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Ya know, I’ve never really cared about multimedia shortcuts on my keyboards.

As I sit here with my music player to one side and an Evernote window to the other, I’m kinda glad that my keyboard has a play/pause button. It makes transcribing the lyrics to a song much easier, lol.

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Rule of Acquisition 286, when Morn leaves, it’s all over.

If I ran a bar, and Morn left without being forced to, I’d probably announce doomsday as well.

Somewhat sad thoughts about the fate of a great tablet

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Possible use cases for the great Scarlett:

  1. An overpowered picture frame; home or office.
  2. Mount it on the pantry door for quick shopping list / music control.
  3. World’s most feature packed house clock.
These are all good ideas, if a touch sad considering it’s a great device aside from the cracked screen.
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Iffy UI: Sort -> “By collections” to see how you’ve organized your books.

Good UI: long touching a collection and being able to download them all at once.

Yep, I knew there was something that I liked about the Kindle app.

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A difference in printing:

Android:

  1. Office printer too old. Use third party app.
  2. Configure printer.
  3. Just works(tm).
  4. Open file from cloud storage.
  5. Save as new file to cloud storage.
  6. Go print -> select this printer from OS print dialog.

iOS:

  1. Office printer too old. Use third party app.
  2. Configure printer.
  3. Test page is binary.
  4. Fuck it, i”ll just use LInux.

Debian:

  1. CUPS does everything.
  2. Download file from cloud storage.
  3. Edit file and save as new file.
  4. Upload new file.
  5. Print.
It’s not very often that I print at work but there are usually two use cases. One is I sometimes have to print out Excel files as part of getting paid. The other is I sometimes need to print out my notes for sharing, either by paper or PDF.
For the most part, looks like printing from the iPad is not going to be a thing. Where as my Android was actually my least effort way to print stuff.
On the flip side, iOS apps more often offer the option to print shit than Android ones. For example, Evernote has a print option in its menus for iOS but on Android, you need to go through a browser or get a machine with any other client app.
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Well, I can at least say Hey, Siri does the one thing I use OK, Google for.

My typical use case is something like this: “OK, Google: remind me at 17:30 to do laundry.” For a long time now my main beef has been that marking things done from the notification never works. Which bloats anything that displays reminders. Of late even trying to save a reminder has sucked: either the save button just because spins and saves it, or I answer the voice feedback and instead of saving the reminder it converts my answer into a web search. Glory of updates I expect.

When you consider my phone is an Android One device running on Fi, and this crap has been going on long enough that I’ve finally stopped using the feature a few weeks ago, it doesn’t bode well. Weeks of the voice thing, months of the spiny save button, and years of no concept of done. Kinda fed up.

“Hey, Siri: remind me at 17:30 to do laundry.”
It actually saved the thing.
The notification opened a reminders app and made me check it done.
Oh, wow it’s actually working!

SMH.

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It’s probably funny that of all the software that I use on my Androids, Chrome is the least likely to be following me over to iPad OS.

As a web browser, Safari meets my needs pretty darn well. Although to be fair, so did Microsoft ‘s Edge on NT, so I’m probably nuts 🤪.

Bringing Chrome along wouldn’t really net me much benefit, aside from syncing my browser history across devices. I don’t really use bookmarks anymore, after being a first rate bookmark whore most of my life. History wise, I’m less concerned because of how my usages tend to vary: bench machine at work is where most of the history I care about recording happens, and good luck getting a version of Safari for GNU/Linux, lol.