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@pratik That is a good point!
But if you still want to cross-post, I have two suggestions: 1. Maybe Croissant ads Micro.blog support in time?
2. If you're already paying for Setapp ('cause it's too expensive for this if not), I'd check out using the Inbox in Ulysses for micro posts. Publish to Micro.blog from there, and have it cross-post onwards.
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@patrickrhone Folkehøyskoler are amazing! What's her general interests? I might have some advice for schools. :)
(For instance, the one I went to was all-music.)
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@numericcitizen Yeah – there's something specifically wrong with Chromium browsers! I want to look into this today – so I made this post to test with, to make sure I don't break anything else. ☺️
Could also be an excuse to improve the performance on my site in general, heh. And thanks for the comment, so I can test the looks of those as well! 😁
(Slightly unrelated: If you haven't already, I recommend checking out Zen! And not only because my blog currently works better in it. ;) )
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@silbey.bsky.social Yeah! I guess those who complain about both (frequent spec bumps, and no updates) would say they want frequent large updates. 🤷🏻♂️
(BTW, did you write this comment via Bluesky login from the blog post? Can you see, or did you get notified about, this reply I've written from Micro.blog?)
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@jarrod Hehe, yeah — I could see them thinking that. But honestly, I don’t think catering to those who want it in the front is the main reason. I think it’s as simple as: «We want the Mac to have a small footprint, but also it having a decent port selection. Guess we gotta out some of them in the front. 🤷🏻♂️» And I think they put the right ones in the front. 🙂
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@jarrod I honestly get it: They could either cater to those who want it in the back (more permanent use) or to those who want it in the front (probably more for those who just want to stick in a pair of headphones from time to time — less permanent stuff). Not to both.
I dont know the numbers in each group: But there is more room for ports in the front, and, as you say, there’s lots of solutions for the back. Even this little bugger!
So I guess I don’t find it strange. But I get that some would prefer it be otherwise. 🙂
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@jsonbecker Yeah, probably same for me… I guess maybe only stuff like working with video over the network is the only reason to get the upgraded one..?
I don’t have a lot of cash for upgrades at the moment, but would still love to have it for a long time. But I still think 16 GB is enough for my use case. 🤔
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@jsonbecker I get that! However, see my answer here (to avoid repeating myself ☺️).
Edit: Before I saw your answer there, I also added: «(But i have no problems imagining someone thinking: «I get why Apple made Choice A — but Choice B would’ve fit me better.»
Sent from my iPhone 13 Mini 😏)»
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@pratik Ooh, that's a good idea! I'm bad at Git, of course – but as a maths teacher, I think I'm pretty good at explaining. And, importantly, understanding what causes people to trip up.
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@pratik Nice. I'm doing the terminal in general next! I'm the type of person who wants to understand things. And so many times, when coming across a guide that involves the terminal, it's clear they assume a lot of knowledge. So I want to do a really basic explainer, about how I've tried to learn what things like "shell", "CLI", etc. mean. :) And also how you can set up your terminal to be more noob friendly. (Like being able to select text like a normal human being! 😤)
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@numericcitizen Thanks a lot! It took a long time — but was fun. ☺️ Would like to make more later!
I thought the inline images would be a bigger deal, but «luckily» I couldn’t find a way to use inline images (Markdown images in Ulysses) while getting lazy loading to work. So my blog posts don’t have inline images anyway. 😅
As mentioned, Paper can display images in Preview Mode if they’re online — so I’ve considered adapting a Shortcut to upload an image to Micro.blog and add s link to it. But currently I just use NotePlan for notes that use images (which is quite few, when I exclude blog posts). 🙂
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@pratik Wow, thanks! 🫶🏻
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@hunsanger Thanks! 🙏🏻 In terms of usability and polish, Bear is my favourite of those you mention. But NotePlan has the magic sauce when it comes to tasks and calendar stuff. And the usability is better than Obsidian, so it's at an interesting middle ground there. I also don't love that I can't access my notes with other apps with Bear. I recently wrote a detailed review of the Markdown editor Paper here (with good words towards Bear as well), where I tried to show why I prefer to write in that when I can. So I use that in conjunction with NotePlan. However, even though I've used NotePlan for a while, I'm still in a bit of a limbo in terms of my systems… I just can't find an app that does exactly what I want, so I sort of try to have my systems be noncommittal. But I'll might write more on both that an NotePlan later! Love getting suggestions. 🙂
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(…) but there are plenty of other equally good options.
If we’re talking ecosystems, I simply don’t agree with this. 👆🏻 There are just so many good third-party apps available for Apple platforms… And things like the privacy is worse on Android/Windows. But there are good options for their services available! @pratik
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What I have trouble abiding by is how people have a fundamental disagreement with the direction of the company and still persist with it. Vote with your feet, I say.
I'm pretty critical of lots of things Apple does. The problem is that the alternatives are either worse (Microsoft/Google) or not viable for me (Linux etc.). 🙃
Where I've landed is buying Apple gear (mostly used), while choosing other services. I mostly pay Setapp (or developers directly) for apps, Tidal for music, Dropbox for cloud storage, etc. I do sometimes pay for Apple Arcade, though – as that's a service I want to succeed. And I also have a bit of iCloud storage for photos. @pratik
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@Denny Very good points!
For reference: My iPhone 13 Mini (🫶🏻) is on 81%.
I’ve never used the «only charge to 80%» (the battery is much better than the 12 Mini, but I still need 100%…) — but I have always used the thing that waits until morning to charge all the way up.
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@pratik Cool! I'd be interested in hearing your experience – with Setapp in general, and apps from the list. 🙂
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@canion Thanks! 😊
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@chrisgeidner @jsit In Norwegian, that type of link (which should always be included), is called a «Heger link».
Anders Heger is a Norwegian book editor, who always used to «rightfully» pester people for it on Twitter. 😛
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@hutaffe Yeah, that’s fair!
I hope that the «France business» gets them to get their shit together… (But I don’t hold high hopes.) Like, I just want a good chat app! Why does the only one that focuses hard on that have to also do a bunch of other crap?
In the meantime, I hope Signal and Matrix gets better. I feel like my future lies there — but at the moment they’re so much worse that I don’t want to push it on family et al, heh.
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@BestofTimes Yeah, sorry… 🤦🏻♂️ I’ve tried to talk him into lowering it! But it is great. 😅 I bought the lifetime one sometime I had a bit of extra money after a job. 🙂
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@BestofTimes So, I kinda got a recommendation: Paper is an amazing Markdown editor (the files can be anywhere, for instance in Dropbox). But it’s way too expensive. 🙊
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@patrickrhone They’re not expensive — they’re costly. 🙂
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@patrickrhone Oh, yes! (That’s the exact model my wife has — which you can see images of.)
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@grubz Yup! 😍