An orange in an apple orchard
How to generate moments of confusion in the morning:
Step 1: turn off your monitor, so you hit the power button when the desktop won’t wake by mouse clicks.
Step 2: leave your keyboard switched to your iPad, so you start typing your login password into the wrong machine when prompted.
Step 3: remember how you carried out steps 1 and 2.
This might actually be what I’ve been looking for.
Ordinarily, my workspace looks like this:
laptop | monitor | tablet
And frequently my mouse pad is closer to the monitor with my keyboard shifted a bit to the left. Making it easier to access my tablet and shift its and my position as I work.
But a 14″ Latitude is kinda chunky and takes up a lot of bench space. Along with being too short and far away from my peepers to really use as a second monitor without crowding my Bluetooth keyboard. So, I’ve been thinking of late how nice it would be if I could open the system and elevate it closer to the vertical.
Such that the laptop would effectively be optimized for use as a secondary monitor rather than for using the keyboard and touchpad. Because let’s face it: I’ve got externals for that, and prefer it that way when docked.
Otherwise, I may as well just shut the lid and slide it out of the way; for the time being it’s mostly serving as a keeping-tabs workspace rather than a working monitor. E.g. I’ll leave a terminal there that I’m waiting for a long program to finish running, or for a summary of incoming mail. And then do everything on my external monitor, that’s better positioned; or on my tablet that’s more portable.
So freaking tempted….
https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1480613325
While I’m not particularly fond of Photoshop, and there are people who aren’t entirely happy with its first showing on iPad, but I like the concept.
For Adobe: they can either take the path of being a leader as iPadOS grows or be left behind as others grow with the platform. So it’s good sense for them to maximize what Photoshop can do on the platform. I’m also pretty sure their are crazy people at Adobe who would like a more desktop grade Photoshop on their iPad: just as some of their customers do.
Hamburger helper and dog slobber, need I say more?
How Gundam’s Amuro Ray Changed What It Means to Be an Anime Hero
Amuro is a curious character as heros go, or more accurately perhaps, I’ve rarely considered him the hero of the story: so much as caught in it. Which in of itself could be considered a Gundam-trope by now, 40 years later.
Given a different circumstance to the war: I’d rather invision Amuro Ray in protest to military conflict at all, and that it’s a kind of bloodied, twisted irony that he ended up one of the most notable heroes of the One Year War. And as such would still be active much later during the Londo Bell era.
A large part of Gundam’s first set of story arcs centers around the fact that he’s pretty much got a simple choice. He can pilot the Gundam into battle, or he can kiss his arse goodbye before the shooting even starts. That’s the card they’ve been dealt. Really, he’s kind of a dick during the earlier parts. But over the course of the series he evolves much better as a character.
I think the article’s parting bit puts it more accurately than the tile. Less that the character changed what it means to be an anime hero, and more that he’s a different type of protagonist to fill the role. ‘Cuz let’s face it, the Saturday morning go punch the villain slot isn’t dead yet and it’s been decades, lol.
One positive side of my iOS change over has been the battery life.
The iPad Pro 11 works out to about a nightly charge after heavy use, and I can basically irk out two days at light use or a medium plus light day worth of I keep an eye.
By contrast, every Android tablet I’ve had pretty much needs a nightly charge if it’s Google all the things.
The exception is my old Thor model Kindle Fire, which runs on a more “What week did I last change this thing?” pattern of life.
Assorted, recent dog photos and comfortiness.
Part of me thinks the genetics and upbringing assured that I’d be capable of eating like a proverbial horse. Part of me thinks of I wanna live to die an old fart, I should probably exercise more and eat less.
Willow on the other hand wishes she could swipe my tuna.
Duck you, autocorrect! Ducking, duck you, autocorrect!