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Copying the address from the to field in Mail works, tapping the right cursor marker brings the menu up for me: https://share.icloud.com/photos/047BVu8U62k8SCi5idum580DA

You could also use the (more awkward) three-finger tap gesture to bring up the history/clipboard overlay.

iOS Mail is fine for me and I say that as someone at least somewhat particular about her choice of mail client.

The problem here is Facebook for not letting you copy the address in their app in the first place.

Mirror’s Edge Catalyst-ass computer (agree, it looks great!)

Yeah! To add to this:

I’m partially very sad but also kinda glad that I never got to use 10.4 or other previous versions (first one I used was Ventura). The more I hear about it, the more it sounds like I would have absolutely loved it and would be incredibly mad right now at the changes they made since.

I might give you Windows 7 on functionality, it has been forever since I used either. But definitely not design. 2000 has a UI that is consistent throughout, clear, and professional. It’s a masterclass in UI usability engineering. Plus it’s also heavily customizable if you want to do so. A lot of that was lost with Vista and some with XP.

AppImages are precompiled archives with extra steps. Meh. No, some of my problems with Flatpak are:

• it conflates app sandboxing with app distribution
• it mandates using bespoke APIs to work in sandbox mode instead of the established APIs (to the point where I’ve heard “we can’t implement X, it needs to work in Flatpak”)
• these APIs are often very Flatpak-focused but regardless become the standard for non-Flatpak because there is no existing alternative
• it ships its own builds of code that should be part of the system (for example, UI toolkits which would otherwise load global plugins, breaking stuff such as IME or themes)

Some of that (and why it’s necessary in the first place) is due to Linux’s incredible fragmentation and lack of an extensive backwards-compatible system API (such as macOS’s Cocoa), which causes a lot of other problems everywhere – but a lot of it is also self-inflicted. In fact, the massive focus on Flatpak and looking like that is the direction the Linux desktop is going was partly what drove me to try out a Mac.

My three operating system hills:

• Windows peaked with 2000 (design-wise) and XP (functionality-wise)
• macOS’ separation of the application vs window concepts — i.e. an app has exactly one menu bar and dock icon, and is expected to be able to stay open without any windows (without needing nonsense like tray icons) — is much better than anything else and it sucks nobody is copying it
• Flatpak and everything related is atrocious architecture-wise in every single way and it’s a massive condemnation of Linux (desktop)’s compatibility state that it actually solves a real problem

Apple is incompetent at writing software for anything but their own devices. iCloud Web is also a disaster for example, and the old iTunes for Windows is infamous for being a buggy mess. Though I have to say they did a good job with the new web Apple Maps.

Sure. It paints a very vivid picture, I love it.

Never read anything by Dickens before except for A Christmas Carol (and that was for school) but this is now on my reading list :^)

Carl Poppa

Holy shit, memories unlocked. Uploaded 10 years ago…

I’ll need to listen to all the others again.

Can you export it as an email archive file and copy it to a USB stick or upload somewhere accessible from your personal computer?

It really doesn’t hurt to know a bit of the IPA, at least the characters for your own language… I see so many horrible phonetic “transcription” “systems” people use when describing how to pronounce a word, it’s crazy

Since you mentioned Chinese, there’s also an interesting thing in languages that have Chinese characters as their writing system origin and use names based on it (Chinese languages of course, Japanese, Korean and I think also Vietnamese) where names of historical or important people are translated via their written form and not their pronunciation. For example, the Japanese prime minister Ishiba Shigeru 石破茂 is called 石破茂 (shí pò mào) in Mandarin, written with the same characters. (Been a while since I read about this so I forgot the examples where the name is pronounced significantly different and in all of these languages but this is a good enough example)

I assume you’re talking about the iOS feature, which is pretty new, and they have their own photo selector UI which has existed before that. They probably just didn’t make it work well with limited access yet, Signal has a lot of small UX warts in general when it comes to system integration.

It’s certainly not a universal thing either, no other language I know does it.

Once I asked on linguistics (or maybe English language) stackexchange about the origins of it, but it got deleted as duplicate of a related but definitely different question. Most satisfying stackexchange interaction

I would also not immediately close the account, wait for a couple months after you’ve moved everything to see if something is still using the old address.

I’d love to get into tape backups for my stuff. But the price for the drives is absolutely unjustifiable for hobbyists unfortunately.

Signal is much more polished and less fragile than Matrix, but is pretty barebones especially in terms of features for large communities. Matrix additionally has a browser client and many non-Electron desktop clients. It’s really close and depends on the use case imo. For personal messages I think I prefer Signal, for communities Matrix.

I haven’t used Threema.

Summer last year, getting into a private/walled off area I wanted to explore. (That was a ~2m drop onto some stairs so getting out was much harder than getting in haha)

You can install AdGuard on iOS, it will at least block ads in the browser.