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@numericcitizen @pratik It's 100% true that the iPads are underutilized - now more than ever. But the software story were never going to be told today, so I don't know why people were expecting otherwise.
If the outlook is just as poor after WWDC, it's a different discussion!
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@jhamre Tusen takk! Ja, og i tillegg tror jeg det er aktivt skadelig for en viktig sak...
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@amerpie Yeah, that's fair! I guess I don't care about menu bar apps as much, as Bartender just hides them. But it would probably be good for my RAM to reduce the amount!
I use Raycast a bunch - and then it's practical to have the clipboard separatly, as it struggles a bit with running different things at once. But yeah, I would never say Paste is worth it, compared to Raycast, if you're not on Setapp. :) (But I guess I'm not offended, heh.)
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@amerpie Why did you choose Raycast over Paste? I've used the former (and PasteBot) - but I like Paste the most out of all of them.
In Paste, I really like: - The preview window in general - That I can edit and save snippets in categories - The paste stack
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@atlefren Ja - men for å spesifisere: Det handler like mye om å ikke miste syne av de jentene som også hadde hatt glede av disse "gutte-tiltakene". :)
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@atlefren Ja - dét er enda et godt eksempel på hvordan det bare roter det til å snakke om "kjønn" når det ikke er dét som er den relevante faktoren.
Ja, individuell tilpasning er alltid bra - men dyrt, som du sier. Men en generelt mer praktisk skolehverdag (kanskje noe av det valgbart på et vis) vil nok gagne mange uansett.
Men poenget mitt med dette innlegget er ikke primært å snakke om løsningene (selv om kona sa jeg burde skrive litt mer om disse 😁) - men at jeg vil at når vi diskuterer dem, så snakker vi om "løsninger for de som trenger en mer praktisk skolehverdag" (ellerno), og ikke "løsninger for gutter i skolen".
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@numericcitizen Oh, I read Toulouse! :(
(I'm Norwegian, but lived there for six months last year. :) My wife is a French teacher, and took a bachelor there - and I was along for the ride. :D We made a friend from Canada, btw! But funnily enough, the guy was fluent in French, but not from French Canada.)
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@forteller Hah - lurt! Jeg rakk ikke gjøre det før det kom en hyggelig ung mann og hjalp meg, "dessverre".
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@EpsilonTime Nice to hear the import wheelhouse well!
Even though it's not the app I use, I recommend starting with a trial for iA Writer! It works well with local files, can publish to Micro.blog (including micro posts), and had some really neat features specifically for writers. 🙂
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@maique Excited to hear your thoughts!
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@drose I absolutely get that point! But I personally prefer Mastodon here, because some people I follow boosts great stuff - but you can still choose to turn off all boost and on/off per account. So you can taylor it to how you want it.
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@pratik Ah, I see. Yeah, I hoped to lose it to Liverpool instead of City myself. 😅
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@pratik I actually have hopes for Tottenham at least drawing against City! They're far from as frightening as last year, IMO. Forest looked dangerous - and that's saying something!
(Didn't know you were a fellow gooner! 🙌🏻)
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@EpsilonTime Yeah, Markdown. It's the same as the text editor here in the timeline uses. So it's plain text with a bit of styling.
There are som variables, but these are the basics:
# Heading 1## Heading 2(etc.)
**Two asterisks around stuff for bold.**_One asterisk or underscore around stuff for italics._* Start a line with an asterisk like this (or a dash) to make lists.[This is the visible text in hyperlinks](https://link.com)> Start with this to make block quotesI really like it, as it's quick to type, and easy to edit and transfer from program to program. And you never get that "Uhm, do I type bold or not now?", as you know where the double asterisks are. :) I've always liked styling and emphasis when I type, so .txt becomes a bit too rough for me, heh.
Do you know if all the old files just get the current date when I import?
I sadly don't know how you "import files" here. Here's what I did when I moved my stuff over with Ulysses:
I had the plain text files I wanted to publish on Micro.blog (from Wordpress) in a folder I chose.
I added that folder in Ulysses as an "external folder".
