.

I was genuinely expecting a couple of calls because that’s just how it rolls, but nope. Got nothing. It was lovely.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 days ago

Exactly. So she’d be dressed like a lumberjack as opposed to working as a lumberjack.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 days ago

“Advertising doesn’t work on me!” I mutter smugly, before loading up the Apple keynote to see what my next phone will do.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 days ago

and those that do post don't really interact with others

I’ve found quite the opposite on Mastodon. I get WAY more interaction on there than I ever did on Twitter.

I do a radio show on Monday nights. Despite having more followers on Twitter I never really managed to attract many listeners. Dropped it for a few years and started up again a few months back, publicising solely through Mastodon. Engagement with it is three or four times what it was before.

It’s essentially a request show, and there have been a couple of weeks where I’ve not had to pick any songs to fill the time, all of it has been filled by listener requests.

That said, that’s only my experience, it may be different for others.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 33 points 4 days ago

checks community

Yep, we're in the right place, boys.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 4 points 4 days ago

Not with that attitude.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 6 points 4 days ago

Farting in the office must be doubly awkward.

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Swiping in Finder (thelemmy.club)

Can anyone shed any light on why you can't swipe back and forward in Finder with a trackpad? The option in Settings allows for two finger swipe between pages in eg. Safari, but that doesn't extend to Finder, and I can't work out why?

I've been able to activate it using BetterTouchTool, but it seems like a truly bizarre omission, considering how much Apple have optimised macOS for trackpad use.

I don't know why I've never really thought about it before, but now I can't stop...

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Bishops Waltham palace (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by DJDarren@thelemmy.club to c/pics@lemmy.world

Well, what’s left of it.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by DJDarren@thelemmy.club to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

First up, I realise that Automator does so much more than Shortcuts. But my question is: why?

I have a couple of spreadsheets that I want to be reminded of once a week so I can keep an eye on the dates they contain. My stupid ADHD brain is likely to forget to check them, and a reminder is only as useful as whether I'm able to act on it at that moment in time. So I've set up an automation to open them up at a specific time. Given that Shortcuts on macOS doesn't support automations (as far as I can tell), the only way to do this is;

  • Create a shortcut that will open the documents I need to open.

  • Create an automator application that uses a bash script to open the shortcut.

  • Create a calendar entry where the alert is set to open the automator app.

So I guess I want to know why Shortcuts (for macOS) can't run automations, why Calendar can't open Shortcuts, and why Shortcuts didn't subsume everything that Automator can do? Who at Apple thought it was perfectly right and proper to have to distinct and powerful apps essentially offering the same functions, but that neither of them fully encompass the abilities of the other?

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Flat Roof Pub (thelemmy.club)

Thought you lot might want to know where you can buy a polar bear cub.

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As much as I don’t like negative threads, there’s one thing in iOS that really irritates me, and I want to air it…

Pressing and holding the tab button in Safari to access tab groups, should have a haptic response.

Because it doesn’t, I often end up opening the tab view instead, so I have to huff a little, hit Done, then try again. I don’t know why it annoys me that it doesn’t because none of the other buttons in Safari do, but I feel like it should.

No, I have not contacted Tim Apple about this. Yes, I probably should.

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submitted 11 months ago by DJDarren@thelemmy.club to c/adhd@lemmy.world

I've been using the free version of Cold Turkey blocker on my Mac for a while now, but it doesn't offer an iOS/iPad app, so there's nothing to stop me from just picking up my phone to fuck about online when I should be working, so I'm not keen on spending £30 on the full app.

There are other alternatives like Freedom.to, but they want £3 a month / £25 a year, and there's a bit of me that rejects the idea of having to pay a recurring fee for the maintenance of what is essentially just a glorified IP block list. It feels kinda predatory, like those of us with ADHD have been fucked over by apps and sites being designed to be little dopamine boxes, and they have the only solution, but we have to pay for it.

So, do any of you use a similar app? If so, what, and how much does it cost?

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