@indigo It’s amazing how different the World is with or without cars. Completely changes everything.
@matigo So if you determine your post is an essay you’ll take more time over it?
With the reduction of traffic on the roads I thought I’d take the opportunity to go to the shop on my bike. I never usually go on roads apart from the half mile to the woods. Being able to travel around town without looking over your shoulder too much is delightfully liberating. And my local woods are small, so it’s nice to spread out in other directions. It’s a shame this biking freedom won’t last.
@peemee I’ve confirmed that they’re shut here. This is going to be horrific. I think I have a hair clipper but I don’t suit a crew cut. I don’t have cute little ears. I’m not brachycephalic.
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I like how Apple does it. I like my mobile devices to be appliances. For anything else you have the desktop and all it’s APIs. I actually think the more simplistic early iOS devices are often more pleasant to use than the increasingly complex and beefed-up recent ones. I don’t want phones and tablets to get too computer-like. You chaps criticise the App Stores but no one has to distribute that way on the desktop. (If Apple ever stops mac apps from working outside the App Store (or forces you to only use its developer tools for money, then I’ll be worried).
@joeo10 The update at the bottom of the article implies it may not be a problem. I’m struggling to understand why it’s critical for offline web apps to be a thing anyway. Why do geeks get so fetishistic about browsers? I used to use Google Bookmarks years ago. That may have been an offline web app, I’m not sure. It certainly kept a ton of content, even for pages that no longer existed on the net, which was why I used it; it was like a personal web archive. But surely everything an offline web app can do can be done in a dedicated app. I have to assume that programmers just love the idea of only coding once. Understandable I suppose.
As far as I know, barbers are closed. This is beyond the Pale. If I have to hack away at my own barnet with scissors until I look like I live in a shop doorway, that's the last nail in the coffin of our civilisation. (Of course, actually living in a shop doorway would be considerably worse, but there are lower expectations on tramps.)
@whoisashygirl Nineteen? That’s very good going for a dog isn’t it?
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