I clicked on the file (called "sheets" in Ulysses, as you can combine different files to one text - so you can move around chapters and stuff) I wanted to publish, and hit "Publish".
Then I could choose if I wanted it to go out now, or if I wanted to "Schedule". Then I chose to schedule, but the date I set was back in time (the original date).
This worked perfectly. 👍🏻 But there might be better, and less manual, ways to do it!
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@amerpie Yeah, I adore using a trackpad. Usually, when doing basic browsing and computer stuff, I have my left hand on the trackpad and the right on the keyboard.
I have Window management (as detailed here) and opening of programs on the left hand, and a bunch of guestures on the trackpad:
- App Exposé and Mission Control with four fingers up/Down (this isn't from BetterTouchTool, but the rest is)
- Four fingers right = Cmd + T (new tab)
- Four fingers left = Cmd + W (close tab/window)
- Three fingers left/right = Switch tabs (the hotkey it fires is adapted to each program, as they differ)
- Three finger tap = "Middle click" (which usually opens stuff in a new tab. Can also be set as Cmd+Click)
- Three finger click = Cmd+R (refresh)
Going to a mouse is a big downgrade, also when it comes to easy zoom and horizontal scroll. And I just don't like the Magic Mouse, heh. (I do have a mouse around, though - mostly for games. Hence Linnear Mouse.)
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@amerpie Yeah, I don't really need it myself, as I almost never use mice - I was just curious. 🙂 Also I sometimes recommend Linnear Mouse to people who have mouse issues on Mac, so wondered when I perhaps should recommend this one instead.
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@amerpie Do you know how it compares to LinearMouse?
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@numericcitizen If you look at the photos, you can see that'd exactly the screen(s) we have as well. 😊
We have one of them directly in the Thunderbolt port of the Mac (this screen has a bunch of extra stuff connected to it as well), and the other in the adapter above and then in the Mac's HDMI port.
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@EpsilonTime Oh, both those programs use .md files. So pretty plain texty! ☺️
I like Ulysses, because it's a nice place to write in general (on all Apple platforms), and I can publish directly to Micro.blog, including scheduled and with keywords. I can also have the files wherever I want, so I can access them in other programs when I want.
What do you write in now? If you already edit it something you like, that's fine of course! But I really dislike web editors myself, so wanted to say that you don't need to use that here. 😊
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@numericcitizen Sorry - dongle wasn't the correct word, I think! It's an adapter.
IMO that's a non-issue when it comes to a desktop computer. (Unless one wants a reason to buy something new, that is - which I could totally see myself doing. 😅)
It's not the thing where you run two screens into one box which then goes to the Mac etc!
Edit: I mean, would you really notice that this thing 👇🏻 was between your second screen's cable and desktop machine? 😉
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@numericcitizen I'm not looking for a Mac myself atm, but if I were, I think I would be in a pretty similar position as you. I have a base model MacBook Pro 14" (so M1 Pro chip and 16 GB RAM) - and I'm struggling a bit with the RAM amount. But it feels like my base "spending" is around 10 GB, so now I have about 6 GB to spare. That means going to 24 GB (with an M3 chip) would more than double my wiggle room (6 -> 14). :)
But would I then notice going from a Pro chip to a base chip?? Hard to know what counts the most, heh.
BTW - hit me up if you ever want to go for having two screens on your M1! It's pretty easy, but you need a very specific dongle. 😅
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@numericcitizen Here's my band's M1 Mini running two screens. 😎 (One through USB-C and one through HDMI.)
And a dock like the other picture (from this The Verge article) gets you more ports. 🤠
But yeah, the price jump from Mini with Pro, to Studio isn't that large!
How much RAM do you have currently, btw? Is that the bottle neck, or the chip?
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@numericcitizen Maybe a Mini with a Pro chip could be something in the middle..?
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@EpsilonTime I moved from WordPress to Micro.blog recently, and I'm very pleased! I wasn't that long on Wordpress, and didn't do any automatic transfers - but feel free to ping me if you have questions, and I'll answer as best as I can.
(My best advice is to use something like or Ulysses to write in and publish from!)
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@teisam Men takk for modig tjeneste for menneskeheten! 🫡