I also keep a pair of scissors in there since there's no reason to look in two places at once.

my collection isn't quite the same categories since it's a hash of craft, electronics, DIY and just general household stuff so my categories are more about size and actions vs likelihood of use. I have "very tiny things", "smart devices", "covers, cases and stands", "cables modern", "cables ancient", "adaptors & extenders".

the best two boxes we've ever implemented: "gribbins: known use" "gribbins: unknown use" for the leftover bits at the end of a project or the spares for something you bought online all labelled in the known box and thrown into three unknown box. if your looking for something in our house its in one of these two boxes!

sometimes things are sub-bagged and labelled in IKEA sandwich bags because free colour coding others it's a free for all because we use it often

but then I've also been told by a local bee keeper that the whole plant flowers for the bees policy isn't a good idea since that's how mites and other nasties can be transferred between hives?

I just want Safari to work again. The rest I'll wait. I'm checking for software updates daily. it's gotten so bad that I looked up how to report bugs to Apple but I can't submit screenshots!?

I'll settle for just being able to enter data into a form in Safari without needing to reload the whole page.

just to add I had to cut this comment, reload the page, paste it in in order to be able to submit it

> If we can avoid the compression step, and do the manipulations directly in the high-dimensional, non-linguistic, conceptual space, we can move much faster

With my neurodivergent brain I've always conducted my thoughts in an "uncompressed format" and then eternally struggled to confine it all into words. Only then for people to misinterpret and question it. They might get caught up in the first sentence when the end of the paragraph is where you need to be!

That's why when you meet someone who thinks like you the depth of conversation and thinking you can achieve together is vast and also incredibly liberating! Your no longer limited by words in same way.

Since becoming ill I've suffered badly with brainfog. The cutesy name for a cruel experience. Sometimes there's no memories to draw on when your thinking, the cupboards are bare. You can't leap from thought to thought because they disappear before you get there or after like a cursed platformer. You might be able to grab hold of the thought but you can't reach inside or read it. It's all wrong somehow like when your suddenly convinced a word is spelt wrong even though you know it's right. You can't maintain focus long enough to finish your train of thought.

Even that subconscious processing is affected I used to prime my brain with information all day and instead of waking up with the solution I'll wake up frustrated but not knowing why. Just the vague notion that I failed at something that used to come so easily.

an application to create a database and API of Sylvanian families and track which ones you own and want: https://lush-swan-w7nqsq.manyminiapps.com/

interesting to see that the first app I created allowed user submissions and within seconds there was a slur submitted but now that submission has been removed!

After some searching I found a few threads where others had encountered this and restricted mode was the only thing that seemed to stop these videos and honestly they're jarring and unwanted enough for me to warrant enabling restricted mode and all the features it disables - YouTube please please stop these unrelated 'jump scare' videos!

as an example I'm scrolling through videos on how to fix a leaky tap at 10pm I'll come across a thumbnail 5 videos down with a ghostly face or trypophobia type thumbnail then another 5-10 videos down. in no way are they highlighted as sponsored and I find it hard to believe that Google with it's search skills and other far more relevant videos in the results can be returning these videos as results!

Streaming services make great shows then stop them after one season or force one episode a week. they also drop then pick back up shows constantly.

YouTube let's people watch the kinds of shows they want to watch and let's people create the kind of shows they want to create. everyone wins, including YouTube! plus they do music, smaller artists, bigger artists and mashups in between. it's all just there fairly reliably and it works on every platform.

haven't used Spotify in any meaningful way in a few years now.

I do realise your using the term standards to refer to web standards but inclusive design should be a core part of any standard so I feel it should be highlighted more somewhere!

They don't want to scare any part of their audience away from future uses of Apple intelligence. Their audience is tech and non-tech folk alike.

If the tech folk say it's safe and the non-tech folk get comfortable with the basic AI features then they're onto a winner.

How many people's parents/grand parents have iPhones because they're simpler for them to understand who are also scared or don't understand this 'AI thing'. I think Apple have been quite savvy in introducing it slowly and are probably watching the metrics like a hawk!

I suspect image playground is so creepy in an attempt to mark the images as clearly AI generated when they get posted to social media?

The new phone control on the new iPhone is irritating as hell as well my partner constantly switching to camera mode when picking up his phone. I use a pop socket on my phone which grips either side of the phone and slides down which covers that feature thankfully as it can't be disabled in settings yet (usual for apple) and the new Apple watch software I can't get used to the new controls but it also keeps opening up or scrolling to the widgets for some reason so I can't always just glance at the time anymore!

Have definitely noticed a drop in usability in Apple products over the last few years.

The irony I'm having is that I store some single file html documents alongside my notes and none of these engines (or obsidian) will render them!

It brings me so much happiness each time I use my daiso rice scoop or getting a tealight out of the bag I bought my fountain pen in! and ofc chopsticks because they really do the best ones.

If your buying pens don't forget to stock up on ink!

If I'd had more money at the time I would have bought better quality but the fact that some things were from the 100y store and are still better quality than stuff bought here says a lot!