Haha, did you ever try it out? Maybe it really was your life long calling.

Yeh, arguably and to a limited extent, the problems he’s having now aren’t the result of the decision to use AI to make his product so much as the decision to tell people about that and people deliberately attempting to sabotage it. I’m careful to qualify that though because the self evident flaw in his plan even if it only surfaced in a rather extreme scenario, is that he lacks the domain specific knowledge to actually make his product work as soon as anything becomes more complicated than just collecting the money. Evidently there was more to this venture than just the building of the software, that was necessary to for it to be a viable service. Much like if you consider yourself the ideas man and paid a programmer to engineer the product for you and then fired them straight after without hiring anyone to maintain it or keep the infrastructure going or provide support for your clients and then claimed you ‘built’ the product, you’d be in a similar scenario not long after your first paying customer finds out the hard way that you don’t actually know anything about your own service that you willingly took money for. He’s discovering he can’t actually provide the service part of the Software as a Service he’s selling.

ok, meet in the middle, shove a firecracker up his arse and attach some wings to him.

This seems like it makes sense on at least 2 levels, either because he’s saying he at some point had the ‘woke mind virus’ and deleted it, or more likely he’s saying this is what people need to do to ‘free’ themselves of the ‘woke mind virus’.

You don’t have to endorse it to understand it. I don’t really understand Hazel’s confusion.

Wait RIF was reanimated? In what way?

Have to use an NTFS formatted drive to take a DCP master of a film to a cinema for a test screening. The cinema says they need NTFS. I somewhat doubt that’s really the case but one never knows what oddities might surprisingly be the case for obscure hardware like cinema servers. I used a windows computer I could access in the end because I couldn’t figure out how to get this to work but I was trying to acquire the capability for future such cases so I wouldn’t need to do that next time.

I did see someone else suggest this. I guess it sounds a bit timid but the idea kind of freaked me out. I’d feel ok doing this on a desktop PC but I feel like trying to boot from a USB drive on a Mac is going to run in to all kinds of headaches and nasty surprises and I’m worried I could brick a very expensive piece of machinery. I guess this particular fear is what people are talking about when they say they don’t feel like they really own their computer unless they’re using linux. Maybe I’m worrying about nothing, is there anything to it other than plugging in a usb and starting up the machine?

I ended up at the practice after I first started cooking for myself and didn’t think to do this and wondered why the carrots were so unpleasant. The peel is just too… carrotty. It’s just super intense carrot taste to the point of unpleasantness, also even with a good wash it kind of tastes like dirt. I only really like it when it’s those little carrots sometimes referred to as ‘dutch carrots’ and they’re roasted so you get some blackened char on that skin.

I don’t have an iPhone, though I understand the shortcuts of Mac os are supposed to be compatible with iOS so maybe there’s a possibility the instructions could work on my Mac. I don’t want to convert the images though just strip that metadata.

The other thing is, I kind of want to do it this way because there’s something of an ulterior motive here where I want to learn to make simple applications and buttons that work with various command line apps I use frequently on my computer, like a crude form of home made GUI. I find that there are often such apps where I only use one or two commands and use just often enough to need an easier way but infrequently enough not to remember the syntax of what to type.

no it’s very easy to modify. I just wanted not to have to open up terminal and try and remember what the commands were every time I upload something to the internet

I think it will connect just fine, it’s just that the device was made before Apple Silicone existed so I’m unsure if it will continue to do it’s job on a current version of Mac os

aww you beat me to it.

Well I mean what did you just read? He already said those are the facts bro.

It’s rarely if ever a bad thing to provide additional detail and improve understanding of a headline. The commenter didn’t defend Huffman’s compensation, even going so far as to lament it will appear that they are an apologist for the CEO. They also didn’t address their comment to moderators which is important as the title of this Lemmy post implies both that the comment was addressed to unpaid moderators of Reddit and also by doing so, that it was condescendingly justifying to them why their work should go unpaid while the CEO of Reddit is paid handsomely.

The fact that the compensation package isn’t literally $193M cash isn’t saying the situation is just fine and dandy and neither is pointing that fact out. Headlines can reduce information to levels that reach meaninglessness, especially when they do so on purpose to be incendiary. If this commenter adds correct details to the situation, deciding if those details changes its moral complexion is up to the readers of the comment, personally I don’t think they do. I don’t see however, why there needs to be a separate discussion on lemmy not about the actual issue that pissed everyone off, but instead shitting on some random commenter who added relevant detail to the original issue that was actually worthy of discussion in the first place.

Unfortunately… it can. Which I can say on the basis that, it did. There were no schedules or filters set in the settings for do not disturb and I don’t know of any other way to deliberately cause it to activate. If there’s more settings somewhere perhaps there some additional sets of rules and logic that would explain why this happened, but even if so, they never had any personal involvement from me.

