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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.workstoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comat cinemas now
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    3 days ago

    Also it is probably already known but e.g. well-dressed/spoken cishet white males in affluent areas are at times able to gamble and - by being incredibly polite, deferential, apologetic, and forthcoming - save time and money by taking the risk of piping up for the fuzz.

    Something tangential but potentially more useful: remember as citizens, our day comes in court and not on the side of the road. Politely/firmly assert your rights, but allow them to be violated. The alternative is struggling, being overpowered anyway, and making your lawyer’s job harder. Hope that bystanders are recording, remember every detail as best you can, and consider calmly verbally reasserting your rights.








  • Yesss, thank you, using the free Ice - Bartender quietly sold, causing some controversy.

    I installed Ice after troubleshooting for an hour until I realized macOS was hiding some of my menu bar apps. wtf? Quoting this piece:

    I have gripes about the notch. There isn’t enough room to display all of my menu bar apps and icons, so… they just get hidden!? Apparently, everyone in Cupertino thinks the best solution to this problem is to hide them with zero indication that there are more that simply can’t be displayed because of the notch. I wasted so much time trying to figure out why Little Snitch and 1Password were not running on my new machine. Was there a compatibility issue with Apple Silicon that I didn’t know about? That couldn’t be. In turns out, they were running the whole time but they were hidden by the notch.

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    This “design” (or lack thereof) is so dumb. It is utterly ridiculous to me that this is still how it “works” two years after the introduction of the redesigned MacBook Pro with a notch. How hard could it be to add an overflow menu with a “«” (or should it be “»”?) button that shows the remaining apps and icons that can’t be displayed? This entire situation with the notch is ironic, because the iPhone notch and “dynamic island” are so thoughtfully designed with zero compromises regarding the functionality of iOS. In fact, they actually provide a better user experience. Yet on the Mac, how the notch interacts with macOS is laughably incompetent. It is shockingly lazy regarding attention to detail, and results in an outright disruptive and confusing user experience.