Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)Over the past few days I learned more than a single human mind should be forced to comprehend about USB (form factors, protocols, and the relationships between them) and my conclusion is:
cursed. burn it all.
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)well...... I added the new partitions I needed, but now when I try to recover from my backup, it sees nothing (another computer sees everything properly, so I can still get the files), and when I try to reinstall the OS from scratch, it can't contact the recovery server. Hm.
Gonna try just not reinstalling Mac I guess?
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)Debian also really wants internet. It's asking me many times if I'm sure I want to continue without. (It can recognize the existence of the network I should be on, but it can't connect.) This is worrying.
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)I very carefully backed up my old laptop, assembled everything I should need to install Debian, and then pulled the trigger to erase it. Wish me luck.
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)well...... I added the new partitions I needed, but now when I try to recover from my backup, it sees nothing (another computer sees everything properly, so I can still get the files), and when I try to reinstall the OS from scratch, it can't contact the recovery server. Hm.
Gonna try just not reinstalling Mac I guess?
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)I very carefully backed up my old laptop, assembled everything I should need to install Debian, and then pulled the trigger to erase it. Wish me luck.
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)One of the hills I will die on: Everything is politics.
Whatever you're drawing a line and saying it isn't politics, I beg to differ. Politics have always been life and death for swaths of the population, and quality of life for many more. School funding, healthcare, immigration and asylum, there are people downstream of every single political decision. Politics can be arguing over what to name a particular street, but it is also, and has always been, who lives or dies. For the ways it probably is for you too, think funding hospitals, determining when it's legal to deny care, road safety, airline regulations, food safey, banned choke holds... heck, it's also the ecological regulations that prevent pollution that causes climate change that causes the kinds of massive floods, storms, etc. that decimate communities. Politics is precisely the big-picture, local and global planning that shapes so much of our lives.
It's overwhelming and paralyzing to care about everything at once, and it doesn't help to do that to yourself, so there's nothing wrong with filtering out a lot of it. This is just a commentary on the line of thought that any given event isn't politics anymore once it affects people. On the contrary, that is exactly what makes it politics.
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)How often does a Certified Adult mop the floors? Asking for an Adult in Training. I know they covered this but I can't find it in my notes.
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)I am a god.
I have dismissed this notification thousands of times manually, maybe tens of thousands.
If you want to replicate, the app is called Notifilter, works on Android, toggle notif permissions on for the app itself, check the box for include system tools when setting up the filter, enter "samsung account" for the app name (it auto expands to com.osp.app.signin) and put the exact title text of the notif as the regex (the leading and trailing slashes were added by the app).
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)Mmmmm, just a bit of onion, harissa and olive oil really dresses up ricotta spinach tortellini. Next time more harissa!
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)I'm trying out Internxt for cloud file storage and I'm finding I hate the X logo enough to look for alternatives. (I assume they used it before X-nÊe-Twitter did but the association is unavoidable now.) I already moved everything from Google Drive to Internxt. I'd partially migrated to Proton before but ended up backing out. Is this my life now? Lugging my digital belongings from one plce to another once a year or so?
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)Update: have figured out how to substitute the app icon for the main and helper apps, but still not the drive folder icon or menu bar icon. Websearching anything about the menu bar icons inevitably turns up how to rearrange icons, not how to substitute different ones. Anybody know?
Further in the weeds: I can locate one Icon? file for the drive folder on mac that I can replace but it doesn't actually update. Also it's zero bytes but not a link, so I think this isn't the right place to change it but I'm not sure what is. I already substituted anywhere the icon showed up in Contents/Resources. Can't find any place where the menu bar version might be stored.
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)I'm trying out Internxt for cloud file storage and I'm finding I hate the X logo enough to look for alternatives. (I assume they used it before X-nÊe-Twitter did but the association is unavoidable now.) I already moved everything from Google Drive to Internxt. I'd partially migrated to Proton before but ended up backing out. Is this my life now? Lugging my digital belongings from one plce to another once a year or so?