@samhenrigold hang on, I think I had an app called folx installed at one point. A download manager for Linux? Maybe?

@samhenrigold are used to operate one of these in college and that’s exactly what it is. I would bet that the software is outclassed by a lot of free stuff now.

For those videos that are *really* important, there's youtube-dl

@samhenrigold i have never seen those, link?

@samhenrigold What’s especially weird is the command line tools for all this still work fine. It’s just the GUI they broke.

@samhenrigold yup since the redesign, whatever they did with it, it’s far worse and I expect it won’t see any attention for another decade or so as is usually the way

In case you'll need to do it again, `sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/diskX` should do the trick to make the disk fully uninitialized. You don't even need to overwrite the whole thing, overwriting the partition table at the beginning is enough.

@samhenrigold is that legit? Young Biden is a little terrifying

@samhenrigold Does that mean we can delete Zoom, Teams, Meet, WebEx, and Slack?

@samhenrigold I’ve been webdevving longer, but never gained a skill for this. If something isn’t documented, it’s frustrating for me to find. Any tips on how you do it?

@samhenrigold been trying to get the endpoint for apple guest checkout shipment status, that’s been my final boss. Really wanna do a Siri shortcut that I can ask about the status of an apple order 😅

@samhenrigold i guess Samsung is just biding their time until under screen cameras, then that will be the next big thing.

@samhenrigold very cool! Do you know how long the exhibit is going on for?

This needs to be multiple-choice

@samhenrigold Hey something you’d probably want to know. My Mastodon app cuts the poll option text short, and I thought long pressing on it would reveal the complete string but then I accidentally just voted but couldn’t unvote.

i’ve also seen some posts (made in good faith!) that still kinda bug me, talking about how we’re now competing with the likes of Ivory, Mona, Icecubes. I like all of those apps, I don’t think we’re competing at all. Mastodon.app is designed as the default experience for new users — a gentler on-ramp. We don’t have any incentive to force people into using our app. Use whichever app you like, that freedom is what makes this place so beautiful.

@samhenrigold oh cool you’re working at mastodon!

@samhenrigold dick

we have a really old (1920s) neighborhood pool at the end of our street. 10 years ago, one of our neighbors had an engineer over to inspect it and deemed it was unsafe. he sat on it for 9 years, let his kids swim in it during the interim. he brings it up at an HOA meeting last year, “it might be time to replace it”. people are understandably like “why didn’t you share this earlier if it’s so unsafe? can you share the report?”. he cannot produce the report. the motion goes nowhere. (1/2)

(2/2) there was another meeting on Monday. a second neighbor sent the meeting notes in an email to everyone. one of the points was the first neighbor wanted to bring up replacing the pool before summer. a THIRD neighbor (freshly moved in) replied all, saying “we should remove the point about the pool. if (neighbor 1) thinks it’s SO unsafe, we would’ve done something about it earlier. at this point, i don’t believe he has a regard for anyone’s safety.” and people go fucking bonkers

@samhenrigold This is the type of inane drama I live for.