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benfell

@ benfell @lemmy.world

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First started watching #StarTrek re-runs in the late 1960s. Ph.D. Human Science (Saybrook University, 2016), #vegan, #anticapitalist, libertarian socialist, vegetarian ecofeminist scholar and non-magical thinker

  • The real story of 2024 may be the fraying of white Christian nationalist unity

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  • You confuse the economic (neoliberalism) with a broader tendency of conservatism (neoconservatism), for which neoliberalism is a moral imperative. Neoconservatism holds that the U.S. political and economic system is the best system for all humans, regardless of history, regardless of culture, and demands that this system be "defended" at any cost, hence a muscular and imperialist foreign policy. Conservatism was the subject of my dissertation, so I do know something of which I speak.

  • Every show with a suicide now has a disclaimer with a suicide hotline at the beginning. Is there any evidence that these warnings make a positive difference?

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  • I think, at best, it can only help with certain types of potential suicides. Some suicides occur due to apparently hopeless life situations. For instance, I haven't been able to get a real job in 23 years despite, in that time, finishing a B.A., an M.A., and a Ph.D. Nothing that everybody says to do works for me and I'm frankly tired of hearing it. I'm stuck DoorDashing (Uber was way too abusive) and that I'm stuck doing that is intensely depressing.

    Psychology can't help with this. The only thing that can help is a real job. And that's what a lot of the babble about suicide prevention seems to miss.

  • Startpage.com is not a default option for Apple users

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  • This appears to work. Thanks!

  • Has anyone found a bluetooth carplay adapter that actually survives?

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  • It's been a few weeks now and I think I understand the problem better. It's not solved.

    First, it appears to really be that they mean it when they say to disconnect all connections when connecting the phone to the adapter. In my case, this is impractical: I have a smart watch, a smart ring, and smart glasses, and I have them for reasons. And I am frequently stopping and restarting the engine, which of course restarts the adapter (and I wondered if the power cycling was inducing premature failure).

    What I'm seeing now is that the problem is occasional and unpredictable. This misled me as to the source of the problem. I thought it was the adapter. But it turns out that if I just wait five minutes, the longest five minutes ever, after getting the message, the adapter will try again to connect to the phone and probably succeed.

    It happens I wound up renting a 2022 Jeep Compass for a couple of weeks. The head unit in this car, though clearly not top of the line, was capable of CarPlay over bluetooth. This seemed more robust, more reliable, but not entirely so. I don't have any idea how to account for this difference. Glitches still happened.

    What I notice is that whether it's the head unit or an adapter, wifi is unavailable while connected. I infer that this connection uses both bluetooth and wifi and that part of what the initialization process involves is handshaking to establish both connections. I suspect that it's the wifi that's problematic, but I often start my car at home, where there are multiple wifi signals, including more than one that my phone knows about, without incident. So it's not just that my phone is already connected to wifi. There's more to it but I don't know what.

    In the long term, I'll probably give in and upgrade the head unit. The display on the Jeep Compass was much improved over the one in my (one year older) RAV4. I noticed it was much easier to navigate with this display and that's important. But the mounting bracket that should (and probably does) work with my car has not been confirmed to fit. So it seems I have to wait.

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    benfell @lemmy.world

    Has anyone found a bluetooth carplay adapter that actually survives?

  • Where's my safety pin.

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  • You'll want a bucket and probably a mop.

    When I first moved back east I was reveling in a thunderstorm, left the window open to hear the rain and the thunder. Did that a few times actually.

    But yours is bigger.

  • I hate gestures

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  • No, this is a 14. I never heard of "3D Touch" but it sounds like it would be completely unusable for me.

  • I hate gestures

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  • I hate gestures

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  • The pinch to zoom and scrolling features generally work fine. I did explore the accessibility features and found nothing that addresses my need for easy predictability.

    The reason I like the buttons is because I know what they do. And they do it every time.

    The reason I hate the gestures is that I'll think I'm doing one thing and get something completely different, often when I needed it to do the right thing five seconds ago.

  • I hate gestures

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  • I pine for those buttons.

  • I hate gestures

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  • I'm seeing the behavior consistently, regardless of app. It's just wrong.

  • I hate gestures

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  • Like when I swipe from right to left. An app can have it's own meaning for this gesture. The phone itself, two more, one to switch home screens, one to pull up the camera. I'll be trying to use the app's meaning and get the camera. This is not improving my efficiency.

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    benfell @lemmy.world

    I hate gestures

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    The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.

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  • If Elon Musk was worried that rail service between San Francisco and Los Angeles might diminish the demand for Teslas, then I think we have a more serious problem with delusion than I thought.

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    The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.

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  • It is weird that Elon Musk was so worried about California's high-speed rail project because it had the look of a boondoggle from the beginning. It's horrendously expensive and the promise of an alternative to air travel has been diminished as they've decided to use more existing rail (you can't run high speed on it) to save money.