@cubicgarden Congratulations and thank you.
@cubicgarden Congratulations and thank you.
@ronkjeffries seems to have been included since iOS 11. Apples guide
@mbkriegh It will identify people if they are regularly photographed and you have identified them. There is a People category in the side bar.
@Omrrc And now I am going to have to make some chips for dinner tonight. I was pleased to see people still read John Holt. I have a full set of his works somewhere from thirty something years ago - my own children never went to school.
@mmetcalfe It is from a four part documentary about his working process. A fuller version:
“It's the ultimate hassle, I'm telling you. But if you said, ‘Why don't you quit?’, I'd just say, ‘Shut up.’ Most important things in life are a hassle. If life's hassles disappeared, you'd want them back.”
@ayjay Looks interesting. Purchased. May even read it one day. 🙃
@restlesslens I'm sure we could squeeze another 'had' in there... "he would have had to have had..... a motive".
@Denny In 1986 Frank Zappa warned that America was sliding into a Fascist Theocracy.
@colinwalker Would scrollIntoView also work when searching for text which currently finds and highlights the text but it can be hidden on the ‘page’ several panes around the carousel?
Also what is Sparks? I ruled out the band and Marks & Spencers 🤷♂️
@ldstephens Did you see this? Mediocre ideas from mediocre politicians. Who knew that was a thing?
@JohnPhilpin Really? Tick works for me on Apple things with region set to UK. They have even started using the correct spelling of colours lately. Is it time to give up the fight for computer programme?
@manton Ah! I see. You may be aware of Brexit when the UK escaped the chains of the EU so we could have our independence. Of course today that can be seen for what it always was - a nonsensical appeal to some idealised past that never really existed. Make Apps Great Again. There is an adage: the Stone Age did not end for a lack of stones. Of course as most people moved on to another way of doing things there were some who continued the old ways; knapping the flints just as their fathers had done before them. The young people just shrugged and went to the knapp store as they had always done.
@odd I had not seen that either. Spent this morning skanking down memory lane to Daddy Kool Records where I would snap up anything with the Barretts or Sly and Robbie. Sometimes getting an import from Jamaica which would often sound like it had been pressed on sandpaper - but was all the better for that.
@manton Wow! That whole discussion is bizarre. So much misunderstanding / wishful thinking. 🤷♂️
@manton The contortions of the anti-capitalism phalanx continue to amuse. Could you clarify how hosting billions of downloads is inconsequential?
@Kalena Reminds me of thirty something years ago: "Why does chocolate melt but apples don't?" 🤔 My standard response was "Wait till we get home and ask your mother."
@colinwalker Great to see you about again. The daily feed of “There were no posts…” was becoming concerning. Hope the positive vibes sent via the reverse RSS protocols were appreciated.
@restlesslens Trust you have found the venerable SOMA FM. Perhaps explore the Radio Browser map.
@parzzix The answer is - Never. Today (? think of a number ?) millions of users went to the App Store and updated their apps, purchased new apps, left one star reviews "did the developers even bother to test this?" and every thing worked perfectly, seamlessly as expected... (quick analysis) not one of them thought "this is broken" or "this needs fixing". We are Apple customers. Nobody forced us here. We are happy, comfortable and productive here. If developers are not happy here there are other platforms for which they can develop or they could design their own innovative hardware and operating system and do whatever they want with it.
@BestofTimes If the spurtle cannot be found the “wrong” end of a spoon does the job.
@manton Please stop. A quick search will turn up numerous failed Apple products and that is just the stuff they tried to sell. There is an equally impressive catalogue of stupid ideas from Bicycle onwards. Soon to be joined by the stupid idea of alternative app stores. Do any users actually want this?
I use a lot of audio plugins. Here is a picture of my Desktop with just some of the stores/portals I use. This is not a good experience... remembering what came from where - some Heavyocity come through their store others are via Native Access...invariably the store needs updating...fingers crossed that the update did not log you out... finding your username and password to log back in... then you can check if there is an update for the actual software.
Is this the kind of thing you want to see on phones?
I get the big picture - Capitalism is a stupid idea, along with private property and nation states, but here we are 🤷♂️ t
@patrickrhone Similar thoughts about some (who shall remain nameless) app developers.
@josh_____d Greetings from Whalley Range. 👋
@ldstephens Thank you. I am glad it is not just me. As a user I am happy to pay the Developer’s Salary Tax; the Developers Electricity Usage Tax; the Developers Hardware Depreciation Tax, and all the other expenses their business incurs. Why a charge for using the facilities and having access to the customers of another business causes them so much anguish is a mystery. Just factor that charge, like all the other expenses, into the pricing. Then they are happy, I’m happy and Apple is happy. If they seriously thought Apple was going to roll over and give them free access to their customers they must have been, as John Gruber put it, smoking the good stuff.
@manton I am bemused by the general response to all this. What would you all do if there was something you did not want to do, fundamentally disagreed with, had long argued against but were being forced to do it anyway? Me? I would do it very slowly and very badly. You are on a very slippery slope if you are relying on the "spirit of the law".... anyone know the name Trump?