In any case though, I had found the article you linked already while googling but in my frustration I must not have read very attentively because I misread the option clicking method of setting or disabling the focus state, and was option clicking on the moon icon instead rather than the time and date. Clicking where I should have worked, as did the suggestion from another user to use the switch in the control centre. The strange thing is that after trying both of these methods successfully, the far more intuitive and obvious method that I tried right from the start unsuccessfully, now started working. Prior to disabling via option click, and also through control centre, if I clicked on the crescent moon icon I would be presented with a list of focus states, of which my system seems to have only the one, ‘do not disturb’, while I could find no off switch it did seem that the most obvious form of toggle was likely to be clicking on the ‘do not disturb’ text since that was apparently the mode that it was in and it stood to reason that would likely toggle it off, except, it didn’t do anything hence my utter confusion. Now it just works as you’d expect and I now have 3 ways to turn it on and off. The fact that that button just didn’t work is about as explicable as why the focus state tripped in the first place through no actions of my own when you say it isn’t supposed to do that.

Thanks for replying and the detailed list of options to check for.

I have only the one apple device, the MBP on which the issue is occurring.

Until you made this comment I was unaware of the existence of a shortucts app so I definitely never made any shortcuts. (Incidentally, does this differ much from Automator? Maybe I should look in to this). I wonder if creating a shortcut attached to an automation that triggers a focus state is something easily done accidentally, because I definitely wouldn’t have done so on purpose. I did once create an automation to close a specific app at a certain time in the morning (3 hours later than the time I noticed the do not disturb was switched on), but that was supposed to execute once on a specific calendar date and as far as I knew did only it’s intended job.

If I look at the do not disturb settings, there are no allowed people and no allowed apps that can display notifications in do not disturb mode, and until I attempted to mess with it just before posting this, there was nothing in the set a schedule section and nothing in the focus filters section. As of now, there is an item in the schedule section, which is that the state should be on while in the location Antarctica, which I hoped would prevent it ever executing as I’m unlikely ever to be there and am not there right now. Before putting this schedule item in place I also attempted to set an actual time based schedule that was supposed to trigger one minute later than the current time as I attempted the fix and scheduled to run for exactly one minute on the logic that hopefully it would trigger do not disturb to only ever operate for 1 minute making it as close as I could effectively get to “off”

I don’t know if anything’s been ‘learned’ that could be triggering this, but then again that’s kind of the crux of the problem. I’m instinctively resistant to the machine ‘learning’ anything and then executing without my involvement at any stage. I must admit that’s perhaps irrational, after all it ‘learned’ that I usually operate plugged in and decided to start a charging regimen where it only charges to 80% to extend the life of the battery and I thought that was pretty great but nonetheless, the exact implications of focus states aren’t immediately clear to me and they aren’t something I sought out or felt a need for so while they perhaps offer some benefit, once they are imposed I’m immediately resistant.

Anyway diatribe aside, it doesn’t look like anything I was able to check in with your help could likely be responsible for the behaviour. I think it is likely related to time, as it was around 12:30 AM. It could be related to being off power and in battery mode which isn’t something I’d likely do after midnight very often but I couldn’t say. I believe I’ve seen this at least a couple of times whilst plugged in as well. Thanks anyway, let me know if you have any other suggestions to make it stay off now that I’ve at least switched it off.

I’ve seen this suggested in other forums where people were trying to disable this as well. I don’t own any other apple devices except the MBP that this is occuring on. I’m guessing the time of day is in some way a trigger state but can’t see any such thing set up anywhere in order for me to turn it off. I now know from this post at least two ways to turn off do not disturb mode which was my primary concern, but I would like to figure out what’s triggered it to be on in the first place. Hopefully now that it theoretically should only switch on if I’m in Antarctica it will never turn back on but I’m skeptical somehow.

I completely forgot I had the whole control centre thing, thank you. I used High Sierra way up until late last year and can’t help operating Sonoma as if it was still High Sierra. The control centre method did work, and I also discovered from a help link that I had misread an earlier help article and in fact if you option click the date it will also disable it (I had it in my head I needed to option click the do not disturb icon).

This really threw me for a loop before I figured out what was happening because I assumed I had dodgy connections somewhere.

In the end I had to get a piece of software called ‘Balance Lock’. It’s not FOSS but it is free and according the app store doesn’t collect data. It also has no ads or in-app purchases. I’m pretty happy with it so far. It does one thing and one thing well and that is to keep your audio balance at a chosen setting and shift it right back there again whenever that balance slider likes to go for a little walk. Weirdest issue, apparently been around for years.

Ever work?