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  • JentutoPeople Mastodon@quokk.auliquid ass
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    3 days ago

    I will say that VLC, which isn’t in a rounded square is one of the most recognizable icon in my launchpad. But also, it’s a literal traffic cone. And I never hunt for it because I remember its name.

    My launchpad in general is like 60% rounded squares and 40% whatever the developer wanted to do. Patchwork, gemini2, AmorphusDiskMark, HandBrake, Ryujinx, blackmagic disk speed test, supernote partner, vintage story etc. It’s more frustrating to me how inconsistent the iconography is since I never use the icons to figure out what I want to open and wildly different looking icons don’t look well in the dock. Spotlight search (or specifically Raycast) is what I use to open apps 95% of the time, so I might be a bit outside the norm. If I had to scroll through the 8 pages of my launchpad apps every time I wanted to open an app, I’d just throw my computer out the window.

    I figured that at this point, app icon design is like website favicon design. Superfluous and unreliable for remembering what it belongs to considering designs change so often.



  • JentutoPeople Mastodon@quokk.auliquid ass
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    3 days ago

    The issue with this framing is that I’m not sure if I’ve seen Apple apps all together on my computer ever. They might be a set of similar looking app icons but they aren’t viewed together like Adobe apps. They’re alphabetized in the apps folder and are in separate sections on my dock.



  • I assume that’s not what you want because you’d hold any amount of water for someone perpetuating a genocide. That’s not even taking into account that the efficacy of voting and getting your choice of genocidaire is highly dependent on what state you live in. The discussions sucks out all the oxygen from actionable things that might actually solve problems.












  • JentutoGood NewsMeta’s AI Problem: A Growing User Flight
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    11 days ago

    It’s probably that everything they share to their child or grandchild is met with a “that’s AI” response and it’s frustrating to not get a “haha that’s funny, grandma. Nice find!” That beast (an addictive routine of sharing and getting nice responses) is being starved emotionally and there’s no way to get it back, so might as well leave Facebook.


  • Kind of tangential, but the Reddit community I was in made sure to auto-block all mentions of people asking where to find food/diapers and what gas stations have gas and where people could charge their phone during Helene. Mods said they were just following in r/ashevilles footsteps, but it felt like it did way more harm to real people looking for help for the sake of keeping the subreddit tidy. Fuck Reddit and especially fuck those subreddits.

    I also built a Gopher/Gemini text-only website around that time for completely different reasons, but I agree that more websites should be like this. Half the time I can’t load modern web pages is because my network ad blocker breaks load bearing trackers. I’ve since switched to the Obsidian plugin DigitalGarden, which lets me convert obsidians markdown structure to a website in a way that’s super simple to a non-web-dev like me.