Posts by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
(DIR) Post #Axii2tJZCBpZd8s1BY by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-08-30T22:07:13Z
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Screen Saver is basically the Pixel Tablet’s Hub Mode meets the iPhone’s Standby. You can choose what your Pixel shows while charging, including a photo album, home controls, or a couple of clocks with date and weather options. With the option to limit it to wireless charging and while your phone is upright, it can behave a lot like Standby.
(DIR) Post #Axii319a3Cb1wUG9jM by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-08-30T22:14:28Z
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Portrait Mode gains live preview in the viewfinder! This is likely due to the improved imaging processor in Tensor G5. The viewfinder and camera app overall just seem really nice, with dynamic range and colors looking much closer to both real life and the resulting captures to me.Portrait Mode itself also just seems WAY better at nailing the cutout compared to previous Pixel phones. Hard for me to show right now because I’ve just been testing it on my kids, whose photos I don’t publicly share.
(DIR) Post #Axii38AXy0WphVlWi0 by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-08-30T22:52:42Z
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The Pixel 10 Pro tele lens has a MUCH closer minimum focal distance; something like a foot versus several feet on the Pixel 9 Pro. This is CLUTCH for getting nice, close-up shots with even more background dramatic focus. This makes the tele lens feel sooooo much better and gives a ton more flexibility in how you use the pro camera features.
(DIR) Post #AxqEcLyLCDwxHlcCEC by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-09-01T21:46:29Z
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@ephemeromorph GTK used to stand for GIMP Toolkit. GObject originated as GtkObject. GObject Introspection is abbreviated GIR (I think?). So… GIR ostensibly expands to:GNU's Not Uniplexed Information Computing Systems Image Manipulation Program Toolkit Object Introspection.
(DIR) Post #Ayt5xldtd7NcJZ43Y8 by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-10-04T03:10:46Z
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Recovered from COVID in time to go to a show this weekend. 🙌Pictured: Macseal and Hunny; next up: Cartel 🎸#music #rock #alternative #emo #Cartel #Denver #Colorado
(DIR) Post #Ayt5xmitc0yPfMPYyu by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-10-04T03:11:56Z
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They aren't screwing around with this pizza by the slice 😵💫
(DIR) Post #Ayt5xufI5IqKIUmnTM by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-10-04T06:45:58Z
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Cartel was incredible 🤩
(DIR) Post #Ayt5y2EHxZztl4DLUm by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-10-04T06:49:37Z
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More Cartel
(DIR) Post #Ayt5y9baXLnIdMAYHg by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-10-04T14:38:17Z
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And a little clip. It was a blast of a show!https://youtu.be/fDiLWcr1Pyw#Cartel #music #rock #alternative #emo #Denver #Colorado
(DIR) Post #AzMKz2L6AcKbHjAnJ2 by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-10-19T05:06:19Z
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Hot take, git shouldn't call it the master or main branch; it should be called bough.
(DIR) Post #AzvZEHhtbxwSJOkjdg by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-11-05T04:09:35Z
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With very, very little work you can get Adwaita to behave similarly to “Material You”, with tinted but legibly-contrasted colors based on the user’s selected accent color or a brand color.I’ve been trying this out experimentally in Clairvoyant, and just pushed it a little more in Butler—this time, based on a selected color to match your Home Assistant dashboard rather than your OS accent color.#GNOME #Adwaita #Linux
(DIR) Post #AzvZEWZEMSvIOroWiO by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-11-05T04:11:49Z
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I intentionally chose some non-ideal colors in that video, by the way; basically anything except a color that’s super close to white in a light style or black in a dark style still just… works!This ability is the result of a ton of work from @alice (and I’m sure others!) working on GTK and Adwaita. It’s really fun to play with and think about the possibilities here.
(DIR) Post #AzvZEpWjrxDfCdnIy8 by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-11-05T04:21:27Z
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It’s nice to see the technical barriers to this kind of styling mostly eliminated. What remains are more… big platform design questions. Like:• is this something most people would *want* apps to do across the whole platform by default?• where is the line between expressive app design and platform consistency?• should apps default to the user’s accent color, or should they be encouraged to do their own brand colors?I’m not sure! But it’s fun to play. :)
(DIR) Post #AzvZFAJgZgFvgEqg2S by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-11-05T04:27:41Z
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This does make me think we could *probably* support arbitrary accent color in GNOME w/o much fanfare or issue. Maybe just when set via the portal, but continue exposing the existing colors in Settings?Not tinting everything like this by default, but just accepting the arbitrary color, doing some simple math to ensure contrast, and then leaning on the fancy CSS color stuff to make sure everything works out. Sure, someone could pick an ugly color. But they can also pick an ugly wallpaper…
(DIR) Post #B0T1zDiAHHst7uSbaq by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-11-21T04:38:16Z
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I had 30 mins to play a video game, so I decided to finally start Star Wars Outlaws which I got on a killer sale a while back.Instead, I spent 30 mins trying to recover and then finally create a new Ubisoft online account. To play an offline, single player game.AAA gaming is broken.#StarWars #StarWarsOutlaws #Ubisoft
(DIR) Post #B1AmQcg3nliI9jdSAi by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-12-11T19:36:48Z
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You know what ““““AI”””” feature I’d actually use in Firefox? A locally-powered text-to-speech feature for the reader mode. Read me this web page in a natural voice, using some of the advances in recent models!Is that possible to do efficiently in the browser, or are those models too big to be effective? Or would it need to lean on the OS APIs?#Firefox
(DIR) Post #B1AmQkTwmgmGMU1tOy by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-12-11T20:15:34Z
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welp apparently this is a thing, but it’s broken on the Flatpak??It’s a rabbit hole I’ve not gone down yet, but it’d be nice to test out nicer TTS on Linux some time and this would be a feature I’d actually use frequently!
(DIR) Post #B1DrmZMXtAxFUWfhGy by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2025-12-12T21:14:42Z
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Mastodon/fediverse peeps who come across Bluesky accounts that are bridged (i.e. using Bridgy Fed), how do you feel about them and their posts?Please boost widely, I’m trying to get input from more than just my followers. 🙏#Mastodon #fediverse #Bluesky #ATproto #ActivityPub
(DIR) Post #B2SFcemEjgmRYh4PVA by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2026-01-19T21:00:08Z
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My kids got a nice piano for Christmas, aaaand it has a paid cloud subscription to access all of the features. 🤬
(DIR) Post #B2aht8pF8U6hMnnwu0 by cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
2026-01-23T19:11:33Z
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TIL Inkscape has built-in zine templates! You can design the individual pages and then it lays out the print layout automatically. Neat!#TIL #Inkscape #OpenSource #Zine