Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Happy holidays to all my fediverse friends ❄️ 🤶

Rather surprised that the mail client in Windows 10 downloads remote content, by default. That's really quite shit.

Current mood

Still one of my favourite Xmas films from my childhood. I love the opening shots of Philly.
https://media1.tenor.com/images/c2e3aaf0eb9f1e0645acad9e92cd789d/tenor.gif

...Also much of Win 10's very good HiPDI readability is down to fractional scaling. It's a shame this isn't easier on Linux WMs which I think are still limited to INT for scaling.

Powershell gets pretty workable once you get used to its ways. Positive process murdering finally got some good methods in taskkill.exe.

Much as HiDPI displays are excellent for certain roles, if you're a bit of an all rounder (gaming, work, messing about) there's still a lot of holes and patchy application support. I'm not sure on a laptop there's much advantage to it.

Also it's 0330hrs and the second night of no sleep because both kids are sick. Merry Xmas fedi!

There I am thinking my eyes are going crazy, and I realised Google enables night mode by default on the Pixel. There's a notable yellowing.

Absolutely fantastic accessibility suite, though. Top marks to them.

Holy heck, Windows is so noisy. I forget every time I use it how busy it is all the time, both cosmetically and under the surface.

One half of ADVChina, Winston Sterzel, receives a YouTube award 'silver play button', so he sets out to discover where it was made.
https://youtu.be/4EL4xBxc5IA

@hcs@pleroma.site I really enjoyed reading this about London - http://hannahsuarez.me/blog/2017/10/12/a-visit-back-in-london-after-3-5-years/

Some of it reminded me of my last days before I moved to the US.

I had a strange moment walking through Hyde Park after visiting the US embassy on a bright November day. I used to go there every day at school, some 25 years prior. It felt like a walk back through my life.

A beautiful summer afternoon at Farnborough in 2008.

EOS 20D, 18-55 w/polariser.
#photography #aviation

I found this analysis I mostly agree with:
http://grilly.blogspot.com/2011/03/butler-did-it-forbrydelsen-and-problem.html

Instagram's web page has just turned into a giant mobile client. It looks really weird on a laptop.

The most frustrating thing is the Forrest Gump aspect - you never know what you're going to get.