just had to update the batteries on my APC UPS for the second time and holy shit remind me to never buy this brand of UPS again.
I understand the extremely loud and obnoxious alarm when batteries need to be replaced, but changing them should be WAY easier.
The family are enjoying Next Gen Chef. I can't cope with all the "thank you so much", "I appreciate you", hosts saying I love you to contestants, and the constant talk about their 'food journey'.
My rotary phone doesn’t work with phone menus… but I love the finger circle action 😩
What to do… what to do… 😮💨
I mostly use web browsers to read things.
I like reading a page, hitting a button, and reading another page.
That's... vaguely possible on desktop (hitting space-bar or page down sometimes works), but generally a pain on mobile. I used to have a plugin for that on firefox for andtoid, which added a floating page nav button. But I really want a nicely-paginated article reading view. And I'd like the same in my text editor and rss reader / web archiving software. Why shouldn't they be able to share a front-end for reading, editing, and marking up things? I don't need responsiveness. I need reliable text and image presentation, and a nice full page reload.
Changeable interfaces suck. I find myself clicking or tapping on the wrong thing constantly, because it changes under me. It's worse on touch screens, but still bad with a mouse. Worst on Android (in my experience), but present in every common OS.
messaging apps? i go to click on a conversation in the list, a new message appears, and the conversation i was going to click on has moved down by the time my click or finger tap registers.
search suggestions? same problem. the recent history populates first, but by the time i reach up and click, the items have moved to accomodate new suggestions.
I don't know what a good solution is, but... beyond actually inconsistent behavior, this is the most annoying interface design choice.
Ah hell, #CSS attr() function returns raw strings. And even when it doesn't, the behavior is not defined for most CSS properties. So I cannot do "background-color: var(--test, attr(color, papayawhip));" to have fallback colors, because attr(), being the experimental standard snowflake it is, will mess things up.
I was that close to making a polyglot HTML 3.2/5 theming solution, but I guess I stay with CSS and not <body bgcolor="hotpink"> 😞
Today, for the first time that I can remember, I couldn't find something on the internet.
Sure, search engines are much shittier now than they were even 5 years back, but I was still able to find niche things with some effort.
Not today.
I wanted to find a list of those hand powered DYMO label makers that emboss letters on a sticky tape. It's a niche product, but it's quirky enough that it would have some following, maybe even a collector group.
You'd think there would be website, forum or a blog listing the different models produced since 1950s. Maybe even give pros and cons of each model.
Well, if it exists I couldn't find it.
This makes me sad 
(but at least I discovered we now have moomin emoji 
)
So both #BSD/#Mac and #GNU families of #regex have patterns for start/end of word. But! these are [[:<:]] [[:>:]] on BSD/Mac and \< \> on GNU. I mean, they even look similar with these less/greater signs. The idea was certainly in the air. But didn't get into #POSIX and ended up diverging significantly enough to cause me inconveniences twenty years after (non-)standartization.
#HackerNews comment:
>>"(Because #Tinder is a rape-friendly lure trap.)"
> I just sat down. Who the hell starts a conversation off like this?
I fucking do. Not going to sugarcoat what is there and what motivates my choices.
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