I don’t know where to find solace since anyone who could provide it probably feels worse than me.

I am texting with my friend …

Me on Macintosh Sonoma and he on allegedly ANDROID 14

Is that RCS? I think it's working good.

@octothorpe Indeed.

Well just for a paranoia perspective, and I shall fail to to be polite. Eh. The male end of Lightning plug is obvious. If it breaks, you need a new cable.

USB-C is more elaborate. It's kinda like fucking a fleshlight inside of a lady. There's a lot of things that can break off.

@octothorpe i'm talking about the plug, rather than the cable

Everyone’s creaming their jeans about fucking USB-C. Lightning port is more durable! I am less happy!

@octothorpe years and years ago I could be convinced by him, but as time goes on I realize he’s so wrong

@octothorpe You can always look forward to David Brooks being a charismatic fool on Fridays

@octothorpe I definitely agree. I almost learn more about the wider world from Stephen Colbert's “Meanwhile" segment than anywhere else

@octothorpe haha when you do it, that sounds terrific!

@octothorpe I wonder how difficult it would be to do it at home? I'm not much of a chef, let alone a baker but I do watch like an hour of YouTube shorts every day which often end up as cooking stunts …

Frying stuff at home is aggravating because it needs so much oil and then you're not really gonna do it again tomorrow …

@marioguzman @octothorpe When I had the very first Mac mini 20 years ago, for some reason I convinced myself to buy some plexiglass contraption to orient it on its side. (worked fine … don't remember why I wanted to)

I expect there will be plenty of ways to anchor this little rascal to a desk.

Perhaps the system Appearance Manager couldn't or wouldn't. But there definitely were some BeOS themes for Kaleidoscope that had the yellow title bar notched off like on real BeOS!

Exotic for the time!
https://social.erambert.me/@macthemes/113393428293519560

@octothorpe well I just have regular speakers that have a wall power supply, which many people would. And *3.5mm

Gonna need a lot of USB hubs if I need to run a speaker off a thunderbolt port!

Why is the goddamn audio jack on the front of new Mac min? Isn't it more likely to plug in speakers from the back than wired headphones on the front?

IOS Settings app is a maze of garbage

I had a weird problem with my iPhone (obviously some setting))

I spent an hour on the goddamn phone with them. It's apparently a very obscure setting for Siri in Accessibility!

The dude was real cool even though I was occasionally rude.

I think there should be fewer buttons in iOS!

@octothorpe Hehe … but as Ryan describes, US CENTCOM put out a press release about it with their phone number! So Iranians in Yemen can call Florida and provide a Battle Damage Assessment!

Why send an outlandishly expensive stealth bomber against decrepit Yemen? Basically to wink at Iran.