There are times when I feel kind 9f bad, making such comfortable dogs move. But technically, it is my bed. Well, it technically was. Lol.
Year: 2019
Supplemental to last, a nifty thing as well—the per-app directory things in the Files app virtualizes the Documents directory associated with an app’s private-ish data container; or at least iVim makes it appears as such.
E.g. placing a file in iVim/Documents makes it appear in {container}/Documents when exploring it with netrw.
Likewise, while I can’t find any way to make Files express the concept of Unix hidden (.)files, the Files app does show a count that includes the .vim / .viminfo entries that come up when browsing through iVim itself.
This is kind of nice IMHO. If iOS just exports the thing somehow to a trusted Files app rather than making a separate directory outside the per-application containers, that makes the application directories in Files potentially a lot more useful for shuffling data around via the file manager. On the downside, I suppose, could mean Files would get a huge bullseye painted on its forehead for anyone wanting to find a way around some of the file system security.
By contrast, Android is a bit more liberal. The per-app area (e.g. /data/…) is generally a total no-no to any other application, and apps are given explicit support for the “Shared” storage area (e.g. /sdcard) and a separate directory of their own located beneath it (e.g. /sdcard/Android/…)
Well, I might be a sorta happy camper. Looks like iVim is a decent port of Vi IMproved to iOS. From what I can tell, seems like a rather old (7.4) version, compiled as Big with external scripting and various mice/gui things disabled.
Limitations seem to be principally iOS imposed ones, such as Extreme Sudden App Kill Syndrome and overly restricted file permissions. So in effect, it’s about as good as you can hope for on anything more fruity than a Mac.
On a related note, I can also say that iPadOS doesn’t do key repeat. E.g. holding j doesn’t move the cursor in iVim, nor does it insert a bunch of j’s into Safari. But the repeat stuff works fine when combined with a modifier like doing
Scalloped Truths
Things I’ve come to accept as truth about scalloped potatoes:
- At ~97¢, I can’t beat the cost of Kroger’s box.
- This is probably true of most cheesy goodness 😂.
- Effort, quality, cost is as positive as you can get and still need 450 F.
- I’ll eat the whole box. Every time.
Truths four and one are especially self evident.
Thus far, I’ve found Hulu’s Halloween suggestions mostly a positive. A broad mixture of horror films, largely from the ‘70s to the ‘90s and beyond for some more recent films. Both familiar films and ones I hadn’t gotten around to yet.
This afternoon, I’m going with something I haven’t seen in a few years: the second version of The Haunting.
Personally, I think the film more or less deserves the critical panning it received, it’s a film you watch for the effects not because it’s an essential anything. For me, it’s probably the last movie that ever scared me. I remember watching it on a rather long break many years ago and then having to go move furniture, and being a bit unnerved. I mean, it’s basically a house that comes alive and eats people as far as the special effects go. What’s not unnerving about that concept? Since then tidbits of Hill House have haunted my dreams over the past few decades: enough to no longer be scary as it became a reoccurring setting for various nightmares.
On the flip side, I’ve never really cared much for the original film. It was very fateful to the novel in my honest opinion, but just not scary. As a horror film: it’s only scary in the sense of kids around a campfire kind of stories, not terrifying, well not when I first watched it fifty some years after the book was written. Perhaps because I view Eleanor’s part in the story more a cause for sadness than a vehicle for terror, which is kind of essential to the novel. Her torment and place in the world is the real terror, not the house or spooky occurrences. Meanwhile, as out of the wall as the ‘99 film is, it tries to rely largely on the horror of the situation rather than the characterizations. The two films have different takes, and the novel’s greater time for exposition means it can leverage a more psychological terror than the simple scares the ‘63 horror film could ablidge.
If you have some time, probably better to read the novel and ignore the rest, or just watch the ‘63 film if you want a decent abridged version of the story. Me? I watch the later film because I remember being like 12, and finding it disturbingly horror.
Random factoid, but I find it surprisingly easy to read an analog clock.
I remember learning how the analog clock face works somewhere around kindergarten or so. But the caveat was my brother couldn’t read analog, and even as a child I had a measure of love for precision. When you consider my brother is a decade my senior that might be a little sad. But that’s how it was.
Growing up at a point in time where the heights of coolness was probably a Casio Databank and alarm clocks that could wake you up with radio, that situation pretty much ensured that digital clocks dominated in my family because they were idiot proof. Also who didn’t want a portable calculator back then? 🤪
Thus most of my need for dealing with clock faces has been in giving directions, whenever my head’s translation table between port/starboard -> left/right isn’t sufficient. Despite how dusty the part of my brain where this is recorded must be, it’s still a functioning piece of grey matter.
I’d also like to think by now, my older brother can read an analog clock worth a fart…. since it was about twenty five years ago that I learned how.
Ars’ is probably the best in depth review that I’ve seen of iPadOS 13, outside of YouTube videos.
While pretty much every freaking thing about the Fruit Company’s operating system demands you learn to swipe friend in Elvish, Dwarvish, and sometimes enemies in Klingon, the multitasking is pretty win. In my eyes: Google mostly frakked it up with Android 9/Pie, and the ubiquitous metaphors of stacking window managers just suck when you throw fingers at them.
Coming from Android land: the iOS home screen is pretty damned primitive. Like any more primitive and iOS 12 would have had me pounding rocks together to make fire. It still mostly smells of cave men in iPadOS 13, but has a longer beard.
The floating keyboard supporting swipe style typing, pretty much rectified my only true issue with Apple’s keyboard. Not that I like it being one glitchy mother fucker. The amount of times I’ve had my FKB decide to reposition itself, usually by zig zagging its ass until the drag bar is offscreen — or simply fscked up input, is insane for a released product. But when it doesn’t make me have to reboot my iPad it does work really, really well; much like Gboard on my Samsung. Like Mr. Axon, I’d rather see the input as part of the regular full sized touch keyboard but I’ll take whatever progress I can get.
Editing text in iPadOS 13 being improved, I don’t think can be overstated. When I first booted up my iPad Pro, I felt like trying to move the cursor for editing text was bad. Somewhere between having my hands wrapped up like a movie burn victim and fuck it, I’m returning this shit level bad. Seriously, the two finger trackpad trick the keyboard does is the only reason I persisted to see what iPadOS 13 would bring. By contrast, iPadOS 13 feels like someone finally admitted that the era of 3″ phone screens and being totally hopeless typing at all on the damned thing, is long since over; or needs to be.
I for one, look forward to 13.2 in the hopes of less bugginess–and have high hopes for 14.x being an iterative improvement on the system.
Really can’t remember the last time I made breakfast, and it was more significant than a granola bar or a frozen waffle. The dogs on the other hand are just glad that the sausage was on sale, so they got a really good breakfast out of this deal.
Sadly, no picture of expectant our happy doggies, since some images are harder to capture without a camera chained to your glasses.
If you replaced the leftover rice/beans with mashed potatoes, and smothered the whole thing in brown gravy, this is probably a diner my mother would be proud of, lol
Flagging the sale on cube steaks before shopping day also turned out to be a good plan.
Willow was so genius level comfortable, that after these pictures, two dogs may have gotten kisses on the head, lol.
