The other night, getting to ready for bed, I was treated by a comfortable Corkaboo.
Corky usually prefers lounging on the bed, or on the floor near my computer. Somehow, that makes me wonder how much idle heat my PC reflects off the wall, lol.
Month: March 2020
Step one: phone hijacks SMS sending to Android Messages, and disables function in Hangouts.
Step two: tablet can only sync my sent messages. Not getting incoming at all.
Step three: re-enable SMS / set default on my phone.
Step four: archive threads because now they’re two on my phone , and the other only gets a copy of mine.
Step five: send a new message from tablet.
Step six: remember that over the past decade, Google has gone from being one of my favorite tech companies to quite possibly the one that pisses me off the absolute most often. I really miss the days when their betas were more reliable than what the rest of us called release quality. Sigh.
Thumbing through my Hulu backlog, I’m surprised to come across Absolute Duo—and find it a rather excellent series.
It’s a nice mixture of ecchi humor, brutal seriousness, and cute jokes. So pretty much it’s exactly the kind of action anime that I would enjoy, lol.
There are times when I wonder if Willow’s natural state is comfortable.
Actually, I’m pretty sure that an alignment chart for Willow would be something like: “Comfy – Hungry”, lol.
Plans for my day off
My mission plan:
- Sit on couch.
- Slurp coffee.
- Be glared at by dogs.
Assorted dog pictures follow.
Corky trying to eat my hand.
Willow wondering why Pocky is only for humans.
Misty having a pre coffee nap.
Earlier: Misty in the blankets, and Willow keeping watch.
Minecraft with ray tracing: Everything you need to know
This reminds me: I haven’t really played Minecraft is quite a few years. Part of me thinks that should be rectified. Part of me remembers how absorbed I was on first playing it….lol.
Apple News Spotlight; Special Coverage: Coronavirus
I’ll give the fruit company this much, nice job putting together such a spotlight in their news aggregator.
Exploring around the Xbox (beta) app for a long while, I found it curious how scroll performance eventually tanked. By the time it became barf worthy, I noticed that one of the processes in its group was marked as around 2 GB. It also persists across coding and opening the GUI.
Exiting the system tray reduced it to about 2~3 something MB for the process group in taskmgr. Playing around, it looks like shifting between the list of games in category view and opening them for the detailed store view causes memory to go up, and be largely hung onto after returning to the list.
Ahh, the joys of memory leaks: and the reminder that even Microsoft ships more than a few bugs. For the Xbox used for Game Pass, at least is flagged as beta quality. Even if it looks like a resource sucking monster compared to something like Valve’s Steam client.
Users tell us what keeps the XPS 15 from being the perfect laptop — Engadget.
I find it interesting that the leading complaints here can be summarized as what happens when you buy a 15” laptop, lol.
Cursors on the iPad – MacStories
This transform ability has been a large part of why tablets became my primary computing platform. Android since Honeycomb, and iOS since iPadOS increasingly so, handle the whole mouse / monitor / keyboard thing pretty well.
Whether I’ve wanted a device docked that can be my work terminal, or to lean back on the couch, tablets have served me well. Aptly these are both environments where I’ll probably yell at you if you take away my keyboard, or force me to use a conventional laptop, lol.
Much of my advanced computer use revolves around an X-Terminal, so it’s been pretty easy to delegate other tasks like email and notes taking. Where as at home, I’m more likely to be focused on reading and messaging. Tasks that tend to benefit from either a keyboard centric use case with a big assed screen, or from a portable touch screen device.