@matigo That part doesn't feel like it's changed too much in the last 2 weeks. It's more that the rest of the world has mostly returned to some sense of normality, whereas here I have to do 2 PCR tests after landing (once before leaving the airport, once 2 days afterwards) and a daily RAT test with results submitted via a government portal for 7 days; then there's all the nonsense with masks, and of course the government-mandated "use your smartphone to scan a QR code whenever you arrive at a place" which basically feels like mass surveillance without the high tech. (Using the app on Android makes me feel better than using it on iOS.)
Upon landing in HK, I strongly felt I didn't want to be here. I don't think it's just the vacation high fading either.
@matigo Yeah I'm really confused. Dropbox used to Just Work. Changing from "offline by default" to "online only by default" is a fundamental shift in how the app works.
Dropbox still works fine on my Mac Pro, to be clear — that's Intel and not on this dumpster fire of a beta — but 30 minutes before I head to the airport is probably not a good time to downgrade, especially with that warning that I'll have to resync everything (and that downgrading will also result in everything being online-only again!)
I don't want to be in Hanoi for a week without my music library…
When the hell did Dropbox turn "online files only" by default?
I'm very sure after (mistakenly) "upgrading" to this new beta, which moves the Dropbox location to ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox, I spent a whole day syncing already.
The night before I travel (and one destination is not known for fast connections) was not a fun time to find out that, actually, all my files — a few hundred GB — were apparently all "online only".
The whole point of choosing Dropbox back then was precisely that things would be available offline on all computers…
This company really seems to have lost focus, trying to compete with Google and Microsoft on collaborative editing and all the rest of it, and then delaying massively on Apple Silicon updates. I just want my files available…
@matigo There is; it just all doesn't feel quite as…polished, for want of a better word…as emacs.
Perhaps I've just spent so much time customising emacs to my liking. I love being able to use mixed fonts, for example, in reading HTML documents: all the prose is displayed in proportional fonts, but all the HTML itself is displayed as monospace.
Well, Neovim is quite fun.
Still feels like a heck of a lot more work than Emacs though — there's just something about that fully self-bootstrapping use-package system, and having the rich ecosystem of Lisp modifications/plugins/whatever, that is so beautiful.
After 6 weeks of sleeping on a stack of yoga and pilates mats (which was actually extremely comfortable) my new (very firm) mattress arrived last night. Feels great.
Pixel 7 Pro bought…it is quite painful to see how expensive phones have become. Hopefully I can make this one last. The iPhone XR is still holding up after over 4 years, though the battery life is atrocious now.
@variablepulserate The classic advice is the denominator of the shutter speed should be no lower than the focal length in mm (for a 35mm camera), so with a 50mm lens you shouldn't go slower than 1/50.
Stabilisation is apparently able to add 5–6 stops to that now, which suggests you could handhold the same focal length to 1/2 or even 1 second. I haven't tried it for myself though.