Stephan Sokolow @ssokolow@qoto.org

@namark @Absinthe How is that "all of the above but also one more thing"?

Being able to answer a call one-handed so you don't have to drop everything you're carrying has been a staple of mobile phone use since at least the days when feature phones were the best you could get, and the UI is mapped out such that, if you can do that, you should also be able to snap a photo or take a video.

(To the point where, when you're in the camera app, one of the volume buttons becomes the camera's shutter.)

@namark @Absinthe Use with one hand for things like answering calls when the person can't put down what's in their other hand.

@namark @Absinthe Possibly.

As for your argument, I don't dispute that phones are driven far too little by utility. Just look at fashion's effect on battery life, the removal of the SD card slot, the dying-off of the headphone jack, physical "slider" keyboards, and so on.

There's a reason that, for my mobile computing, I seek out alternative devices like the OpenPandora.

What we seem to disagree on is the *degree* to which this effect is allowed to override the designers' conceptions of how large a phone a given market will accept.

I've been watching smartphones develop for a long time and, to my eyes, the growth in size seems to have tapered off.

I *suppose*, to be fair, the segment of the market with smaller hands could be willing to bear "just beyond ideal, but no further", but it seems like an implausible line to draw in the sand during the period when smaller and larger models coexisted.

@namark @Absinthe Ahh. That explains our point of miscommunication.

I assumed (and still believe) that the idea of a smartphone being "not designed to fit any hands or be usable one handed, or be usable at all, they are designed to be fancy fashion accessories" to the degree you seem to support is outside the range of plausibility.

Beyond that, I'm getting a sense from your writing that the point of divergence between our worldviews is either deep enough, or sufficiently emotionally rooted, that it wouldn't be worth my time to try to change your mind, given the amount of time and energy I'm willing to expend, so I'm just going to tap out and ask that we agree to disagree.

(I don't feel like investing the same kind of energy I'd have to spend to compile a meta-analysis with sufficient rigour to submit it to a scientific journal, and I get the impression that's what it would take to convince either of us to change our minds.)

@selea Here is another one I keep remembering:

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
-- Steven Weinberg, Freethought Today, April, 2000

@namark @Absinthe So you're arguing that I can use an iPad as if it were an iPhone if I train my hand enough?

There is such a thing as "too big to be usable one-handed" for a given hand size.

I could also argue that it's sexual discrimination to expect women to pay for a separate camera when they need to buy a smartphone anyway. (Not to mention that, in some cases, it's important to use software which will upload your photos/video as they're captured so they can't be confiscated.)

@selea @jordan31@fosstodon.org I'm always reminded of this quote when this topic comes up:

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his? -- Robert Green Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses (1879), Section XVIII, "Dampness".

@futzle@mastodon.social I would have voted in this but I *did* essentially stay off the Internet.

(I'll post, and consume videos or prose I've queued up prior, but otherwise, nothing.)

@RyuKurisu @nergal @matt @hund@linuxrocks.online @dirtycommo @tzycce@linuxrocks.online

Partly because I sympathize, partly because I respect the PNG spec, and partly because there's no CSS directive to disallow animation in things loaded via <img> tags, I design any software which treats images as more than just application/octet-stream to treat APNG as corruption and and inform the uploader that corruption was detected and an attempt to repair the file was made.

(ie. load and save the file to discard all but the first frame at the cost of also discarding any unrecognized chunk types that declare themselves as "ancillary, unsafe to copy" ...also in accordance with the PNG spec.)

@RyuKurisu @nergal @matt @hund@linuxrocks.online @dirtycommo @tzycce@linuxrocks.online The problem is, APNG violates the PNG spec, so Mozilla has to maintain their own fork of libpng.

Having learned from the mess with static vs. animated GIF, the PNG spec says:

> The first eight bytes of a PNG datastream always contain the following (decimal) values:
>
> 137 80 78 71 13 10 26 10
>
> This signature indicates that the remainder of the datastream contains a single PNG image

Source: https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/#5PNG-file-signature

@vancha From what I remember, various VNC implementations support a reverse-connection mode, where you'd open a port on your end and give them a command to copy-paste into their run dialog.

@nicofee It *can* convey useful feedback on how affects any PR/self-promotion efforts the project may be making.

Some bugs are merely inconvenient or inefficient, while others evoke an emotional response. Go the next step up in degree and you get "It is really frustrating".

@lucasdondo@fosstodon.org I prefer the one about the RIAA and MPAA merging to form the Music And Film Industry Association of America.

(or, given that MPAA is now MPA America, "MAFIA America".)

@LPS @Blort @thenewoil ...and why we need to remain vigilant.

Give them an inch, and they'll take a mile.

https://www.osnews.com/story/131352/microsoft-stuffs-ads-in-the-windows-start-menu-targeting-firefox-users/

https://www.osnews.com/story/30721/windows-10-warns-users-when-opening-firefox-chrome/

@mike Also, I haven't had a chance to try Flatpak yet, but I tried Snap, hated how heavy it felt, the forest of loopback mounts it added to my mtab, and how flaky it felt, and purged it from my system.

I'd sooner go back to compiling from source than use a snap.

@vancha @marcovdheide@todon.nl

...unless it's bad video RAM where the compositor is storing the window textures but not where it's assembling the completed image.

Still, how thoroughly the windows are corrupted, combined with how clean the rest of the compositor-provided stuff is does lean toward software issue.

@LittleWytch That said, Oscar the Grouch *was* one of my favourite Sesame Street characters, so it really is a shame that I *didn't* have that extension back then.

Speaking of theming, it's also a shame that I don't think I have backups of most of the Microsoft Plus! themes I downloaded from sites like Tucows.

The best I can do is the Windows 98 SE boot option in this setup, which replicates one tasteful way I themed my desktop in the mid 90s.

https://imgur.com/a/O3F8l

@alexbuzzbee @wizzwizz4

*chuckle* I know the feeling.

@alexbuzzbee @wizzwizz4 Ahh. Sounds like the kind of thing I'd write in Rust.

Given how much I've used Python, I've become a fan of type systems that allow strong compile-time guarantees.