eqe @eqe@aleph.land

Just received my first event invite for 2020. I guess we do live in the future, after all...

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@Tusky thanks for the app! I just noticed that when I mute/block someone, their existing toots in my timeline don't go away. It would be nice to apply the block action to the current view too!

The OnePlus 6T is pretty nice, for the most part it's much nicer (less creepy googleness) than any android since the G1. Just two super annoying bugs/missing features

1. The SMS app prevents entering more than 100 (!?!?) characters. Wtf. It's called Messages but I haven't figured out what the actual app name is yet, they sure do go to great lengths to hide the com.android.blah names nowadays

2. The Night Mode feature doesn't turn on and off automatically based on sunset/sunrise, it works ok if you manually toggle it (and the UI says it will activate/deactivate) but you have to do so each morning and evening. This is the subject of quite many forum posts ...

I shoulda known better than to let the latest episode of the embassy shitshow draw me back onto birdsite.

I had a really nice day today! The difficult group project at work is back on track due to hard work by others, I shipped a bunch of code and closed some tickets, and in a meeting yesterday I offhandedly mentioned that I finished a thing and started talking about the next thing and M said "wait. Back up. Wasn't that going to be super hard, not sure we'll ever get it working, and now you just breeze past like it's no big thing? Congrats!" And that was nice to have recognized. And I have a plan for the next thing and all the support I need to get it done, and I get to learn a bunch of stuff that I'm curious about.
Then I got home and K was in a super good mood and showing how he can sit up by himself now, and now he's asleep on me after finishing his nighttime bottle, and all is right in the world.

Me: wow my hair is extra today...
C: oh you and your cool kids words
Me: hey I don't even know what that word means I just say things

So, fedi: is my hair "extra"?

Me to my son (6mo) after he tries to grab my phone, loses his balance and ends up on the floor: "see, that's what happens when you try to hack my gibson. The black ice takes you."

Had to buy a new phone today... Dreading it ...

Went to the tmo store and they had the OnePlus front and center! It's a remarkably nice and non creepy android build, least intrusive manufacturer and carrier stuff of any phone I've seen in years... Quite impressive.

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