Also private equity.

I am.

How would a pedal that opens a door towards you work? Unless it’s like a handle for your foot?

Makes sense.

Is that a thing?

Feels like something door closers make irrelevant.

You’d think fire code would require exit always be push, because that makes evacuating smoother.

If you have a bunch of people wanting to go through a door, you do not want them the be pull.

Even while orderly, requiring a crowd to step back to provide the space for the doors to open is not ideal.

Haven’t seen that.

You can also push a door open with a foot as you take a step forward.

It’s trickier than using an elbow, as it involves the balancing act of putting your weight on the door, which will give way, before allowing your foot to actually land. Do it wrong or with a door that’s much lighter than you thought, and you fall over as you deliberately shift your weight off the one foot you’re still standing on :D

I initially started doing it to push open doors while holding stuff with my hands, but now I kinda just walk into doors and open them with a foot as I do.

You shouldn’t be touching any handles upon exiting a bathroom.

The door should be push to exit, so you can open it by pushing with your elbow.

If there’s a “right” amount of sleep, I’ve yet to figure out what it is.

They’re not talking to each other, the interviewer is a third person.

Was definitely on by default on my device.

Personal data is still accessible, if the app you choose to pin is something like the dialer, or your mail app, then yes, you can obviously access contacts and emails. The feature doesn’t block the pinned app from accessing everything it normally accesses.

As for opening other apps, this applies to stuff like links or launchers. If the app has links somewhere, you could open your default browser app. It does not allow you to “escape” the pinned app to anywhere else in the system, unless the pinned app has a way to launch other apps the way launchers do.

The feature could certainly use improvement, but if it were only useful with people you trust, it would be pointless.

It’s obviously intended for situations where you have to let someone use your phone, and don’t want to give them free reign. With people you trust, you wouldn’t need something like that.

It’s far better than nothing, and is in fact part of android.

It is.

Apple has “guided access”, android has “pin app”.

I only have experience with the latter, it works by opening the task management view, and selecting “pin application” on a running app.

That then locks the device to that app. To access anything else, it has to be unlocked as if the screen were locked.

They seem to be what Tidal pretends to be.

Apparently Tidal finally ditched MQA and went back to flac. How they ever went in for it with how shit it it turned out to be with some basic investigation, I have no idea.

And they let you buy the music outright, too!

Recently quit youtube premium due to the price hike finally hitting my country. I’ve been using yt music for my listening.

Since that went away along with yt premium, I dusted off my old music file collection (mix of itunes and bandcamp purchases, cd rips, and soundcloud downloads).

Discovered Qobus looking for places to buy my favorite music to update my collection.

I used to keep my entire collection on my phone, but I opted to start using ytm since I had it and my collection got too big…

But now, I have to say I am blown away with how nice Symfonium+Jellyfin (or another music server) is to use!

Last time I looked into it, nothing handled dynamically keeping a portion of your music on-device for offline play this well!

Yes.

Especially over on [email protected] and [email protected]

There is on mine.

I just pet him a bit a pull him closer, and pretty quick he’s opting to snooze right along with me.

I feel this so much it hurts.

Some people are TERRIFIED of devices.

They look at the UI like it’s the cockpit of a fighter plane, with a thousand buttons, some of which make things explode.

Unless they know exactly what to do, they won’t even try anything.

Nevermind that UIs are usually designed to allow a user to figure them out by just prodding at everything and seeing what it does.

I learned using python.

I’ve yet to find anything that would have been a better place to start, and the concepts you pick up coding almost anything are extremely transferable.

A small project is good because it doesn’t just teach you the basics, it makes you apply what you learn to actually do stuff.

I write little python scripts to do various things all the time. Most recently I made one that automatically posts the next comic strip to [email protected].

My recommendation would be to come up with something like that, then start figuring out how to do each step of accomplishing the task you want the code to do, then putting it all together. Look things up a lot, use print() often, and trial and error your way to the goal.

You could also read guides or watch videos, but personally I learn WAY faster by just doing.

Reading the code, making changes based on how I think something should work, then being proven right/wrong also seems to give me a better understanding than just following instructions.

Puzzle game hall of famer, this.

My sister made me a crocheted friendship cube. It always sits next to my wifi router.

Oh I’m sure there’s still some super mean spirited stuff that happens today, but it remains interpersonal and fairly private.

The old timey stuff was more like the kind where some scientist would go out of their way to straight up publicly slander people with ideas they thought were bad.

The modern equivalent would be like scientists calling each other “smooth brained” on twitter for proposing new theories that didn’t immediately make sense.

Scientist trash talking used be savage af.

Nowadays though there have been enough “trashed” theories that later turned out correct, that people have learned not to discount any possibility.

How to finally make sure people start playing DnD, without calling it DnD.