Richard Gaywood

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Reformed SWE, now a privacy engineer at Android.

I mostly post about tech, cooking (especially BBQ), dogs, and games. I'm always on some nerdy hobby, currently it's Home Assistant. I'm often joking. He/him.

I have a not-well-used side account for TTRPGs: @penllawen.

i just saw a screenshot of some linux distro. i was like. what window manager is this? what UI theme? it looked kinda like one of those fancy "we're easy to use!" linux distros you see. yknow where they make it look kinda like Mac OS. but there's always some small, telltale signs: odd text alignment, unclear, monochrome icons, an overall lack of polish. you can tell it's not a *real* Mac because of those. anyway i looked a bit closer, and it actually was Mac OS. thats what a Mac looks like now

Do I know anyone with the iPad 26 beta & the Ocado app? Maybe @craiggrannell ? I’m curious about how the app behaves with the new windowing system.

(Why Ocado? For whatever reason – I assume it’s the UI framework or layout engine it uses – it doesn’t support split screen on my iPad today. And it’s an app I always want to use in split screen because I want to note down my meal plan while I’m shopping.)

(It also has this annoying behaviour where if you use Stage Manager and drag the window to resize then it also makes the on-screen keyboard smaller at the same time.)

A rogue integration took down my #homeassistant server yesterday (Combustion Inc, a wireless kitchen thermometer. It was spamming the log so hard it caused HA’s main Python process to OOM. It was generating thousands of log lines per second.)

The web interface was just barely usable for a few minutes after boot; then became totally unusable before it finally crashed. This is a problem for a headless server. BUT I had JUST THE DAY BEFORE taken delivery of two NanoKVMs. Quickly hooked one up and was able to use the local console it gave me to fix the issue without needing to lug a monitor to the HA box / move the box up to my office.

IP KVM FTW!

I got a new Mac so I'm trying Safari again (surprise surprise, it seems to be significantly more performant on an M-chip than an i9... I suspect there's not been a lot of focus on x64 perf tuning of late!)

I realise insular decisions is a very Apple thing, but jfc, its unwillingness to map mouse3 to "back", even as an option, is baffling. Every other desktop browser has done that for zillion years because it's a very sensible mapping. We don't all use Magic Trackpads.

cc @dcseifert, who posted the exact same thing in between me having this idea and making my own post (damn you dan)

he only beat me to it because this keyboard spent a few days in bits while i tuned the stabs

the work is mysterious

and important

i'm on a new macbook that i restored from a backup and my brain is now so scrambled that i no longer know if this trackpad scroll direction feels right or not

or more accurately

both scroll directions feel wrong to me now

apple's utterly hopeless support for high end monitors it doesn't make can get in the sea

macos's ability to drive my 7680x2160 screen with sharp text rendering and decent refresh rate is CONSIDERABLY worse than linux

WORSE THAN LINUX AT UI STUFF

I have some cracking AI posts in my claim chowder file which are starting to mature now. Only sad part is I can't reply to the original tweets to ask the prognosticator how they think they're doing.
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