Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Leaving aside the data mining and privacy issues which have plagued it from the start, Gmail was a useful and powerful email client, hence the popularity.

It's therefore a surprise that Google have so utterly fucked it up. It's a slow, clunky mess now.

I don't know what gets into vendors. Why the fuck would you send an email (subject: "Happy Holidays") and then a day later one saying "REMINDER: Happy Holidays".

Seriously, fuck off.

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