sheridan

joined 1 year ago
[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Switch remaster has a motion controls option. I quite like it. Is that comparable to how it played on the Wii?

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I use it on a Homepod Mini to toggle different lights and a fan. In my previous apartment I used it to control a window AC. Sometimes I tell it to pause my AppleTV if I can't find the remote quick enough. I use it with FindMy when I lose my keys or bag or whatever else (I have a lot of AirTags). Other than controlling devices I mostly use it for weather reports and timers.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (8 children)

From my experience, touch typing and using all fingers (home row technique I think it's called) is less common among boomers, especially men. Even in professional settings I've seen men peck at their keyboards with just their pointer fingers. The slowness of this technique might explain the use of abbreviations at the desktop?

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

My partner has been using a Samsung Fold for two years, the one that folds open into a small tablet. It looked nice at first but it hasn’t held up well. There’s this film on the screen that you’re not supposed to remove and it’s deteriorating fast. There are these little patches on the screen that look sort of like bubbles. Plus even from the start you could see the crease in the middle of the screen.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago (9 children)

My mom was permabanned from Facebook in 2020 for constantly posting anti-vax nonsense so she just went to places like Gab and Parlor. 😑

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I use the TouchID on my MacBook several times a day because it unlocks the password manager and wallet.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Also, macOS has some built in PDF editing tools in Preview. You can add text, signatures, draw lines and shapes, highlight, add notes, and split or combine PDFs.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 50 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I wasn’t even aware a new Aquaman movie was being released.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Apple Podcasts app on any platform. If you subscribe to like more than few dozen podcasts it runs at a snail’s pace even on the latest M1 and M2 devices from my experience. I turned off automatic downloads and it still ran slow. I don’t know why because a podcast app should be little different than an rss reader in theory, no?

Anyway I switched to Overcast last year and haven’t looked back.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My mom was drinking diluted hydrogen peroxide daily for a while because some quack on YouTube claimed it prevents/cures cancer.

 

Is it possible to create a shortcut that could have 2 or more apps open side by side together in stage manager? E.g., have Ivory, Discord, and Messages open together and specify that Discord takes the right half of the screen and Ivory and Messages split the left half.